[simon]

I agree that it could get tedious, but I'm compartmentalized (not OCD ;-) enough in how I do things, that it has worked well for me so far.

Your XUL apps approach sounds interesting. Can you offer any pointers on what you do and how others could do it too?

[hackernews]

It's pretty simple right now. I only spent an hour or so on it and will post it to GitHub when I get some more time to iron out a few kinks.

Basically you open the XUL app for the service you want to access. It acts as a chromeless firefox browser and intercepts any links you click. If it's an external link it opens it in your default browser where you wouldn't be logged into google preserving a bit of anonymity.

[simon]

Thanks.

I also found this link http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-xulintro/ after a little searching. I'll try it out.