Using Google chrome on Ubuntu 14.04, by default the command
$ ipython notebook
will open a notebook server in any existing chrome instance. This
can be a pain if you work across several workspaces. Instead, we
can tell ipython to always open in a new window so you don't
have to trawl through your workspaces to locate the new notebook
server.
To do this first locate the default profile:
$ ipython profile locate
In this directory will be a file ipython_notebook_config.py; if this
does not exist then run ipython profile create to generate the default
configuration files. This file specifies all the configuration settings
on starting up any notebooks, for more details see
the docs
Open up ipython_notebook_config.py and add the line
c.NotebookApp.browser = u'/usr/bin/google-chrome %s --new-window'
New notebook instances will now generate a new browser window.