How to keep using Google Maps in Chrome browser and avoid launching the app? If I point my browser (Chrome browser) to http://maps.google.com it automatically opens the Google Maps app.

Is there a way to avoid this and keep using the site through the browser?

If it matters, I'm on Android Lollipop on Samsung tablet.   

I couldnt find the settings corollary in Chrome described in this post re same concern in Dolphin how to keep using Google Maps in browser and avoid launching the app?. Is it in flags?
The trick mentioned here works for me on Chrome 61.0.3163.98, the latest on Play Store


  open chrome and go to     chrome://flags/#tab-management-experiment-type 
  
  Click the drop down under Switch preferred flavor of Herb
  
  Change it to disabled
  
  Click the blue restart button that appears at the bottom of the screen


Alternatively, you can use Chromer , which is a light weight version of Chrome. It has the advantage of launching browser from apps and quickly reverting to the app without losing place from where you clicked