If you want to keep a computer ready to surf the internet and nothing else, if you want to force those who use it to view only a particular website by hiding each menu, each option button and even the address bar, you can easily configure Chrome with the so-called "Kiosk" mode .
In this way Chrome will be opened on a specific site visible in full screen, without an address bar, without extension keys and without the possibility of opening the options menu, without even being able to open another tab .
Without even the keys to close Chrome, the only way to exit becomes to press the ALT-F4 keys together or to view the desktop by pressing the Windows-D keys.
To activate Kiosk mode on Chrome and hide the address bar and all the buttons or edges of the browser, you must first of all close Chrome and make sure that it is not running in the background.
To do this. you should disable, in the Chrome settings, in the advanced settings section, the option "continue to run applications after closing Chrome" and check that the icon does not appear on the taskbar near the Windows clock Chrome.
Once the Google browser is closed, you must right-click on the Chrome icon on the PC desktop and create a link to add a new Chrome icon to the desktop.
Then right click on this new Chrome icon (which you can rename, for example, in Chrome Kiosk ) and access the Properties .
In the Properties window, check the "Destination" line where the Chrome startup path is written.
From the target field, put the cursor to write immediately after the final quotation marks, make a space and then add --kiosk web_site_address .
For example, therefore, the target line must become:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe" --kiosk //www.navigaweb.net
Click on Apply and close.
Now, every time you open Chrome using the newly configured Chrome Kiosk icon, the browser opens the selected site in full screen, which can be Google, Facebook, Navigaweb or anything else, without address bar, title and other buttons or menu.
To start Chrome in normal mode, you can use the main launcher icon or go to the properties and remove the part of the --kiosk from the target field.
Note : when kiosk mode is activated in the Chrome browser, it is still possible to open one of the most visited sites recently by right-clicking on the Chrome icon located on the desktop taskbar.
Furthermore, the Kiosk mode should not be confused with the full screen mode of the F11 key.
Pressing the F11 key hides the address bar, tabs and menus, but only temporarily, until you press F11 again.
With the Kiosk mode, however, a site opens only without borders in full screen and can be deactivated only by closing Chrome as mentioned above and reopening it in normal mode.
This trick can be useful when you want someone to use the internet, so they only surf on a website.
If you wanted to do more, in another article we also saw how to start the locked PC on the internet browser or another program
In this way Chrome will be opened on a specific site visible in full screen, without an address bar, without extension keys and without the possibility of opening the options menu, without even being able to open another tab .
Without even the keys to close Chrome, the only way to exit becomes to press the ALT-F4 keys together or to view the desktop by pressing the Windows-D keys.
To activate Kiosk mode on Chrome and hide the address bar and all the buttons or edges of the browser, you must first of all close Chrome and make sure that it is not running in the background.
To do this. you should disable, in the Chrome settings, in the advanced settings section, the option "continue to run applications after closing Chrome" and check that the icon does not appear on the taskbar near the Windows clock Chrome.
Once the Google browser is closed, you must right-click on the Chrome icon on the PC desktop and create a link to add a new Chrome icon to the desktop.
Then right click on this new Chrome icon (which you can rename, for example, in Chrome Kiosk ) and access the Properties .
In the Properties window, check the "Destination" line where the Chrome startup path is written.
From the target field, put the cursor to write immediately after the final quotation marks, make a space and then add --kiosk web_site_address .
For example, therefore, the target line must become:
"C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe" --kiosk //www.navigaweb.net
Click on Apply and close.
Now, every time you open Chrome using the newly configured Chrome Kiosk icon, the browser opens the selected site in full screen, which can be Google, Facebook, Navigaweb or anything else, without address bar, title and other buttons or menu.
To start Chrome in normal mode, you can use the main launcher icon or go to the properties and remove the part of the --kiosk from the target field.
Note : when kiosk mode is activated in the Chrome browser, it is still possible to open one of the most visited sites recently by right-clicking on the Chrome icon located on the desktop taskbar.
Furthermore, the Kiosk mode should not be confused with the full screen mode of the F11 key.
Pressing the F11 key hides the address bar, tabs and menus, but only temporarily, until you press F11 again.
With the Kiosk mode, however, a site opens only without borders in full screen and can be deactivated only by closing Chrome as mentioned above and reopening it in normal mode.
This trick can be useful when you want someone to use the internet, so they only surf on a website.
If you wanted to do more, in another article we also saw how to start the locked PC on the internet browser or another program
