Chromium

Command line switches

• List of Chromium Command Line Switches
• Configured in ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf

Proxy settings

• Configure Proxy for Chromium and Google Chrome From Command Line on Linux

Add certs to cert store

• Arch wiki: Adding CAcert certificates for self-signed certificates
• Support self-signed certs for SSO

Cert store locations:

For non-snap installations:

export CERTSTORE=~/.pki

For snap installations:

export CERTSTORE=~/snap/chromium/current/.pki

Add LE staging CA cert:

certutil -d sql:$CERTSTORE -A -t TC -n "LE staging" -i ~/oas/openappstack/test/pytest/le-staging-bundle.pem

Wayland

• Arch wiki: Native Wayland support
• Enable WebRTC PipeWire support and set Preferred Ozone platform to Wayland in chrome://flags

Profiles

• Multiple Chrome Users
• Docs: Creating and Using Profiles
• Docs: User Data Directory
• See also Multiple Chrome Users
• Find current profile (path): chrome://version/
• Profiles are stored in subdirectories of ~/.config/chromium/

Create a new profile

• Click on the profile icon, then Add Chromium profile
  • Give the profile a name
  • Find out the new profile dir with chrome://version/
  • Close all chromium instances
  • Edit ~/.config/chromium/Local\ State and change the profile directory
• Via cli: chromium --user-data-dir=/home/varac/.config/chromium/profile-foo
  • Important: Not recommended, since it doesn't show up in the profile menu