How to reload Google Chrome tab from terminal?

Question

Is there a way to reload a Google Chrome tab in Ubuntu using just the terminal. I don't want to just open a new window, but to actually refresh a tab!

Extra question: Is this possible in other browsers as well such as Opera, Safari, Firefox.

Answer 1

If some of these aren't working out for you, I was looking for a similar thing for vivaldi, and managed to do it combining some things here and others in another post

xdotool windowactivate $(xdotool search --class vivaldi | tail -1) key ctrl+r windowactivate $(xdotool getactivewindow)

you can add other key - keyvalue combinations after the first one

Answer 2

chrome-remote-reload requires remote debugging enabled, but works both on Linux and Windows.

1. Download executable: https://github.com/Benoth/chrome-remote-reload/releases or build it from sources.
2. Run Chrome(/Chromium/Iron... or possibly even Opera or Edge, but the last one uses --devtools-server-port instead) with --remote-debugging-port=9222 parameter to enable remote debugging (just remember to close all instances of browser beforehand).
3. Run downloaded executable.