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.

Answer 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"

Answer 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.