Headless Chrome --user-data-dir and incognito mode

[Serge Konov]

I'm trying to start Chrome in --headless with defined --user-data-dir switch.

As far as I can understand from the sources, although headless Chrome by default should start in incognito mode, it's disabled when the user-data-dir flag exists:

// Run a browser context in an incognito mode. Enabled by default.
  bool incognito_mode;

if (command_line.HasSwitch(switches::kUserDataDir)) {
    builder.SetUserDataDir(
        command_line.GetSwitchValuePath(switches::kUserDataDir));
    builder.SetIncognitoMode(false);
  }

But it seems that regardless to that flag no profile data is written to the directory (but the directory is created), very similar to how it behaves in incognito mode.

[Alex Clarke]

Sounds like a bug.  I've filed https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=747394 to track it.

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[Serge Konov]

That bug was merged as duplicate to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=617931#c9

But I suppose that these issues are not the same.

[Eric Seckler]

Using --user-data-dir with the incognito profile is not supported as the incognito profile is stored only temporarily in-memory. The issue that no profile data is saved even though --user-data-dir is specified is mentioned in the bug I merged this one into.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 17:13 Serge Konov <say...@saylas.ru> wrote:

That bug was merged as duplicate to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=617931#c9

But I suppose that these issues are not the same.

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