In Chrome visit the Option menu at the top-right and then click Settings.
Under the settings screen scroll down to the User section and click Add new user…
Select an avatar for the new user and then type in a name. Choose whether or not to add a shortcut to the desktop and then click create.
You’ll know which profile you’re logged into by which icon appears at the top-left corner of the browser. In the screenshot below I’m logged into the Pizza profile.
One cool thing about user profiles is that they don’t share cookies. Each browser window is opened as a separate instance and will allow you to sign into multiple different accounts from the same service, such as Gmail (similar to the trick with incognito accounts).
i.e. have two people on one computer with two separate Gmail accounts and not have to log-in every time you change accounts – as used to be the case until recently when Gmail started insisting that you have to log-in with your password everytime you change user Some command line switches to check out: –enable-managed-users (No description) These look promising: –login-manager ⊗ Enables Chrome-as-a-login-manager behavior. ↪ –login-password ⊗ Specifies a password to be used to login (along with login-user). ↪ –login-profile ⊗ Specifies the profile to use once a chromeos user is logged in. ↪ –login-screen ⊗ Allows override of oobe for testing – goes directly to the login screen. ↪ –login-user ⊗ Specifies the user which is already logged in. ↪ And you might need: –user-data-dir ⊗ Specifies the user data directory, which is where the browser will look for all of its state. ↪ Thanks very much for that – I shall experiment and see if there is a suitable workaround cheers Micky Comment Name * Email *
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