Comment by fareesh
8 years ago
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 different clients.
It's also the reason why Chrome/Chromium are now out of the question for personal use: Much to complicated to keep things separated.
But... Chrome has had this feature for MUCH longer than Firefox.
Chrome lets you have different accounts per window, which is nice. Firefox supports different accounts per tab, or the optional Facebook Container extension blocks communication to Facebook domains in all tabs outside of the Facebook container.
If you mean profiles, Firefox has had it even longer, albeit with poor UI.
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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
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But being logged into your personal Hangouts and using the work Chrome at the same time does not seem to work anymore.
Every Google product I've seen has an account switcher, usually in the top right corner, with either your display image or a letter in a circle, this includes Hangouts Chat.
Yeah it switches me back to the chrome account when I access Hangouts chat. There's no way to switch and visit, or switch after visiting. It always reverts to the chrome account.