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I'm using PuTTY with Windows to connect a remote Linux (Mint desktop) server. It's correct to forward Firefox, Banshee and other applications, however, when I want to use Google Chrome, it shows a message:
Created new window in existing browser session
And nothing happened. So, what could cause such a problem?
$ google-chrome --help
...
--user-data-dir=DIR
Specifies the directory that user data (your "profile") is kept in.
Defaults to ~/.config/google-chrome.
Separate instances of Google Chrome must use separate user data
directories; repeated invocations of google-chrome will reuse an
existing process for a given user data directory.
You have an existing chrome process on a different display, and it's attaching to that process as it finds the existing data dir.
Specify a different user-data-dir for your forwarded display, eg.
$ google-chrome --user-data-dir=~/.config/putty-chrome &
unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so. Im getting same error on chromium-stable also
– Brian Thomas
May 31 '17 at 0:56
Firefox and Chrome have the limitation @Useless explained in his answer you cannot have multiple processes running with the same browser profile.
You can use the undocumented feature (at least it wasn't in my version's man page) to also get around this issue:
$ google-chrome --temp-profile
