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In Windows there is an option that separates same application instances into separate "icons" in taskbar. This is super convenient because now I can click on one Chrome instance and the second one will keep in background without jumping forward and show up in my second screen.

it doesn't seem to be doable in MacOS and whenever I click Chrome all windows show up, which is pretty annoying. Is there a way to separate different Chrome windows to separate instances?

BTW I already unchecked 'Minimize windows into application icons' but I don't think it's related.

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    You're really fighting a paradigm difference between Mac & PC app instances with this one. The Mac does not want you to do this & will fight you if you try. See apple.stackexchange.com/questions/338551/… [second answer] for how to actually do it… by compiling your own version & running it as a distinct separate app.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Aug 11, 2021 at 18:51
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    Thanks @Tetsujin I give up! But I have a better solution: I'll use Chrome for work and Firefox for more personal tabs (guess I can't totally get rid of them on a work computer).
    – Nicholas Humphrey
    Commented Aug 11, 2021 at 21:28
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    You can open a second instance of an app from the command line with open -n -a app-name
    – greg-449
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 12:27
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    That open trick sounds cool, but doesn't work w/ Chrome. It just opens a new window in the same app (for me).
    – jimtut
    Commented Aug 12, 2021 at 17:54

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