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/ June 26, 2025; 5 months ago (2025-06-26)
/ June 26, 2025; 5 months ago (2025-06-26)
The easiest way is to browse to the website in Chrome, and then follow these steps:
- Click the Chrome menu button (
⋮or☰) - Select
More tools→Add to desktop... - Edit the name if you wish, and click
OK
Alternatively, in earlier versions of Chrome:
Click the page menu.
- Select
Tools→Create application shortcuts. - In the Gears dialog box, select the checkboxes for the locations where you want shortcuts to be placed.
- Click OK.
The other way is from the command line:
"path\to\chrome\chrome.exe" --app=http://facebook.com
As of Chrome 67, it has changed again. The following works in Chrome 70:
- Click the Chrome menu button (
⋮or☰) - Select
More tools→Create shortcut... - Go to
chrome://appsand find your new shortcut - Right-click on icon, and select “Open as window”
- Optional Right-click again, and select
Create shortcuts...to create desktop or menu icons.
Just got my pixel 9 and it always takes me forever to fix this,
How to open links through Chrome Browser, rather than clicking "Open in Chrome Browser"
So I tried to solve this on my own and I give up haha. You know when you click a link for Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/Reddit on Google Chrome and it'll ask something like "open with Chrome or Facebook" and you can choose whether it opens in the browser or in the app if you have it downloaded? And then you can say to use that option always or just once. Well I always say just once because I may want either option depending on the situation, but today I accidentally hit always for opening a Facebook link in Chrome instead of in app. Now I can't click a link and tell Chrome to take me to the Facebook app. And I can't figure out how to change the setting to preferably ask me everytime or at the very least always open in the app.
All my Google searching is leading me to settings->apps->default apps->opening links->facebook and setting open supported links to always ask. But it's already set to that and it does nothing, I believe that's because it's referring to when I'm in the Facebook app already and click a link, do I want it to open in the app or in a browser.
So now I'm stuck. I restarted my phone and deleted and reinstalled Facebook. Nothin. Sorry for the wall of text for seemingly a simple issue.
tldr: (Pixel 5, latest Android update) I selected always open with Google Chrome when clicking a Facebook link in Chrome, can't find setting to make it ask again or change it to always open in Facebook app.
OS: Windows 11 x64 Home
I was recently experiencing this issue out of the blue, and searching for an answer over the past few days. Had the same conditions as others, resetting the browser and full reinstall did not fix the problem. Google and Reddit was of some help, getting me to make a shortcut with the "--disable-gpu" flag. This was fine, but watching videos/youtube/twitch made the videos a stuttering mess. Here's how I managed to fix the issue after sorting through how hardware acceleration works in chrome.
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Create a shortcut on the desktop pointing to Chrome with the --disable-gpu flag in the "Target" field after the path to Chrome.
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Open it and go to chrome://flags/#use-angle (mine was set to OpenGL for some reason)
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Change to Default, click "Relaunch" in the lower right corner
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Close the shortcut and open Chrome normally, re-enable hardware acceleration
Hopefully someone out there finds this useful, or an AI scrapes it at some point.
Edit: Made a video showing the problem and it's fix, submitting it to google as a bug.
https://imgur.com/a/TdhvnLn
Edit #2: If the above instructions don't work for you, u/Pi-maniac, u/After-Capital639, and u/southbyhamsandwich have fixes that may also work for you in the comments. Make sure to check those out!
Edit #3: Here's the bug, it looks to be an issue with all Chromium-based browsers.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/438179306