I have been having a very odd problem in all Salesforce orgs, but only when using Chrome.
If I go to Setup, and click on a "classic" setup link, like "users", instead of opening it in the iframe within lightning, it attempts to open it in a new browser tab. The page renders, but none of the links or javascript do anything.
I have seen advice that says to avoid a plugin called "Ghostery" but I am not using that, and have turned off other browser extensions but nothing works. This is not happening for anyone else I know using chrome and salesforce, which leads me to believe it is some Chrome configuration setting, but I don't know what to look for.
I have a very simple question I could not find answer for myself: I want links in OneNote to open in Chrome.
Note that the default browser is IE and I cannot change it (not admin etc).
Tried: "chrome_path url" - didn't work. Everything I could think about didn't work.
Please provide explicit solution so that link from within OneNote opens in Chrome rather than in IE.
To note, there are multiple links, so batch file won't do in this case.
Thank you in advance!
I had a little go with testing some ideas that I had though I'm very new to OneNote. It's easy enough to open Chrome from a hyperlink:
Select text to link
Add link
Select the file icon and navigate to chrome.exe. In my instance - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
I believe you cannot pass arguments to the exe as it is considered a security issue. This certainly used to be the case and I'm not sure if they have modified their thinking since. The only way I can think of is to create a batch file which includes your ideal website and link to the batch file:
"start chrome http://www.youtube.com"
I found two ways to do it, though neither is the perfect:
There is a 3rd party OneNote add-on which adds more browsers in the right-click menu. Though it is not free and maybe can't be installed on restricted computers.
It works only on OneNote docs which are saved onto Onedrive. Open the OneNote page which has the links right in the Chrome, not in the desktop app. Then any links you click will open in the same browser. You can get the address of the OneNote page by clicking on 'Copy Link to Page' in OneNote app, then paste it to a notepad. Copy the first url to Chrome's address bar.
For those who has admin right, this problem can be solved by following Make Chrome your default browser. It is set at machine level, not onenote level.
In Chrome for desktop I have options in the dev tools to disable cache completely when dev tools are opened and I have the options to manually do a hard reload when long clicking on the reload button (with dev tools open).
Is there any such technique for Chrome for Android? I didn't find any setting.
What can I do when I want to force the browser to download some javascript or css file instead of using a cached one when developing?
I'm using window.location.reload(true) according to MDN (and this similar question) it forces page to reload from server.
You can execute this code in the browser by typing javascript:location.reload(true) in the address bar.
Viewing the page in incognito mode will disable the cache. It was the only way I could force a refresh on a stylesheet without manually clearing the cache through the settings.
Also an option:
Menu
Settings
Privacy
Clear Browsing Data
Check "Cache" and press "CLEAR"
and then reload the page.
You can use the Request Desktop Site option from the app menu (to the right of the address bar) which will force the page to reload.
Simply tap it, wait for the refresh, then deselect it.
Mentioning this because you mentioned "when developing".
You can control the mobile device via your Chrome Desktop Browser.
Visit chrome://inspect/#devices on your desktop. And Inspect the device that's connected to your desktop. Agree when asked for permission.
You should now see a full fledged Devtool window for the current page on mobile device.
Now, Use the hard reload shortcut (Cmd+Shift+R) on desktop to do hard reload on mobile device!
How to reset all data for a given URL / Website on Chrome Mobile for android:
1 - Open the Chrome menu, and tap on the "i (info)" icon
2 - tap "Site settings"
3 - Tap the trashcan icon
That's it, even the most deeply ensconsed service worker for that URL will now die.
Don't forget to make sure that the "Reduce data usage" setting is turned OFF, as it seems to download cached data (from Google servers?) even though your local cache is flushed.
I know this is an old question, but I found that the accepted answer didn't work for me.
An alternate solution would be to append the url with a new url parameter
such as website.com?a=1, website.com?a=2, etc.
If you have parameters already, of course, you would use an ampersand
i.e. website.com?q=test&a=1
As of 2018, from google help center (tested on Chrome 63) :
tap on the three dots menu ;
choose History > Clear browsing data ;
if needed, choose the time period (above the checklist) ;
uncheck all items but Cached images and files ;
proceed with Clear data and confirm.
As mentioned in another answer, incognito tabs are also of great use for development.
I found a solution that works, but it's ugly.
Connect the Android device to your PC with a USB cable and open Chrome on your desktop.
Right-click anywhere on a page and select "Inspect".
Click the three-dot menu and select "Remote devices" under the "More tools" menu:
In the panel that opens, select your device and then the "Inspect" button next to the name of the tab on your phone that needs to be refreshed:
In the window that opens, click the "Network" tab and check the "Disable cache" checkbox:
Reload the page on your phone or using the reload button in the DevTools window.
Note: if your phone doesn't appear in the device list:
make sure the USB connection is using File Transfer mode and isn't simply charging
try restarting ADB or run adb devices to see if the device is being detected
The only reliable way I've found that doesn't require plugging the phone in to a PC is as follows:
1. Force stop the Chrome app.
This must be done first, and you cannot re-open Chrome until you finish these steps. There are several ways to force stop. Most home launchers will let you get to "App info" by holding down your finger on the chrome icon and selecting an "i" icon. Alternately, you may be able to go to Android settings and simply search for "Chrome".
Once in "App info", select "Force stop" as shown below:
2. Clear Chrome's cache
Select "Storage" from the same screen:
Finally, select "Clear cache".
When you return to the Chrome app, the page should reload itself and serve a non-cached version.
Additionally, I found a site that makes it easy to test if you've cleared your cache: https://refreshyourcache.com/en/cache-test/
I am in no way affiliated with it. Note that the method to clear the cache mentioned on that site is in fact outdated and no longer valid.
Keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+Shift+R work on Android too, you just need a keyboard capable of sending these keys. I used Hacker's Keyboard
to send Ctrl+Shift+R, which did a hard reload on my phone.
Recent versions of Chrome cache very aggressively. Even cache-busting techniques such as "http://url?updated=datecode" stopped working. You must clear the cache or launch an incognito window every time (and make sure data-saver is off).
Remote Debugging allows you to use the desktop dev-tools:
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging
If its just the matter of included files, just add version after the path (?v=12345678)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?v=12345678" />
Whoever loads the page again will see changes.
Most of the answers were not working for me.
Here is a super simple working on my Galaxy S8 in august 2020:
Add "view-source:" just before your http:.... address, navigate trough there to the changed file if different than the html or index.
You will see the unchanged file. Refresh.
Done.
EDIT: This method has been deprecated in Google Chrome and will no longer work.
ORIGINAL ANSWER:
I was able to clear the cache (including subsequent xhr) using chrome://net-internals
Then click the little arrow in the top right
Select "clear cache" from that menu.
Here is another simple solution that may work when others fail:
Today, a fairly simple developer-side solution worked for me when the caching problem was a cached CSS file. In short: Create a temporary html file copy and browse to it to update the CSS cache.
This trick can refresh the CSS file, at least in Android's blue-globe-iconed default browser (but quite likely its twin, the official Chrome browser, too, and whatever other browsers we encounter on "smart"phones with their trend of aggressive caching).
Details:
At first I tried some of the fairly simple solutions shared here, but without success (for example clearing the recent history of the specific site, but not months and months of it). My latest CSS would however not be applied apon refresh. And that even though I had already employed the version-number-trick in the CSS file-call in the head section of the html which had helped me avoid these pesky aggressive cachings in the past. (example: link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css?v=001" where you upgrade this pseudo-version number every time you make a change to a CSS file, e.g. 001, 002, 003, 004... (should be done in every html file of the site))
This time (August 2019) the CSS file version number update no longer sufficed, nor did some of the simpler measures mentioned here work for me, or I couldn't even find access to some of them (on a borrowed android phone).
In the end I tried something relatively simple that finally solved the problem:
I made a copy of the site's index.html file giving it a different name (indexcopy.html), uploaded it, browsed to it on the Android device, then browsed back to the original page, refreshed it (with the refresh button left of the address bar), and voilà: This time the refresh of index.html finally worked.
Explanation: The latest CSS file version was now finally applied on Android when refreshing the html page in question because the cached copy of the CSS file had now been updated when the CSS file was called from a differently named temporary html page that did not exist anywhere in the browser history and that I could delete again afterwards. The aggressive caching apparently ignored the CSS URL and went instead by the HTML URL, even though it was the CSS file that needed to be updated in the cache.
Adding a parameter to url fool browser to load a new page. I wrote a fuction for that purpose:
function forceReload(){
function setUrlParams(url, key, value) {
url = url.split('?');
usp = new URLSearchParams(url[1]);
usp.set(key, value);
url[1] = usp.toString();
return url.join('?');
}
window.location.href =setUrlParams(window.location.href,'_t',Date.now());
}
And you just need to call it:
forceReload();
I've struggled with this for a CSS file that wouldn't refresh. But you can type the name of the CSS file itself into the address bar and refresh that. After that it's fine. Chrome on Android 8. Obviously that would be tiresome if you had more than a couple of files involved.
If that's an option, you can visit the (i.e. JavaScript) resource directly, reload a bunch of times, and that also triggers a hard reload for that resource. Then you can reload the actual page again.
Launch the Chrome Android app
Tap on the menu for more options.
Select Settings from the list of options.
Scroll down and tap on the Site Settings tab.
Within the Site Settings open the Data Stored tab.
Tap on the Site URL that you want to delete storage.
Hit on the Clear & reset command button.
refresh the website page.
there are few methods to force reload chrome on mobile device:
clear history (look above)
use remote debugging (look above)
request desktop site
disable "Lite mode"
open URL for .JS or .CSS then do normal reload.
In chrome,simply tick "Desktop site" and then remove tick!!
I can modify the Document mode that IE renders the page in, by passing in a X-UA-Compatible in the response header. I can achieve this by modifying a setting in IIS.
Similarly is there a way to modify the Browser mode to Compatibility view by modifying any setting in the IIS?
Shown below is what I currently see in the F12 tool in ie.
To configure IIS 7 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer to include a custom HTTP response header:
Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet
Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the connections pane, expand the node for the server, and then
expand .
Click the Web site where you want to add the custom header.
In the Web site pane, double-click in the section IIS on HTTP Response Headers.
Under Actions, click Add.
In the Name box, type X-UA-Compatible.
In the Value box, type IE=EmulateIE9.
Click OK.
Hope this helps!
I was also looking into this issue and found my answer here:
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/01/19/internet-explorer-8-document-and-browser-modes/
From that site:
There doesn’t appear to be any other way that and end user can trigger Internet Explorer 7 mode. As such, it appears that this is just a convenience tool for developers that frees us from needing to and so it appears to be a tool used primary for developers
The same thought can be applied to IE10 I guess. It's rather frustrating, but I hope it helps.
Let's say I have a specific URL link and my default browser is Safari. Is there anyway for that URL to be opened using Chrome instead of the default browser by passing some parameter in the URL or any other way? Note that I do NOT want to change the default browser to Chrome.
The general way to solve this problem is to ask, "How can I launch Chrome with a specific URL?" Trying this on my machine, the command line
chrome http://stackoverflow.com
does it. So, you just need to:
Locate chrome.exe on the user's machine
Launch Chrome with a command line parameter of the URL you want to load
UPDATE: Upon rereading your question, I see that the user is browsing in Safari and wants to click on a link in Safari and open Chrome. No, there isn't any way to do this just by changing the HTML. My above answer would apply to a desktop program that wants to launch Chrome with a specific URL.
you can not pass an url to be launched with a specific browser.
For that you would need access to the machine and start the specific browser yourself with the url as a parameter.
If you are just building a website you can not control this, but you could embedded some javascript telling the user that this site will only work if they are using chrome...
I'm a bit late to this one but Choosy probably does exactly what you're looking for (Mac-only I believe): http://www.choosyosx.com.
Found this gem and it does essentially this task by creating a Site Specific Browser.
It is a little different but it accomplishes the same goal!
http://lifehacker.com/5611711/create-application-shortcuts-in-google-chrome-for-mac-with-a-shell-script