
You can not modify the google-chrome file as indicated above, and you can either follow recomendation of for creating a new user or to launch chrome using an existing normal user account : gksu -u user google-chrome-stable (this worked but some error messages received in terminal). If || thenĮxec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" -user-data-dir="$HOME" įor a more sophisticated solution i personally applied a kind of user check to avoid possible disturbance running chrome as normal user : else Save, and run google-chrome-stable -no-sandbox. #exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" -user-data-dir="$HOME" Using Microsoft Lync with Ubuntu Janusphillips Microsoft Office365, pidgin, Uncategorized I have had two different needs come up for using Lync as my instant messaging tool. user-data-dir="$CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR" -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" change the else part like this: else
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You can also use the keyboard shortcut Control+Shift+I on Windows and Linux, or +alt+I on Mac (see the Keyboard and UI Shortcuts Reference). Go to /opt/google/chrome and open file google-chrome which is actually a bash script.Īt the end of the script find the part if ] then To access Developer Tools ('DevTools') in Chrome, open a web page or web app in Google Chrome.Click the Chrome menu icon, and then select More Tools > Developer Tools. PS: All CLI flags/args can be found here.Ĭase 3: Message Please start Google Chrome as a normal user.To run as root you must specify an alternate -user-data-dir for storage of profile information appears. Then you can step by step enable options till to identify which one breaks. That was not my case since -no-sandbox was enough, but if you experience such behavior you could try to disable everything when calling chrome, like: google-chrome-stable -disable-gpu -disable-extensions -disable-d3d11 -disable-local-storage -disable-notifications -disable-offne-pages -disable-plugin-power-saver -disable-plugins-discovery -disable-sync -disable-translate -disable-webgl -no-experiments -no-sandbox This error goes away by using the -no-sandbox command line option.Ĭase 2: Chrome still refuses to open even with -no-sandbox option No frames, no screen blanking, no black windows. In my setup just by running in terminal google-chrome-stable i was getting immediately an error in terminal illegal instruction. For those who may be still googling at Dec 2016 - Google Chrome Version.
