Windows – Getting Chrome to open an `.html` file in a new window

Problem

For Linux, if you have multiple VNC servers, this same problem will occur.
That is,

$ google-chrome
Created new window in existing browser session

And no google chrome window will appear in the current X VNC session (a new tab will appear in the X session with the first instance of google-chrome).

Solution

A simple workaround is to run

$ google-chrome "--user-data-dir=${HOME}/.google-chrome/session${DISPLAY}"

This sets a unique user directory based on the X VNC instance in use. The user directory will be created as needed. The new google-chrome process will display within the current X VNC session.

Tested using Google Chrome version 22 on Ubuntu 12.04.

As I stated above, there are discussions about this in the google newsgroup as well, the only really rather small/simple solution is this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/start-in-non-pinned-tab/ihdmghkoepdddbcdomljmbaajiccappf/related

It is simple, small, effective without the need of too much ressources.