Clearing chrome browser site temporarily

W10, all updates. I know I can clear Chrome browsing history, and I plan to, as I have a relative visiting soon, who is nosey, and will be looking at some stuff I want to keep private. 

The problem I face, is rebuilding the history on these sites, after he leaves It will be a pain in the patoot, to "recookie" them, what with site prefences and all. Is there some way backing out of browsing history setting?

Seems like if have Sync turned off to Google account , export Profile and then create another. and delete yours. Then Reinstall it is what I get out of it :

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/transfer-google-chrome-profile-to-another-computer

 or password protect it and just create a new one or...

Seems a few ways of doing what you want.

Edited by Pkshadow, 04 April 2024 - 09:33 PM.

........................................ I have a relative visiting soon, who is nosey, and will be looking at some stuff I want to keep private.

In that case you really should setup a guest account (local account, standard user) on your computer and let him use that. He then won't be able to see your Chrome history, files, or anything else of yours, and he also won't be able to install anything dangerous or dodgy - inadvertently or otherwise.
 

If you are willing to give anyone unfettered access to your computer, you may as well leave your PIN out in the open for your debit & credit cards, along with banking username and passwords.

If you are willing to give anyone unfettered access to your computer, you may as well leave your PIN out in the open for your debit & credit cards, along with banking username and passwords.

Respectfully disagree. This is NOT the same thing.

 

If you are willing to give anyone unfettered access to your computer, you may as well leave your PIN out in the open for your debit & credit cards, along with banking username and passwords.

 

Respectfully disagree. This is NOT the same thing.

 

Actually it is since you are allowing someone to have access to your private information on a device that you use. Let them use their own devices and keep your stuff locked down and not accessible.

Len, you have a house guest arriving with a track record of snooping. It'll take you all of two minutes to create the new Windows account I mentioned. You can remove it after he's gone. Oh, and make sure that your Windows account is password/PIN protected.

Guest account is the right way to go.