{"id":181588,"date":"2023-01-09T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chromes-instance-switcher-lets-you-run-two-copies-of-the-browser-at-once-on-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:43:59","slug":"chromes-instance-switcher-lets-you-run-two-copies-of-the-browser-at-once-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chromes-instance-switcher-lets-you-run-two-copies-of-the-browser-at-once-on-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome’s \u201cInstance switcher\u201d lets you run two copies of the browser at once on your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you ever wanted to open multiple Chrome windows \u2013 not just tabs \u2013 on your Android device at once? Back in the day, people would download \u201capp cloning\u201d apps that would attempt to duplicate the install and keep them separate so that they could do this very thing. However, they’ve largely gone the way of the western, and most regular folks like myself have been stuck with just one instance of Chrome on the go unless we decide to grab Chrome Canary, Beta, or Dev from the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n
Last year, Google released a feature in Beta called \u201cInstance Switcher\u201d (kudos: Fossbytes<\/strong>), and it let you tap the three dots menu at the top-right of the screen and select \u201cManage windows\u201d. Upon doing so, the user would be presented with the same \u201cwindows\u201d they would have for separate Chrome browser instances on a desktop or laptop.<\/p>\n These could have separate Google accounts signed in, have separate bookmarks, history, and more, and neither would interfere with the other. Today, I was trying to clean up the nearly 400 tabs I have open in Chrome when I ran into this feature on the Stable version of the browser you all have installed right now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n That’s right, \u201cInstance Switcher\u201d is now available for everyone! I haven’t seen an official announcement for this, and it could just be a server-side rollout, but it’s there as you can see below. Hell, this could have been present for a few days or weeks by now, but I just only noticed it on version 108.0.5359.128). One thing I’m certain of is that it was not there last week to my knowledge. As I said, I have nearly 400 tabs open on the go, so I would have seen it. Let me know in the comments if you have had this prior to the date specified!<\/p>\n