Google Chrome Tips: Use Multiple Profiles and Change the User Agent

You can use multiple profiles in Google Chrome at the same time, each of them characterized by its own list of favorites, cache and preferences.

How to create multiple profiles for Google Chrome:

1. Create a new folder for your profile information (eg: "C:\Chrome Profile");
2. Create a new shortcut to Google Chrome (eg: your desktop or Quick Launch bar);
3. Right click on the shortcut you created and select Properties from the context menu;
4. Insert:

-user-data-dir = "path to the profile created earlier" 

at the end of the "Target" field, leaving a space between the path of the program and the code you just entered (ie: "C:\Users\yourname\App Data\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe -user-data-dir="C:\Chrome Profile");
5. Apply the changes and start the browser via this shortcut;
6. Repeat entire procedure for each profile you want to create.

You can change you user agent easly too, using the same steps.

How to Change Google Chrome's User Agent:

1. Create a new shortcut to Google Chrome (eg: your desktop or Quick Launch bar);
2. Right click on the shortcut you created and select Properties from the context menu;
3. Insert

-user-agent = "user agent you want to use"

at the end of the "Target" field, leaving a space between the path to the .exe file and the code just entered (eg: "C:\Users\yourname\App Data\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe -user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)");
4. Apply the changes and start the browser via this shortcut;

[via geekissimo]