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How to open a link in chrome browser, even though the default computer browser is 'Safari'?

rated 0 times [ 58] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 19984 / 10 Years ago, thu, november 13, 2014, 12:00:00

I've built a chrome packaged app, and I'm trying to make one of the buttons in it open the chrome browser in a specific link.

For this, I used window.open(http://myLink.com), which works, but unfortunately it opens the default browser rather than chrome. Is there a way around this?

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answered 10 Years ago rayvenc · Accepted Answer

This only happens from inside the app window.

If you call window.open from the background page, it will open in Chrome.

So, send it to your background page:

// app window

function openInChrome(url) {

  chrome.runtime.sendMessage({action: openURL, url: url});

}



// background

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(message, sender, sendResponse) {

  if(message.action == openURL) window.open(message.url);

});