How To Set Default Chrome Profile

One of Google'south Chrome'due south flagship features is the ability to sign in with your Google account and sync your history, bookmarks, apps, and extensions across multiple PCs. Signing in too helps meliorate your Google Now suggestions, and automatically signs you in to Google services like Gmail, Drive, and Google+.

The downside: If you share a PC at home, other family members can offset searching the spider web equally y'all by simply opening Chrome. Ruh-roh!

Luckily, Chrome's multiple profile back up can aid, providing an easy-peasy way for multiple people to apply the aforementioned browser without worrying about imposters or having to constantly sign in and out of Google profiles.

Getting started

First, open Chrome's menu—the icon with three horizontal lines in the upper correct-hand corner—and open the Settings option. Towards the bottom you'll run across a "Users" section.

addian — The add new user window in Chrome on Windows 8.1.

Click the Add new user… button in that section and a popular-up window will appear with a bunch of user icons. Option an icon and name for your profile, decide whether y'all want to create a desktop shortcut icon for the profile, and so tap the "Create" push. Smash! In a few seconds, a new window will open with the new user profile.

Notice that the first time you create a new user profile, Chrome will really create 2 profiles: I called "Default Profile" for the person who is currently signed in to Chrome, and 1 for the new profile that you merely created.

And then the offset time you add a new user, yous are really creating two profiles. To modify the name of the default profile to something more user friendly, get back to the Chrome settings tab. Highlight the default contour in the "Users" section and the click the "Edit…" button to change the proper noun.

That's pretty much it. Just follow the same process as many times as you need to create a user profile for each member of your household.

User profiles for children

For your kids, you can create a special kind of profile called a supervised user, a beta-grade profile blazon Google added to Chrome earlier in January.

To make a supervised user, but click the checkbox next to "This is a supervised user managed past [email address]." Parents of supervised users can block specific websites, check out the websites they've visited, and lock kids into Google's "Condom search." If y'all block a website that your kid thinks they should be immune to view, they tin even ship you a request to unblock information technology, and you tin manage settings for your supervised users via the dashboard at chrome.com/manage.

managed user permission chrome — Supervised Chrome profiles tin can asking that sites be unblocked.

Keep in listen that user profiles are not countersign protected, nevertheless, and then Chrome'due south supervised users feature is far from fool proof. Yous will still accept to keep an center on your child'southward surfing habits to brand sure they are using their profile and non switching over to yours, or—if you're actually worried—create split user accounts as the operating arrangement level .

Switching between users

To switch between users, simply click the user icon that appears in the upper left corner of the browser window. The other created users will announced in a drop down card. Select the ane you want to switch to and a new window will open for that user profile. If that's too much trouble, y'all tin can besides use the customized desktop shortcuts Chrome offers to make when creating a profile to open the browser as a particular user. Enjoy!