Running Chromium from different users of the browser itself, how?

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extratag2013-01-29 00:56:10

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extratag, 2013-01-29 00:56:10

Hey %username%!
It's no secret that in the Chromium browser you can create multiple users and work in different sessions.
By default, Chromium starts with the user session that was last accessed.
How to run Chromium as a specific user (with the right session)?

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Rowdy Ro, 2013-01-29
@rowdyro

If I'm not mistaken, all chromium user data is taken from --user-data-dir, if you do cat chromium-browser (this is a shell script), you can see how it configures it from the user's home dir using this switch.
nice 2 read: peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

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stan_jeremy, 2013-01-29
@stan_jeremy

www.gate2.net/TnT/ChrmSecure.html
You can run many instances (separate sessions) of Chromium browser at the same time by specifying different profiles for each of them. To launch Chromium browser with specific profile use this command line option:
-user-data-dir=PathTo\profile

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akral, 2013-01-29
@akral

Respondents are right :

google-chrome --profile-directory=Default
google-chrome --profile-directory='Profile 1'
google-chrome --profile-directory='Profile 2'
google-chrome --profile-directory='Profile 3'

Obviously, when you change the names of your profile: the name of the folder on the disk remains the default. You need to find the right profile by experimentation.