Does your web life fit it any of the following scenarios:
A: You have several accounts on GMail (or any other web mail) but dislike logging off from one account to check emails in another account. For instance, you and your wife use the home computer for checking emails and one has to log off before the other person can log-in.
B: You want to use Google Web Search anonymously without them recording your search habits. But at the same time, you want to remain logged into other secure Google services like Google Notebook, Blogger or GMail.
C: You connect with MyBlogLog just for checking recent visitors to your website but want to stay logged off while you are surfing the web.
D: You use Amazon.com for shopping online but dislike the way Amazon uses cookies to make product suggestions across other websites. In other words, you want to stay logged into Amazon in some sort of anonymous way.
If answer to any of the above is yes, you will love CookieSwap Firefox extension. Most websites use Cookies to store your login information and you can have just one cookie per website per web browser but with CookieSwap, you can maintain multiple cookie profile and switch between them in a click.
So, for example, you can create a profile that logs into your Gmail account but when you want to Google, just switch the profile. You stay logged into GMail but with still anonymously surf on Google.
Get CookieSwap from addons.mozilla.org or mozdev.org
Related: How to View or Delete Cookies of Any Website
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/09/manage-multiple-identities-on-web.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
...Nice Info Amit..but i am afraid if it cud open two different google services with two diff. accounts simultaneously ..for e.g. Gmail and Google Analytics in a same browser, it will automatically logout the other one..isn't it or not...Nice hack though..
..Also I appreciate the new format of your Blog (partial posts with 'read more' link)...how about changing Title Fonts (Bigger) and bit diff. color...
..I am regular visitor of your blog..in other words repeat visitor. :)..will look forward more from 'DI'..
Written on 12/9/07 9:54 PM
Wow, great plugin. I've been using CookieCuller to accomplish pretty much the same thing but this is a much nicer fix - cheers!
Written on 13/9/07 3:13 AM
Using this kind of software may be risky.
How about simply using the "Switch User" feature of WIndows XP and Windows Vista??
I use that on my laptop, this ensures that my programmes keep running, while I log off (or better to say Switch), and other family members log in using their own account.
-Shobhit
Written on 13/9/07 3:08 PM