How to create a html file with a link that automatically opens chrome://tracing with a particular json file?

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I have a json file that contains profiling data that can be opened with chrome's trace-viewer. I can do it manually by opening chrome://tracing, then selecting 'load' and then loading the json file.

Here in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nok0aYiGiYA&t=25m13s they seem to have a html link which automatically opens such a trace in that trace viewer.

How can I do that?

Arjad Gohar · Accepted Answer · 2025-07-13 00:17:51Z

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You have good insights. But, you cannot directly link to chrome://tracing , due to Chrome's security restrictions. chrome:// URLs are not accessible via normal HTML <a> links

Reference:
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41431413

answered Jul 13 at 0:17

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