This is really an awesome command line hack. For those like me who need a bit mo...

This is really an awesome command line hack.

For those like me who need a bit more detail:

1) make a text file called chrome-new

2) put the following contents in the file in a POSIX-like OS

  #!/bin/sh
  TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /dev/shm/chrome-XXXXX`
  chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$TMPDIR --no-first-run --no-make-default-browser "$@"
  rm -rf $TMPDIR

3) make the text file executable:

  chmod u+x chrome-new

This also uses the chromium executable for chrome, which I think is the default on debian-based systems. If this isn't applicable to you, change "chromium-browser" on the third line to whatever the executable is for chrome on your system.