Open "chrome://bookmarks/" by Windows command

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It's fine to open a http url with Chrome by a Windows command like this:

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

But when I try to open an url of protocol "chrome://" by command like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe" "chrome://bookmarks/#120"

, where the url is of a Bookmark Manager page, the result is opening the home page with a new Chrome window.

Is it possible to open a Bookmark Manager page with Chrome by a Windows command?

Actually, what I'm trying to do is to create a shortcut file on Windows Desktop for opening the Bookmark Manager page of a bookmark folder. The way I tried was to copy a Chrome shortcut to the Desktop, right click on it, select "Properties", and put the Windows command to the "Target" column. It works fine for any http url, but fails as I mentioned above for any "chrome://" url.

Thank you experts a lot for any help!

李東翰

Posted 2016-09-30T10:08:40.503

Reputation: 11

Answers

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Steps to get shorcut on desktop:

  • Open the bookmarks manager in a new window
  • tap f12 key to bring up inspector
  • switch to the network tab and do a refresh
  • on the first request look at the headers tab and copy the request url (uses chrome-extension:// schema)
  • if you run $PATH_TO_CHROME\chrome.exe $URL_FROM_PREVIOUS_STEP it whould work as intended
  • paste the command above in a new shortcut (right click on desktop > new > shortcut)
  • right click the created file and click properties. in the shortcut tab you can also assign a different icon

that's about it...

Andrei C

Posted 2016-09-30T10:08:40.503

Reputation: 121

This only works for the bookmarks page (that was what the question was about so it's OK), but is there a way to do the same thing for for example the History page or the Settings page? – Donald Duck – 2016-09-30T13:34:52.683

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this for Settings or History, apparently the Bookmarks page behaves like some kind of a built-in extension, while the request url for the settings page is simplychrome://chrome/settings/. Since the response has a X-Frame-Options header with a value of DENY, it can't be rendered in a frame or anything. We might need a chrome guru for a better answer :) – Andrei C – 2016-10-03T06:51:50.470

I think you would need to disable web security. To do this you need to use a special switch and give it a temporary directory, so that it will create a temporary profile, for example: --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=c:\tmp – Rolf – 2018-10-22T09:40:29.040

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