SOLVED was: Re: Gmail Grrrr.
On Saturday 21 December 2013 22:59:34 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 22/12/13 09:31, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to
> > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in
> > the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up
> > with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just
> > freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't
> > just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC!
> >
> > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on
> > which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then
> > click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either
> > (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer
> > him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account.
> >
> > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook
> > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else.
>
> 1. Logout of your gmail account.
> 2. Wipe cookies (Iceweasel -> Edit -> Preferences... -> Privacy ->
> Remove individual cookies... -> Remove all cookies -> Close.
> (google "saves" your account login using cookies).
> 3. Login to his gmail account. (now the default google login for
> that browser is his).
That worked! \o/ Thank you very much.
Lisi
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