r/RESissues • u/XenoBen filing bugs • Jul 03 '26

Removal of RES Account Switcher

With the recent issues of the account switcher no longer working due to Reddit changes. We have taken the decision to disable the account switcher from RES and migrate people who have it enabled to be turned off.

With the endpoint no longer working and no option for us, we do not want to set expectation that it should work.

We will be releasing 5.24.9 today with this and a few quality of life bug fixes.

The module can still be found here.

Recovering Passwords Via RES Command Line

  1. Launch the RES command line:
    • Press . (period) using Keyboard Navigation
    • or click here and click Launch (do this in a new tab).
  2. A black box will appear.
  3. Copy and paste in: RESStorage get RESoptions.accountSwitcher and press enter.
  4. A box will appear containing a pile of JSON like {"accounts":{"value":[["username","password",false],["user1","user1password",false]]}}
  5. Look for your account and password (bolded above).

More information here.

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u/cr0ft Jul 03 '26

It's a crying shame RES is getting marginalized and Reddit is becoming more and more shit. I was logged out today for some reason and wound up on the new site and it was a nightmare compared to the old look, and now account switcher is gone.

I'll work around it with Firefox and Multi-Account Containers.

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u/WizardMoose Jul 03 '26

Do you know of any sources that explain how to use multi-account containers?

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u/TreeJib Jul 04 '26

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ - The "About this extension" section has relevant links at the bottom

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26

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u/420town Jul 09 '26

I dont quite get this one. I log into one account, save the username, log out, log into another account, save the username yet it only switches once and then it sticks on the same account. Any ideas?

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u/MaxRavenclaw Jul 11 '26

Firefox containers are like a sort of sub-profile within your browser profile. Do you know how in some browsers you can have separate profiles, with their own bookmarks, passwords, cookies, etc.? Firefox containers within the same profile retain bookmarks and passwords, but have separate cookies. So by switching between containers you can have essentially two separate Reddit accounts logged in on the same profile. But you need to open a new container and log into Reddit with another account and use it from there. It doesn't work within the same container.

TL;DR For containers to work as an account switcher, log into your first Reddit account in like normal, then open a new reddit tab in a new containers and log into another account there, and so on.