How to Make my Chrome Homepage an Extension - google-chrome

Question

Here is an interesting one. We want to use the extension "Kiosk" for our computers to lock down the browser to only allow our website to play but we need it to auto load to that.
We have another security layer that will lock down the computer on boot up, which we can assign a application to run (chrome in this case). All we need to do is make sure that when Chrome is loaded it boots directly into the "Kiosk" Extension.
We have the extension ID, but we cannot get chrome to assign the extension as the home page.
Has anyone done something like this in the past?

Answer 1

You can add "chrome_url_overrides" inside your manifest.json to override
Chromes new tab and some other Chrome pages.
For example:
"chrome_url_overrides": {
"newtab": "new-tab.html"
}
You can also redirect to any other site within your HTML file.
You can read about it more here.
Edit:
Like I said in the comments you can also create a .bat file to run on startup that is going to open your kiosk app.
The code inside your .bat file can look like this:
start chrome.exe --app-id=afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban
You can also add more parameters if you require any more settings when starting chrome.exe.