[ale] Separate instance of google chrome

Horkan Smith ale at horkan.net
Wed Nov 4 17:55:06 EST 2015


I always had to create a temp user to run two separate instances on the same XWindow server or same system.

More recently, I tend to use simple kvm script to run an instance of knoppix.

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~/bin/knoppix_kvm
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KNOPISO=/cdroms/images/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V7.0.4CD-2012-08-20-EN.iso

#
echo knoppix hsync=300 vsync=300 screen=1680x1050
#
# qemu \
# kvm \
kvm \
 -monitor stdio \
 -boot d \
 -cdrom $KNOPISO \
 -m 1024 \
 -vga std \
 -usb \
 -usbdevice tablet \
 -net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0 \
 $*

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Not sure if that'd meet your needs or not... that would be chromium, not chrome.

later!
   horkan


On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 12:20:18PM -0500, 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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