Multiple profiles
Judging by the layout mockups, it appears that Google will soon be introducing an option that will allow users to open multiple Chrome windows and apply different users to them. For example, if you use multiple Google accounts, you have to sign out/sign in between different accounts. Via multiple profile support you will be able to be signed into different accounts in parallel and use them at the same time – in different browser windows.
Profile window layouts (c) Google
The mockups suggest that future Chrome windows will show the Google account name not just in the window when you are on a Google page, but in the browser windows itself next to the window control buttons minimize/maximize/close.
Profile configuration (c) Google
The feature will be enabled via a new Profile section in the Personal Stuff tab of the browser options, where users can set up different user profiles by default. What makes this feature interesting is that it is tied to Sync as well and will load bookmarks, passwords and autofill options that are tied to a specific account. Each profile has its own incognito mode. If a user closes all Chrome windows and then reopens a window, then the window will assume the identity of the most recently closed window. If a user closes three windows with three different identities and then reopens three windows, the windows would assume the identity of the three identities again, Google said. Tabs are restricted to be run in windows of the same identity and cannot move between browser windows with different identities.
Omnibox History
For the classic navigation model, Google is looking at some improvements that look much closer at a user’s browsing history to provide relevant URL entries when the user types letter in the URL bar. Based on the first letters that are entered in the URL bar, Chrome will provide suggestions that are pulled from a user’s browsing history in a similar way as Google Instant works. “At this time, only the URL of the historically visited page is indexed and searched,” Google said. “Page title indexing and searching will be added soon.”
Omnibox History Provider (c) Google
The goals are to provide a user results within 20 ms of typing a character and provide the 10 best matches for the terms typed by the user. Only URLs that have been typed at least twice by a user will be considered as a suggestion – or URLs that have been visited at least four times or URLs that have been visited within the past 72 hours of typing.
There has been no information when these new features will find their way into Chrome.
Last week, Mozilla gave us a first view at the Firefox 5 interface, which will enable tabbed web apps in what appears a huge shift in browser interfaces as well.
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