How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?

If you remove the --args it seems to work fine, since --args can only affect things on first launch (it changes what main gets called with)

Actually for me, the command is not working with the "--args" being present so the command working for me is

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" 'http://google.com/'

OS X version: 10.6.8

If you set Google Chrome as your default browser

open http://google.com/

will just do the trick.

OS X version: 10.8.4

You can use

open -a "Google Chrome" index.html

or, to put it in a shell script (e.g. ~/bin/chrome)

• edit the file ~/bin/chrome, and put the following in it

  open -a "Google Chrome" "$*"

• make the file executable by running the following in a terminal

  chmod 700 ~/bin/chrome

• then run the following to open a file in chrome from the terminal

  chrome /path/to/some/file

Pulled from here

I've an alias for google

function google() { open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ "http://www.google.com/search?q= $1"; }