you can do everything using the Command Prompt even navigate the Google Chrome web browser. You can also open Chrome in Incognito or private mode or direct jump straight to a web site.
If you don’t know how to open Chrome form Command line then continue to read.
Open Chrome Using Command Prompt or Command Line
Here are these steps to follow to open command line and then open Chrome using Command line or Command Prompt:
- First, navigate the Command Prompt or Command-line by entering the Command or CMD in the search bar of Window 10
- Then click on Command Prompt from the search results
- Now in Command Prompt, enter the following command: start chrome
- Chrome will now open on your computer or laptop
Open Chrome Using Run
You can also open the Chrome from the Run widow in the following below
- First, open the Run by typing the run in the search bar of window 10
- Select the Run application
- Now type chrome and the click on the OK button
- The Chrome web browser will now open on your computer or laptop screen
Open Chrome as Administrator
Let’s show you how to open the Chrome browser as an admin. You will need to type the runas command to get the aforementioned.
- First, open the Command Prompt as your open before
- Run the following command in the Command Line
runas /user:administrator “C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationChrome.exe”
- It will be asked from you to enter the Admin password for your PC or Laptop
- Type the password for Admin and hit Enter key
- You will now be using Chrome as an administrator
How to open Chrome as a different user
You can start chrome with the credentials of another user and use ruas command
C:Usersuser1>runas /user:user2 "C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationChrome.exe"
Open Chrome in Incognito Mode
Let’s here to show you how to open Chrome in Incognito Mode in the following steps
- First, open Command Prompt to navigate Chrome in incognito mode then run the following command
- Type the start chrome /incognito in Command prompt then press the Enter Key
- Chrome browser will now open in incognito mode
How to Open Chrome Incognito Mode Using Run program
- Open Run program from the search bar
- Enter the following command
- Type the chrome /incognito in the Run program
- Chrome browser will navigate in incognito mode
Jump Straight to a Specific Website
If you want to save yourself a step and navigate a particular website in the Chrome browser from the Command Prompt. You will need to follow these steps:
- Open Command Line or Prompt first
- You will type the below command in command prompt
- Start chrome www..com then press Enter key
Go Straight to a Website
So if you wanted to go straight to DowPie you would run the below command
start chrome www.dowpie.com
Go to Specific Website in Incognito Mode
If you want to visit a particular website in private mode or incognito mode by appending the /incognito command: for example
start chrome /incognito www.dowpie.com
Go to Specific Website using Run program
If you want to use the Run program to go a specific website then use the below command in Run:
chrome www.dowpie.com
Frequently Ask Question-FAQ
Let’s teach you some of the frequently asked questions by multiple people and might you interested to read it:
Google chrome command line opens URL
You can run this URL or command to Open Google Chrome using command line or command prompt:
start chrome --new-window --incognito https://dowpie.com/sign-out-gmail-account-all-devices-2-steps/
start chrome –new-window –incognito https://dowpie.com/netflix-party-setup-use-all-devices/
How to open Google chrome from terminal?
Enter terminal into the search bar without quotation marks, then press the Terminal search result. Type chrome without quotation marks to open the Chrome browser from the terminal. Chrome is installed in your binary path, so no special directory is needed. Click Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal.
What command should I type to run Chrome from the terminal?
You can simply enter google-chrome works nice for you. It might not if you Installed Chromium. Chromium-browser is for Chromium
- For Chrome:google-chrome
- For Chromium: chromium-browser
If you want to know the path where google-chrome is located run this command:
whereis google-chrome
Open chrome command line
You can command line or prompt to open Chrome browser in the following steps:
- Click on the Window Logo or Search bar
- Type cmd or command then click on Command prompt in the search result
- Change the active directory to Chrome’s installation path: cd “Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplication”
- Now open the browser in the incognito mode: chrome –incognito
How do I open Chrome from command line Linux?
Here are the following steps to open Chrome from the command line in Linux:
- Click the Ubuntu Dash icon
- Enter terminal in the search bar without any quotation marks
- Now press terminal in the search result
- Type the chrome without quotation marks to run Chrome browse from the terminal
- The Chrome browser is installed in your binary pat
- So there is no special directory is required
- Containing a website address as an argument if you want to navigate specific web page
- Type the following example to open the Google home page in Chrome browser: chrome www.google.com