Saturday 17 March 2018

Is it still possible to lock or password-protect Chrome profiles?

When Google Chrome profiles were introduced in 2014 they had a Lock feature where you'd need to enter a password to use that profile.


My workplace has a number of shared machines (e.g. conference room computers, kiosk computers, etc) where we don't have unique user accounts, instead we switch our Chrome profiles using the titlebar menu to access our own Gmail / StackOverflow / GitHub / etc.


As some of these machines aren't very secure, I'd like to "lock" at least my account by requiring a password before someone can click on my profile picture.


I've seen articles online from 2014 and 2015 that describe it, but I don't see the Lock button anywhere:


http://ccm.net/faq/40997-how-to-lock-access-to-google-chrome-disable-guest-browsing


http://www.wikihow.com/Lock-Google-Chrome-with-a-Password


http://lifehacker.com/lock-google-chrome-with-built-in-password-protection-1601863648

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