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Hello,

  • I want somehow to force the Firefox OR Chrome browser to open the browser windows hidden ( the windows to have the SW_HIDE style from the start when they are created ).

For example : If I want to open a new browser window besides my current one, the browser to create a new window, but I to not even notice something has happened on the screen, because that new browser window was created hidden !

I operate on Windows 7 and I program in AutoIT since Im beginner but I don't want any full source codes, I just want some advice on how to accomplish this.

For who doesn't know : SW_HIDE is a 'style' or 'property' that can be applied to any control/window/GUI to make it disappear from the screen, but to still exist and can be seen only in taskmanager.

What I have tried : I could make a program to search in a loop for any new windows that are created by the browser process, and when finds one, to quickly apply the SW_HIDE style to it, to disappear. But the problem is that this method is not fast enough, since I can still observe that new window for a sec and I loose the window and keyboard focus too. So the only solution would be to 'hack' the browser to make it open any new windows with the 'SW_HIDE' style, instead of 'SW_ACTIVE' style.

Thankyou so much for any help!, and please if I was misleading post any question, I will respond very fast.Thankyou!

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Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

I have not tried it with a browser app, but win32 api CreateProcess() allows you to start a process with SW_HIDE attribute.

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Well, the CreateProcess will only open the browser without showing the window, but its not what I want, what I want its not to open the browser hidden but if I want to open another browser window, to automatically hide it.

Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

I don't know of any way to do that.

Member Avatar for Rickname

If I remember good,someone said to hoo the ShowWindow API something like that, this will work ?

Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

I have no idea what you just asked. There's no such thing as "ShowWindow api".

Member Avatar for Suzie999

Have you accomplished this task in 'AutoIT'? If you have show the code.

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@Ancient Dragon, but what is this : Click Here

@Suzie999, ofcourse I haven't accomplished anything, thats why Im asking for help, but I dont want the source code I want the steps of doing this >.< Thankyou

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