On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Mentovai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's what I'm doing: I'm starting my long-lived Chrome (in my case,
> an official Google Chrome dev-channel build - ideally it shouldn't be
> the executable/bundle you're actively working on) with an alternate
> profile by telling my shell to do this:
>
> /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
> --user-data-dir=~/Library/Application\ Support/ChromeToo >& chrome.out
> &
>
> leaving the "main" profile at ~/Library/Application Support/Chrome
> free for development.  (You could easily do it the other way around,
> but since I'm more likely to want to start the "development" Chromium
> more frequently, I figure I'll save myself some keystrokes.)


This is exactly how I've run Chrome as my main Windows browser for a year
and a half now.  Recommended!

I think it would be a great idea for everyone developing for the Mac
> to join me in eating our dogfood.


When we pushed us Windows folks to do this (long ago now...) it really
helped close the feedback loop.

PK

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