Setting up multiple users in Chrome

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Google offers the feature of reading your mail, recording your searches, and tracking your history so that Google can make suggestions for you based on your interests as seen in your online actions.

This is great sometimes, but sometimes it means that Google makes suggestions that are off-topic or out of context for what you are trying to do.

You can also store all your bookmarks in Chrome, but some bookmarks are great for school (school Gmail, ManageBac and Drive), while others are not so much (Facebook, Games, and Tumblr).

There are also many settings you can adjust to customize your Chrome experience to suit your taste and your circumstances, but your taste at home may be different from your taste at school.

There's a solution! You can set up users in Chrome. They open in separate browser windows and you can keep your accounts separate. Different histories, different bookmarks.


  1. Click on People from the top menu bar                                                   

  2. Choose Add Person...

  4. Choose an image for your user, and give it a name, click Add. 

  5. When prompted, choose "Link Data", this will give you access to your history with this account.
  6. Sign in and start making your school settings right for school. Then make another user and make the settings right for not-school. If you share your computer with someone, you can make a user for them so they don't affect your history.
  7. Now, every time you go to Chrome, you can click on the People menu along the top of the screen and choose the user that best suits the occasion! 


Food for thought: over time, how will your different users evolve?


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