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 in‐
29 stances of Chromium must use separate user data directories; re‐
30 peated invocations of chromium-browser will reuse an existing
31 process for a given user data directory.
32 --incognito
35 Open in incognito mode.
36 --new-window
39 If PATH or URL is given, open it in a new window.
40 --proxy-server=host:port
43 Specify the HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy server to use for requests.
44 This overrides any environment variables or settings picked via
45 the options dialog. An individual proxy server is specified us‐
46 ing the format:
47 [<proxy-scheme>://]<proxy-host>[:<proxy-port>]
49 Where <proxy-scheme> is the protocol of the proxy server, and is
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52 "http", "socks", "socks4", "socks5".
54 If the <proxy-scheme> is omitted, it defaults to "http". Also
56 note that "socks" is equivalent to "socks5".
57 Examples:
59 --proxy-server="foopy:99"
61 Use the HTTP proxy "foopy:99" to load all URLs.
62 --proxy-server="socks://foobar:1080"
64 Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
65 --proxy-server="socks4://foobar:1080"
67 Use the SOCKS v4 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
68 --proxy-server="socks5://foobar:66"
70 Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:66" to load all URLs.
71 It is also possible to specify a separate proxy server for dif‐
73 ferent URL types, by prefixing the proxy server specifier with a
74 URL specifier:
75 Example:
77 --proxy-server="https=proxy1:80;http=socks4://baz:1080"
79 Load https://* URLs using the HTTP proxy "proxy1:80". And
80 load http://*
81 URLs using the SOCKS v4 proxy "baz:1080".
82 --no-proxy-server
85 Disables the proxy server. Overrides any environment variables
86 or settings picked via the options dialog.
87 --proxy-auto-detect
90 Autodetect proxy configuration. Overrides any environment vari‐
91 ables or settings picked via the options dialog.
92 --proxy-pac-url=URL
95 Specify proxy autoconfiguration URL. Overrides any environment
96 variables or settings picked via the options dialog.
97 --password-store=<basic|gnome|kwallet>
100 Set the password store to use. The default is to automatically
101 detect based on the desktop environment. basic selects the
102 built in, unencrypted password store. gnome selects Gnome
103 keyring. kwallet selects (KDE) KWallet. (Note that KWallet may
104 not work reliably outside KDE.)
105 --version
108 Show version information.
109 As a GTK+ app, Chromium also obeys GTK+ command-line flags, such as
112 --display. See the GTK documentation for more:
113 <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-running.html>
115 <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-x11.html>
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120 Chromium obeys the following environment variables:
121 all_proxy
124 Shorthand for specifying all of http_proxy, https_proxy,
125 ftp_proxy
126 http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy
129 The proxy servers used for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Note: because
130 Gnome/KDE proxy settings may propagate into these variables in
131 some terminals, this variable is ignored (in preference for ac‐
132 tual system proxy settings) when running under Gnome or KDE.
133 Use the command-line flags to set these when you want to force
134 their values.
135 auto_proxy
138 Specify proxy autoconfiguration. Defined and empty autodetects;
139 otherwise, it should be an autoconfig URL. But see above note
140 about Gnome/KDE.
141 SOCKS_SERVER
144 SOCKS proxy server (defaults to SOCKS v4, also set SOCKS_VER‐
145 SION=5 to use SOCKS v5).
146 no_proxy
149 Comma separated list of hosts or patterns to bypass proxying.
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153 $HOME/.config/chromium-browser
154 Default directory for configuration data.
155 $HOME/.cache/chromium-browser
158 Default directory for cache data. (Why? See <http://stan‐
159 dards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/> .)
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163 Bug tracker:
164 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
166 Be sure to do your search within "All Issues" before reporting bugs,
168 and be sure to pick the "Defect on Linux" template when filing a new
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173 The Chromium team - <http://www.chromium.org>
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