1chromium-browser(1) USER COMMANDS chromium-browser(1)
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6 chromium-browser - the web browser from Google
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10 chromium-browser [OPTION] [PATH|URL]
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14 See the Google Chrome help center for help on using the browser.
15 <https://support.google.com/chrome/>
17 This manpage only describes invocation, environment, and arguments.
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22 Chromium has hundreds of undocumented command-line flags that are added
23 and removed at the whim of the developers. Here, we document rela‐
24 tively stable flags.
25 --user-data-dir=DIR
27 Specifies the directory that user data (your "profile") is kept
28 in. Defaults to $HOME/.config/chromium-browser . Separate
29 instances of Chromium must use separate user data directories;
30 repeated invocations of chromium-browser will reuse an existing
31 process for a given user data directory.
32 --app=URL
35 Runs URL in "app mode": with no browser toolbars.
36 --incognito
39 Open in incognito mode.
40 --new-window
43 If PATH or URL is given, open it in a new window.
44 --proxy-server=host:port
47 Specify the HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy server to use for requests.
48 This overrides any environment variables or settings picked via
49 the options dialog. An individual proxy server is specified
50 using the format:
51 [<proxy-scheme>://]<proxy-host>[:<proxy-port>]
53 Where <proxy-scheme> is the protocol of the proxy server, and is
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56 "http", "socks", "socks4", "socks5".
58 If the <proxy-scheme> is omitted, it defaults to "http". Also
60 note that "socks" is equivalent to "socks5".
61 Examples:
63 --proxy-server="foopy:99"
65 Use the HTTP proxy "foopy:99" to load all URLs.
66 --proxy-server="socks://foobar:1080"
68 Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
69 --proxy-server="socks4://foobar:1080"
71 Use the SOCKS v4 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
72 --proxy-server="socks5://foobar:66"
74 Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:66" to load all URLs.
75 It is also possible to specify a separate proxy server for dif‐
77 ferent URL types, by prefixing the proxy server specifier with a
78 URL specifier:
79 Example:
81 --proxy-server="https=proxy1:80;http=socks4://baz:1080"
83 Load https://* URLs using the HTTP proxy "proxy1:80". And
84 load http://*
85 URLs using the SOCKS v4 proxy "baz:1080".
86 --no-proxy-server
89 Disables the proxy server. Overrides any environment variables
90 or settings picked via the options dialog.
91 --proxy-auto-detect
94 Autodetect proxy configuration. Overrides any environment vari‐
95 ables or settings picked via the options dialog.
96 --proxy-pac-url=URL
99 Specify proxy autoconfiguration URL. Overrides any environment
100 variables or settings picked via the options dialog.
101 --password-store=<basic|gnome|kwallet>
104 Set the password store to use. The default is to automatically
105 detect based on the desktop environment. basic selects the
106 built in, unencrypted password store. gnome selects Gnome
107 keyring. kwallet selects (KDE) KWallet. (Note that KWallet may
108 not work reliably outside KDE.)
109 --version
112 Show version information.
113 As a GTK+ app, Chromium also obeys GTK+ command-line flags, such as
116 --display. See the GTK documentation for more:
117 <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-running.html>
119 <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-x11.html>
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123 Chromium obeys the following environment variables:
124 all_proxy
127 Shorthand for specifying all of http_proxy, https_proxy,
128 ftp_proxy
129 http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy
132 The proxy servers used for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Note: because
133 Gnome/KDE proxy settings may propagate into these variables in
134 some terminals, this variable is ignored (in preference for
135 actual system proxy settings) when running under Gnome or KDE.
136 Use the command-line flags to set these when you want to force
137 their values.
138 auto_proxy
141 Specify proxy autoconfiguration. Defined and empty autodetects;
142 otherwise, it should be an autoconfig URL. But see above note
143 about Gnome/KDE.
144 SOCKS_SERVER
147 SOCKS proxy server (defaults to SOCKS v4, also set SOCKS_VER‐
148 SION=5 to use SOCKS v5).
149 no_proxy
152 Comma separated list of hosts or patterns to bypass proxying.
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156 $HOME/.config/chromium-browser
157 Default directory for configuration data.
158 $HOME/.cache/chromium-browser
161 Default directory for cache data. (Why? See <http://stan‐
162 dards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/> .)
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166 Bug tracker:
167 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
169 Be sure to do your search within "All Issues" before reporting bugs,
171 and be sure to pick the "Defect on Linux" template when filing a new
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176 The Chromium team - <http://www.chromium.org>
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