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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Sep 2017
Cc:
msw@chromium.org
sky@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Provide command line key to launch Chrome minimized

Reported by vsemozhe...@gmail.com, Sep 22 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3221.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Use case. I regularly ran a puppeteer script with links validity check (HTTP-wise and #hash-wise) in a document set (~50 source documents, ~11500 links to ~600 documents, duration ~10–15 min). I need non-headless Chrome to check links to PDF. 

What is the expected behavior?
It would be handy to have the window minimized from the beginning, not to obstruct the console and not to hinder in other work.

What went wrong?
Chrome seems to not have the appropriate command line key.

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 63.0.3221.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: 

puppeteer issue: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/852

Comment 1 by jmukthavaram@chromium.org, Sep 25 2017

Labels: TE-NeedsTraige-help Needs-Triage-M63
Seems it is out of scope from TE end as it is related to puppeteer script, adding TE-NeedsTraige-help label to move this out of our triaging bucket.

Could someone from cc'ed dev team please take a look into this issue.
Thanks..!

Comment 2 by thestig@chromium.org, Sep 25 2017

Cc: msw@chromium.org sky@chromium.org
There exists a --start-maximized switch, so this is probably feasible, but I have no idea what the history of that switch is and if we want to add more. Since it is used in chrome/browser/ui/window_sizer/window_sizer.cc, adding folks from chrome/browser/ui/OWNERS to triage.

Comment 3 by msw@chromium.org, Sep 25 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This doesn't seem like an adequate cause to add a commandline flag, sorry.
Flags are meant for testing/development, not user-facing features.

I'd hope that there's a better tool suited for this use case.
At worst, you could build chromium from source with this feature.

Thanks for pointing out start-maximized... I'll file a bug to remove that.

Comment 4 by thestig@chromium.org, Sep 25 2017 

One can probably write an extension to manipulate the window state via chrome.windows.update. See https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/windows
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