Connect To Websites Using Different User Names

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There are many services which we use multiple accounts with. I personally, for instance, use multiple Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts. Shifting between them is quite a bothersome task and the constant logging in and out of the sites wastes valuable time.

Some internet browsers offer a quick solution to this by providing their users the option of creating different profiles which store login information and cookies. These profiles do not interfere with each other and function independently making it possible to work with multiple usernames signed in to the same account. Mozilla Firefox is an example of a browser which provides this multiple profiles features.

The problem with profiles however is that a user cannot place the different accounts side by side as at a time only one profile can be chosen and one profile stores only one username of a particular site.

Recognizing these problems, a great Firefox add-on was created to solve them; it is titled Multifox and we will be exploring it today.

With Multifox you can open independent Firefox windows which will have their own set of cookies and let you login on different sites. Let us consider an example with Yahoo Mail. After you open Yahoo Mail’s page, right-click on a Yahoo Mail URL and select “Open in a New Identity Profile”.

A new window will open with a number next to the address bar. If this is the first window you have created with the add-on, then the number will be 2:

The next window you will open will be marked 3, the one after that will be marked 4, and so on. This windows act as a separate profile. The information and cookies stored by them are independent of other windows. Therefore you can log into Facebook with Username1 in the first window (the one with no number), with Username2 in the second window (the one with number 2), and keep logging into different accounts of Facebook. If you choose to save the passwords, then your windows will store that information (meaning when you exit Firefox and reopen the windows, the no-number window will have the information of Username1 and the number 2 window will have the information of Username2).

Reading the above paragraph might have gotten a little confusing for you. However using Multifox is far from confusing. Give it a try today and simultaneously use multiple accounts on a site with unprecedented ease.

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