I know that this question was asked multiple times before, but every answer I found was 1. Not existing anymore or 2. Not a real answer.
I just want to create a custom chrome 'version'. This version should have a custom icon, should run as 2. Chrome (like another app) and should have a custom name + design + a preinstalled extension. How can I do this? I have seen it before.
I do not want to clone 200gb of chromium!!!
Is there a solution offered from Google, or can I build a custom installer somehow?
Pls help. Kind regards.
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I have been doing a research for quite a sometime but unable to find a good solution - therefore thought of asking on StackOverflow.
I have automated the testing using Selenium Webdriver for different browser but lately I had seen there were some issues which came for Chrome's older version - now, the question I had was if there is any way through which I could run the script for different versions of browsers e.g. test should run on Chrome 48 - Chrome 59 (covering majors versions only).
The two solution I got from my research was -
1.
Overriding the chrome binary location like the below link:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16562068/6738995
I then started my research on how to download the binaries for Chrome and I found the official repo also - http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html
2. Use Selenium Webdriver on cloud solution provider like BrowserStack or SauceLabs etc who provides multi-version-browser support
Now, I want to exhaust all the options related to the 1st approach i.e. if there is no proper/easy way to implement the solution then I would have go for the 2nd approach.
The reason I am reluctant to go for 2nd approach is that I might loose control(I am speculating that there might be some restrictions on using that platform, I might be wrong and could only find out the try after tring that) and also there will be learning curve associated with this and I would also have to spend time & resources in order to stabilize with the chosen technology.
Thanks in advance.
If resource isn't a concern/constraint for you, then you can use a Virtual Machine, like VMWare and simulate separate test environments with different web browsers. However, if you are looking for the best solution, then you have to use Cloud solutions like SauceLabs or BrowserStack.
I am developing my first extension for Chrome and as I am working on Ubuntu, I've encountered two awful bugs.
The first thing is that chrome.i18n.getUILanguage is not supported! (console gives me an error about unsupported method). The thing is that this problem is not listed on any WIKI page, which may become tricky for beginners. Anyone had similar issue? For now, I am using window.navigator.language.
The second bug is about rich notifications that are not supported (anyone knows when it will be released?). As far as I know, when the app will be about to send a notification, the scripts will stop due to the error (similar to the first bug). I am not sure if there is possibility to develop different packages for different platforms, but if I want my extension to be truly multi-platform, I will have to give up development of this feature.
Any suggestions or thoughts?
Thanks,
As i said earlier in a comment, it seems to be not supported with linux mint either where i'm developing the chrome extension.
In this link a member of the chrome team said that they submitted it... but this is not true.
Thanks for the window.navigator.language alternative.
I'm creating a speech extension for my webpage in order to make it accessible for blind people. This works good so far, now I wanted to have the two voice engines I picked installed automatically. And this has proven to be really difficult:
I've been through tons of info on how to approach this. The easiest way would be to just open the voice (ttsEngine)'s web page in the Chrome store - but then the blind people would have to go through all this hassle as well.
Most other approaches require computer permissions I do not have, e.g. messing with the user's file system or registry.
My question: Is there really no easy way to require, include or preinstall another extension for your extension, so it installs in the background (silently)?
Thanks for hearing me out and providing some help!
Kind regards,
Roman
Do you have permission to modify / extend / redistribute the other extensions? they could probably be merged into a single extension with your code, if for example they are open source.
I have also posted this issue in google groups's Chromium-extensions, there the result was that such a thing is not (yet?) possible with extensions only.
It is true that if they were open source I could maybe include them into my project, yet these are not.
For now it seems I have to either do it with "management" like suggested in the link or create an installable that messes with the Chrome extensions.
i need to package my plugin into an installer so that it can install on all available browsers on the computer.
After browsing many topics, i found a couple of script to single install Chrome or FF script with NSIS that helped a lot, but i really need a full NSIS script that will be able to install the extension for all browsers in a single install.
I'm sure this has been built many times over and if anybody could share a script example i could tweak to my needs, it would be greatly appreciated as i could only find bits and pieces and would like to see how the big picture fits together.
My requirements are quite simple :
got the files in XPi, CRX.. extension file format
I need a windows installer (NSIS) to install the extension for each available scripts
if it could feed from a server, that would be a plus, but not mendatory
I use Kango framework, so using another solution is not an option for now
Thanks a lot for your help !
UPDATE : I'm still trying to figure it out and can't find much support, keep in mind i cannot use CROSSRider. Please help thanks a lot
No need to reinvent the wheel there. I think you're looking for something like crossrider.com, it's a cross-browser extension platform. Take a look specifically at the "Windows Installer" option on your app settings there - You can choose to bundle your extension with your installation.
Having tried to use the example for php/mysql at http://jstree.com/demos I have realized that I needed extra functionality and as well noticed that this works only with PHP 5 due to some errors that Firebug was prompting for the output. I then started to look for more documentation on jstree and found in here someone suggesting to review the example on the following page:
http://luban.danse.us/jazzclub/javascripts/jquery/jsTree/reference/_examples/7_full.html
I did find it very close to what I need for a personal project, however the example is fixed for one DB interaction from what I was able to see in the core dependencies (full/script.js). I'm trying to port this example to PHP 5, but at the moment just would like to know if there is a possibility to extend this to use new plugins such as 'checkbox' even-though this is an earlier version.
I've posted this question in the forums to see if there is any possibility to recreate a PHP/mySQL example using the 'contextmenu' and as well the options at the top of the panel, but since this apparently is not supported by what I was able to understand from the documentation, I thought perhaps someone have tried something similar to this?
Thanks in advance,
JP-