Google Chrome allows you to create multiple user accounts, but if you want to keep your
web history and hidden from other Chrome users passwords, you must create another
profile in Chrome only user accounts and not. Read more.
web history and hidden from other Chrome users passwords, you must create another
profile in Chrome only user accounts and not. Read more.
If you break it up into the apartment with other family members, have a shared computer,
how do you ensure that your web browsing history in Google Chrome stays private and
others do not find what you were looking for, or that sites was here, of this team?
Google Chrome adds support for user profiles now. You can create separate profiles
family members and then their bookmarks, passwords, themes and other Chrome
settings will not be visible to anyone else create. For example, if you install the app
ESPN in your Chrome user profile, this application will not be available to mother when
she uses Chrome with your own user profile.
how do you ensure that your web browsing history in Google Chrome stays private and
others do not find what you were looking for, or that sites was here, of this team?
Google Chrome adds support for user profiles now. You can create separate profiles
family members and then their bookmarks, passwords, themes and other Chrome
settings will not be visible to anyone else create. For example, if you install the app
ESPN in your Chrome user profile, this application will not be available to mother when
she uses Chrome with your own user profile.
Why do you need separate profiles in Google Chrome
However, a major limitation with user profiles in Google Chrome. It will not hide web history from other users, even if you have logged in to your Google Account. Anyone can change their user profile in Chrome (see screenshot above) and have instant access to all web browsing history and search with Ctrl + H, and even from the browser address bar.
If someone accidentally changes to your user profile in Google Chrome, you can become a somewhat embarrassing situation for both. However, you can create different user profiles, and users not only in Google Chrome and the browser history, bookmarks, search terms, etc., will not be visible to everyone in the family.
However, a major limitation with user profiles in Google Chrome. It will not hide web history from other users, even if you have logged in to your Google Account. Anyone can change their user profile in Chrome (see screenshot above) and have instant access to all web browsing history and search with Ctrl + H, and even from the browser address bar.
If someone accidentally changes to your user profile in Google Chrome, you can become a somewhat embarrassing situation for both. However, you can create different user profiles, and users not only in Google Chrome and the browser history, bookmarks, search terms, etc., will not be visible to everyone in the family.
How to Create Profiles in Google Chrome Browser
Unlike Firefox that ships with a Profile Manager, you can only manually create user profiles in Google Chrome. Here’s how:
Step 1: Launch Google Chrome and use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Del to clear your entire web browsing history.
Step 2: Open Windows Explorer and switch to Chrome’s User Data folder available at:
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, select the subfolder called “default” and make a copy of that folder inside the same “User Data” folder of Chrome. Rename that new folder copy to, say, Your_Name as shown in the screenshot.
Step 4: We will now reset this new “Your_Name” profile in Chrome to the factory defaults. Open “Command Prompt”, use the “cd” command to switch to the Chrome Application folder (where Chrome is installed) and run the following command:
chrome.exe --user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name" -first-run
Step 5: Your new user profile in Chrome is ready for use. To run Google Chrome using this profile instead of the default profile, let’s create a shortcut. Right click anywhere on the desktop, choose 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” name, change the shortcut icon to, say, Microsoft Word and you’re done. Now your web history, bookmarks, cookies, and search terms won’t be visible to anyone else in the family and there’s no need to switch to incognito browsing mode ever.
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