# How to hide the address bar in Chrome

> Learn how to hide the Chrome address bar for cleaner screenshots and screencasts by launching Chrome from the terminal in application mode with --app=URL flag.

Author: [Flavio Copes](https://flaviocopes.com/about/) | Published: 2018-11-16 | Topics: [Web Platform](https://flaviocopes.com/tags/platform/) | Canonical: https://flaviocopes.com/hide-address-bar-chrome/

There is no easy way from within an open instance of Chrome. You need to go to the terminal and open a new Chrome instance in *application mode*, passing the URL.

## OSX

```bash
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=URL
```

## Windows

```bash
Chrome.exe --app=URL
```

(prepend Chrome.exe with the Chrome folder, which varies by Windows version - [see here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40674914/google-chrome-path-in-windows-10/40674915))

## Linux

```bash
google-chrome --app=URL
```