Who runs several Gmail accounts
- Freelancers and agencies with a mailbox per client
- Teams that share a support or sales mailbox
- People who keep personal and work mail strictly apart
What goes wrong in a single browser
A normal browser keeps one set of cookies and one device identity for everything you open in it. Google can sign you in to several accounts in one browser, but they share the same cookies and the same device identity. A profile per mailbox keeps them truly apart and makes it harder to open the wrong one.
Our beginner’s guide to managing multiple accounts explains the problem in more detail.
How VANE keeps your Gmail accounts apart
One profile per account
Each Gmail account lives in its own profile, with its own cookies and storage. Nothing is shared between profiles.
Its own network address
Give a profile its own HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy and test it before you open the browser.
Details that agree
Time zone and language follow the profile’s country, so the address, the clock and the language tell the same story.
Set up once, reopen any time
A profile keeps its cookies and settings between sessions. You open it and carry on.
Check Gmail’s rules first
Whether you may run more than one Gmail account, and how, is set by Gmail, not by your browser. Read Google’s Terms of Service before you start, and follow them. Breaking a platform’s rules can lead to accounts being closed, whatever tool you use.
Gmail has delegation, which lets someone else read and send mail from a mailbox without sharing the password. Use it for shared mailboxes.
Questions about Gmail and VANE
Can I use more than one Gmail account?
That depends on Gmail’s own rules, which can change. Read its terms and policies before you open or manage more than one account, and follow them. VANE is a browser: it keeps your accounts organised and separate, and it does not change what Gmail allows.
Does VANE log in to Gmail for me?
No. VANE is a browser. You sign in yourself, in a profile of your own, and the cookies stay in that profile.
Do I need a separate proxy for each Gmail profile?
If you do not want accounts linked by network address, give each profile its own address, in the region that matches the account, and check your proxy provider’s rules too. Our guide to SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies explains the options.
How can I check a profile before I use it for Gmail?
Run it through free test pages for fingerprint, WebRTC and DNS leaks. Our guides explain what each test shows and how to read it.
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