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Run applications through VPN tunnels with temporary network namespaces
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Running second instance of browser with Vopono #164

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

Not sure if this is actual issue or I'm doing something wrong. I run chromium with command line:

vopono exec --provider ProtonVPN --server netherlands "chromium --profile-directory=Profile2"

But it says:

chromium is already running. You must force it to use a separate profile in order to launch a new process!

It actually starts with Profile2, but VPN has no effect on it. I know I can just run another browser like chromium beta or google-chrome, but it is possible to run multiple instances of same application?

dchusovitin commented 2 years ago

It's because chromium reuses the same master process. In order to run a completely different instance of chromium instance, you need to run:

chromuim --user-data-dir=/tmp/profile-2
Separate instances of Chromium must use separate user data directories; repeated invo‐      
              cations of chromium will reuse an existing process for a given user data directory.