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Keyboard Maestro Chrome Macro

Easily Launch Chrome Browsers

w has a lot of functionalities that can be enabled from the command line. This is handy when you want to launch Chrome with certain functions.

Using Keyboard Maestro, I can set up a taskbar menu of various configurations. This makes it easy to launch Chrome with a particular setting whenever I want. I don't have to memorize commands and I don't have to launch a terminal editor to run these commands.

I simply select the chrome action that I want and instantly Chrome launches.

Keyboard Maestro Chrome Command

Sample Keyboard Maestro Action

Here is an example of one of the macros.

Google Keyboard Incognito

Bash Command:

#! /bin/bash
/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --incognito

List of Chrome Command line Commands

You can get a list of all the Chrome Command options with some explanation on this site:

List of Chromium Command Line Switches - Peter Beverloo

 

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