Google will soon be rolling out the capability to sign in to multiple accounts via the same browser. This is undeniably good news for those of us with partners who share our laptop, who have work and personal email accounts, and, of course, those of us who got fed up of Google alerts clogging up our inboxes and built a separate email address for them…
We’re not one of the lucky ones to be able to use the new feature, but we’re assured it’s being rolled out bit by bit as we speak.
Currently it will only work for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Reader, Google Voice, App Engine and Google Code. Google Docs capability will soon follow. When the multiple sign in is enabled the accounts are accessed through a drop down menu in the top right of the page.
Theres some niggles for Google to iron out yet though, namely, that it’s not available on mobile devices, it doesn’t like offline mode, and the Google Calendar doesn’t work properly. Nevertheless, it’s a boon for those of us having to go the long way round to check two accounts at once.
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