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Option to disable opening new tab to login with google account for Join chrome extension.

Many times I do not want to stay signed into an account for the entire chrome session for good reasons (e.g. I want check mail on another account).

Yet the Join chrome extension always bugs me to sign in by opening a new tab. It is incredibly annoying to always be asked to sign into a Google account whenever I start a session because of this extension.

I now have around 6 tabs opened when I start my session with tabs from the last time that are all asking me to sign in! It's frustrating to close these tabs constantly!

PLEASE allow the option to enable/disable this sign in feature. Otherwise allow me to sign into a google account once WITHOUT actually signing into Google's other web services, like Gmail, History, YouTube, Google+, etc.

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JC

second this request

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Thirded. It would be awesome if we could just use join without a reliance on Google. 

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Hmm, sorry for the delay in responding, but signing in to Join doesn't change the account that's signed in on other Google services on your device...

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I am talking about browser sign in when using the Chrome extension. If i sign into join extension, my google account is signed into all services in my browser session. THIS is what I mean by sign in on other Google services.

But if you sign in to Join in the tab that opens you can still check emails on other accounts. It doesn't change anything about that...

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To clarify, I do not wish to be signed into other Google services if I want to just use Join. Sure, it doesn't restrict me to see email on other accounts, but that is not what I am trying to request. I am saying that if Join extension wants me to sign in with my Google account that it doesn't sign in to other Google services in my browser. Because once I sign out of my Google account that I used to sign into Join, it will sign out of the Join extension as well. 

But simply signing in to Join shouldn't sign you in to anywhere else, if you do it through the new tab that Join opens. Can you confirm that it's signing you in to other stuff?

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It does, in a different tab I can see on the Google homepage that I am signed into all other Google services, is there a way for me to attach a screenshot?

This is true, but I'm unwilling to sign into that resulting page. Join works fine when it had a cached login even after I logged out of the associated account from the rest of the browser. This particular machine is a work machine and I don't want this browser to be using or have access to anything in the account I use to Auth to join. Perhaps just having either all of the join Auth happen in the extension rather than the browser globally or by having a separate join account would be a solution.

To be clear, join works when I've logged into the window/join initially, but this also logs in the account globally. Join works as expected until I sign out of the account from the browser side of things. E. g. Google.com. After signing out though, any time join receives a push, the data is sent but it also opens a new tab login page. 

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Quick update, but it seems at least on my end that if you have this issue and sign in again, then sign out again, the opening the new tab problem goes away. Can anyone else confirm? 

I'd still rather be able to use join without big brother, but that would be it's own topic. 

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It has been 3 years since I made this request... The world has changed quite drastically since then! At some point I moved on from this app and now use the "My Phone" app for Win10 to get notifications and make/receive calls from my android phone. For copy/paste though, I've been getting by with Google chrome's feature of sending the tab with the text I want to copy to a device, but admittedly it's a bit clunky to do.

Glad to see the developer still active, but it's about time to get this feature request implemented wouldn't you say?

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It hasn't received a whole lot of votes in these years... :) Sorry, I try to concentrate on the features that get more votes first...

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Joao, I don't think the number of votes should be a parameter to consider on this issue, because it affects only the minority that does not want to stay logged in to Google (and so probably the users that use Chromium-based browsers but not Chrome or Chromium, since they require to be logged in to Google for syncing purposes), but it affects it badly (who likes random auto-opening tabs??), and solving the issue (that is an objective one) will not take away anything to the other users.

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Haha, well I guess your app has maintained some popularity since then ;). No worries here on my end, like I said I moved on! Hope you are doing well, dev and everyone in this thread. 

Thank you very much Nova Alam :)

pipp0 but I have to base my development priorities on something. If not the number of votes, then what? :)

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I would give priority to bugs over feature requests, and in my opinion this is more a bug than intended behavior, since I don't think that your intention when coding this extension was to have auto-opening tabs at random for your users that logged out of Google. And even considering the votes, this issue is on the second page on 24 pages of "Ideas", and I think in 3 years maybe it could have been considered more.

But this is the intended behaviour for the large majority of users. If someone was signed out of their Join account, they normally want to be notified of that so that it can continue working normally. But, ok, I can try giving some priority to this. Are you able to test code from github instead of from Chrome store?

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Yes, thanks

Ok, I've pushed the change to Github. I've added a new option in Advanced at the bottom. Can you please check if it's working as intended?

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It seems to work perfectly!

Cool! :) Thanks!

RF

I fourth, fifth, and sixth this!!!!   Freaking annoying as hell!

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I already added this 2 months ago as you can see in the other comments :)

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