I am trying to test around a webcam using fake stream, however, there is a check to see if the camera settings is allowed before it can work.
I am working with testcafe and my code is similar to what is below which doesn't work for the args (unless without the profile).
Using --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream and --use-file-for-fake-video-capture works for stream, however the check for camera settings still fails. I tried using a user profile which works for the camera settings but not the chrome arguments. Does anyone know how I can combine these two to work ?
chrome:userProfile --start-fullscreen --allow-insecure-localhost --use-fake-device-for-media-stream --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream --use-file-for-fake-video-capture="/path/to/video.y4m" ')
Chrome can't apply CLI flags without creating a new browser instance and can't create a new browser instance if you have other Chrome instances that use the same profile.
If you want to use "chrome:userProfile" together with CLI flags, you can close all Chrome processes on your machine. Or you can create a dedicated directory for a temporary Chrome profile and use it in tests by specifying chrome --user-data-dir=$TEMP_PROFILE_DIRECTORY as a browser.
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I'm taking some baby steps with figwheel.
When I fire up the tutorial application, it starts firefox, which then connects back to the figwheel process to get code to run on its JavaScript engine. If firefox is already running, a new tab is opened and the connection proceeds likewise. Figwheel probably just executes the firefox command with appropriate options. Or maybe it is using xdg-open.
The system is a Fedora Linux with KDE. Interestingly a "default browser" is not currently configured (how to configure the default browser is described in these KDE help pages): the application to start is selected based on URL contents. So I am not sure why figwheel selects firefox instead of Google Chrome, also installed.
Now, for testing purposes I sometimes want figwheeel to use a Google Chrome process instead. Is there a way to do that?
There seems to be no option regarding this.
You can use figwheel's :launch-js option to define what action should be taken for example:
:launch-js ["chrome" "--repl" :open-url]
I am trying to select a printer and print on chrome browser, using pywinauto, but I am not able to access the gui components. I can see the components in Microsoft Inspect.exe in UIAutomation mode. (See screenshot).
I have started chrome with --force-renderer-accessibility flag.
I tried several things but I am not able to access anything in the chrome window. Is it possible to access the chrome gui components using pywinauto?
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Probably you use default backend="win32" which is used when you call Application(). To use MS UI Automation you have to set backend="uia" when instantiating Application object:
app = Application(backend='uia').start('chrome.exe <other params>')
My student wrote example script dragging file from explorer.exe to Google Drive in Chrome. Is it working for you?
P.S. If you already use backend='uia', please provide more detailed description with some code and output.
I am using chromium command line switch --launch-and-load-app to start a chromium instance that shows only the app that I am developing. This is working well.
Also, I am using --register-pepper-plugins to specify a shared library containing a PPAPI plugin. This too works well, so long as --launch-and-load-app is not specified.
Unfortunately, when the two are combined, instead of the plugin being loaded, only a box appears saying "right-click to play my-plugin.so". Right-clicking does not bring up an option to load the plugin.
How can I cause the plugin to play when using --launch-and-load-app?
Create a temporary directory to act as chromium's user data directory.
Launch chromium specifying --user-data-dir=<the temp directory>, as well as the appropriate --register-pepper-plugins switch.
Visit a page containing an <embed> that loads your plugin.
Visit chrome://plugins. Find your plugin, and select 'Always allowed to run"
Save a snapshot of the temporary user data directory; it can be used as the data directory to start an instance of chromium in which your plugin will run.
I'd like to be able to send info to the Chrome developer console from my application.
For example, my app has some json. I'd like this json to show up in either an existing, or newly created instance of the chrome dev tools console.
Is this possible? If so, any pointers to examples? Note that the platform should be any language, not just javascript. And definitely not a site already running in Chrome. I'm interested in implementing this in another process.
Do you thought of running your app in an environment which is pretty much like a browser?
Node.js
or (this is a whole webkit browser)
phantom.js
Otherwise you could call Chrome directly via commandline and try to simulate the dev tools key stroke like explained here:
Is there a command line argument in Chrome to start the developer tools on startup?
The command of displaying something in the Chrome console is e.g. console.log and it is at the end Javascript. All Console commands are described here:
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/console-api
The closest I've seen so far is this library:
https://github.com/ccampbell/chromelogger
which seems to allow logging to the Chrome Console from lots of other server side apis, but no desktop APIs.
This can be done on Mac using osascript. Save the following as a script and run it:
#!/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript
var chrome = Application('Google Chrome');
//chrome.activate();
chrome.includeStandardAdditions = true;
var currentTab = chrome.windows[0].activeTab()
currentTab.execute({javascript: 'console.log("Hello")'})
I'm trying to run multiple instances of of Chrome with different proxies. Searching the web I've found that chrome supposedly supports 'chrome.exe --proxy-server="proxy:port" ' from the command line. But I've tried that and it doesn't work.
Is there any way to run multiple instances of Chrome with different proxies?
Thanks!
The answer from gengkev is correct. For all users combing from search engines who need a quick "copy and paste" solution, use this link target (windows):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --proxy-server="http://proxy01.your.proxy:3128" --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy01\User Data"
Chrome will create this new folder "Chrome-proxy01" on its own. With this you can have multiple chrome shortcuts using different proxy servers.
If you're running more than one instance of chrome with different flags, I think you need to specify different paths to --user-data-dir.
As mentioned in the previous answer, the way to do that is to:
Pass a --proxy-server parameter
Pass a different user data directory path for every launch with a different proxy server
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --proxy-server="http://proxy01.your.proxy:3128" --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy01\User Data"
Where %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy01\User Data folder needs to be unique for any new instance that uses a different proxy. So use %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy02\User Data for the second launch, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy03\User Data for the third launch etc.
I would also highly advise to use the --no-first-run flag to get rid of the annoying popup that asks you whether you want to set chrome as your default browser every time you launch it with a new data directory
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --proxy-server="http://proxy01.your.proxy:3128" --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome-proxy01\User Data" --no-first-run
Yes, you can run it. To do so:
Install the extension SwitchyOmega in the profiles that you want to use proxy.
Create a profile with your desired name and enter the details of the proxy that you wish to use.
Save the changes using apply changes button.
Switch to your proxy using the extension button present on the top right corner of the chrome.
In addition I am also attaching extension screenshot:
As of 2014-10-05, the easiest way to run multiple versions or instances of Chrome is to use Google Chrome Portable, downloaded from:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable
Currently I'm running 4 separate instances of Google Chrome v37.0.2062.124. One instance is installed and three other instances of Google Chrome are portable.
Here's how my Windows 7 Taskbar looks like when all 4 instances of Chrome are opened:
http://image.bayimg.com/a024621496637cbdc2ad85324ed5e8e07b9f5453.jpg
If you want to change Google Chrome icon that is shown on the Windows Taskbar once Google Chrome is started, then you should follow this link:
https://superuser.com/questions/613851/is-it-possible-to-customize-taskbar-icons-if-so-how
The answer is given in comments: you need to change icons that are stored in chrome.dll using Resource Tuner (use Trial version) or Resource Hacker (free).
When you run totally separate instances of Chrome, you can make those separate Chrome instances use different proxies through Chrome settings of that particular instance of Chrome.
You can make multiple "people" (settings > manage other people > add person). You can then open a instance for each person(you don't have to login to google for the other "people"). Then you can configure a proxy for that instance.
To get the menu that's shown in the picture just click on your profile icon on the top right.