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Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« on: August 13, 2012, 03:23:33 AM »
Is it possible to have chrome run multiple instances, each with it's own pinned tabs? I want to run four instances and have each one with different pinned tabs. So if i launch one, it opens up specific tabs, and so on.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2012, 06:32:42 AM »
Looking forward to the answers.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 08:12:50 AM »
Yea my searching didn't get me where I was looking to go. I have several websites to manage and spanning these instances across multiple desktops would make it so much easier every day when i fire them up.
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2012, 08:40:21 AM »
The trick may be this, if i can tailor it for Linux

http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2012, 02:58:13 PM »
Yeah... that's what I do so I can have different gmail accounts logged in at the same time. Seems to work just fine, at least on windows.

I wanted to do it on my wife's mac, but creating a shortcut there is a pain in the ass.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2012, 08:33:55 PM »
I have been fishing all day but hoping to take a look into it tonight.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2012, 09:00:45 PM »
One chrome, one chromium. done.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 12:18:07 AM »
Quote from: tgm on August 13, 2012, 09:00:45 PM
One chrome, one chromium. done.

I need 4.

I tried.a few extensions, all junk. Windows may be different. Found a hands on solution to try tomorroe
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2012, 11:48:36 AM »
Why extensions? Why not just use different profiles?
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2012, 03:58:45 PM »
Quote from: charlie on August 14, 2012, 11:48:36 AM
Why extensions? Why not just use different profiles?

I see no option for profiles anywhere in chrome, and everything i find is a hack to create and use them. There is some profile management extensions intended to do it for you, and that is what I was trying to use.
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2012, 04:03:21 PM »
Ok... didn't seem like much of a hack to me... create an empty folder and create a shortcut with a certain command line to point to that folder and voila!
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2012, 05:23:10 PM »
Yea, for Windows.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2012, 05:27:41 PM »
why wouldn't that work for linux? You just pass "--parent-profile=/path/to/folder" in the start-up command. Make an icon for each profile with a different path and you can launch them from the desktop.
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2012, 05:29:41 PM »
Quote from: charlie on August 13, 2012, 02:58:13 PM

I wanted to do it on my wife's mac, but creating a shortcut there is a pain in the ass.

Right click on file, click "Make Alias" ?
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Re: Chrome: Multiple instances, different pins?
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2012, 05:38:45 PM »
Quote from: Perspective on August 14, 2012, 05:29:41 PM
Quote from: charlie on August 13, 2012, 02:58:13 PM

I wanted to do it on my wife's mac, but creating a shortcut there is a pain in the ass.

Right click on file, click "Make Alias" ?

Might work... the webpage I got the solution from indicated it was a little harder.
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