The most wanted and requested feature for Vivaldi browser after Sync is multiple user profiles support. Google Chrome and Firefox already allow creating separate profiles, why not Vivaldi? Vivaldi Technologies now has the answer and offered the UI for that in Vivaldi 2.4 snapshot, provided, before knowing how to create a new user, you need to visit Vivaldi://experiments page and enable the user profile management feature.
FYI, Vivaldi already supports forming new profiles through the command line, but that’s not intuitive, the company now allowing to create more than one profile for Vivaldi browser right in its User interface.
Enable Multiple Profile and Gutest browsing support in Vivaldi browser
To get started, ensure you’re using the latest Vivaldi 2.4 snapshot
1. Visit Vivaldi://experiments page
2. Check ‘User Profile management’ feature and restart Vivaldi browser, you can see the avatar icon on the toolbar,
To add a new user to Vivaldi
1. Click on user picture on the toolbar (check the first screenshot),
2. Select ‘Manage People’ and click ‘Add person’ (Note: the window also offers the option to ‘Browse as Guest’, i.e. guest browsing mode. Like in Chrome, you can open guest window anytime by selecting respective option in the user menu).
3. Type the user name, choose Profile pic, and click ‘add’, done, a desktop shortcut will also be created for this user.
New Vivaldi instance will be launched immediately and displays first run screen, you can skip all or use Wizard to import bookmarks and Settings, choose a theme, tab bar position and setup sync. This way you can create mulitple profiles and you can switch between them from avatar button.
If you use separate profiles for work and home/personal in Chrome browser, then you’ll relish doing so in Vivaldi browser also What do you say?
