Google-chrome – Open URL in Chrome’s current tab from command line

I think you have Chrome's "Focus existing tab on open" experimental feature enabled:

If that's the case, open chrome://flags/, find "Focus existing tab on open" feature and disable it. Relaunch browser for the effect to take place.

The last stable release of Chrome 44 would be 44.0.2403.157 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as stated in this blog post: googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/08/stable-channel-update_20.html. As Chrome is no longer availabe from any official sources, the alternative is to look for the last Chromium 44 release in the continuous builds archive.

The direct links are:

• Mac-330231-chrome-mac.zip

• Win-330231-chrome-win32.zip

To enable the NPAPI plugins, follow these Steps:

1. Open a new tab and enter chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
2. Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows: click "Enable"
3. At the bottom of the page click "Relunch Now"
4. Test with www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
5. right-click to run the plugin, and allow after prompting

Chromium will not auto-update, thus this will keep on working albeit without any security updates, so use at your own risk (better in a VM). - More versions can be found by following the step-by-step instructions for Downloading old builds of Chromium: www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium

Chrome 44 is much harder to locate than Chromium. One way is to search for googlechrome.dmg on the HD or in old backups and verify the version from the Info.plist, if you're using OS X.

File Hippo lists previous versions with the correct MD5 hashes, but always links to the latest official one. This information still helps, as the MD5 can be used to find out, if an unofficial source has the original file. Here is one such file with Chrome 44.0.2403.130 on SourceForge: sourceforge.net/projects/gnuhub/files/googlechrome.dmg/download - The MD5 is listed here filehippo.com/download_google_chrome_for_mac/tech/62573 2E0A856BF525D196323890D72A80E902 If you trust the source of the MD5 hash, then the file should be trustworthy, but Google does not publish the hashes of their releases. The same steps can be followed to locate a windows version of Chrome 44 by searching for chrome_installer.exe.