Command-Line Option to Open Chrome in New Window and Move Focus

The default behavior of running chrome via the command-line:

chrome

opens a new tab in an existing instance of chrome and moves the focus from the terminal to the newly created tab.

Adding the new-window switch:

chrome --new-window

opens chrome in a new window but does not move the focus.

What options should I use to open a new window but also switch focus to that window?

Note: I'm using Windows 7.

4 Answers

try this one

start chrome /new-window

opens google.com in a new instance of chrome.

Try to use this extension which solves this bug: Chrome New Window Focus.

You can try following command for the same.

start chrome google.com

It will open Google in the new window of the chrome and also gets focused on that webpage.

Give a time and it will focus on active window:

start chrome.exe --new-window ""

start chrome.exe --new-window ""

TIMEOUT 1
start chrome.exe ""