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Script to start multiple Google Chrome processes, each with different config/user data directories.
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chromes.sh
#!/bin/sh
## Chrome App
app="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"
## Non-default user data directories
usrDir="/Users/andy/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome-personal"
qaDir="/Users/andy/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome-workqa"
## Fire up Chrome
"${app}" ---make-default-browser > /dev/null 2>&1 &
"${app}" --user-data-dir="${qaDir}" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
"${app}" --user-data-dir="${usrDir}" > /dev/null 2>&1 &
## If Chrome is default browser, then the FIRST process fired will be
## where new links/tabs are spawned from other applications.
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