Launch Chrome fullscreen with no tabs, no menu, no bookmarks (like F-11)

[Ray Silva]

I'm re-posting this question here from Google Community Help Forum on advice of Community Specialist.

I've been looking everywhere for a simple terminal command line command I can give and maybe include in a batch file that will launch Chrome and open a designated url in F-11 type full screen mode. 

I've seen people suggesting --app, --kiosk, -fullscreen, and a bunch of combinations, but NONE of them work. They all give me full screen in the sense of not being a reduced window, but not full screen in the sense I want.

I know that with user interaction someone can just press the F-11 key to toggle in and out of what I want.

Does anyone know how to really do this?

Again, I don't want any tabs, address bar, extensions, bookmarks, menus. I just want as simple as possible to give someone a batch file with @echo off and the command inside, so they can just click and be there.

[PhistucK]

Yes, using the --kiosk command line flag should work. What is your platform?

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[Ray Silva]

I'm not quite sure why I was suggested to come ask the question over here. As I understand, Chromium is the Linux based version of Chrome. I am on Windows 10. I tried the kiosk command there and it did not work at all. Neither of these do anything but open Chrome in the same standard way:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe --enable-kiosk-mode

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe --kiosk

I still have the tab. the bookmark bar, the url address bar. I want to give a user a batch file to open a designated url on their Chrome browser in the same mode as when user interaction using the F-11 key, but I don't want that type of user interaction. I just want their browser to automatically open the page in that full-screen mode. These commands don't do that. Or at least they aren't doing it for me. I don't want the user to have to go and change settings to be able to view my page in that way.

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[PhistucK]

1. Chromium is the open source project behind Chrome. All of the Chrome developers are Chromium developers. Chromium binaries exclude some features that Chrome has, like automatic updates, built in Flash and other services and features that require Google services to work (synchronization, web speech and some more).

2. You must either exit Chrome first and only then run chrome --kiosk like you tried. Alternatively, you can add --user-data-dir="c:\someFolder" (replace c:\someFolder with a path where Chrome will store a separate user profile) to that command line (so chrome.exe --kiosk user-data-dir="c:\someFolder").

The reason is that you cannot change the command line flags of a running browser for the same user profile. Flags are only set on start-up and user profiles cannot be shared between multiple browser instances.

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[Ray Silva]

Thanks for clearing that up. The user data directory won't work for me because I won't know that, but knowing what you have pointed out, I would like to have my batch file simply close the browser if anyone tries to exit the kiosk mode, or can I disable the exit kiosk mode command?

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[PhistucK]

I am not familiar with any exit-kiosk-mode command (other than exiting the browser altogether). Is there such a command? How do you do it?

If there is, I am not sure how to detect it... Maybe there is an extension API that can detect it and work with some native messaging host to exit the browser, but that sounds overly complex.

(By the way, the user-data-dir value is whatever you decide, it will create that path, so there is nothing to know)

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[Ray Silva]

Wow, this is really a great resource. I was not quite sure why I was sent over here, but have continued following and will continue for all things Chrome!

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