Support for Google Chrome Profiles

[hatzopoulos]

I was wondering if it's possible to use this to launch Google Chrome using a specific chrome user profile? Example: https://superuser.com/a/377195/147810

[johnste]

Hi Anthony,

That's a very interesting idea, though when I last worked actively on finicky I couldn't manage to find a good way of doing it, so it's pretty much on hold until I have more time or someone else does it.

[johnste]

Will look into this again now that I am spending some time on an update.

[celso]

I was going to open a new issue but I think my ideia is related this one. It would be interesting if I could pass args to the browser command when invoking it. For instance, I want some links to open in a private windows, or a Tor tab (in the case on Brave), so passing --incognito would be useful.

[johnste]

Still haven't had time to look into this feature, but I'll keep this in mind.

[garhbod]

+1
Looking to this as a solution for Epichrome
dmarmor/epichrome#169

[johnste]

Browserosaurus, a similar app, opens browsers directly using system comands, might be interesting to look at link

[johnste]

I've spent a bit of time looking into this and it's proven to be quite complicated – will revisit this later.

[smithjw]

@johnste Any chance you've been looking into this feature lately?

[johnste]

I've attempted to find solutions for this a couple of times but I still haven't successfully figured out how to launch Chrome with a different profile. I had similar problems working on #49.

There's an open issue on Browserosaurus which discusses the same issues I'm facing will-stone/browserosaurus#56 (comment)

Right now it's not looking very likely that this will be possible.

[smithjw]

@johnste Looks like the latest version of Choosy has the ability to switch Chrome Profiles. I wonder if you're able to determine how they do it?

[johnste]

I'm looking into AppleScript options to support this. I'm currently focusing on trying to add incognito/private mode support #49 but AppleScript support for profiles seems to be lacking (though there seem to be some ways that might work).

I also had a look at how Choosy works but wasn't able to tell what it did to support it.

[llange]

(This comment has been moved to #90)

[johnste]

Please open this as a new issue. ❤️

[ldub]

EDIT: @garhbod and any other Epichrome users will be interested to know that version 2.3.0 of Epichrome makes it compatible with Finicky (bypassing this issue). You can get the 2.3.0 beta by joining Dave's patreon (dmarmor, the author of epichrome).

I also use Epichrome which does not work with finicky on Catalina. I get the same 13052 error in Console.app that is mentioned in #90 . Epichrome's set up is very similar to the setup in #90 (a SSB.app folder with a plist and a shell script to open Chrome with a specific datadir).

I scoured the web for other references of this error and found that a lot of apps are facing this as well:

geany/geany-osx#13
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1855515
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53248/finder-of-macos-catalina-cannot-open-a-file-with-emacs/54383#54383

Opening Epichrome browsers does not work with Choosy either, and my guess is that on Catalina, Choosy's chrome profile chooser also would not work (though I havent tested yet).

Interestingly, the Geany issue above was closed as they were able to fix this.

I would certainly fund work on finding a fix/workaround to this 13052 error as this used to be a valuable part of my workflow. Please let me know if you are able to dedicate some time to this.

[johnste]

Fixed in Finicky 3.1 https://github.com/johnste/finicky/releases/tag/v3.1.0

[studgeek]

As a suggestion, would be nice if this was covered in the doc - https://github.com/johnste/finicky/wiki/Configuration

[misterbreze]

I just discover this and love it! Thanks.