Refresh tabs or launch a new tab from Crosh or Shell?

[Nick Chappell]

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. If not I apologize, and I will delete the post. 

I am remotely working on some Chromebooks via SSH. Basically what I am doing is copying an extension via SCP, and then I want refresh to be able to tell the tabs on that Chromebook to refresh via SSH (or any remote means really.). I didn't think this would be difficult, but it turns out the shell is more limited than I first thought. Does anyone have some suggestions or had luck doing something similiar?

tl:dr - How do I refresh tabs from crosh/shell? 

[Mike Frysinger]

you could VNC into the device then do what you want

Pawel does remote work quite a bit, so he might have better suggestions

i don't believe there's a command line API here

-mike

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[Nick Chappell]

I am trying to script the process so I was hoping for something I could do from the terminal. Thanks for the response though. Appreciate it. 

[Daniel Erat]

If you don't mind crashing Chrome and having it get restarted by session_manager, "killall chrome" is probably one way to get Chrome to reload its tabs and extensions. :-P (It'll probably take a manual click to restore the tabs, though.)

I don't have much experience with it, but Telemetry might expose something like this. Probably worth glancing through tools/telemetry in the Chromium source.

Remote debugging might work too.

[Robert Ginda]

Or if you have control over the things you want to reload, you could add in a livereload kind of hook.

[Nick Chappell]

Your suggestion of killall actually lead me to the solution. I ended up just sshing "pkill chrome", which crashes Chrome, then set my extension as the startup page which is automatically reloaded upon crash. Thanks so much for the suggestion.