A pane normally shows a site with your Chrome sign-in: if you’re signed in to a site in a normal tab, you’re signed in to it in the pane too. Separate session shows a pane without those existing logins, so you can sign in there with a different account, or see a site as a signed-out visitor, next to your usual account in another pane.
Turn it on for a pane
- Hover over the pane so its toolbar lights up.
- Click the Separate session button (a person with a cross).
- The pane reloads, and a line under its toolbar says Separate session · Uses a different login from your browser.
Sign in there as you like. To go back, click the same button again; the pane reloads with your normal Chrome session.
The button only appears on a pane that shows its site inside the pane, and only for web addresses (http and https).
What to expect
- It isn’t incognito. The pane’s address is still saved with your workspace, and history suggestions keep working.
- It lasts until the Flincth tab reloads. Reload the tab, or restart Chrome, and you’ll need to sign in again.
- Panes of the same site share it. Two separate-session panes showing the same site in one workspace see the same session.
- Pop-ups are blocked, and the pane can’t be opened as a window or in a tab while it’s on. Sites that sign you in through a pop-up won’t work here.
- Flincth doesn’t touch your cookies. Chrome itself keeps the pane apart; Flincth never reads or copies a site’s cookies to do it.
In Firefox
Firefox doesn’t support separate sessions inside a pane, so the button doesn’t appear there. A workspace imported from Chrome with a separate-session pane shows Use browser session in Firefox; click it to load the site normally.