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Arsalan Saleem
Arsalan Saleem

Reputation: 361

Enable Developer Mode Extension For Chrome Browser using cmd

i have searched a lot, and then came here to ask. Is it possible to start chrome browser in enabled developers mode for extensions using cmd ?

I tried few flags from http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ but no luck.

Thanks

Upvotes: 6

Views: 9203

Answers (1)

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 348992

There is no flag to enable developer mode. But you can force developer mode to be enabled for new Chrome profiles by setting extensions.ui.developer_mode to true in the master preference file.

On Linux and Windows, this file is called master_preferences and stored next to the Chrome executable. For an example of such a file, see https://github.com/Rob--W/extension-dev-tools/tree/master/chrome

On Mac, the location of the master preference files is a bit more complicated. Chrome attempts to find the file in the user directory, and if it's not found, then the system-wide directory is used. And master preferences are not supported for Canary on Mac.

Google Chrome builds (stable, beta, dev):

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Google Chrome Master Preferences
  • /Library/Google/Google Chrome Master Preferences

Chromium:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Chromium/Chromium Master Preferences
  • /Library/Application Support/Chromium/Chromium Master Preferences

Upvotes: 4

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