How to switch Google Chrome profile

abbas_zahid · October 14, 2018, 4:26pm

I want to switch Google Chrome profile with a key trigger. Is it possible to do? please advice

peternlewis · October 15, 2018, 8:58am

What do you mean by “switch chrome browser to a specific browser”?

abbas_zahid · October 15, 2018, 9:04am

@peternlewis
Sorry what i mean was specific profile

ccstone · October 20, 2018, 8:39am

A fair amount can be done with Chrome from the command line.

Here's one example:

NOTE – I'm not sure the current profile can be changed in the Front window via this method – but it's worth investigating.

-Chris

abbas_zahid · October 20, 2018, 9:09am

@ccstone kinda works, but doesn't switch to specific profile correctly I have a pofile name TEST but it doesn’t switch to it.

ccstone · October 26, 2018, 5:44pm

Your profiles are not necessarily named the way you think they are. Look in here

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/

Use the Spotlight search field in the Finder to search for your profile name and look for any “Preferences” files you find.

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Preferences

My main profile is NOT named “Default”...

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 1/Preferences

My other profile is NOT named “Profile 1”...

So – you have to do a little detective work.

-Chris