in this piece of HTML code
PARTECIPA
the opening of the website in the Microsoft Edge browser is indicated if installed on the device.
Can anyone help me? I would like the site to open in Google Chrome and not in Edge.
How should I edit this HTML?
To open the link using the Chrome browser instead of Microsoft Edge, you can change the value of href attribute like this: PARTECIPA. Assuming that Chrome browser is installed, that should open the Chrome browser.
Problem:
If Edge is not installed on the device (mob, desk or tab) it doesn't
work
In this case, it's best to simply use a standard URL without specifying a specific browser, like this. PARTECIPA. In addition, the "googlechrome:" protocol is not a standardized protocol and probably may not work in all devices. So, you can use a standardized URL like the code snippet I posted above and let the users device choose.
Do you know if instead of chrome I can specify "default browser"
Example PARTECIPA or
something similar?
There is no standard protocol for specifying the default browser. So, best approach is to simply use a standard URL without specifying a specific browser. But if you really want to use special web protocols inside hypertext links to force web pages or files to open with particular browsers on Windows or iOS, place browser-name before the hypertext reference link.
Check this:
Open in Google Chrome
Open in Microsoft Edge
Open in Mozilla Firefox
Open in Apple Safari
Open in Opera
This function does not work!
A similar example is for IOS, which works in the following way
Example :
PARTECIPA
Google has official documentation on the Chrome iOS app’s URI scheme on its developer website.
Simply replace http with googlechrome and https with googlechromes. This means:
http://www.google.com/ becomes googlechrome://www.google.com/
https://apple.stackexchange.com/ becomes googlechromes://apple.stackexchange.com/
Previously, it supported an x-callback-url of googlechrome-x-callback://. This allowed the calling app to indicate its name and URI scheme to Chrome, which would show a back button in the address bar that closes the tab and invokes the specified URI. This feature was removed a few years ago when iOS 9 added the “Back to …” button in the status bar (but the URI scheme still works).
Related
I followed the approach mentioned in how to emulate a mobile (android) browser on desktop
to project the mobile webpage's properties on desktop chrome browser. I was successfully able to do that but now I have some queries as mentioned below, please let me know your inputs on that
a) How to use the "Select element option" of chrome developer toolbar to view an element's property for a mobile webpage. In normal desktop chrome browser we have the web page displayed and below that the developer toolbar is displayed and we can easily spot the element using a pointer but with mobile webpage displayed on desktop chrome browser i am not able to use this option as the webpage is not displayed.
b) I tried to copy the xpath and other things from the displayed HTML (HTML of mobile webpage on desktop chrome browser) but it gave me an error that "You need to install a Chrome extension that grants clipboard access to Developer tools". I installed one such extension named: "Auto Copy" but then also I was not able to copy. Please let me know how to go about it.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Namit
For (B) – Judging from the discussion when that message was introduced, it sounds like you need to roll your own simple custom extension to enable clipboard access. Here's a sample manifest.json – I haven't tested it out myself, but it looks pretty straightforward. The extension development Getting Started guide explains how to turn a file like this into a working extension and install it locally.
I've a very simple HTML 5 app which tries to determine the users's current location.
Per the spec, supported browsers are supposed to show a prompt like this: "{XYZ} Would like to know your current location".
What does it work?
This is working fine if I open a broser window and directly open that page.
What it doesn't work?
However, when I get directed to that page via the link I don't see the prompt and an empty page. I have to refresh the page to see the browser prompt. I used FireFox 11 and Chrome on my iPhone 4.
Thanks,
You don't have any control over this as it's implemented by the browers.
As a side note, the Geolocation API is not part of HTML5, it's a W3C specification.
When I click on an image link right now, Chrome downloads the image instead of opening it.
Even if I right-click and select Open link in new tab Chrome still downloads the image, and I have to go through the extra steps of opening the file for viewing manually.
This feels like a mime-type issue to me, but why would Chrome not recognize "image/png" as a valid mime-type for viewing? All PNG images display just fine in an HTML page.
NOTE: This only happens for PNG images.
The web server is probably serving the image using the image/x-png MIME type. Chrome does not recognise this as an image (as of August 2012 February 2013), hence offers the file as a download.
image/x-png is a legacy MIME type from the days before it got its official name, image/png, in 1996. However, when Internet Explorer uploads an image it does so using image/x-png "for backward compatibility". I believe this was the case up to IE8, and was "fixed" in IE9. If the web server does not correctly handle this (the web server should detect this non-standard MIME type and treat it as image/png), then it may serve up the client-provided MIME type to other users, including to Google Chrome. Additionally, some web sites will serve up all PNGs as image/x-png.
If you're the web developer you should detect incoming image/x-png and treat it as image-png (never serve up image/x-png).
If you're the user report it as a bug and see #kriegaex's answer for a workaround.
#Tom Clift is right, and here is my workaround for it: use Chrome extension Redirector and add a rule replacing the Content-Type header. That's it. :-)
You can use the Chrome extension Undisposition to achieve this.
When you right click on the image you need to select then 'Open image in new Tab' from the drop down and NOT 'Open link in new tab' this will then open the image in a new tab.
we have a website with links to a sharepoint. These features in sharepoint only work in IE so i dont want to open up firefox or chrome if that is the default browser. Is there anyway to have a
My Link
force open up in internet explorer ?
You can use javascript to inject the link in your HTML code if the client is IE, and maybe show a warning message if the browser isn't IE. Anyway you can't tell any browser to open a link using another browser.
No, definitely not.
For Firefox users, the best thing that comes to mind is to have them install the IE tab. It allows the opening of pages inside Firefox but using the IE engine - but also requires user action.
If this is run in a windows environment, you could use a PHP script to open Internet Explorer through PHPs support for COM objects.
If you are interested I can provide the script to do this.
I am looking for a way to launch a file located on our local file network for use via our local intranet using Firefox or Chrome.
The link works well in IE:
View Report
but in Firefox it shows:
View Report
is there a way to get the link to render properly?...Just a simple click from a href tag.
For Chrome, a new extension was just posted today! It's called LocalLinks and it replicates the functionality of the locallink add-on for Firefox! You'll find it on the Google Extensions page, or you can get to it directly here:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida
Enjoy!
This is not enabled in firefox for security reasons (remember that most computers have files and applications of a sensitive nature located in similar locations, like C:\System\Windows)
you can try adding this to the user.js file for any user that needs to be able to access these links:
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "file:///[[PUT SERVER NAME HERE]]";);
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Just remember that this is a security risk.
Firefox seems to want file://///Start/Of/My/Network/file.xlsx
Chrome and IE handles that too.
file://Start/Of/My/Network/file.xlsx appears to work in Chrome as well, sometimes firefox hics up on it..
There is the LocalLink add-on for firefox. It uses a context menu though...
Use IE tab (available for Chrome and Firefox) and set that to handle all links of the form file:/// by adding an autourls entry like this:
r/file:///.*
Technically this isn't opening the file in the original browser, but it gives you all the windows explorer integration you'd expect from whatever IE version you've got installed when dealing with local file links. I would advise against doing this except in cases when the browser isn't being used to access the web - e.g. for viewing internal wiki or intranet pages, due to the obvious security risk.