For mac, I made a simple application that launches chrome with the --remote-debugging-port for me. Mathias Bynens has a wonderful post on how to do this (which is where I got the idea). He even includes a (forked) script that can do most of it for you, but the basics are really simple.
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Make a directory in your applications folder with the following structure
<new app name>/Contents/MacOS:mkdir -p /Applications/Chrome\ Debugger.app/Contents/MacOS -
Create your script file and make it executable (its name need to match the top folder name):
cd /Applications/Chrome\ Debugger.app/Contents/MacOS touch Chrome\ Debugger chmod +x Chrome\ Debugger -
Edit the new file with your editor of choice (your path to chrome may be different):
#!/usr/bin/env bash /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222&
And that’s about it. You can add a custom icon if you want to make it easier to find (copy your new icon > right click the new app > Get Info > click the current icon in the top left > paste the new icon over current icon), but the app will work fine without it.
