Problem
A chrome extension I wrote is grayed out, and I can't figure out why.
Context
I wrote and submitted a Chrome Extension called Pull Favors to the Chrome webstore.
It uses the CSS order property to sort and group GitHub Pull-Requests in a logical way.
The other day I noticed that several of my extensions were grayed out, and 'blocked'--meaning they no longer work. One of these was Pull Favors.
According to this support article:
If you see a message saying "Extensions Disabled," it's because Chrome has turned off one or more of your extensions to keep your data safe while you're browsing the Internet. The extensions that Chrome turned off either didn't come from the Chrome Web Store or were installed without your permission."
My extension is published in the Chrome webstore and was certainly installed with my permission.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail.
I suspect there's something wrong with my extension (since a few other extensions seem to still work), but I can't figure out what it is or find anything about it on the internet.
What's going on?
Research
Chrome seems to have implemented a new policy in November 2013, which has caused some uproar in the community, which prevents Windows users from installing extensions from outside the web store.
I'm not sure why this is affecting me, as I'm an OS X user and, as I said, my extension is distributed through the webstore.
Add browser_action.default_icon in your manifest.json file
{
...
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icons/icon-32.png"
},
...
}
Before
After
In one of the last couple updates, they did something weird with the extensions that now makes all enabled extensions show up in either the toolbar or in the menu. In your case, the extension icon is grayed out because you don't even use a browser action or a page action, so it is just showing the icon. So it isn't disabled, just doesn't have an active state so is grayed out.
A quick search doesn't seem to turn up a blog post about it, but if you right click on the icon you can hide it in the menu.
Related
Following the instructions in the Chrome blog Prerender pages in Chrome for instant page navigations, I am trying to enable pre-rendering on a website. I have added this snippet just before </body>.
<script type="speculationrules">
{
"prerender": [
{
"source": "list",
"urls": ["/Test/1","/Test/2","/Test/3"]
}
]
}
</script>
However, on the latest version of Chrome 108, none of these valid URLs are prefetched or prerendered when opening the page. I can confirm this in the Network tab of Dev Tools, and by following links to the pages which take the usual load time.
In the console, HTMLScriptElement.supports('speculationrules') returns true.
Am I missing something?
I can confirm this in the Network tab of Dev Tools
As the new prerender happens in a separate process (effectively like a background tab) any network calls are not shown in the current page’s DevTools. The Chrome team are working on adding DevTools support.
So here’s a few things to check:
Chrome doesn’t prerender when it’s already using a lot of memory. Try restarting Chrome with just that tab to rule this out.
Make sure you have “Preload pages” ticked in Settings->Privacy & Security->Cookies and other site data
Chrome Canary has a handy experimental setting which shows the reason pre-renders fail worth checking that out. Hopefully that will make it to stable soon.
It’s worth confirming if this is a specific issue to your site, or a general prerendering issue. Checkout the demo linked from that article and let us know if that works
Switching tabs currently cancels any prerenders. So make sure you launch straight from your page.
URL param differences can prevent prerendering being activated as it’s effectively not the same page.
There have been a few bug fixes since 108, so it maybe you’re hitting one of those? Check Dev, Beta, or Canary versions.
There is a “holdback” group of people we randomly select to disable this feature so we can continue to monitor it as it is rolled out, and compare to those not using it. It could be you’re in this group. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to tell this (the Chrome team is working on adding this). Try guest mode to see if that works which is usually the best sign you’re in this group.
Might be able to advise more after you try above steps and let me know.
I am attempting to use google docs with firefox, but am constantly getting this message.
It never goes away.
And if I close the tab all of my work is deleted.
This is a brand new Firefox install.
Is this an attempt to force us back to using chrome with google docs?
I have been a chrome user for many years but was recently forced to switch to firefox because chrome has an intolerable bug on macOS catalina.
I need to use google docs but I can't use chrome because of this chrome bug and now I can't use firefox because of this bug with google docs.
Is there a work-around for the problem?
Chrome allows me to work with local copies of google docs without losing work if I lose my network connection, but I cannot find a similar plugin for firefox.
I tried to reproduce the issue on Firefox, however it seems to work fine at my end without any sort of error or warning popup in saving.
But, Google is known to play nasty with competitors to promote Chrome and it can't be ruled out that it might be a cause too. You can try multiple options, and check which one works.
Possible Solutions:
If you want to trick google into thinking you are browsing on Chrome, change this setting in Firefox as mentioned here!
Try using the Firefox Developer Edition: [Official Link])(https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ "Firefox Developer Edition")
If the above options don't work, try switching to Microsoft Edge for a Chrome alternative if the bug is particularly associated with Google Chrome, though they both are based on Chromium, it's worth a try.
Searching through the Google forums, I came across an issue with GDrive not loading in Firefox. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/1987396?hl=en&msgid=22679169
The last comment on the page the user mentions disabling CORS
Find a solution ! When the add-in CORS (Access-control-Allow-Origin)
is enabled impossible to load the google drive page but no problem
when it is deactivated.
Have you tried disabling the CORS? http://testingfreak.com/how-to-fix-cross-origin-request-security-cors-error-in-firefox-chrome-and-ie/
This will happen if you try to copy/paste info from a place that is restricted. Make sure editing is turned on for all users. If it’s not “shared” correctly it will glitch.
Sinсe Google Chrome was updated to 50.x version, it become impossible to work with DevTools. This issue reproduced mostly in "Network" tab. Every time when you click on "request" it takes about 30-40 sec. after that chrome can crash. Tried to delete all extensions, clear cache, and reinstall, but didn't help. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
I'm running Chrome 50.0.2661.87 m
UPD: The problem may be occurs because of long headers. Try to close response and request headers.
I've been having similar issues for debugging in Chrome versions 50+ on Mac OS X 10.11.3. The only solution I've found so far is to keep the dev tools docked to the right and it seems to be as performant as before. Not the optimal solution, but it works in my case.
Finally, a solution has been found which helped me after such a long time and after so many failed attempts to fix it: Solution on Google Chrome Forums
Go to chrome://flags/#force-color-profile
Change it to sRGB
Since Google does not allow direct links to chrome:// you'll have to insert the colon by yourself, or enter the whole link manually into your toolbar.
My situation was similar, after struggling a while with extreme slow developer tools response I found out the problem was caused by a Chrome extension I had installed for knockoutJs.
So for people experiencing these issues, as part of the initial troubleshooting, try disabling chrome extensions.
I'm using the Version 61.0.3163.79 and I have the same issue that this post talks about.
With some searches I found out that the problem was in the user that I was using. What I tried was to enter int google chrome as guest and the devtools became faster again.
So what I did was:
Check out if debugging using the guest user is faster as it should be.
Logout from the account.
Clean all cache associated to google chrome.
Restart the PC (but i think closing the browser is enough)
Login again in your account.
I hope this could help other people with same problem.
[EDIT:]
I found out that after some time (weeks) the google chrome dev tools will get slower again. So I tried the following solution and it worked:
Open the dev tools
Go to the Sources tab.
Cleaned all watched variables, breakpoints, DOM breakpoint and Event Listeners breakpoint.
[SECOND EDIT:]
After some weeks, the issue came again. What I did was installing the google canary Version 64.0.3249.2 canary (64-bit) and my problems vanished.
For who's that doesn't know what is canary, please check this link.
Google is aware of the problem - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=624097
The problem seems to have vanished in v.53 - they are currently trying to figure out what fixed it. If possible, the fix will be merged back to v.52. But at least they are working on it.
In case others arrive here facing the same issue I had, try changing the Dev tools tab you're looking at to Elements.
I had the "Sources" tab open and Chrome was trying to load enormous assets for that tab, which created a multisecond delay between the console.log() events I created and the display of those logged messages.
Make devtools snappy again by deactivating all breakpoints:
Go to the Sources tab, show the debugger (may be hidden) and hit Deactivate breakpoints.
(Chrome v62.0 on Windows 10)
I've had the same time issue on 54.0.2840.99 m version of Google Chrome.
But switching to Chrome Canary worked !
Reduce size of resource being overridden
Only overriding files with less lines of code worked well for me. I landed here because I was overriding a file which had 35,000 + lines of Javascript.
Further, if your resource is a new one - i.e. it is not included in a script tag or link tag, you can override main html document and add the tag : <script src="/my-new-script.js"></script>. Add the file to your domain-root within the Overrides folder on Chrome:
overriding HTML
then overriding CUSTOM SCRIPT:
Good Luck...
I also face same issue.
I tried unchecked toggle screencast. Now it is working fine.
In my case, I had Local Overrides setup (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#overrides) in Downloads folder which had a lot of files in it and that slowed down devtools.
Setting up overrides in its own seprate directory fixed the slowness.
I sped up Chrome again by doing the following:
Open DevTools -> select Elements tab ->
select nested Computed tab -> under Filter, make sure that Show all is unselected.
select nested Event Listeners tab -> make sure that Ancestors and Framework listeners are unselected.
For me, running Chrome Version 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18, the problem seems to be the mobile view. When I disable mobile view inspecting becomes really fast again. I think it is caused by touch emulation and other mobile stuff.
To have something similar to a mobile view I move the DevTools dock to the side and resize it until I get the width I need. It is not perfect, but it is useful most of the time.
Besides Chrome, Firefox is much faster when inspecting sites overall, though I didn't use FF because I'm used to specific things on Chrome. Moreover, most of the sites I work with do not trigger these issues on Chrome, in fact, it happens with only one site.
PD: the site that triggers the issue on Chrome Dev Tools has lots of CSS variables. Not sure if that is related.
UPDATE 1 WEEK ago
I was able to use Chrome without issues even in the mobile view by disabling the option "Show media queries"
Go to the network tool and change it without any restrictions. Sometimes this happens if you change mobile settings. Google chrome changes this setting to test mobile device on low internet connection and leaves it that way.
This is the weirdest bug.
For some reason, the ctrl-click context menu has stopped appearing only on Chrome - localhost. I can view localhost in Safari and get a context menu and I can even view the exact same site I am developing on it's url in Chrome and get a context menu. Any other site I view in Chrome will also generate a context menu.
The context menu stopped appearing recently, it had been working fine up until this point.
I haven't been able to find any information on why this is happening.
I found this help in chrome
I hope it helps you
Re-enable the possibility to use the context menu on sites that overrides it.
This extension re-enables the context menu.
Indeed, many sites prohibit the right-click on images, pretending to protect their content. I think it is illegitimate.
(This extension is AD supported. If you don't wish to support me you may disable it in the settings.)
Unfortunately, Google Chrome does not have advanced options for what javascript is allowed to do (on the contrary of Konqueror, Opera or firefox). If you think it should, please star (don't add a "me too" comment)
In the meantime, this extension provides a workaround, by resetting the oncontextmenu to its default behaviour on many elements of the page. Oh, as a bonus, it works for Flickr and Youtube html5 videos too!
If a site is not supported, please report it in the bug tracker, not in the comments.
If a site is broken by the extension, please report it in the bug tracker, not in the comments.
However, a nice comment is always welcome :-)
I think chrome introduced this in 57 or 58 .. A perhaps simpler workaround is to add an entry to your system's hosts file and access your server using that.
i.e.:
127.0.0.1 server.local
then, instead of http://localhost/ , use http://server.local/ (and/or https, and/or port number, etc. as the case may be)
Bam! Chrome gives you your context menu back!
So i have been running into this problem with a lot of Wordpress sites lately, usually occurring when i am logged in as Admin, so i couldn't post here because no one would be able to view the problem. However, i just found a site that it happens on that doesn't require admin creds.
http://www.otisports.com/
When i visit this site in Chrome (Version 34.0.1847.137 m), it just displays a blank page. No errors, just the (what now seems standard) event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead. warning. I have seen that warning signify problems on the site, but they are usually minor, not to the extent that the above URL displays. However, if i open an Incognito window and visit the site everything works perfectly and there is no warning. Does the Incognito window deal with webpages in a way that is so entirely different that it would cause something like this to happen?
I have been racking my brain trying to figure this out. Can anyone reproduce this? is it a bug in chrome?
EDIT: I just tried to open a bounty on this question and the EXACT same thing happened. In Regular Chrome, nothing happened when i clicked the start a bounty link and i saw various errors Undefined is not a function however in incognito everything worked perfectly. what gives?!
EDIT: Yes, i have cleared the cache, history, cookies, everything, and i still get the same errors. I cant even post a comment on this question because of errors...
I came across the same issue when trying to open evernote.com. It loaded successfully while using incognito mode in chrome. Let me share how I fixed this even though the original post is way too old. But maybe someone can find it useful.
I'm using chrome (Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit)) running on Linux Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
I tried disabling all extensions and clearing browser data/cache but nothing worked. PS: Disabling adblock previously worked for me. Yes, I stumbled over the same issue before and whitelisting evernote in adblock solved the issue. But it didn't now.
The following is what worked for me:
Open developers tools (CTRL + SHIFT + J).
Navigate to Applications tab.
Choose Clear storage from the side menu
Hit Clear site data button.
After reading the comments I dug into chrome and saw there was a bunch of extensions still sitting around that were definitely malware and I thought I had previously deleted. Instead of picking through them one-by-one, I just deleted everything, re-installed Chrome, and now everything works great!
I had the same issue. My application was working in Incognito mode and in Firefox but not in Regular Chrome. I even disabled all the extensions but no luck. I eventually cleared the Cached images and files because on developer console I found out that the regular chrome was still picking up the old file due to caching. So as soon as I cleared it, my app showed up like a rocket :)
Try removing any non required extension .
Specifically AdBlock
I resolved the problem post that.
Since on Incognito , extensions are disabled, hence page run as expected.
I resolved this unforeseen issue using following steps.
CTRL + SHIFT + DEL > Clear Browsing Data.
Cookies and other site data
Cached images and files
This is for Chrome Browser.
Open Console (Ctl+Shift+I) first.
Then under the application tab, you will find some options on the left, find out the application there, you will find it at the top.
There you will find Service Workers.
Under Service Workers, there will be three checkboxes. Select Update on reload checkbox and reload again.
I had the same issue after installing React-Sight Extention.
The Page hanged but not in the incognito mode.
Try deleting any recently added or junk extension.
Delete your cache.
That worked for me
I had a similar issue in chrome, in my case the problem was that I could log in to my university library's website only in incognito mode. After some digging, I figured out that Google Translate extension was set to automatically translate any page. When I turned that off and instead selected never translate that specific page, it started working in the usual mode as well.
This is rather an old issue but still happens. None of the solutions recommended here and there did not solve the issue in my case.
I somehow noticed this is related with a -some kind of- corruption on the user profile.
This is how I solved it:
Close all Chrome browsers.
Open a Google page on Chrome.
Sign-out from Google (rigt click your profile picture on a Google page, not on the Chrome itself), and sign-in.
If this doesn't work:
Close all Chrome browsers.
Right click Chrome icon and select Google Chrome.
Delete your Google profile on the "select your profile" page.
Close Chrome.
Open Chrome, sign-in.
uBlock Origin was the culprit in my case. Once I allowed the site in uBlock Origin, pages loaded correctly in normal Chrome.