How to Add a New User in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a helpful browser to use because of the different personalization options that it can implement. By using your Google Account with Google Chrome, you are able to sync your bookmarks, settings and apps across all of the different computers that you use. Because of this customized functionality, Google Chrome can start to store a lot of personal data. If someone else uses your computer and has their own Google Account, they probably do not want to be visiting websites with your login information and they would probably like to access their own bookmarks and settings. If you learn how to add a new user in Google Chrome you can alleviate this problem by allowing each person that uses the computer to have their own user account.

Create a New User in Chrome

By signing into Google Chrome with your Google Account, you are going to personalize your browser activity. This will improve your experience on many websites, as well as give you a centralized location for all of the data that you accumulate with extended browser usage. If your computer is ever broken or stolen, you can simply sign into Google Chrome on a different computer and retrieve the information that was stored in the browser on the other computer. Other people that use Chrome on your computer will also benefit from this feature, which is why it is important to learn how to add a new user in Google Chrome.

Step 1: Launch the Google Chrome Web browser.

Step 2: Click the wrench icon at the upper-right corner of the window.

Step 3: Click the Settings option at the bottom of the window.

Step 4: Click the Add new user button in the Users section at the bottom of the window.

Step 5: Type your Google Account email and password into their respective fields, then click the Sign In button. If you want to create a new user, but do not want to create a user using your Google Account, click the Skip for now button at the bottom of the window.

You can switch users by clicking the head at the top-left corner of the Chrome window, then choosing the name of the user that you want to use for this browsing session.