Developers, freelancers and agencies often juggle several accounts on the same service: a personal and a work GitHub, separate Vercel or Supabase logins per client, two domain registrar accounts. Logging out and back in each time is slow, and it needs the password you just forgot.
Option 1: browser profiles
Every major browser lets you create profiles, each with its own cookies, history and logins.
- Good: completely separate sessions, built in, free.
- Not so good: each profile is a separate window with its own extensions and bookmarks; switching is clunky when you have many accounts.
Option 2: private windows and containers
A private window gives you one extra, temporary session. Firefox's Multi-Account Containers go further, with colour-coded tabs that each keep their own cookies.
- Good: quick for a second account.
- Not so good: private sessions vanish when closed; containers are Firefox-only.
Option 3: the site's own account switcher
Some services (Google, for example) let you add several accounts and switch from your picture in the corner. Use it where it exists; it is the most reliable way for that service.
Option 4: saved sessions with Quick accounts
Quick accounts is the account switcher built into the Potent Cipher browser extension and desktop app. You sign in once, save that login, and later switch back to it in one click, with no password form.
- Each saved login is encrypted on your device like any other secret in your vault.
- Switching swaps the site's cookies and page storage for the saved ones, then reloads the tab.
- To add another account, use "Sign in to another account" rather than the site's own Log out button. A real Log out ends that session on the site's server, so a saved copy of it would stop working.
- The desktop app can also open two accounts of the same site side by side, in windows that each keep their own storage.
What it doesn't do: switch Google's own accounts (Google already does that itself, and treats copied sessions as stolen), or skip a site's own security checks such as asking for your password again before sensitive changes.
Which should you use?
- Two accounts, rarely: a private window or a second browser profile.
- Many accounts, every day: Quick accounts, or containers if you live in Firefox.
- Google accounts: Google's own switcher, or one browser profile per account.
Whatever you choose, keep every password in a vault too: sessions expire, and a saved login is no use if the password behind it is lost. Check the download page to see when the extension and desktop app are available.