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by bowlofpetunias 4402 days ago
This is why I use different browsers for different accounts (Chrome, Safari and Firefox are generally all fine for regular web use) and Choosy (http://www.choosyosx.com/) to prompt me which browser to open the link in.

It also allows for binding certain URLs to specific browsers.

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I have the same problem, as I have a personal and a work Google account. Chrome can sometimes ask you if you want to switch accounts, but in the end, I use Firefox for personal stuff and Chrome for my work.

BrowserChooser http://browserchooser.codeplex.com/ is a nice tool (like Choosyosx) to help select what URL to open in which browser.

To sync to Google Drive, I use Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com which is an enhanced Google Drive sync app that enables syncing multiple accounts at the same time.

I think Google wants each user to only have one account, which makes it better for them tracking ads.

How has your experience been with Syncdocs?

I'd recently looked into ways to cure the pain of multiple google drive accounts running on the desktop app. People spoke highly of CloudFuze and InSync, but their support forums were filled with really awful error reports about random file deletions or endless file replication.

These services sound like a syncing layer on top of a syncing layer, which seems prone to errors.

You could use chrome for all of them and specify the profile in the command line arguments