[ale] Separate instance of google chrome

LnxGnome lnxgnome at hopnet.net
Wed Nov 4 22:00:52 EST 2015


I've used --data-path for this in the past, but haven't tried it with a
recent version of chrome.

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

On 11/4/15 12:20 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Anyone know how I can run a totally separate instance of google chrome
> that is not related with my current instance?
>
> I need to test a web app as a user in a different timezone.  I tried
>
> env TZ=US/Pacific google-chrome -incognito 
>
> This ran as incognito, but going to a website running javascript
> showed I was still in US/Eastern.
> I don't need incognito anyway, I just thought that would do it.  
>
> Temporarily I started firefox using the same command and since firefox
> was not already running it was in PST.
>
> I thought I read that in my home directory I could set up a new
> profile and run a new instance of chrome on that profile.  
>
>
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