Can you be logged into 2 smugmug accounts at the same time?

VelvtRideVelvtRide Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
edited August 15, 2008 in SmugMug Support
I searched the forum, but couldn't find anything related to this question. I am currently needing to use 2 separate smugmugs and logging in and out constantly is kind of a PITA. :D

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2008
    Yup, use different browsers.

    IE, and Firefox
    Firefox, and Safari (works on Mac and Win!)
    Firefox and Flock.
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Yup, use different browsers.

    IE, and Firefox
    Firefox, and Safari (works on Mac and Win!)
    Firefox and Flock.

    That's how I do it. Firefox on one, IE on the other.
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  • VelvtRideVelvtRide Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2008
    I'm such a doofus! :bash

    Thanks for pointing out the obvious. lol3.gif
  • TexasFamilyTexasFamily Registered Users Posts: 100 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2008
    i don't have two accounts to try...
    but what about two profiles in FF...two windows of FF
    one profile for one SM account...other profile for other SM account.

    i will let you search for how to create multiple profiles in FF...
    its not that hard.

    my shortcut...

    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P edward -no-remote


    Edward
  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,409 moderator
    edited August 15, 2008
    TexasFamily wrote:
    i don't have two accounts to try...
    but what about two profiles in FF...two windows of FF
    one profile for one SM account...other profile for other SM account.

    i will let you search for how to create multiple profiles in FF...
    its not that hard.

    my shortcut...

    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P edward -no-remote


    Edward
    Be very careful. You can't be logged in to two smugmug accounts in one browser (for example, one browser being multiple browser windows of firefox). You will end up harming the customization of one of those accounts.

    Two different browsers = good. Two of the same browser = bad.

    --- Denise
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  • TexasFamilyTexasFamily Registered Users Posts: 100 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2008
    denisegoldberg wrote:
    Be very careful. You can't be logged in to two smugmug accounts in one browser (for example, one browser being multiple browser windows of firefox). You will end up harming the customization of one of those accounts.

    Two different browsers = good. Two of the same browser = bad.

    --- Denise

    i agree, two of the same browser with the same profile = bad for customizing two SM accounts.

    are you sure it doesn't work with same browser with multiple profiles...?

    shorcut 1
    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P edward -no-remote
    shortcut 2
    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P karen -no-remote

    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles
    Firefox saves your personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences in a set of files called your profile, which is stored in a separate location from the Firefox program files. You can create multiple profiles, each containing a separate set of user information. Only one profile is active at any time. Through the Firefox Profile Manager, you can create, remove, and rename profiles.
    we have multiple profiles so i don't have to log out of xp and into my own xp account...
    i get my own bookmarks/saved tabs etc...i can be logged into SM account and have wife in FF under her profile...and not logged into our SM account for testing customization/etc.

    so even though it is the same browser it is not the same session...and not using the same cookies...but the benefits of FF & firebug

    Edward
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2008
    TexasFamily wrote:

    are you sure it doesn't work with same browser with multiple profiles...?

    Nope cuz it's way easy to use FF &Flock. Or FF & IE or whatever... :D
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  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2008
    denisegoldberg wrote:
    Be very careful. You can't be logged in to two smugmug accounts in one browser (for example, one browser being multiple browser windows of firefox). You will end up harming the customization of one of those accounts.

    Two different browsers = good. Two of the same browser = bad.

    --- Denise

    If Firefox lets you actually run two profiles at the same time by running two separate instances of Firefox each with it's own profile configuration, everything should be fine with it. Each profile is it's own set of cookies (e.g. login) and cache so they would be completely separate from one another and thus could each login to a separate account. I haven't tried it because, like Andy, I just use a different browser and find Firefox profiles not as simple, but it sounds like it could work.
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  • renstarrenstar Registered Users Posts: 167 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2008
    cookiepie
    if you use firefox, you can use the cookiepie extension to have FF allow a different cookie for each tab

    http://lifehacker.com/396818/cookiepie-logs-into-multiple-gmail-accounts-simultaneously

    -r
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