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Chrome window types. What do they stand for?

chrome.windows API tells about 5 window types: "normal", "popup", "panel", "app", "shell".

  • Normal windows are standard windows with tabs;
  • Popup windows are 1) standalone windows with apps (this feature is currently available on Windows and Linux), 2) chrome devtools if its window is open separately;

But what are the other 3 window types? Official API provides very little information about this

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Dmitrii Sorin Avatar asked May 20 '12 10:05

Dmitrii Sorin


1 Answers

  • App used to be the application mode window (ran with --app=http://...) and is now replaced by popup type. Based on this and this.

  • Shell I have my money on native system dialogs (Print using Ctrl+Shift+P) but can't really tell for sure.

  • Panel are some snappy, buggy, always-on-top windows that dock near the tray area. You need to enable those with --enable-panels flag and they look like this on Windows:

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Silviu-Marian Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 23:09

Silviu-Marian