Firefox OR Chrome separate cookies for different domains

Question

As you might have noticed that when you log in to your Google Account on any one of its websites, you are automatically logged in everywhere. Let's say you log into your Gmail account (gmail.com) to check your mails, then you are automatically loged in to youtube account.

I guess the cookies are shared across the domains. Is there any way to separate the cookies for 2 different domains? I found MultiFox and CookieSwap for firefox, but it requires you to switch the cookies manually.

any idea?

Answer 1

I've found a better than nothing solution, It's an extension for Chrome, its just a very quick to login. Its called quick login.

Note: Every time you switch your account, it will log you out and then login to the site.

Answer 2

The simplest solution for cookies isolation is to use different user profiles to access the websites that you wish to isolate, with differing desktop shortcuts per-profile.

For Firefox, you have already found the Multifox extension that allows connection to websites using different user names simultaneously, although manually.

For Chrome, a better site isolation mechanism is built-in, currently in various stages of development or experimentation. See these articles :

The Chromium Projects - Site Isolation
The Chromium Projects - Isolated Sites
30 days with isolated apps in Chrome

I have personally never tried Site Isolation, but as all Google websites are in the google.com domain, I have some doubts.

From the article Sibling domains cookies isolation :

Sibling domains are subdomains that share a common suffix which is not a public suffix. Mozilla maintains a list of public suffixes that is used by Firefox, Chrome and Opera. IE has its own list.

Browsers implement weaker isolation policy for sibling domains than for completely separate domains: a site can set cookies for its siblings.

Chrome's Site Isolation seems like your best bet and my last link contains an example of how to set it up, but I do not know whether this will override sibling domains.

Answer 3

There is no perfect way to go about what you want to do. The problem you're running into is that Google has moved to a Single Sign-On feature across all Google sites. You haven't been able to "separate cookies" for the different domains because the Google is using the same domain across all of those sites for authentication. There is nothing to separate. This includes YouTube.

Here are your options.

1. Use multiple sign-in

   While signed in on a Google account, click on your profile picture in the top bar. This will give you options to view your profile, add an account, or sign out. Click on Add account, then sign in with your other account. You don't have to worry about the two accounts sharing information because "Multiple sign-in does not merge account data, and it does not give one account access to another."

   When you're wanting to use a different account, simply click your profile picture in the top bar again. The second account will be listed; simply click on the account you want to use.

2. Use different browsers

   Since Google's Single Sign-in is browser-specific, you can easily circumvent it by using a different browser. You could use Google Chrome for your normal browsing and switch over to Firefox for YouTube. In that way, you could be signed in in both places without any overlap.

3. Sign out and sign into the other account

   I believe this is what you're doing right now. It is 100% effective, even if it is annoying.

Answer 4

Use 'Incognito' mode. This is what can help you I guess. This way you can use different accounts at the same time in your single browser, but different windows.