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Ask HN: Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites

3 points by rumpelstiltskin ↗ HN
If I want to manage 10 sites, each in it's own browser with its own gmail, dashboard etc, how would I go about doing that?

I tried site specific browsers like Chrome but they don't allow me to open 10 gmail accounts in 10 separate SSBs (signing into an account in one SSB logs me off from a previous account in another SSB)

Edit: I'm looking for a solution in Windows.

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vamsee
Does this work for you? http://onlinedev.blogspot.com/2008/01/run-multiple-versions-...
rumpelstiltskin
This looks like it! Can I run 10 browsers with 10 email accounts (1 in each)?
vamsee
I can't see why not. Create 10 profiles, and login to each of them separatly with no-remote. Better yet, you can copy the firefox launch icon, go to properties and modify the firefox command like so:

firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager profile1 firefox.exe -no-remote -ProfileManager profile2

etc. and have 10 shortcuts for each profile.

csomar
is the problem only with gmail (google services) or you want to access any sites?? Why not create different versions of browsers (then you should go to FireFox) and every browser uses it's own cookies.

Simply, you need to know how to hack FireFox

rumpelstiltskin
Well, I'm about to launch 10 sites and I wanted to monitor everything for each site on a separate browswer - email, analytics, dashboards etc.

So yeah, I could hack firefox. But I dont know how. But the chrome incognito mode serves the same purpose.

johns
Chrome briefly had profile support in one of the dev builds but it has since been removed. I hope they add it back soon as I found it very useful for this sort of situation.