Chrome 16 - the first multi-user browser
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Last week was presented the next version of Google Chrome. Among the already familiar phrases to eliminate errors, improve stability and unprecedented JavaScript acceleration and there is a very important innovation, noticed that, I'm sure not all. We are talking about the introduction of support for working with multiple user profiles.
Google has consistently continued action to build on the basis of their browser full-fledged operating system. First, we were given the opportunity to install the application in the browser, then tied all our data (passwords, bookmarks, applications) to your account and introduced the possibility of synchronizing them, well, now we've got a handy tool for managing accounts records.
To add a new user, you must open Options browser and go to the tab personal. Here you will see a new section users. To add a user to click the corresponding button, after which a new user profile is created with a randomly chosen avatars. The user name and picture can be changed later.
After that, in the upper left corner of your browser there is an icon of the current user. When you click on this picture there User Switching menu, from which you can one-click launch a new Chrome window with a different profile, tied to a different account.
Thus, Google Chrome now allows convenient work with multiple accounts. It may have different profiles of one person, for example, work and home, allowing you to have a completely different set of extensions, bookmarks, and settings for different tasks. Or the accounts of family members in the event of a computer sharing, so everyone will be able to use the browser is configured individually to fit your needs. Please note only that at this stage, no additional checks when users switch is not made, so that in case of any confidential information is better not to use this opportunity to outsiders people.