Posting to multiple accounts in Delicious.com

March 5, 2009 1:13 AM

Posting links to two different Delicious accounts, in Windows, preferably in Firefox. Is it possible without logging in/out all the time, or using one browser for each account?

Basically, what I'd like is an add-on like Pukka (which seems to be Mac only). There's a previous question on the same topic, but it's from 2005 and I was hoping there'd be something new by now.

posted by harriet vane to computers & internet (6 comments total)

You can do this using Anonymous mode in Chrome/Chromium.
posted by dunkadunc at 1:30 AM on March 5

You can use IE Tab to run IE within Firefox. It keeps seperate cookies, so you can have your two accounts logged in and switch between them with one mouse click.
posted by jzed at 3:05 AM on March 5

What I do is not optimal, but in case it helps... I stay logged in to my main account, and post all links there. For the links that I want to also post to my other account, I add the tag for:otheraccountname. Periodically, I log out and log in to the other account, and accept all those links from the inbox.

I fully admit this process sucks, but it's the only one I could figure out.
posted by SuperSquirrel at 6:13 AM on March 5

The unofficial Delicious Complete extension for Firefox used to have a way to post to multiple accounts, but it hasn't been updated for Firefox 3. A person made a hacky update that may be worth trying (with the caveat that it crashed OS X when I tried it myself). Or maybe try using Delicer for one of the accounts? I haven't tested this.
posted by dreamyshade at 2:42 PM on March 5

Thanks, everyone - although keep the ideas coming if you've got more!

I have tried the tagging for the other account, but yeah, as mentioned it's a bit fiddly. I suspect my problem is that I don't really have a 'main' account, I like to use both about equally. One is for my blog, and the other is for personal crafty and recipe and science links.

I've tried using an extension for one account, and the standard Firefox/Delicious tool for the other, but find that they end up synced to the same account. Although that was in FF2, so maybe it's different now.

I might give the hacky update for Delicious Complete a go, then try switching to Chrome if that doesn't work out (was intending to give it a test run anyway).
posted by harriet vane at 7:51 PM on March 5

The extension is still the same: the active account in the Firefox add-on corresponds with the active account on the website.

It sounds like Anonymous mode in Chrome would ignore the existing Delicious cookie, rather than maintaining two sets of cookies, so you'd have to log in again anyway.
posted by dreamyshade at 6:07 AM on March 6