I often need multiple browsing sessions for logging into multiple services with different accounts at one time. I don't want to have to use multiple browsers, nor do I want to use a different release of Google Chrome. I would be open to running multiple instances of Google Chrome. However, I've tried using open -na Google\ Chrome and it won't open a second instance. Is there a way to do this on a Mac with Google Chrome?

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Chrome supports multiple user profiles, you can make use of this to have multiple browsing sessions.

Click on the Chrome Menu (Mac users: Chrome-Preferences) → Click on Add New User. Now, there's a new instance of Chrome with a entirely different profile from the current user, so the cookies and the like are not shared.

Now, when you launch a new window, you can select a user profile to switch between & hence have multiple sessions.

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I don't know about the MAC, but

mkdir newProfile
chrome --user-data-dir=newProfile

Works great here on Linux!

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Try using an Incognito window.

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Found this marvellous solution:

I would probably alter the solution a bit by having the chrome function point to a time stamped directory in /tmp/. That way a new instance could be created each time by typing in only chrome rather than chrome /tmp/junk/.

I've also been using which launches new Chrome instances. Would be nice to look into watir's source to see how they do it.

This one: allows you to set up a full-fledged Application for multiple instances of chrome.

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If you do not want to use google account for loggin in, then use this plugin

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