Mountain View, California — Until now if you happen to have more than one Google account, then opening another one in the same browser was just out of imagination, and thus it can be a real pain to manage multiple accounts. But this news about a novel feature that the search engine titan has under the wraps may surely interest you. Google is working on a new tool that will empower users to be logged into multiply accounts at a time in the same browser, according to a bloggy report.
According to the unofficial Google Operating System blog, reported that Google is experimenting on the new functionality with a few selected users with the likely intent of releasing it for everyone in the future, and it only works with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Code.
The multiple sign-in options would enable users to log into different Gmail accounts in different tabs. As for now, those who are already able to access it can simply turn on the feature through their Google Accounts page:
However, there is a caveat for Gmail users, the screenshot above indicates that if multiple sign-in is activated, offline feature in the Gmail is disabled. And when you visit a service that does not support multiple sign-in, the screen adds, the service will default to the account you signed into first.
For example, if you have two Gmail accounts opened concomitantly without one interfering with the other. Of course, there is another alternative of using the private browsing features in Chrome, Firefox and most other web browsers, as Google Operating System points out.
Asked to comment, Google said: “We have nothing to announce at this time.” But in an email sent to GigaOm, the company seemed to have revealed this is part of its effort to extend Google Apps accounts to additional Google services.” “Back in May we announced that we will be rolling out changes to our infrastructure for Google Apps accounts, giving Google Apps users access to many more services,” the company said.
“We are currently evaluating this functionality with selected users to get feedback on the user experience. We look forward to bringing this huge improvement to the rest of our customers soon, but we have nothing further to announce at this time.”
If it succeeds it will certainly be useful. Currently, with Google Apps, an organization can take advantage of a limited collection of services from a custom domain, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar. But beginning this summer, users will have the option of using a Google Apps account with everything else, including Blogger, the Picasa pic manager and sharer, Google AdWords, and the RSS-happy Google Reader.
Certainly, these are heavy limitations for now, but if it thrives, then we would be willing to bet that Google will be quick to add support for more sites.