Chrome uses the wrong user data directory over chrome remote desktop on Linux.
1) Connect to a remote linux machine with Chrome Remote Desktop.
2) Run chromium or a dev build on the remote linux machine.
3) Navigate to chrome://version
Expected: Profile Path is a subdir in /usr/local/google/home/msw/.config/chromium
Actual: Profile Path is /usr/local/google/home/msw/.config/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-profile/test-user
While developing chrome[os] on linux over chrome remote desktop, I frequently get profile/extension startup crashes on local builds because of a bad user-data-dir(?) It would be nice if the default user data directory used over chrome remote desktop matched the default user data directory when running chrome locally.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but supplying a --user-data-dir command line flag every time I want to run a binary built on the remote machine (to avoid the aforementioned crashes) is frustrating. Please help!
Comment 1 by jamiewa...@chromium.org
, Dec 14 2016Labels: -OS-Chrome OS-Linux
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)