Ubuntu – Google Chrome opens two tabs when opened

ATTENTION! The description below applies to Google Chrome. For Chromium instead of ~/.config/google-chrome you have ~/.config/chromium!

In ~/.config/google-chrome/ you will see your profile folders. Let's say, you have beside the default (named Default) an another one called d3vid which you want to make default.

I give you two options:

1. Rename the Default to something else, and your profile to Default:

   mv Default Default_old; mv d3vid Default

2. Move Default to a better name, and create a symlink to your preferred profile:

   mv Default My_cool_profile; ln -s ~/.config/google-chrome/d3vid ~/.config/google-chrome/Default

The article that you are referring to was published in 2011.

When opening Chrome, or chromium, it is stated at the top of the page that:

WARNING These experimental features may change, break, or disappear at any time...

It does appear to be the case that the option within "http:// flags" has indeed disappeared.

That particular option of syncing open tabs is not available in either chromium(Version 25.0.1364.160) or Chrome stable(Version 26.0.1410.43) on Ubuntu 12.04.02.

Take a look a more recent guide, from Google, regarding the Sync tabs across devices functionality.

However, there is an option to look at the open tabs on some other devices(see note below).

1. You need to be signed-in a Google account to use this functionality.

2. Open wrench in upper right hand corner of your browser

3. Select "Advanced sync settings"

   

4. Open a new tab

5. Look in the lower right hand corner of the browser and click on the area that say "Other devices" as indicated below:

   

Note: I can't speak to how this functionality works across all devices. My tablet syncs partially but my android phone does not appear to sync completely (it only shows most recent tab-singular. YMMV).

It sounds like you are looking for functionality that will allow you to open all tabs open on a remote computer. In that case, I would recommend using the Xmarks plugin

See also: http://www.xmarks.com/ and http://blog.xmarks.com/