Allow easy switching between user accounts

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB))]

@sam

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

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 Feature post? I really want to see this in Core.

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@Yuri

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 ↩︎

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

   
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3. t/69362/6 ↩︎