Can you run multiple Chrome instances with different proxies?

Question

I'm trying to run multiple instances of of Chrome with different proxies. Searching the web I've found that chrome supposedly supports 'chrome.exe --proxy-server="proxy:port" ' from the command line. But I've tried that and it doesn't work.

Is there any way to run multiple instances of Chrome with different proxies?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The answer from gengkev is correct. For all users combing from search engines who need a quick "copy and paste" solution, use this link target (windows):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --proxy-server="http://proxy01.your.proxy:3128" --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy01\User Data"

Chrome will create this new folder "Chrome-proxy01" on its own. With this you can have multiple chrome shortcuts using different proxy servers.

Answer 2

If you're running more than one instance of chrome with different flags, I think you need to specify different paths to --user-data-dir.