How to launch google-chrome with custom parameters by default?

Question

I want to launch chrome and chromium from the unity launcher with the --purge-memory-button option.

For chromium I was able to add the above parameter to /etc/chromium-browser/default but that's not an option for google-chrome.

How do I do it for google-chrome ? Would an alias in my .bash_profile work ?

Solution

Edit the .desktop file in

/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

Edit the exec line and add the arguments you need

Comments

[Glutanimate]

The .desktop file might get reverted on your next chrome update. So it might be a good idea to copy it to ~/.local/share/applications.