Google Chrome – How to Open a New Window in Metro Mode on Windows 8

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Whenever I click on Open a New Window in Google Chrome (Metro Mode) it opens a new tab. However when I click on open a Incognito mode I see a rectangular box which allows me to switch between two windows.

Why can't it open a new window instead of opening a new tab?

Best Answer

You cannot open multiple windows in modern UI chrome, and that's the case even for incognito.

You can see that it's obviously still the same application, because there is a switch between the 2 modes:

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Problem

For Linux, if you have multiple VNC servers, this same problem will occur.
That is,

$ google-chrome
Created new window in existing browser session

And no google chrome window will appear in the current X VNC session (a new tab will appear in the X session with the first instance of google-chrome).

Solution

A simple workaround is to run

$ google-chrome "--user-data-dir=${HOME}/.google-chrome/session${DISPLAY}"

This sets a unique user directory based on the X VNC instance in use. The user directory will be created as needed. The new google-chrome process will display within the current X VNC session.

Tested using Google Chrome version 22 on Ubuntu 12.04.

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Right click on the link, and then press the letter "g" on the keyboard. It's almost as fast as just clicking the link

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