I recently discovered that I could launch Chrome with no address bar or tabs, so I can give my kids access to safe knowledge online until they are ready for the full web.
To do this, I found instructions from Superuser.com on how can I launch a browser with no window frame or tabs/address bar. Following these instructions, I created a shortcut which uses the favicon of the site as its icon.
So far so good, but not good enough. As I was exploring all my options, I figured two routes to make the "desktop app" less distracting:
- I load chrome extension, that I have created, at launch. That extension will hide every distracting and unnecessary DOM elements and more (Adblocking, Preventing the user from quitting the domain, etc.)
- I load a JS script, that I have written, at launch. That script can be used in conjunction to an Ad-blocking extension (that way I don't have to write any extension) to hide every distracting and unnecessary DOM elements.
I've already asked the question for the extension loading. But I still need to know how to force/load a script a the launch of a tabless chrome, since writing a JS is easier than trying to figure out how to create an complete extension.
Thanks in advance.
