Timeline for How do I start Chrome using a specified "user profile"?
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| Sep 21, 2021 at 7:23 | answer | added | jobwat | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 9, 2021 at 16:49 | comment | added | lessthanideal | @SamWatkins Thanks a lot, that really helped me. It didn't quite work out of the box for my system but I was able to make a few tweaks and now it does -- I've posted my own answer with my version, giving credit to you and your answer of course :) | |
| Aug 9, 2021 at 16:47 | answer | added | lessthanideal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2021 at 20:27 | comment | added | Sam Watkins | @lessthanideal please have a look right at the bottom of the page for my answer with some complete shell scripts that do work, created on Debian 11. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 17:23 | answer | added | Sam Watkins | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 22:34 | comment | added | lessthanideal | None of the below solutions work for me. Warning: if you get the bright idea of renaming the profile directories (e.g. so the one you want chromium to consider last_used is always named Default), that also doesn't work, and also loses the bookmarks and some other settings from the profile you renamed to e.g. Default, so, don't try that... (using 90.0.4430.212 (Developer Build) built on Debian 10.9, running on Debian 10.9 (32-bit)) | |
| May 31, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1399380153533353986 | ||
| May 31, 2021 at 7:47 | answer | added | stevec | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 19:55 | comment | added | Aaron Thoma |
Footnote for previous comment: ° probably not problematic to lose, e.g. in case you need to merge two of them; maybe the least unimportant data is the Local State file containing your choices whether Chrome should prompt for the application with which to open certain file types.
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 16:04 | comment | added | Aaron Thoma |
The "user-data-directory" contains 1 or more "profile-directorys". The first one being Default, the second one (if existent) Profile 1, then Profile 2 (I assume) and so on. So the --profile-directory=Default parameter is relative to the user data directory by default (i.e. unless it starts e.g. with a drive letter: C:\MyChromeUserData\Default). Apart from the profiles, the user data directory contains little° useful data. When browsing the web on this topic, reckon with confusing inconsistent terminology for these 2 user/profile folder levels. // ° Footnote in next comment:
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| S Nov 21, 2016 at 13:17 | history | suggested | Aaron Thoma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
form "command-line parameter `--user-data-dir=…`"
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| Nov 21, 2016 at 12:56 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 13:56 | answer | added | John Faughnan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 20:32 | answer | added | user590849 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 8:19 | vote | accept | Danny Tuppeny | ||
| Mar 1, 2014 at 6:33 | answer | added | user | timeline score: 78 | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 13:18 | answer | added | John Faughnan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 21, 2012 at 17:00 | answer | added | Flak DiNenno | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 17, 2012 at 20:16 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 25, 2012 at 15:40 | comment | added | user148237 | For a Gmail shortcut in Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --profile-directory=Default --app=mail.google.com/mail/u/0 | |
| Jul 19, 2012 at 19:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 19, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | Synetech | possible duplicate of Make Google chrome with specific user profile as default browser | |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 11:58 | answer | added | Justin Buser | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 18:26 | answer | added | Marius | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 13:15 | vote | accept | Danny Tuppeny | ||
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| Jan 11, 2012 at 9:34 | answer | added | Daniel Beck♦ | timeline score: 254 | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 8:49 | history | asked | Danny Tuppeny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |