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Sreehari Sethunathan
Sreehari Sethunathan
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I have two firefox accounts. one for my university and other for my personal use. Ive been using G-mail as the primary email website for bothe the accounts. since Google chrome is lagging my system, i decides to use both the accounts in firefox. But firefox isn't allowing me to easily swith between two accounts without typing the password. also i would like to sign in my gmail in each account without typing the password. What i mean to say is, when I switch to my persoanl account, when i open G-mail, i want all the mails related to my personal account. and whenever i switch to my university account, i want all the mails related to university. with out separately signing in. but here whenever i open gmail via my university account, here all i recive are my personal mails and i dont want that. also the bookmarks which i have saved in my personal account, i dont want that to appear in whenever i swtch to my university account. also the saved password must belong to its account and shouldnever be merged.

I have two firefox accounts. one for my university and other for my personal use. Ive been using G-mail as the primary email website for bothe the accounts. since Google chrome is lagging my system, i decides to use both the accounts in firefox. But firefox isn't allowing me to easily swith between two accounts without typing the password. also i would like to sign in my gmail in each account without typing the password. What i mean to say is, when I switch to my persoanl account, when i open G-mail, i want all the mails related to my personal account. and whenever i switch to my university account, i want all the mails related to university. with out separately signing in. but here whenever i open gmail via my university account, here all i recive are my personal mails and i dont want that. also the bookmarks which i have saved in my personal account, i dont want that to appear in whenever i swtch to my university account. also the saved password must belong to its account and shouldnever be merged.

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Amelia
Amelia
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Hello,

I do not believe there is an easy way to do this. I will give you 3 options that I can think of, with increasing difficulty.

  1. Use Firefox Multi-Account Containers. Install the extension Multi-Account containers by Mozilla, and set up a container for university, leave your personal in the default container. Set gmail to always open in university container. Multi-Account Containers will then automatically ask you if you want to open it in your default container or in the university container. Repeat this for every site you use for both accounts. You can also set something to remember your decision and without prompting, always open in university.
  2. Use Thunderbird. Set up Thunderbird to use both addresses. Use Thunderbird as your mail client
  3. Use Firefox Profiles, found at about:profiles. This is the hardest in my opinion because you have to go to about:profiles every time

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