Thursday, 27 April 2017

Open a chrome:// URL from HTML anchor

When running my application in debug mode I would like to display an HTML anchor link that opens the chrome://inspect page (I can safely assume users are using Chrome).

I can construct a link like the following:

<a href="chrome://inspect">Open Chrome Dev Inspector</a>

When hovering over the link, it shows the expected URL in the Chrome status bar, but clicking it does nothing. If I right click and "open in a new window" it just opens a blank page (about:blank).

Is it possible to programmatically open chrome:// URLs?



via duncanhall

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