

One or two is OK, but when you end up with 20 or so sitting idle in your browser your battery pays the price. One of the best bits of the modern browser is the ability to have multiple tabs. If you like this, do check out how to remove the Chrome profile icon from the address bar.The Great Suspender will unload the tabs you don’t need right that minute without losing the URL. If you are stuck or need some help, comment below and I will try to help as much as possible. Whenever you launch Chrome using that pinned shortcut, it will be launched in that profile. You’ve successfully pinned the Chrome profile to the taskbar. Once pinned, you can even see the profile icon. Now, just drag and drop the shortcut on to your taskbar to pin the Chrome profile. As soon as you do that, you will see a new profile-specific Chrome shortcut on the desktop.Ħ.

In the Edit person page, toggle the “ Show desktop shortcut” switch to “ On” position.ĥ. Here, type “ chrome://settings/manageProfile” in the address bar and press “ Enter“.Ĥ. The above action will launch the Chrome browser in the profile of your choosing. Otherwise, click on the “ Profile” icon appearing next to the address bar and select your profile.ģ. If you are in the target profile, ignore this step. Make sure that you are in the profile you want to pin. First, open the Chrome browser if it is not already opened.Ģ. Just toggle the switch and the shortcut will be created for you.ġ. However, in recent versions, you don’t have to do that. In older Chrome versions, you have to manually change the shortcut properties and add the profile name. To pin a Chrome profile to the taskbar, you first need to create the shortcut for that profile. Just make sure that you are using Chrome v70 or higher. Note: The steps below can be followed in Windows 8 (& 7) too. So, without further ado, let me show you the way to pin a specific Chrome user profile to the taskbar in Windows. Doing so ensures that no matter what profile you used earlier, Chrome will always launch the profile you pinned. You can avoid that by pin a specific Chrome profile to the taskbar. As such, launching Chrome from the taskbar will open the last opened profile rather than a specific profile you want. When you do that, you are just pinning the generic Chrome shortcut. Like any application, you can pin Google Chrome to the taskbar.
