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OS: Windows
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Type: Feature



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Allow user to select default user profile for opening external links

Reported by sc.ric...@gmail.com, Dec 13 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.99 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create or have multiple Chrome profiles
2. Open chrome only in a secondary profile
3. Open external app/program with web links (e.g Twitter UWP)

What is the expected behavior?
It will open in a profile that I choose or my primary profile.

What went wrong?
It opens in the currently open or most recently interacted with profile

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 54.0.2840.99  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

I would love this feature as I use multiple chrome profiles, one personally and one with a G Suite account, and most external links I would like to open with my personal Google account.
 
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Adding 'Needs-Milestone' label, TE will check the issue and update the bug with comments & tag with respective Mstone
Cc: ranjitkan@chromium.org
Components: UI>Browser>Profiles
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Untriaged it so that it gets addressed.
Labels: -Needs-Milestone M-57
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 28 2016

Cc: ew...@chromium.org bzanotti@chromium.org msarda@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
--Chrome Identity automated triaging--

This bug is Untriaged and has gone for two weeks without any activity, so it is being moved to Available. Please see https://goo.gl/78kbny for more details. Please remove the Services>SignIn or UI>Browser>Profiles components if this bug isn't related to Chrome Identity.

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Comment 5 by ew...@chromium.org, Dec 28 2016

Cc: cl...@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 -Arch-x86_64 -M-57 Pri-3
+cleer for a UX perspective

Chris, I'm inclined to mark this as WAI, since I think the extra friction caused by popping up a dialogue when a user wants to open a link in Chrome (to choose the profile in which to open the link) isn't worth the benefit. I imagine for the majority use case, the last-used profile is probably the right option.

What are your thoughts, though? Another possible option would be a way to mark a profile as "default" in settings/user manager somehow, and have it be the default profile for opening links.

Keeping as "Available" and moving to P3.

Comment 6 by sc.ric...@gmail.com, Dec 28 2016

I agree, a dialog would bring too much extra friction, but I would really
like an option to select a default user profile.
Cc: -bzanotti@chromium.org

Comment 8 by sc.ric...@gmail.com, Oct 27 2017

Has there been any activity on this issue recently?

Comment 9 by smarg...@gmail.com, Jan 8 2018

As someone that uses a personal and Work profile at work, this would be really useful, especially if you could set rules that certain applications or domains are defaulted to certain profiles!
Cc: sabineb@chromium.org
+Sabine as FYI for a future feature request.

We could support this by allowing users to specify certain profiles to open links in from specific applications (e.g. open looks from Outlook in my "work" profile)
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Comment 11 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 8

--Chrome Identity automated triaging--

This bug is Available and has gone one year without any activity. If another month passes without any activity, this bug will be closed out. Please provide an update with the latest status for this bug. Please see https://goo.gl/78kbny for more details. Please remove the Services>SignIn or UI>Browser>Profiles components if this bug isn't related to Chrome Identity.

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