Google Chrome Remote Desktop For Mac
ZDNet's technology experts deliver the best tech news and analysis on the latest issues and events in IT for business technology professionals, IT managers and tech-savvy business people. An address of a Chrome debugger server to connect to, in the form of, e.g. '127.0.0.1:38947' excludeSwitches: list of strings List of Chrome command line switches to exclude that ChromeDriver by default passes when starting Chrome. Do not prefix switches with -. MinidumpPath string Directory to store Chrome minidumps. The virtual desktop session is created and.chrome-remote-desktop-session starts when Chrome Remote Desktop starts. Tip: Your desktop environment may not support more than one session at a time. In this case, we recommend that you use different desktop environments for your Chrome Remote Desktop session and your local session, or use the. Chrome Remote Desktop is a free application that allows people to remotely connect and control their electronic equipment from another location. This software was developed and published by Google and is accessible on Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows PC operating systems—as well as on Android and iOS portable devices like mobile phones. The PC/MAC you’re working on now appears in the My Computers section of the Chrome Remote Access desktop. You can change the name of the PC by clicking the Pencil icon to the right.
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Common use cases
Use custom profile (also called user data directory)
By default, ChromeDriver will create a new temporary profile for each session. At times you may want to set special preferences or just use a custom profile altogether. If the former, you can use the 'chrome.prefs' capability (described later below) to specify preferences that will be applied after Chrome starts. If the latter, you can use theuser-data-dir
Chrome command-line switch to tell Chrome which profile to use:You can create your own custom profile by just running Chrome (on the command-line or through ChromeDriver) with the
user-data-dir
switch set to some new directory. If the path doesn't exist, Chrome will create a new profile in the specified location. You can then modify the profile settings as desired, and ChromeDriver can use the profile in the future. Open chrome://version in the browser to see what profile Chrome is using.Start Chrome maximized
Uninstall Google Chrome Remote Desktop Mac
Using a Chrome executable in a non-standard location
Block pop-up windows
Set download directory
- Chrome disallows using certain directories for download. In particular, you cannot use the desktop folder as the download directory. On Linux, you also cannot use the home directory for download. Since the exact list of forbidden directories is subject to change, it is recommended that you use a directory that has no special meaning to the system.
- ChromeDriver does not automatically wait for download to complete. If you call driver.quit() too soon, Chrome might terminate before the download has finished.
- Relative paths do not always work. For best result, use full path instead.
- On Windows, Use ' as path separators. Using '/' is not reliable on Windows.