To help keep that information safe, you should sign out of Gmail. However, when someone is using Guest Mode, they also cannot see. Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access.
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Being 'logged in' is a misconception. Even when you are 'logged in' when you use a browser, this is handled by the storage of a cookie with an authentication token stored in it. On the device is sort of the same, except it is not a 'cookie'. When you set up your account, an authentication token is requested and stored on the device. A new token can also be exchanged at other times, but you are unaware that it even happens.When the applications, like gmail, go and check for new mail, they use that token to tell the gmail servers that you are 'you'. The reason you can't 'sign out' is because then you would not be able to check for new mail, get application updates and other things like that that happen in the background. If you were to sign out, then every couple minutes you would have to put in your credentials so your device could check for updates and new mail.A large set of the services built-in to android use your authentication token.
Even when you create, edit, or delete a contact on your device, because it syncs that data to your account on google servers. Calendar appointments, gTalk, Google Voice, the search widget, voice-to-text, push notifications (for just any service that uses C2DM), and any other service that may show up under your google account in Accounts & Sync can and will need this authentication token at any given time.It is more like you are logged in to your PC (Windows, Linux, OSX) then logged in to any particular google service. There's no way to do this. And the answer has always been (from the linked discussion above). Google's native apps on Android phones are designed to use the phoneitself to sign in and out. If you're concerned about account securityon your phone I recommend you add a lock pattern or PIN to your phone(visit Settings Location & security settings to set these up).If you want to disassociate your account you can perform a factory reset, which will erase all of your personal data and require you to set up the account again. This isn't really practical as a 'sign out' method, though, since you'd have to completely re-create the account to access it.I suppose you could also go to a web browser and change your Gmail password to effectively 'log out' your phone and prompt for the new password, but then you'd have to change it after every time you've accessed the Gmail app.
Again, not practical.
by Martin Brinkmann on March 22, 2011 in Google - Last Update: March 05, 2015 - 24 comments
Google changed the header on many of their pages recently from more or less static links leading to often used features, the account, settings and sign out to a menu like interface that opens up when the user clicks on it.
The menu should pop up on a left click, but this has not happened in the past weeks on my PC. A click on the tools icon in the upper right corner does nothing at all.
The sign out is not working when I use the Firefox web browser. It is working fine when I switch to Google Chrome or another web browser.
Nothing happens when I click on the account username or the settings icon once I'm signed into Google. The screenshot below shows how the sign out menu should look like.
I first thought it had something to do with the NoScript add-on that blocks scripts from running. Disabling it completely had no positive effect on the issue at hand: I still could not access either of the links. On a side note, the more link in the header is not working as well in my version of Firefox.
Clearing the cookies and temporary Internet files logged me out of Google, but I noticed that the Settings button was still unresponsive. The Sign In link that was displayed loaded the standard Google sign in form.
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I then decided to disable all add-ons to see if this had an effect on the unresponsive links, which it did not. I can still sign out on pages that do not utilize the new header menu, like this page but I cannot get the menu to work.
I'm not sure if this is a bug in Firefox 4, or if it is something else. I'd be interested in your ideas on what it can be, to see if it resolves the issue. For now, I can't use Google the way I did less than a month ago.
What it is not:
The most likely explanation is either a Firefox 4 bug or a configuration setting in the installed version of Firefox on my computer.
Can't Sign Out Of Google
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The option to sign-out of my Google account is not active when I use the Firefox browser. It does work though when another browser is used.
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