Is it possible to launch with --user-data-dir=(default chrome data directory) and actually connect?

[josh3336]

It seems to create a tab in my current browser but it doesn't seem to ever create a process on the given port. In the example for instance port 64043 has nothing on it. But when I create a temp user data dir, it works fine.

LH:ChromeLauncher:verbose "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" --remote-debugging-port=64043 --user-data-dir=/Users/joshuapagano/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/ --disable-extensions --profile-directory=Profile 2 https://sherdog.com +5ms
LH:ChromeLauncher:verbose Chrome running with pid 55869 on port 64043. +4ms
LH:ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser. +1ms
LH:ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser... +0ms
LH:ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser..... +503ms
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[paulirish]

if you already have a chrome using this userdatadir then any invocation is just gonna make a tab in that existing chrome.
there's probably a stderr message that says that, but unfortunately you currently don't see that in the output.

eg

you could just duplicate that folder somewhere else and then use that.

also i imagine you want "Profile 2" to be quoted in that cmd.

[paulirish]

leaving open so we can make sure the 'opening in existing browser session' message is correctly surfaced in this case.