Starting browser with specifc profile

Hello,
This is not supported for now. Do you know what is the command line switch to specify a profile?

Regards

Hi,

this is the shortcut:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Default"
Specific profiles. Name is always "Profile number"
--profile-directory="Profile 1"
--profile-directory="Profile 2"

Hello,
I know it might sound obvious but it's really useful. I will create a ticket for that I think we will be able to add it soon.

Regards

Hello,

Please, implement this feature soon.

This feature will greatly affect the acceptance of this product in our company.

BR
Tomas Zabcik

We've been trying to implement this feature, however, when we attempt to launch profiles through command lines (outside of RDM) there are several issues.
For instance, when using --profile-directory="Profile 1", it launches with Profile 2, and attempting to launch Profile 2 would launch Profile 3, and so on. This also prevents from launching the default profile.

Other issues we've encountered include:

• Incorrect Profile name results in creating a new profile with the highest numerical value (ex if you have a profile named "Profile 15" and attempt to launch an incorrect string such as "Profele 5", it will create a new profile named "Profile 16" and launch it.
• Profile with numerical number without a space (Ex: Profile2) end up being recreated as a new profile but with a space. (So attempting to launch an already existing profile named "Work2" would instead create a new profile named "Work 2". (This happens regardless of whether we enclose the profile name in " " or not).
• And more

All of these issues were encountered simply by using the Command Line exec, They are outside of our control and while we could implement the ability to launch command lines inside the entry, we'd rather not implement the support for something that does not work well and need to be fixed on Edge's side.

Regards,

Thank you for your trying.

I see, MSEDGE is buggy. :-/
I see same behavior with commands.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory=Default
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

But, CHROME with profiles work correctly for me.
Tested with multiple profiles.
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Default"
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 2"
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 3"

Please, could you implement it for CHROME?

BR,
Tomas Zabcik

I don't recognise the problems that you guys have.
How I find the correct launch parameter is quite easy.

Open the browser to the correct profile.
Pin it to the task bar.
Copy the taskbar icon to the desktop.
Watch the parameters on the icon.

I use 4 profiles:
Personal
Work 1
Work 2
Work 3
and it works everytime. In normale mode and incognito.

MS Edge Version 96.0.1054.43 (Official build) (64-bit

Hello RpR,

I have same version.
Verze 96.0.1054.43 (Oficiální build) (64bitová verze)
(Czech Language)

But errors occurs after start command
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 1"

If I look into AppData I see folder "Profile 4"
C:\Users\zabcikt\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data
In Folder "Profile 4" is setting file "Preferences" that contains "name": "Profil 1".

This is issue in MSEDGE. Maybe dependend on localization.

Hello,

tomaszabcik, we will look into incorporating profile launching for Google Chrome, hopefully this will go smoothly.

RpR, we are aware that using shortcuts tend to work well, if you could however provide a command line that you can use without having any existing shortcut and that functions well for you, we could try to investigate.

Regards,

Hello again,

The integration for launching Chrome profiles should be working in the next version. It's important to note that for the command line to work you need to use the profile folder name. These can usually be found in ".../AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data".

Regards,

Hello Jafran,

Thank you very much. I'm really looking forward to it. :)

Hello Jafran and Devolution Team,

Did this feature get added to Remote Desktop Manager? The posts here are from a year ago and they state that you were working on this new feature for the product.

If this feature was added to RDM, is there any documentation on the feature and how to set it up?

Thanks in advance for any help here.

Dylan

Hello,

For MS Edge, we've managed a partial integration, but it's quite limited. We can't access an already created profile, nor can we save the temporary profile we use when launching MS Edge. The best we can provide so far is that when launching multiple web browser entries simultaneously, they all follow the settings opened by the first launched entry (provided they all have the same profile name set in the entry properties). We provide the settings we found that worked (such as language for instance). These are limitations caused by the restricted access and support of Edge specifically. Due to how limited this support currently is, I don't believe we've added it to the Documentation yet (In fact these changes are something that were done somewhat recently). But we are still hoping that an eventual update will help us provide a better profile launcher experience.

Regards,