I am using Selenium and Chrome to write a web test, yesterday my Chrome updated to 44 and now my test does not work, I know that it is an issue with Chrome 44 and we need to wait till the new version is given out.
So I am trying to go bake to chrome 43, i do:
1) Uninstall chrome 44
2) Install chrome 43
but as soon as the installation is done it automatically opens the chrome and it is 44 again !! I went to Run->Service.msc and disabled my chrome to update automatically, but it does not work. I remove the Update folder in User->Myname->AppData->Local->Google->Update but it does not work,
and there is nothing related to updating at chrome://plugins.
I AM STUCK
PLEASE HELP :(
I did all sulosion posted on line but non of them worked,
Have spent a loooong time trying to disable updates (literally hours, reading forums and testing various (some exotic) solutions), and this was driving me crazy. But there what seems an infallible solution (see further down).
Even using the official Google page with the templates did NOTHING : https://support.google.com/installer/answer/146164?hl=en
I followed scrupulously the instructions of that page, the keys in the registry are all correct, but still going to the "About Google Chrome" when the program is opened, I can see the wheel going around and a few seconds later the update is forced and done.
I have tried using the standalone installer of Google, on a Windows 8.1 machine 64Bits - and yes all the keys are set to :
Dword: AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes Value: 0
Dword: DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue Value: 1
Dword: UpdateDefault Value: 0
Dword: Update{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} Value: 0
... both in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update AND HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Google\Update since it is a 64-bit machine.
So the radical solution to prevent the auto-update, if that helps anyone, is to just purely sort the program responsible for the updates itself! (Just deleting it, OR saving a copy, OR renaming it OR even better just in case I one day need to do an update: Zip the content for future potential re-use).
Easy solution :
1- Go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\ and find the folder "update".
2- There are a couple of options to choose from:
A) first method: Rename the folder:
- Right click > Rename > from Update.bak to Update2.bak for example.
- Now launch Chrome: NO MORE UPDATES!! since it can not find the update program !! Finished.
B) second method: Zip the folder:
- Zip the entire folder by making an archive. (Right click the "Update" folder > Send to Compressed (zip) folder)
- A window might ask you to backup/zip and place it on the desktop, click yes. (message: Windows cannot create the compressed folders here. Do you want to be placed on the desktop instead?)
- Move the newly created zip file to the original location. A new window security might pop up > click continue. (message: You need administrator permission to copy this file). [This will be what to unzip if one day you decide to update Chrome - Just remember that when unzipped it will have the following structure : Update > Update > then all the content of the folder. Remember to move everything from inside the second update folder (copy paste) one level up so that is becomes : Update > then all the content of the folder].
- Now that you have a copy just delete the "Update" folder.
- Now launch Chrome: NO MORE UPDATES!! since it can not find the update program !! Finished.
Good luck and Enjoy.
As per Chromium
Turning off Auto-Updates on Windows
To turn off auto-updates of Google Chrome on Windows, you need to instruct Google Update to not update it. To do this, you can either:
Use the Google Update ADM templates provided on this page or as described in this article.
Set the value of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes
to the REG_DWORD value of "0".
You can check for Mac and Linux in the first Link
To get rid of Chrome 44 and go back to 43 I downloaded a stand-alone version of chrome 43 which is an .exe file and I just double clicked on it and it was installed on my computer WITHOUT updating to Chrome 44, to find the link to Chrome 43 have a look to RobW comments to my question above and if the link is stale you can just Google for Chrome Stand-alone, or go to the bottom of this page Google Chrome 64-bit Offline Installer| 45.7 MB.
Have Fun :)
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I've been googling and fighting this for a half a day already.
When I download something in Google Chrome I want to go to the folder with a file. But when I press 'Show in folder' a Visual Studio Code starts instead of my Thunar. How can I fix this?
Firefox opens folders ok but Chromium, Google-Chrome and Opera kicks of Visual Studio Code.
My system is Linux Mint Tara. I've already tried some things. Like added
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=Thunar.desktop
to /home/[user]/.config/mimeapps.list
Completely removed code.desktop from /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
Ran xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory and the output of xdg-mime query default inode/directory is Thunar.desktop!!!
Even fully removed code.desktop from filesystem. Nothing worked!
Please help, this annoys me so much.
This is caused by MimeType=text/plain;inode/directory; which can be found in /usr/share/applications/code.desktop for what I can find.
What fixed it for me is changing this line to MimeType=text/plain; and removing code.desktop from /usr/share/applications/mimelist.cache
EDIT
A more permanent solution i've found is the following.
add inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop to the ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file.
After doing this make sure to the inode/directory entry is the same or not present at all in ~/.local/share/applications/mimelist.cache' and /usr/share/applications/mimelist.cache
org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop can be replaced by your preferred file explorer if you don't use Nautilus.
You might need to restart your desktop environment for the changes to apply.
The solution is simpler,
What happens is that the system orders the directory opening preferences.
Just go to the file manager > select a folder > right click > open with another application > select the file manager.
This will update the opening preferences for the directories.
Finally found! it. I had to delete
inode/directory; /usr/share/code/code --new-window %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
line in the /etc/mailcap file. Bingo!
Chromium related browsers seems to not respect xdg settings on not full-fledged Desktop environments like i3wm which I use. Because the problem was not reproducible when I logged in with xfce4 session.
The error occurs when running the illustrative example of Selenium-Webdriver with the latest Chromedriver executable. Chrome is correctly launched but there's an error in the console.
I am using Windows 10.
run>>regedit>>Chrome.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome ::
I am able to get only this path.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome:: this path is not availble.
2212:9152:0703/185315.194:ERROR:install_util.cc(589)] Unable to create registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome for reading result=2 [2212:196:0703/185315.598:ERROR:cache_util_win.cc(20)] Unable to move the cache: 5 [2212:196:0703/185315.598:ERROR:cache_util.cc(134)] Unable to move cache folder C:\Users\Anchal\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ShaderCache\GPUCache to C:\Users\Anchal\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ShaderCache\old_GPUCache_000 [2212:196:0703/185315.598:ERROR:disk_cache.cc(169)] Unable to create cache
jarmake posted the solution of this error on github issues:
He made a little tutorial, I'll paste here but if you want the original post, here the source.
Open registry with regedit (just click on Windows start menu and
start typing regedit, it should come up)
From the registry explorer, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and from there
expand SOFTWARE Expand Policies. I was missing everything from this
point.
So what I had to do was to select the Policies by left clicking on
it, and then right click and from the context menu select New > Key
and name it Google. Once that is created, select that and right click
and again select New > Key and name that Chrome.
Select that folder, and right click. Choose New > String. Name it as
MachineLevelUserCloudPolicyEnrollmentToken and leave the value empty.
If you alreade have Google and Chrome under Policies, I think only
adding the key as in step 6 should work. I've attached a picture to
show how it should look like when it's done.
And just as a clarifier. This is under SOFTWARE/Policies, not
directly under SOFTWARE.
I can see my page get crash(see aw, snap page) with 20% proprobility after 10 mins(otherwise it runs well like forever)
so I tried:
1) CPU and memory check with task manager, and see no increasing(so no leakage).
2) enable crush log in the chrome://settings/
result:
2.1) see still nothing in the chrome://crashes page, not even a crush ID (0 crashes).
2.2) see nothing in the folder under path
C:/%User%/AppData/Local/Google/CrashReports (nothing in) nor
C:/%User%/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Crash Reports (folder not exist)
2.3) but indeed see DMP in the:
C:/%User%/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/CrashPads/reports
but seems they are not readable, and it also seems not the correct address for crash logs
3) can get chrome log either by command line arguments, or using sawbuck, but found nothing but only 2 errors, one for sawbuck itself, and another saying can't send the report to google.
So the questions are:
1) are those DMP the crash logs(the default Dir for dump file has been changed for chrome v50)
2) how can I abstract information out of the DMP file, if chrome://crashes page shows nothing (for chrome on windows)
p.s. 2 usage pages are found at https://www.chromium.org/developers/decoding-crash-dumps
https://www.chromium.org/developers/crash-reports
but seems it's not for windows without a recompile of chrome's component, is there any 3rd party tools to interpret the DMP file?
env informations:
chrome version: 50.0.2661.02 m
; Host OS: windows 10
The crash dumps (.dmp files) in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Crashpad\reports can be read by standard Windows debuggers. WinDbg is one tool (provided by Microsoft) for analysing these dumps; it's not going to win any beauty contents, but it's powerful and gets the job done. The recommended way to obtain it is, somewhat bizarrely, the Windows Driver Kit.
You'll need debugging symbols to make sense of the results, and these aren't included in standard builds of Chrome. To get symbols for both Chrome and the Windows runtime, set the following as your Symbols path:
SRV*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;SRV*c:\symbols*https://chromium-browser-symsrv.commondatastorage.googleapis.com
There are numerous resources on using WinDbg on the web; this cheat sheet contains some useful commands to get you started.
I decided to try Windows 10, but having problem to make terminal works inside WebStorm/PhpStorm.
When I open terminal, sometimes it's completely black, sometimes it loads the project folder but I cannot type there. There is a way to run it in the external window, but I just got accustomed to work with console like internal window inside WebStorm/PhpStorm...
I tried cmd, Power Shell - same results.
Any ideas?
Workaround: Terminal works fine in Windows 10 if you use legacy console.
To do so, open a command prompt window, right click on the title, then select Properties. At the bottom, check "Use legacy console". Confirm the dialog window and go back to WebStorm to launch a new terminal. It should work.
In any case, this is the ticket to watch after:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-143300 -- star/vote/comment to get notified on progress.
UPDATE:
This issue has now been resolved -- the fix will arrive in next major version -- PhpStorm v10/WebStorm v11 (or whatever that version will be as long as it's based on 142.xx branch or newer).
UPDATE:
For those who have problems with right clicking and finding "Properties" menu entry:
Just for the record: I have confirmation from JetBrains that it will be fixed (i.e. work with non-legacy mode) in WebStorm 11 which is scheduled for the beginning of November. In the EAP version it should already work.
I'm following these steps to build sdrsharp on stable Debian. So fr, everything went without a hitch, but I can't figure out this step:
cd into the new sdrsharp directory and then load monodevelop and open the sdrsharp.sln project. If the .sln doesn't open use a text editor to open the .sln file and at the end of the first line change the 12.00 to 11.00. Older versions of monodevelop don't understand the VS2012 header.
Set the Active Configuration from Debug|x86 to Release|x86.
The first one is just given for context, monodevelop has no problem opening the file. But how do I change the Actove Configuration?
Monodevelops internal help is broken, I have no experience with monodevelop or similiar tools as I'm no coder, hence asking here.
Edit to add
The same question was asked and answered here, there should be an option under the "project" tab. But in my case, working from the downloaded .sln, all options under project are grayed out. What to do?
Fixed! The Version had to be changed back to 11 (first bullet point above, relevant to my special case), then reopen file, then it's opened as a project, not as a text file and all the options work.
Take home lessen: That a progeam opens a file without complaining does noit mean there's no error.