# Allow easy switching between user accounts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-easy-switching-between-user-accounts/108791
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 10, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-easy-switching-between-user-accounts/108791 "2019-02-10T19:16:56Z")
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### Author: ![roke\_julian\_lockhart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/roke_julian_lockhart/32/540179_2.png) [@roke\_julian\_lockhart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/roke_julian_lockhart)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-easy-switching-between-user-accounts/108791/5 "2025-10-24T16:10:37Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> This is going to require some special plugin, also there are huge security implications to allowing account switching so you need to be ultra careful with the implementation.

I suppose that that exists:

> [@Fast User Switcher for Developers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fast-user-switcher-for-developers/69362):
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> As pointed out below, you don’t actually need a plugin to easily switch users in development: That said, this plugin might still be useful if you want easy links to switch accounts quickly. When developing Discourse, I often find it’s useful to switch between user accounts. My general workflow currently looks something like this: Open incognito window Login using the admin account credentials that I remember (most of the time) Hamburger Admin Users Pick a user Impersonate If I want to cha…

However, it’s inapplicable here. Could this thread be switched to a #Contribute > Feature post? I really want to see this in Core.

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> [@Yuri](#):
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> In Chrome, this is called ‘(other) People’.

Although Chromium provides that profile system \[1\] like Firefox does ( ~~with Firefox’s less easily accessible~~ ), \[2\] Firefox provides a significantly more convenient system, via isolated tabs. \[3\]

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1. [`t/69362/4`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fast-user-switcher-for-developers/69362/4) 

2. `Mozilla.MozillaFirefoxNightly_146.2510.1421.0_x64__jag0gd4e3s9p2` demonstrates otherwise, per:

3. [`t/69362/6`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fast-user-switcher-for-developers/69362/6)

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