Chrome “Create application shortcuts” Shortcut

Question

Is there an extension for Chrome which will launch the current website in a new browser window with no toolbar and associate it with the website's custom icon, very similar to what happens when you click the "Create application shortcuts" option from the Tools menu?

Reason for asking this is there are a few websites I use which require authentication on a separate site first, which then launch the web application in a new window. When making the authentication site an application, the desired site appears in a regular Chrome browser thus defeating the point.

One way this could be done is through launching chrome.exe with the current URL and the other parameters required to launch such applications. However I'm not sure if this is possible via a Chrome extension?

Answer 1

There couldn’t be an extension like that because extensions are supposed to be secured as much as possible, and what you want would require unfettered access to your system (especially the file system). Extensions only have limited access to write to local files, and even then, only in the designated places, not wherever they want.

What you want would have to be built into Chrome. You could attempt to request such a feature, however certainly don’t expect the part about the lack of a toolbar to be implemented.

Failing that, you could try simply creating a shortcut, setting the target to the URL of the destination site (not the auth site), and download the site’s icon and set that.