On OS X, after installing a new chrome extension from the webstore, a default message in the form of a bubble (or infowindow, or tooltip) is displayed in the upper-right corner of the browser window. This message is persistent until the mouse is clicked.
This is a problem, because I want to display my own custom message via chrome.notifications upon install, but will overlap with the default message because it's also being displayed in the upper-right for OS X.
So, is there a way to programmatically dismiss the default post-install message? I tried several ways to dispatch events (click, mousedown, etc), but not having any luck because the chrome dev tool can not inspect the area of the toolbar/address bar from which the default message is being displayed. Thus, I don't know what to target.
No, you can't dismiss it with extension APIs.
It's partially a security measure - the user is informed that the thing that just got installed can be accessed and disabled from that UI location.
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I have a viewer instance where I programmatically activate the BimWalk tool as soon as it is loaded.
viewer.toolController.activateTool('bimwalk');
The BimWalk tool activates, but it doesn't seem like the BimWalk extension is aware of this. If the user presses the first person button [to turn off BimWalk], the tool "activates" again. Subsequent presses on the button do not seem to do anything and then the viewer is locked and the user cannot pan around.
Is there an alternative way to activate BimWalk that stays consistent with the toolbar button?
You're right, the Autodesk.BimWalk extension itself is keeping the state of the tool as well. Because of that you'll want to activate the tool via the extension:
viewer.getExtension('Autodesk.BimWalk').activate()
Then, clicking the First Person button in the toolbar will deactivate the extension and tool properly.
I'm running an application which is in the cloud on Chromium Browser on Linux (Raspberry Pi OS).
When I click on a textbox (where the text is already there) it selects the text for half of the second and then it automatically shows the context menu preventing me from modifying the content. (This also happens in Windows in Chrome).
This does not happen in the desktop app and in Firefox on Windows. I was wondering why that is? Is there a setting to change this? I noticed that behaviour works as expected if you hold the finger on the text box for 2 seconds however the single-finger touch just highlights and shows the context menu which is not practical.
I would essentially want to swap this the other way around; touch and hold to simulate right click and click to select.
This only happens in Chrome. I do not have much control of the cloud application therefore I was wondering if there is any particular setting in Chrome which controls this behaviour. I tried changing the system settings on windows. I went to chrome://flags and disabled the following:
Omnibox rich entity suggestions; Send tab to self omnibox sending animation; Touch UI layout;
Touch initiated drag and drop; Enable experimental fling animation; Enable resampling input events;
Context menus show full URLs; Show autofill predictions;
Omnibox preserve default match against async update; Experimental system keyboard lock;
Omnibox on device head suggestions; Select HW overlay strategies; WebUI tab strip;
Select which UI to use for translate bubble; WebUI tab strip demo options; Scrollable TabStrip;
Omnibox on-focus suggestions; Substring matching for autofill suggestions;
Omnibox local entity suggestions; Omnibox Zero Suggestions on SERP / On-Focus Query Refinement;
Omnibox Experimental Keyword Mode; Filtering scroll predictions; Focus mode;
Zero-copy rasterizer; Omnibox Experimental Suggest Scoring;
Enable Probing on Navigation Predictor Isolated Prerenders; Hardware Media Key Handling;
Media Session Service; Audio Focus Enforcement;
I also went into the developer settings to see if there is anything in there but was unsuccessful.
I also tried the google extension to block right-click behaviour however it did not work.
I would like to go back to developers of the cloud app and ask them to correct this but the only question is why it works on other browsers.
I tried other browsers on Raspberry Pi but they nowhere near the performance of chromium.
When an extension is installed in chrome, a popup comes up which says [Extension_name] has been added to chrome.
This is the default popup having extension icon and some message. I want to modify this popup data. is there any api which we can use to modify it.
There is no such API, but you can use onInstalled event to open new tab with your own description.
In addition to Deliaz's answer, you can create either a browser action or a page action popup. You can change popup html dynamically to make it look completely different depending on the situation but you can't open it programmatically (desktop notifications could be used for alerts).
Here's another reference which might also help.
Is there a way to automatically switch the frame of the javascript console to one belonging to a chrome extension when I refresh the page?
I'm afraid not, to my knowledge the execution context will always start at the top frame.
Additionally, there doesn't seem to be any programmatic method of accessing the Console tab to change that from a DevTools extension.
I want to make a chrome extension which performs a certain action when the user enters the a "back" navigation action.
ie: they click the back button in the browser, or they swipe backwards with 3 fingers on a macbook pro, or if they enter the shortcut alt + left arrow.
How can I detect these actions? Should I create some type of listener or handler which accounts for each one individually?
You can use the webNavigation API.
Start monitoring the details for each transition type that you mentioned. And then try to do something with this information.
chrome.experimental.webNavigation.onCommitted(function(details){
console.log(details);
});