Login Multiple GTalk, Gmail Accounts

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | #Tags: gmail, Gtalk, Guide, hacks, Tips N Tricks

It’s annoying that our Browsers and IMs don’t allow multi-user login. I can cite multiple use cases for this but I guess just no web app provider would allow it, by default.

Well, there’s a simple hack to get over it. For getting Multiple accounts logged in for any Web app, use a Firefox extension called Multifox. The addon will give a clean way of adding a new session in anew “Identity profile”.

Each Multifox window is flagged with a number indicating the identity profile. Logins made in windows with different numbers are isolated.

If you need to access 5 Gmail accounts you will need 5 windows with different identity profiles.

“Each Multifox window is flagged with a number indicating the identity profile. Logins made in windows with different numbers are isolated. If you need to access 5 Gmail accounts you will need 5 windows with different identity profiles.

Here are the details of Features it packs up into single addon:

Logins are preserved the same way they are in “regular” windows. Even if you close the window or quit Firefox.
The identity profile of each window is preserved when Firefox restores the session.
New windows inherit the identity profile from the window they were opened from.
Multifox begins from 2, because it considers 1 the “regular” Firefox identity profile.

Under the hood, it creates a separate workspace as if each was running under independent browser, keeping separate cookies for each.

And here’s tip for GTalk:

First, create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop – leave the original intact.
Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk – something like “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”
Change this to: “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex
and hit OK.