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How can I hide the address bar in Google Chrome? I found this article but I am unable to find a solution for macOS. Ideally, I would like all toolbars to disappear similar to how they do in QuickTime. see images:

With tool bar showing Hidden tool bar

Is there such a solution available?

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  • Btw, the article that you found is out of date. Apparently Google did not like the way that experimental feature was turning out and disabled it. :( I have yet to find a way to do it either.
    – Jordan T. Cox
    Jun 7, 2012 at 18:23
  • Did either of you find a way to solve this yet? I'm still using an ancient version of Chrome (~12.x), which is starting to break with all this new-fangled HTML5 stuff around.
    – Vidur
    Aug 23, 2012 at 11:06
  • @bassplayer7 will do, I have been neglecting the OSX stackexchange a bit.
    – rudolph9
    Nov 14, 2012 at 17:34
  • Good. It benefits you and the answerer - the answerer not just with rep but also tags, I believe.
    – bassplayer7
    Nov 15, 2012 at 20:57
  • Out of curiosity: why do you want such a solution?
    – Saaru Lindestøkke
    Nov 18, 2012 at 21:43

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I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're asking, but I think you mean in full screen mode judging by the tags.

Simply uncheck View > Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen (⇧⌘F):

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    This does not answer my question, I looking for how to fill the entire content of a chrome window with html content without the necessity to be in full screen mode.
    – rudolph9
    May 9, 2012 at 1:49
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    @rudolph9 To be fair, there was a full screen tag.
    – Tuesday
    May 9, 2012 at 14:08
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    So you can see how there might be a vague possibility I'd think you were talking about being in full screen mode.
    – Tuesday
    May 9, 2012 at 14:10
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    So maybe some way to emulate fullscreen mode without actually going into fullscreen?
    – asmeurer
    Nov 16, 2012 at 7:22
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    +1. While it did not answer OP's question, it did answer what I was looking for!
    – Lstor
    Jun 27, 2013 at 17:04
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As in other answers to this question, the best option I could find is by running chrome from a shell and passing in the --app (which runs google chrome in application mode or something of the sort) option as follows:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app="http://www.google.com"
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go to chrome://flags and then search for Immersive Fullscreen Toolbar and set the value to Enabled, and that's it.

Or follow the following link to go directly to that setting.

chrome://flags/#enable-immersive-fullscreen-toolbar
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    Sadly, this option doesn't seem to exist in Chrome 96.0.4664.110.
    – clozach
    Dec 25, 2021 at 19:43
  • I have been searching for the answer for a long time, but this is the one that actually works. I wonder why google does not add this into the menu options.
    – Bob
    Jan 22 at 15:22
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To get full screen w/o address bar in Chrome on OSX use Cmd-Shift-F

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  • This does not answer the question. Please read more carefully.
    – rudolph9
    Aug 25, 2014 at 13:01
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    Well, I found this answer useful when Googling this precise issue! Seems harsh to downvote it.
    – dan8394
    Jul 27, 2015 at 16:01
  • Lol just look through the menu items
    – Jay
    Jun 3, 2016 at 21:56
  • Cmd-Shift-F is the key shortcut for the answer with the most votes: apple.stackexchange.com/a/50797/65787
    – Stan Kurdziel
    Jan 5, 2021 at 23:52
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You cannot disable 100% the address bar in any browser anymore.

To do that, you need to recompile the sources of Chromium, Firefox etc. with the necessary changes.

This rule of mandatory address bar has been accepted because of scams and other critical issues caused by people that create fake evil things.

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If you want a windowed Chrome app with no menus the steps are as follows:

navigate to 

chrome://flags

Enable the following two options:

  1. "The new bookmark app system"

  2. "Allow hosted apps to be opened in windows"

Restart Chrome to enable the options. Then navigate to the page you want to turn into an "app".

In the tools menu (three dots) click More Tools > Add to Applications

Finally, navigate to 

chrome://apps

and right click on the icon for the newly added Application. Enable the "Open as window" option.

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I tried suggestion

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go to chrome://flags and then search for Immersive Fullscreen Toolbar and set the value to Enabled, and that's it.

Or follow the following link to go directly to that setting.

chrome://flags/#enable-immersive-fullscreen-toolbar

but that flag doesnt exist my chrome says..

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  • That must be answer with upvotes 0, not suggestion number 0. Please see tour for quick intro to the site. Also, if you have this question and none of the answers here work, ask a new question.
    – anki
    Sep 27, 2019 at 9:08

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