Improvement suggestion !

CoursBium

As French academic librarians, we have noticed that students sometimes leave the library computers without removing their Zotero account identifiers from the Sync Preferences tab. They just close the Firefox session and think this is enough to log off.
To avoid mishandlings with other users, it could be very helpful to make the sync settings more accessible. Why not adding a "log in/log off" button next to the synchronisation arrow in the Zotero toolbar, just like for any webmail ?

adamsmith

because zotero isn't like webmail - while webmail is entirely in the cloud, Zotero stores the entire content of the library on the local disk.
A logout button would either have to erase all that info - which is both ineffective and has a _huge_ potential to create confusion among users - or leave it there, which means the next person syncing would add it to her library.

For that reason, the Zotero client is really not suited for public computers. I'd suggest taking it off.
Most larger libraries use roaming profiles with log-in for their students. That allows them to have private Firefox (and thus Zotero) profiles.

Gracile

I don't think anything has changed on this point since Tjowens' answer to your post two years ago.