Facebook is altering its profile pages for users, adding more information about your past work and education activities to your main profile and letting you highlight “featured” friends in specific lists (such as family, schoolmates, colleagues or whatever you like). More »
Windows: Google’s Chrome browser doesn’t have nearly the same kind of user profile control that Firefox offers. Until it’s baked in, we have ChromeDeck, a handy utility that creates, manages and produces shortcuts to multiple Chrome user profiles. More »
One of the most powerful features in Firefox is one too few people know about: the ability to create and use more than one profile at the same time. Here’s how to make yourself more productive with multiple profiles. More »
Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder — and from there backing up your bookmarks, extensions or entire profile — a breeze. More »
Windows only: Free application Google Chrome Backup makes it easy to create, back up, restore, and manage profiles with Google’s hot new web browser. If you took a ride on our power user’s guide to Google Chrome, you already know that you can create and maintain multiple user profiles with Chrome, but there’s no simple graphical user interface by default. The Google Chrome Backup utility fills that gap, and in doing so makes it simple to switch between profiles, add advanced switches to profile shortcuts, and more. Google Chrome Backup is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 2.0. Firefox lovers, your browser was born with the tools you need to manage multiple Firefox profiles. Google Chrome Backup [Parhelia Tools via gHacks]
You already know how to create multiple user profiles in Firefox for various types of online work; but if you’re trying to troubleshoot an existing Firefox profile, start up the ‘fox in “Safe Mode” to disable add-ons or reset other custom configuration. Use firefox -safe-mode at the command line to get there.
