In this short video GeekDude walks us through why we need to consider Chrome profiles and how to create / use them.
Create and connect to new Chrome profiles with AutoHotkey
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00:09 There’s been a lot of confusion on Chrome profiles. What they are, why you should concern yourself with them when using AutoHotkey.
00:23 Your Chrome profile is what keeps you logged into websites, connected to Google, etc. Most of the time you won’t need access to your entire Chrome profile. But you might want to start with a blank slate if you’re distributing your code to people. Or you want to create a new instance of Chrome that you don’t want attached to an existing Chrome tab. For any of those, you need to have a Chrome profile
01:17 This is because most people don’t have the remote debugging flag on their default shortcut. If you launch chrome with debugging code, it will automatically group it with the current process window.
02:38 So instead of spawning a new Chrome window that is listening to the debug window, it will open a new page on the existing Chrome instance without the debugging access (even though you specified debugging)
02:52 So in order to get Chrome to open a new instance, you need to use the Chrome profile.
03:51 Create a folder (name it what you want) and tell Chrome to use it the profile flag. “–user data-dir” with your directory i.e. “–user data-dir-C:\temp\newProfile”
05:18 Looking in the profile folder, you can see Chrome has generated a bunch of files. Things like Cookies, browser history, etc. Everything Chrome remembers…
05:47 If you’re targeting portable Chrome, making sure you have this profile set correctly can be a big deal! If you use AutoHotkey to launch portable Chrome, it might still load the default profile. Make sure you specify the Chrome profile!
07:32 Everywhere you would have used Chrome. In your script, use ChromeInst. (i.e. Instead of Chrome.GetPage use ChromeInst.GetPage.
07:32 That tells Chrome to look for this new / specific instance of Chrome instead of the default version. Remember, it’s only “new” right after you make it.
08:55 Chrome builds the sub folders / content
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