Google Chrome 16 Arrives With Profile Manager
Chrome 16 is the eighth release for Chrome this year. The big news is multi-profile support in one browser window. You can simply add new user profiles by clicking the user icon on the top left of the browser window or via the Tools/Options menu. This new feature enables multiple users to use the same browser window and load their browsing history as well as bookmarks (a carryover feature that previously required a retired Google Gears feature), as long as they are synced. What you can't do is run two profile in parallel at the same time.
Google also added 15 (published) security patches and paid $6000 to those who discovered them. The nightly Chrome (Canary) has arrived at version 18, which recently introduced an overhaul to the extensions page, which is still very much work in progress.
If they were to call it Chrome version 1.6 then once they get to "1.9" people would be a big change when "2.0" comes out. This probably won't happen. It didn't happen with the change from 9 to 10. Updating the version number with each release really is the most LOGICAL way to do things.
Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam
First of all, each profile get its own browser window -- they are not shared inside the same window.
Secondly, you do *not* need to sync in order to use multiple profiles. Sync is optional, and any given profile can be synced or not synced.
Third, you *can* run two profiles at the same time. Each one gets its own window, and both windows can be open at the same time.
Please try to do some research next time before blogging.