Opening Chrome From Command Line

Question

I have the following batch file:

@echo off
REM Starts a chrome browser with multiple tabbed sites
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe "site1.com" "site2.com"

But when I run it, it causes the prompt to hang and renders it unusable until Chrome is closed. (Or, if I am not using the prompt and run it from the icon, it opens a blank prompt that is unusable and disappears when Chrome is closed.)

Is there any way to prevent this? I.E. once the webpages are open, the prompt is no longer tied up.

It opens the webpages just fine. I've also noticed that if there's already a chrome window open, the batch runs fine (leaving a usable prompt), adding the tabs to the existing chrome session.

Solution 1

Have a look into the start command. It should do what you're trying to achieve.

Also, you might be able to leave out path to chrome. The following works on Windows 7:

start chrome "site1.com" "site2.com"

Solution 2

Use the start command as follows.

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.google.com

It will be better to close chrome instances before you open a new one. You can do that as follows:

taskkill /IM chrome.exe
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.google.com

That'll work for you.

Solution 3

C:\>start chrome "http://site1.com" works on Windows Vista.

Solution 4

Let's take a look at the start command.

Open Windows command prompt

To open a new Chrome window (blank), type the following:

start chrome --new-window 

or

start chrome

To open a URL in Chrome, type the following:

start chrome --new-window "http://www.iot.qa/2018/02/narrowband-iot.html"

To open a URL in Chrome in incognito mode, type the following:

start chrome --new-window --incognito "http://www.iot.qa/2018/02/narrowband-iot.html"

or

start chrome --incognito "http://www.iot.qa/2018/02/narrowband-iot.html"

Solution 5

you can create batch file and insert into it the bellow line:

cmd /k start chrome "http://yourWebSite.com

after that you do just double click on this batch file.

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Comments

[Georg]

@Vidz use start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.google.com

[bfhaha]

@Vidz Thanks. I have the same problem. But my dafault browser is IE (internet explorer).

[Dariush Jafari]

how can you provide parameters like: google-chrome --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist

[GavinH]

Include any extra arguments before the URLs. start chrome --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist "site1.com" "site2.com"

[Nils Sens]

how would you specify a port number?

[Bill Rawlinson]

@NilsSens - you can specify the port number like start chrome "http:localhost:88\bar" Where 88 is the port number. The colon is needed between the domain and the port.

[Matthieu]

What does that add to the accepted answer, given one year earlier?

[Akhil]

how to open with a user profile? I have multiple chrome user profiles. @GavinH