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Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by zonidjan »

2ion wrote: post #71
fareesh wrote: post #28

This causes a few other problems. For example I use Hangouts Chat (chat.google.com) on my Google Apps account, and I also have a personal gmail. Ever since the change I have to log out from my personal gmail to use Hangouts Chat, because it is looking at my Chrome account and telling me that I'm not part of the organization. I can't switch to the Google Apps account at all.

Firefox has gained a feature called multi-account containers several releases back solving exactly this kind of problem in a slick way: Your tabs can be assigned to different accounts (represented by different colors/names/icons (which are configurable). Each account has its own cookies etc, allowing you to be signed in to any number of services while keeping them separated. I use this feature heavily to separate dif…

But... Chrome has had this feature for MUCH longer than Firefox.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by tokyodude »

the_duke wrote: post #42
ganoushoreilly wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why setting up user profiles is handy in chrome. Keep one for work, one for home.

This is why it's handy to just use Firefox.

firefox's multiple profile support is crap. I actually do want multiple profiles that do things like sync passwords, bookmarks, extensions, themes across machines per profile. AFAIK firefox can't run multiple profiles at once

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by krelian »

Androider wrote: post #85

Once again G Suite customers get the shaft. I have a personal Gmail account, and a business G Suite account, and this change makes working with the two accounts a complete pain. All my years of Chrome bookmarks/settings/etc. are associated with my personal account, so I want the browser itself to always be logged in with that identity. But I want to be logged into my business G Suite email account "by default" when I…

Log-out all your accounts from google, then the account you use the log-in first will be the account that gets logged in by default.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by Hello71 »

blfr wrote: post #87
Androider wrote: post #85

Once again G Suite customers get the shaft. I have a personal Gmail account, and a business G Suite account, and this change makes working with the two accounts a complete pain. All my years of Chrome bookmarks/settings/etc. are associated with my personal account, so I want the browser itself to always be logged in with that identity. But I want to be logged into my business G Suite email account "by default" when I…

The most straightforward solution is to create a separate Chrome user/profile for your work account. It's a great way to keep your private and organizational accounts completely separate. You can even sync all Chrome settings, extensions, and bookmars though the company account if they allow you to use your own devices. Unlike Firefox (major pain point btw), you can run Chrome with multiple profiles at once, each in…

Firefox has had profiles since at least 0.8, released in 2004, when it was renamed from Firebird, more than four and a half years prior to Google Chrome's release. This code, however, was inherited from Netscape Communicator 4, released more than a decade before Google Chrome. Hell, Netscape 4 predates Google!

However, since the profile code is so old, it is not accessible from the main interface; it must be accessed via a command line flag. Chrome learned from this mistake and exposed it in the graphical interface.

It is utterly false however to say that Firefox does not support profiles.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by ldarby »

abandonliberty wrote: post #59
duiker101 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A while ago I switched to Vivaldi. I have never been happier with a browser.

Why do you like Vivaldi? I'm using it but am fairly ambivalent.

I use Vivaldi because the CEO is Jon von Tetzchner. Here's a quote from him from a recent interview:

Q: Other browser companies tell us that too many options and features confuse users, and they remove or limit functionality based on that claim. Is that true in your opinion?

A: No. [...]

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/an-interview-with-vivaldis...

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by asadotzler »

tokyodude wrote: post #102
the_duke wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why it's handy to just use Firefox.

firefox's multiple profile support is crap. I actually do want multiple profiles that do things like sync passwords, bookmarks, extensions, themes across machines per profile. AFAIK firefox can't run multiple profiles at once

You can run multiple profiles at once in Firefox. I've been doing this for the better part of two decades with Mozilla browsers. You just need to add the no-remote option to your launcher.

Re: Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

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Post by aibara »

ReverseCold wrote: post #67
duiker101 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the bookmarks, that I was able to customise it extensively, the sidebar is very useful and unobtrusive. I do like also that is based on chromium. All in all I feel like it has everything that other browsers have and just a bit more or a bit better.

Also the history view is a lot nicer than chrome, which is better than Firefox. Firefox's history pane is borderline unusable (search doesn't sort by last visit, it sorts by day and alpha or something weird like that).

If the view is set to "by last visited," Firefox's history searches are sorted by last visit. Maybe you had some add-on that changed the behavior.
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