Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by ComodoHacker on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:53PM (#17362023)

This kind of defeats the purpose of multiple accounts.

Remember, we started to have them to separate our work/home/personal lives, to build separate digital profiles that companies (like Google) store on their servers. Now you beg Google to recognize and unify them (which I guess they have almost done already by themselves).

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by atombender on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:29PM (#17368507)

I'm not begging anything of Google, but I would want them to make this work better.

Google accounts are not just about data and personalities, but also about permissions. As long as I'm "logged into" multiple accounts, it should be able to map the content I'm trying to see to an account. Or at least offer to switch to that account. For example, if I'm trying to view a company document, but my default account is my personal account, then I don't want to see an often obscure "permission to view denied" error, which always freaks me out and makes me think I've been locked out or something.

Better yet, build this badly-needed auth stuff into the browser and allow apps to negotiate access with the browser.

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