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Whoa, since when are Chrome User Profiles[1] a thing? It's like having multiple incognito sessions. 1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en h

• jamesaguilar 13y ago
  It's been a thing for a long time. My wife and I have been using them for at least two years, IIRC.
  • icco 13y ago
    I've been using them since August 2011 at the very least. They were suggested to me when I started my job as a way to keep my work and personal accounts separate.
• derefr 13y ago
  On top of that option, you've always been able to create a Chrome launcher shortcut that runs the Chrome executable with a separate --user-data-dir argument. This forces Chrome to spawn a new browser process for your separate profile, which means that desktop environments which group windows by "application" (i.e. Windows 7+8, OSX, Gnome) will group the alternate-profile windows separately. Slap a custom icon on that launcher, and it's like having another browser installed which just-so-happens to also be Chrome. If you're using Portable Chrome, Chromium, or Canary (or Firefox!) just for the sake of "protecting" some of your browsing under encrypted/removable storage, this is a much lower-overhead solution: just create a launcher with the --user-data-dir pointed into protected storage.
• aiiane 13y ago
  Yeah, Chrome user profiles are awesome. I've been using them basically forever; they're the most robust solution I've found for using multiple accounts on a given service (e.g. Google account).