My multi profile case, for example, is to separate the Chromium Google account from my regular Google account. (Also, for testing.) The lastest Dev release crashed a lot with my regular profile, so I was forced to move to a clean profile. :(
☆PhistucK On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:46, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Mohamed Mansour <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> The options that many people tend to use that I have seen in the forums >> are (or group of people that is): >> --incognito (they always want to browse invincible) >> > > We definitely don't want to encourage this one, because it breaks so many > parts of Chrome's UI, most notably the Omnibox (which will have no inline > autocompletion, no search or URL history, and no suggest or navsuggest). My > claim is that the majority of people who use this don't understand the true > impact. > > --bookmark-menu (many use this because they want a cleaner UI with no >> bookmark bar) >> > > This is a case where the option ought to disappear and we ought to decide > what to do with the implementation. We should never have major UI > components that are under command-line switches long-term. EIther they > should graduate to full inclusion in some form or we should decide they > failed. > > It would be nice if the UI leads got together with sky and decided on a > permanent course of action for this one. > > --user-dir (some people want to change the location instead of the >> default) >> > > I'd like to understand better the discrete needs of these users. For > example, do they want to run multiple different Chrome profiles? Are they > trying to make Chrome portable, or back up its settings on a network? Are > they looking for a system-wide install? etc. If we understand these, maybe > there is something we can do to help. For example, the multi-profile case > is something we've looked at various times in the past. > > PK > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
