Browser: Two Bitwarden Chrome Extension instances?

[Bluetexon]

Hello,

i really enjoy Bitwarden and am using it now at my work and private. The problem here is, that my work vault is self-hosted and my private Bitwarden is using the default Bitwarden servers.
Is there any way to have two Bitwarden Instances in Chrome?

Thank you,
Bluetexon

[kspearrin]

The only way to handle this is to have two browser profiles. You can install Bitwarden in each profile and run it with different user accounts/servers.

[Bluetexon]

But those two browser profiles can't run simultaneously, correct?

[kspearrin]

Not that I know of. I think you have to toggle between them.

[Bluetexon]

I've had the idea of having two Bitwarden Chrome Extension. One normal and one "business" or "secondary" Bitwarden version. But I think Google won't allow that due to their TOS

[Zeustopher]

I overcome similar in a few ways:

Option 1) by having the plugin installed in Chrome logged into Vault A and then I've installed the desktop app and had it logged into Vault B. I log into the Chrome Plugin with whichever vault I need to access most often.

Option 2) Use Chrome/Firefox with plugin for Work Vault and Vivaldi with plugin for Personal Vault. This has the added advantage that _everything_ in Vivaldi is personal and _everything_ in Chrome/Firefox is work.

Neither option is perfect, but I've ended up staying with Option 2 for several months now and have gotten used to it being that way. Those options don't work in all scenarios either (like if you are using a Chromebook then you're locked into Chrome _and_ you can't install a desktop app).

You could also come up with a workflow that involves accessing the web vault at https://vault.bitwarden.com though thats cumbersone too.

Another crazy idea would be to clone the repo, rename the app to something else slightly different, build it yourself and install it by hand into Chrome. Then you could have both side by side in the same Chrome instance. You could even go crazy and (breaking the rules) color the Bitwarden icon a different color or something. This is going too deep for me, but its another possible option.

[Bluetexon]

Alright, thank you for your reply. I appreciate it.
I think I'll go with option 2, but I'll try your idea with installing it in chrome as secondary instance.

[LaurentSGL]

I've got the same problem, since last week where we install a self hosted version in our company.
Before that i'm using Bitwarden for private use and wanted two instance of BW extension in Chrome
That's why, with the open source of BW extension, i compile it, with some lightly diff like the color of icon, and now i've got 2 instances of BW

[MurzNN]

@LaurentSGL, thanks for great solution! May Bitwarden officially publish "Bitwarden secondary" extension in repositories (with different icon color) for solve this issue?

[whereisaaron]

How do you handle two or three accounts with the mobile apps? Only supporting one account per app install is not sensible.
Just think, if you use Bitwarden for your company, then you must never recommend Bitwarden to any company you work with, because if they adopt it, you would be able to access your account for both without extreme hassle 😄

[tgreer-bw]

@whereisaaron client account switching is on the roadmap :-)

[LaurentSGL]

the account switching wil be avalaible for both mobileapp and browser extension ?