Totally unable to switch Google accounts

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The Problem

I CANNOT switch Google accounts without starting a new browser or going incognito! Whenever I click sign out, it pops up with this window and there is no way, I can tell, to enter in a new user name.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Sign into Gmail.com with "Stay signed in" checked.
  2. Click the Sign Out link in Gmail.com.

Every single article I have found online talks about a "Switch to another account" link, but it is clearly missing from my login window.

Please help me. It is critical that I can switch between my various corporate accounts! They're with distinct organizations with contractual obligations prohibiting me from "adding" them to an account, not that I would want to, anyway.

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Best Answer

This is what works for me:

When I want to login into one of my GMail accounts, I visit this URL:

https://accounts.google.com/Logout?continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FServiceLogin%3Fsacu%3D1%26il%3Dtrue%26continue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmail.google.com

This will log me out of whatever Google account I was logged in previously (if any), and give me 2 empty login fields (username & password). After logging in, I'm redirected straight to GMail.

To get this workflow semi-automated in my password manager (I use KeePassX), I created a shortened URL:

http://tinyurl.com/mokz32r

because the program didn't play nicely with the URL encoding.

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