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Reputation: 35

Powershell Chrome close empty tab

Due to the fact that I have to boot up a lot of applications and a Chrome browser and I can't just autostart them because it all depends on which network I'm connected to, I'm writing a short PowerShell script. It's basically a bunch of invoke-items and then this thing

$urls = "my.intranet.com", "www.google.com", "www.microsoft.com"
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Foreach ($url in $urls)
{
    start $url
}

These aren't the actual URLs, but you get the picture.

Now, whenever I do this, I get one extra tab in Chrome. It's the default empty tab of Chrome. While not hugely annoying, it's pretty ugly.

How do I tell my Powershell to close an empty tab labelled "New Tab" in Chrome?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3319

Answers (1)

Robert Westerlund
Robert Westerlund

Reputation: 4838

Instead of closing the empty tab, just start the browser with only the tabs you want.

To do this, pass the URLs as arguments to chrome.exe:

$urls = "my.intranet.com", "www.google.com", "www.microsoft.com"
Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -ArgumentList $urls

Edit: Adding opening in new window, as asked for in the comments

If you want Chrome to a new window for the tabs, just specify the --new-window switch as well as the URLs, like so:

$arguments = "--new-window", "my.intranet.com", "www.google.com", "www.microsoft.com"
Start-Process "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -ArgumentList $arguments

Upvotes: 2

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