Google Chrome is now a very popular browser offering from the search engine giant Google. There a re a number of tricks that will help you unleash the most of this browsers potentials.
Using about:flags
about:flags is quite similar to Firefox about:config. Simply type about:flags in a tab as URL and you would be provided with a list of flags that are actually some of the hidden features of Google Chrome which now you can toggle on or off at your will.For the settings to take place you may need to restart the browser.
Using multiple Profiles
Multiple profiles allow you to share your computers with others with ease without the fearing that all your past interactions are exposed to him or her. Creating multiple profiles in Google Chrome unlike Firefox is not a one click process to do so follow these steps.
- Open your Google Chrome installation folder that is available at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
- Now we will create a folder to hold all your profile data. navigate to folder User Dataand copy the sub-folder named Default in the same directory and rename it any thing you may want,say,Profile2.
- Open “Command Prompt”, switch to the Chrome Application folder and run the following command:
chrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..\User Data\Profile_2” -first-run - To run Google Chrome using this profile instead of the default profile, just create a shortcut on your desktop as folllows:
C:\Users\Aryaman\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –user-data-dir=”..\User Data\Profile_2″