How to add launch parameter to Google Chrome on Mac?

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weilou picture weilou · Feb 16, 2011 · Viewed 50.6k times · Source

I wanna run Chrome on Mac with the parameter --enable-speech-input.

Can anyone tell me the steps to do this and the steps to undo this? (If one day I wanna run Chrome without the launch parameter)

Answer

chrisparker2000 picture chrisparker2000 · Feb 16, 2011

Run Terminal.app then use the following command:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args --enable-speech-input

This will launch it once using your parameter. From there you could make an alias to make it easier to launch from the terminal or write an AppleScript to make it double clickable.

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