Google Chrome

Configure Suggested Preferences

To do that, we’ll create a file: /Library/Google/Google Chrome Master Preferences

Use these pages as a reference: * <https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187948> * <https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-other-preferences> (may not be up to date)

For example:

{
  "homepage" : "http://www.maclovin.org",
  "homepage_is_newtabpage" : true,
  "browser" : {
    "show_home_button" : true,
    "check_default_browser" : false
  },
  "bookmark_bar" : {
    "show_on_all_tabs" : true
  },
  "distribution" : {
    "skip_first_run_ui" : true,
    "show_welcome_page" : false,
    "import_search_engine" : true,
    "import_history" : false,
    "create_all_shortcuts" : true,
    "do_not_launch_chrome" : true,
    "make_chrome_default" : false
  },
  "first_run_tabs" : [
    "http://www.maclovin.org",
    "welcome_page",
    "new_tab_page"
  ]
}

If you want to delete every user Preferences and Cache, and launch Chrome as if it was its first run, use the following commands:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Google/
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/
Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --force-first-run

-> Good ressource on Google Chrome’s Command Line options