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An introduction to SessionBox - what's this and why we are doing it? Develop web applications, test new features, log out of personal Gmail, log in with a test account, then repeat to check with another one. Probably use different browsers, or Chrome profiles, so that I won't need to re-login for every test. Quite a pain. Mainly this continuous context switching and re-login (mostly even with 2FA) was the reason why we started thinking about finding a solution, that could persist different contexts in one single browser, using different tabs. And that's exactly what SessionBox does. Handle both Personal and Work related sessions in the same browser window. Eg. multiple Google / Gmail accounts can be easily used at the same time. Our pain of dealing with continuous user context switching lead to a hobby project, that has already reached over 38.000 downloads, and more than 25.000 monthly active users. This was the number at which we thought this might lead