chromium - the web browser from Google
chromium [OPTION] [PATH|URL]
See the Google Chrome help center for help on using the
browser.
- <https://support.google.com/chrome/>
This manpage only describes invocation, environment, and
arguments.
chromium has hundreds of undocumented command-line flags that are
added and removed at the whim of the developers. Here, we document
relatively stable flags.
- -h or --help
- Show help output.
- -g or --debug
- Start a debugging session within /usr/bin/gdb.
- --temp-profile
- Use a throw-away/temporary profile for this session. This creates an
entirely new user profile temporarily. It is not the same as incognito
mode.
- --enable-remote-extensions
- Allow installation and updates of remote extensions.
- --user-data-dir=DIR
- Specifies the directory that user data (your "profile") is kept
in. Defaults to $HOME/.config/chromium . Separate instances of
chromium must use separate user data directories; repeated invocations of
chromium will reuse an existing process for a given user data directory.
- --incognito
- Open in incognito mode.
- --new-window
- If PATH or URL is given, open it in a new window.
- --proxy-server=host:port
- Specify the HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy server to use for requests. This
overrides any environment variables or settings picked via the options
dialog. An individual proxy server is specified using the format:
[<proxy-scheme>://]<proxy-host>[:<proxy-port>]
Where <proxy-scheme> is the protocol of the proxy
server, and is one of:
"http", "socks", "socks4",
"socks5".
If the <proxy-scheme> is omitted, it defaults to
"http". Also note that "socks" is equivalent to
"socks5".
Examples:
--proxy-server="foopy:99"
Use the HTTP proxy "foopy:99" to load all URLs.
--proxy-server="socks://foobar:1080"
Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
--proxy-server="socks4://foobar:1080"
Use the SOCKS v4 proxy "foobar:1080" to load all URLs.
--proxy-server="socks5://foobar:66"
Use the SOCKS v5 proxy "foobar:66" to load all URLs.
It is also possible to specify a separate proxy server for
different URL types, by prefixing the proxy server specifier with a URL
specifier:
Example:
--proxy-server="https=proxy1:80;http=socks4://baz:1080"
Load https://* URLs using the HTTP proxy "proxy1:80". And load
http://*
URLs using the SOCKS v4 proxy "baz:1080".
- --no-proxy-server
- Disables the proxy server. Overrides any environment variables or settings
picked via the options dialog.
- --proxy-auto-detect
- Autodetect proxy configuration. Overrides any environment variables or
settings picked via the options dialog.
- --proxy-pac-url=URL
- Specify proxy autoconfiguration URL. Overrides any environment variables
or settings picked via the options dialog.
- --password-store=<basic|gnome|kwallet>
- Set the password store to use. The default is to automatically detect
based on the desktop environment. basic selects the built in,
unencrypted password store. gnome selects Gnome keyring.
kwallet selects (KDE) KWallet. (Note that KWallet may not work
reliably outside KDE.)
- --version
- Show version information.
As a GTK+ app, chromium also obeys GTK+ command-line flags, such
as --display. See the GTK documentation for more:
- <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-running.html>
- <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-x11.html>
chromium obeys the following environment variables:
- all_proxy
- Shorthand for specifying all of http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy
- http_proxy,
https_proxy, ftp_proxy
- The proxy servers used for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Note: because
Gnome/KDE proxy settings may propagate into these variables in some
terminals, this variable is ignored (in preference for actual system proxy
settings) when running under Gnome or KDE. Use the command-line flags to
set these when you want to force their values.
- auto_proxy
- Specify proxy autoconfiguration. Defined and empty autodetects; otherwise,
it should be an autoconfig URL. But see above note about Gnome/KDE.
- SOCKS_SERVER
- SOCKS proxy server (defaults to SOCKS v4, also set SOCKS_VERSION=5
to use SOCKS v5).
- no_proxy
- Comma separated list of hosts or patterns to bypass proxying.
- $HOME/.config/chromium
- Default directory for configuration data.
- $HOME/.cache/chromium
- Default directory for cache data. (Why? See
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/> .)
Debian bug tracker:
- https://bugs.debian.org/chromium
Upstream bug tracker:
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
Be sure to do your search within "All Issues" before
reporting bugs, and be sure to pick the "Defect on Linux" template
when filing a new one.
If your bug is specific to Debian, please submit it only to the
Debian bug tracker.
- https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
The Chromium team - <http://www.chromium.org>