Yet another thing to be filed under the "Stuff I figured out on my own but then realized Lifehacker did an article on two years ago" category.
Because Chrome's Incognito mode is sandboxed and therefore does not share cookies with a normal Chrome instance, it is possible to simultaneously log into two different accounts on one website or service.
For example, you could open Chrome normally and log into your primary Google account (which will subsequently log that browser into most Google services... Gmail, Blogspot, Docs,Claendar etc...) and then, by pressing CTRL-Shift-N, open an Incognito Window and log into a secondary Google account, and all of it's associated services, without having to log out of your primary account. The two accounts will live peacefully in separate windows, instead of constantly logging each other out, as they would if run from a normal browser.
This can be extremely useful if you monitor multiple Gmail inboxes, use Google services spread across multiple login credentials, or if you value keeping your work and personal profiles separate but easily accessible... the list goes on. Of course, I have just been using Google services as an example... this method will work equally well with any site that requires a login.
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