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I share your pain. One way to get around it is to use the Chrome 'multiple profiles' feature, it lets you switch to a different 'profile' with entirely different cookies, cache, etc., and will let you sign into a different Google account than in your first profile.

You can switch profiles and even have different profiles active in different Chrome windows, without restarting Chrome.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en

(I am not saying this makes it all better, trying to use more than one Google account is a _mess_ no matter what. But that it's one workaround I discovered recently, which has been lessening the pain somewhat)




The profile switcher is nice - would like Firefox to support fast switching out of the box. But here Chrome is going a little backwards too. Recent work has made that profile switcher a bit less convenient. Many complaints here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=403619


I think profiles are a hard-to-discover feature. But once I discovered them, I really liked them.

They help me to separate my work and personal everything. Not just email, but my tabs, bookmarks, saved passwords, extensions, etc.




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