Removing all Facebook evidence from a PC
My wife currently accesses her Facebook account from two computers, her PC and my laptop. During the course of her Facebook activities she has gradually accumulated a number of 'link-ins' from various sites so that when either PC visits these sites, a corresponding note appears on my wife's Facebook timeline. This tracking is undesirable - she doesn't want to know every time I visit for example www.guardian.co.uk from my laptop. Note that I have nothing to hide, you understand, but there is a principal thing going on here.
So... How can I remove all traces of my wife's Facebook account from my laptop (but not the actual account itself, of course), so that I can visit these pages without her Facebook account being updated with details of what I visited?
Solution 1:
You could...
use the browsers built-in function to erase all cookies and browsing history every time it is closed
use a browser that supports multiple profiles, and create a different profile for yourself
use a browser that supports keeping all the user data in the computer's user account directories, and create a separate account on your laptop for your wife
... not that this is all inclusive. Use Chrome, for example.
Then, of course, you could download any number of cleaning tools to clean out all of your cookies, history, temp internet files, etc.
Solution 2:
Simple! Just log-out of her Facebook account.
Then next time she uses your laptop, ask her to use Incognito mode. That way her log-in won't be stored.
Solution 3:
The best solution for you would be using browser profiles.
With Firefox, it is possible to run the profile manager if you use command line parameter -ProfileManager for the executable command (in Windows, right click -> properties on the link), or even more simple if you add Profile Switcher extension as an addon.
Additionally, you may also use the -Profile switch to specify a directory where profile data is stored at. It is especially useful if you want to carry your profile around with you on a USB stick or something.
Setting up different shortcuts with predefined command line options might be fun, too.
Chrome allows switching profiles through the --user-data-dir= option as well.