Why does Chrome not start correctly when using C# Process.Start?

Posted by nbolton on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by nbolton
Published on 2010-04-13T23:08:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 23:13 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 323

Filed under:

chrome

|

c#

|

process

I'm able to start Chrome successfully using this C# code:

Process.Start("chrome", "http://www.google.co.uk");

However, it does two things wrong:

It does not navigate to the URL specified in arguments
It does not re-use the existing Chrome window (it opens a new one)

I've tried using ProcessStartInfo and setting UseShellExecute and LoadUserProfile just in case these did something, but this makes no difference.

Any ideas?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about chrome

How To Run Chrome OS in VirtualBox and Try Out Chrome OS Before Buying a Chromebook

as seen on How to geek - Search for 'How to geek'
With Google’s new Chromebooks out at just $249, many people who once wrote them off as too expensive for their limited functionality are giving them a second look. But will you really find Chrome OS useful? You can easily run Chrome OS in a VirtualBox virtual machine, although you’ll need to tweak… >>> More
uninstall google chrome in fedora

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Yesterday I installed Fedora 15 Beta with GNOME 3 - it works well. One problem though is that I installed Chrome 32-bit (which was wrong, should have been the 64-bit version) and now I can't uninstall it. I can't find it in Add/Remove Software, and I also can't install the correct version of Chrome… >>> More
Chrome does not re-draw properly on Windows 8

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
There are a lot of problems with Chrome (24.0.1312.14 beta || But all this happened before update also) on Windows 8. Problems and explanations are listed below: Google Chrome re-draw time: When I switch tabs, the window retains the content of the previous tab and displays that even if I move my… >>> More
Chrome Apps Office Hours: Chrome Storage APIs

as seen on Google Code - Search for 'Google Code'
Chrome Apps Office Hours: Chrome Storage APIs Ask and vote for questions: goo.gl You spoke, we listened. Join Paul Kinlan, Paul Lewis, Pete LePage, and Renato Dias to learn about the new storage APIs that are available to Chrome Packaged Apps in the next installment of Chrome Apps Office Hours. We'll… >>> More
Google dévoile Chrome Webstore et Chrome OS, "l'heure du cloud computing est arrivée" déclare Eric Schmidt

as seen on Developper.com - Search for 'Developper.com'
Google dévoile Chrome Webstore et Chrome OS, "l'heure du cloud computing est arrivée", déclare Eric Schmidt Il y a quelques minutes à peine que vient de s'achever un évènement majeur : Google a tenu une grande conférence, retransmise en direct, concernant Chrome OS et ce qui l'entoure… >>> More

Related posts about c#

.NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate not quite what it sounds like

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
I’ve run into the problem a few times now: How to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server challenge first? At first glance this sound like it should be easy:… >>> More
HttpWebRequest and Ignoring SSL Certificate Errors

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
Man I can't believe this. I'm still mucking around with OFX servers and it drives me absolutely crazy how some these servers are just so unbelievably misconfigured. I've recently hit three different 3 major brokerages which fail HTTP validation with bad or corrupt certificates at least according to… >>> More
The dynamic Type in C# Simplifies COM Member Access from Visual FoxPro

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
I’ve written quite a bit about Visual FoxPro interoperating with .NET in the past both for ASP.NET interacting with Visual FoxPro COM objects as well as Visual FoxPro calling into .NET code via COM Interop. COM Interop with Visual FoxPro has a number of problems but one of them at least got a lot… >>> More
Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
The dynamic type in C# 4.0 is a welcome addition to the language. One thing I’ve been doing a lot with it is to remove explicit Reflection code that’s often necessary when you ‘dynamically’ need to walk and object hierarchy. In the past I’ve had a number of ReflectionUtils that used string based expressions… >>> More
Finding a Relative Path in .NET

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
Here’s a nice and simple path utility that I’ve needed in a number of applications: I need to find a relative path based on a base path. So if I’m working in a folder called c:\temp\templates\ and I want to find a relative path for c:\temp\templates\subdir\test.txt I want to receive back subdir\test… >>> More