Neowin News Feed for: Profiles

Mozilla Firefox is about to add an important feature other browsers have had for years

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:20:01 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is finally getting a useful multitasking feature that its rival Google Chrome has had for more than a decade now. Read more...

Latest Steam Deck update offers per-game performance profiles

Usama Jawad — Thu, 12 May 2022 06:30:01 +0000

Valve has updated its Steam Deck with support for custom performance profiles that are saved for each game. There are a bunch of other capabilities and fixes in this update too, find out more here! Read more...

Amazon Prime Video finally introduces profiles like Netflix

Usman Khan Lodhi — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:24:01 +0000

In an update currently available in select countries, Amazon Prime Video finally lets users create up to six profiles. The feature has been available on its competitor Netflix for years. Read more...

Netflix introduces new profile icons including movie and TV characters

João Carrasqueira — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:16:01 +0000

Five years after it introduced profiles, Netflix is making its profile icons more customizable and giving users the chance to use their favorite movie and TV characters instead of a smiley. Read more...

Google can use your name and photo in ads under new Terms of Service if you let them

John Callaham — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:19:07 +0000

Google has announced a new version of its Terms of Service that will allow the company to use a person's Google Account name and photo in ads starting November 11th, but users can opt out of this. Read more...

Netflix launches profiles to separate user ratings on same account

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:39:59 +0000

Netflix launched a new profiles feature Monday, allowing subscribers to separate an account into different users that will feature their own ratings and recommendations for content. Read more...

Twitter switches all users to new profiles on Wednesday

John Callaham — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Twitter has announced that it will turn on its new profile design for all of its subscribers on Wednesday, with the new profile image, header and background design available to all Twitter users. Read more...

Facebook redesigns Timeline profiles again

Owen Williams — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:57:00 +0000

After a somewhat lacklustre IPO on Friday, Facebook has quietly launched a subtle redesign to the Timeline profile page that better utilizes space on the site. Read more...

Facebook Opens Profiles to Public

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:06:18 +0000

Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to... Read more...

Net Profiles 1.2

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:52:57 +0000

Net Profiles allows you to create profiles of your network settings, including mapped network drives and default printers, and lets you easily apply those settings. It eliminates the need to manually reconfigure your network... Read more...

Tales of Symphonia Character Profiles

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:09:38 +0000

One of the biggest GameCube releases in 2004 was Tales of Symphonia. PlanetGameCube has created a character profile in both Japanese and English version. Lloyd Irving | Colette Brunel | Genis... Read more...