By boristhemoggy on

This may sound simple, but once logged in, I have to continually logout to preview the changes I've made, then login again to adjust them.
Is there an easier way of previewing without logging out?

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vm’s picture

vm commented

you mean to see the site as an anon user?

if so, certainly, use more than one browser keep one browser logged in and one logged out.

another method would be to investigate = http://drupal.org/project/Masquerade

Though I prefer the two browser method myself.

boristhemoggy’s picture

boristhemoggy commented

I don't really want anyone logging into it, just viewing it in a passive way. I'll try that with two browsers although it's a bit fiddly. Thanks for your help.

cavepimp’s picture

cavepimp commented

Not sure if this is the easiest/best way, but I typically stay logged in using Firefox and then preview using IE. Obviously later I check in multiple browsers to make sure there aren't any rendering issues, but it works pretty well for checking real quick.

drupaltime’s picture

drupaltime commented

I went looking for a module that can do this too.

While it is easy to open another browser to preview, it seems logical to have an inbuilt preview function/module within Drupal when designing or making changes, from an 'end user' point of view anyway.

Easy to say of course, when I have contributed 0 modules.

vm’s picture

vm commented

masquerade.module may be the module you seek but like others, I prefer to use a separate browser for viewing as another user.

Programming Paul’s picture

Programming Paul commented

You can use two browsers but I prefer to use the Google Chrome browser.

Google Chrome has a mode called "incognito" (people jokingly call it "porn mode") which will do exactly what you desire. To view your site as an unprivileged user, simply press [SHIFT][CTRL]N and a new incognito window will appear. With this new window none of the cookies are used from the parent window so it will look to your Drupal site as a new session.

Thus you can have two Google Chrome windows open at the same time. The first window is your regular browser logged in to your Drupal site as Admin, the second incognito window will show the same site as seen from an unprivileged user.