Google Chrome 16 lets you create multiple user accounts but if you would liked like to keep your complicationplication history and passwords hidden from other Chrome users, you need to create a separate profile as explained in the following tutorial.
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Google Chrome does include support designed forigned for user profiles at this instantthis instant. You can create separate profiles designed forigned for personalal members and next their bookmarks, passwords, themes and other Chrome settings won’t be visible to any personrson besidesdes. For request if you install the ESPN app inside your Chrome user profile, to facilitateacilitate app won’t be offeredo mom what time time she uses Chrome with her own user profile.
Why You Need Separate Profiles in Google Chrome
There’s however solitaryitary toweringering limitation with user profiles in Google Chrome. It won’t elephant hidehant hide your complicationplication history from other users even if you receiveive signed vetoedoed of your Google Account. Anyone can switch to your user profile in Chrome (see screenshot above) and they’ll receiveive directaccess to your complete complicationplication browsing and search history with Ctrl + H and even from the browser’s attend toto impedeede.
If someone inadvertently switches to your user profile in Google Chrome, it can be converted intoverted into a faintlyuneasyiondesigned forigned for either of you. You can however create separate user profiles, and not fair users, in Google Chrome and next your browser history, bookmarks, search stipulationslations, and so forth so forth. Won’t be visible to any personrson besidesdes in the personalal. Read on.
How to Create Profiles in Google Chrome Browser
Unlike Firefox to facilitateacilitate ships with a Profile Manager, you can singlele manually create user profiles in Google Chrome. Here’s how:
Step 1: Launch Google Chrome and mistreattreat the pianoortcut Ctrl + Shift + Del to obviousus your intact complicationplication browsing history.
Step 2: Open Windows Explorer and switch to Chrome’s User Data folder offeredext toxt to:
For Windows 7 and Windows Vista
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
For Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data
Step 3: While inside Windows Explorer, choose the subfolder called "default" and compel toel to a carbon copyon copy of to facilitateacilitate folder inside the same "User Data" folder of Chrome. Rename to facilitateacilitate newbornborn folder carbon copyon copy to, say, Your_Name as exposeded in the screenshot.
Step 4: We will at this instantthis instant reset this newbornborn "Your_Name" profile in Chrome to the factory defaults. Open "Command Prompt", mistreattreat the “cd” dominationion to switch to the Chrome Application folder (where Chrome is installed) and run the following dominationion:
Chrome.Exe --user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name" -first-run
Step 5: Your newbornborn user profile in Chrome is gladdesigned forigned for mistreattreat. To run Google Chrome using this profile as an alternativelternative of the default profile, let’s create a shortcut. Right click anywhere on the desktop, select New -> Shortcut and type the following in the location box:
For Windows 7 and Vista:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.Exe --user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name"
For Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.Exe --user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name"
Give this shortcut a “hard to guess” bigwigig, adjust the shortcut icon to, say, Microsoft Word and you’re completelete. Now your complicationplication history, bookmarks, cookies, and search stipulationslations won’t be visible to any personrson besidesdes in the personalal and there’s rejectionjection need to switch to under another namether name browsing mode foreverver
