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Google's way of handling accounts is infuriating.

I have multiple g-mail accounts. One of them is my primary personal one, and another one I use is a shared account that my band uses for business and soundcloud.

Google makes it hellish to sign out of one and into the other. For the longest time, I had them linked, and my band mates could see my personal e-mail. I don't know if they could get past a log in point, but the fact that its so hard to keep them un-linked and log into one or the other is infuriating.




Create a chrome user for each google account. There is then a hotkey for quickly switching between users.


The keyboard shortcut that I found is Control-Shift-M to open a box around the profile, down-enter to select "Switch person", then Tab-(Tab-)enter to select the other account. Anyone know if there's a shorter shortcut?


On mac it's just cmd + `


If you want to try multiple Chrome Users see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

You can change users by clicking the top right of a chrome window.

They may not be obvious to set up, but they are worth learning about if you are going to use stick with Chrome and use multiple Google accounts, or multiple accounts on any service - Twitter, FB, etc.




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