Launch multiple Chromium browser windows from the command line
Here's one way to open multiple Chromium browser windows using the shell, with each window using a separate temporary profile, and with each window using specified dimensions (in this example, windows are sized such that two rows of three windows will fill a 1920x1080 display).
Command line switches for reference: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc
Shell function to create a temporary profile directory with a random string:
GetTempDir()
{
rand=$(tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom | fold -w20 | head -n1)
temp="/tmp/chromium-tmp-$rand"
}
Shell function to launch browser window using Chromium command line switches:
LaunchBrowser()
{
chromium-browser \
--no-first-run \
--new-window \
--disable-restore-session-state \
--no-default-browser-check \
--disable-java \
--disable-client-side-phishing-detection \
--window-size=639,530 \
--user-data-dir=$temp \
$url &
}
Open six new windows:
for n in {1..6}; do
GetTempDir
LaunchBrowser
done
Open six windows each with a different website:
sites="
http://example.com/page/1
http://example.com/page/2
http://example.com/page/3
http://example.com/page/4
http://example.com/page/5
http://example.com/page/6
"
for site in $sites; do
GetTempDir
LaunchBrowser
done
Kill all browser processes started using this method:
pkill -f /tmp/chromium-tmp-
Remove temporary profile directories:
rm -r /tmp/chromium-tmp-*
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