How do I run Google Chrome as root?

google-chrome ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Rashmi · Sep 4, 2012 · Viewed 108.6k times · Source

I have installed Google Chrome in Ubuntu 10.10. When I try to use in normal user, it is working fine.

Now if I want to use as a root it gives the following error:

Google Chrome does not run as root

Also when I tried the following command in terminal, it opens Google Chrome:

google-chrome --user-data-dir

I need a permanent solution for this. Can anybody give me idea about this?

Answer

Run from terminal

# google-chrome --no-sandbox --user-data-dir

Open the file opt/google/chrome/google-chrome and replace

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@"

exec -a "$0" "$HERE/chrome" "$@" --user-data-dir --no-sandbox

It's working for chrome version 49 in CentOS 6. Chrome will give warning also.