Hrm...

[the_siobhan]

If you have two browser windows open, and you have LiveJournal up on both of them, it is not possible to be logged in as different users on each window.

Damn.

Comments

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

OTOH, if you have two *browsers* open, it *is* possible. La!

The tough bit is remembering which is which.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

But it is possible if you use both Netscape and IE.

[minwee.livejournal.com]

If you were desperately weird, you could use two different profiles or install the same browser in two different directories so that each one would have its own session cookies 'n' stuff. That depends a lot on the browser though.

Or you could su to a different user, make sure that xauth and $DISPLAY are set properly, and then run a new browser process. Or if you have to use Win'ders you could do the same thing with Citrix / RDP stuff.

Any more about that would not really be UI but it would exceed the geek threshold for this post, and could lead to it raining trout or the mayor of Warsaw exploding.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Bah, lynx with a -cookie_file switch will do the trick too.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Sure, but what has the mayor of Warsaw done for me lately?

[2ndaryairplane.livejournal.com]

it is much easier to post as different users if you use LJ posting software instead of a browser.
replying to posts is a different thing, at least 'till someone comes up with a LJ 'browser' =/

[eck.livejournal.com]

Hm, this might be another benefit to the way Phoenix (http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/) is installed. I think a second copy of it might use entirely different settings and so on.

But yeah, running two entirely different browsers is the easy approach. I'd avoid IE, but that leaves heaps of options... Mozilla (http://mozilla.org/), Opera (http://www.opera.com/), or many others for win32 (http://download.com.com/3150-2356-0-1-3.html).