I'm hosting the xml and crx on a server of mine, but it seems like updates (pressing the "Update" button on chrome://extensions) only work on the computer I built and transferred the files from. I have my URLs and files configured properly, I think, because autoupdate works perfect my own machine. Can you shed any light on how to make it the same for others?
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Is there a way to have the chrome browser automatically refresh whenever the file it's accessing changes? I want to run my files locally (not with a server). I'm using atom. I've so far found "browser-refresh-on-save" as an atom package but it does not work on Windows 32, which is what I'm using. All other solutions I've found require me to be running a server.
I am trying to implement an internal website on my company's shared hard drive.
Everything is going well except that I would like Chrome to open index.html file by default on root folder, exactly how it would do it on a remote web server. Any ideas, folks ?
What we do have as for now :
You have to run a webserver. By default, chrome will not serve any file, you have to open them on chrome properly.
So, since you're using WordPress, I suggest you to run xampp, or anything similar. To run on internal local network you have to configure windows to allow incoming connections from your machine IP address
I was working on a html5 file which uses geolocation. It was working fine in Chrome version 38.0.2125.111m from both loading the file locally and from a host server. Now, Chrome does not work for geolocation from either resource. I understand the security issue when running the file locally, but it still happens from any website that is running geolocation. I get the error message of "geocode service failed". BUT runs fine from both resources using Firefox. I have a windows 7 x64 laptop. The code that I am using is right off of Google geolocation example...
I've also went to the chrome's privacy-security-location settings and checked to use allow all sites to check location and still the problem continues... Help!
I think I found a clue. I copied the geolocaton file to another website and ran fine using the same chrome version which makes me believe that it is the google api keys that was causing the problem. I deleted the keys for both local and web host and will see in a few days if indeed this was the case. If it is, then I suggest not to establish api keys during development until app is ready for production.
When I right-click on the local html page and select "Inspect with FireBug Lite" nothing happens... on regular online sites it works except for "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps"
anyone had the same experience? I have the latest version of the extension (but it's from 2011 :/)
UPDATE: on some local sites it does show! on two web apps (PHP, Rails) it did work, but on a few static HTML files I tried it didn't....
Apparently this is normal...:
It doesn't work on local pages
If by "local pages" you mean files accessed via "file:///" protocol then yes, Firebug Lite doesn't work with "file:///" protocol. This is a JavaScript security restriction to prevent malicious web pages from accessing files in your your machine. Also, please note that the while you can load a "local page" in the browser (it will render properly) it will NOT behave exactly the same as when hosted in a web server.
Solution:
You can solve this problem by loading your page in a web server installed in your machine, so you can access that local files through "http://" addresses. This is the best solution: it is safer, and you'll get the most of what Firebug Lite can give you. I recommend using Apache HTTP Server, but you can use anyone (like IIS for example).
Which exact URL are you visiting? It is an internal Chrome's page
(like "chrome://downloads/"), or some page related to Google Chrome
extensions "https://chrome.google.com/extensions/")?
Google Chrome won't allow content scripts (required by Firebug Lite)
running on such pages. The problem is that Chrome does not inform the
user and neither the extension about it. In other words, there is no way
to Firebug Lite know if the content script was loaded or not, and we
worked around this by sniffing the URL and detecting when you visit
URLs that begins with "chrome://" or "https://chrome.google.com/extensions/",
alerting users in such cases.
You've few options to fix the solution.
One is to use Mozilla Firefox.
Second, install a web server on your system. Try WAMP or XAMPP. Once installed, store all the web pages in the root folder of the web server you just created. Save all the web pages and html files in C:\xampp\htdocs. Navigate to the locally stored webpages using your web browser by going to “127.0.0.1/index.html” or “localhost/index.html”.
Now you can use Firebug-Lite for Google Chrome on local files.
I'm writing a Google Chrome app that stores things locally with the HTML5 FileSystem API. Is there any way to use Windows Explorer to get to the directory where Chrome stores these files or is it entirely virtual and inaccessible from outside the app? I haven't been able to find the directory by poking around nor have I seen any reference online to it.
I suppose I could just write something within the app to allow me GUI management of the files my app stores or just use the developer console, but it would really be a time saver to use WE.
Nevermind, I just found it. For anyone looking, it's in (on my windows 7 machine at least)
C:\Users\ user \AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System
Also note that this was in Chrome 11, in Chrome 13 there were some changes to the FileSystem (probably for security) that make it very difficult to find specific files by scrolling through the files in Chrome's AppData space.