I want to know if its possible to customize the way your default google chrome look locally on your computer. I am talking from a developer's point of view and not user(ie not to change the home page by going into chrome setting).
I can change the UI by using the chrome f12 option locally. As chrome is installed on my machine then there should be an index.html or something alike file present to render chrome as it does. I want to access that file if possible.
Thanks
you might be able to find some various files, so i would suggest looking through the following folder. C:\Users\MYUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
or C:\Users\MYUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ as these are the ones that contain your chrome installation, there maybe another folder but this is always the one i have used when developing extensions..
Otherwise i think you will be stuck with the extension part, i myself would have a look at this if you really need.. But that could be a week before i get the chance.
If your looking to deploy a custom google chrome, so they dont need to install extensions. Try the following google term: deploy custom chrome
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/external_extensions
But editing it directly with just finding a single html file / style i dont think is as easy as it would need to load certain objects into memory and i think they are a little more complex than a plain text file.
EDIT - Looks Like Its Extension Only Now
Had 5 minutes and did a quick google, there was a point where you could use custom style sheets for v32 and below but that was removed https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=234007&view=revision
So you either need to work with firefox or build an extension.. I could not see any files/folders that would do what you need. So yea i'd start looking at extensions.
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So I would like to study websites and their code, do some changes - locally ofcourse (to learn). I know how to do it using chrome devtools - but I really like using vscode. Because live server is only for your local project, not one with the url. Even if I force the server to open a specific url, I can't edit it in vscode (I mean, not counting the devtools extension - because, its basically the same.
Even if I copy the css files in a folder, vscode does detect the file and opens it, but editing doesn't have an effect on the website.
I have bookmarks downloaded from firefox and they are a json file.
I'm searching for a site where I can upload the json file and then download it in html format.
Does such a site exist?
THANK YOU for your kind assistance.
(Every time I do a search for this question, your site comes up.)
I don't know of a site that will do this online, but I do know of a few other ways:
You could restore them back into a Firefox profile and then export them as HTML from there, like this:
You could download and run a program like https://github.com/andreax79/json2html-bookmarks to convert them locally
You could use JavaScript to convert them in-browser, though not with an actual site, like this: Quick and dirty way to parse a mozilla firefox json file
If you need to display JSON, try with the firefox extension named jsonview.
Check out CodeBeautify, just paste and hit the Beautify button https://codebeautify.org/json-to-html-converter
There’s a lot of plugins and add ons for almost every browser out there; Firefox and especially chrome have great ones as others have mentioned, it’s worth checking out.
You are making it harder than it is. There is no JASON to HTML conversion required. Go to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default and find bookmark.file. Save it to your desktop. Uninstall the browser but also check the box that asks whether you want to keep history, etc.
Reinstall the browser, then add the bookmark.file to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
It will overwrite the file and you have your bookmarks back. It takes about 10 minutes. No coding. No JASON to HTML conversion. Nothing.
My website files are stored in c waamp www folder and i use devtools autosave to update my css file. But its not working while working on localhost. What do i need to do to make it work with localhost?
I suppose this will help you out
since Google Dev Tools version 28 you will not need the extension "Autosave" anymore.
It has been substituted by Google Web Tools Workspace.
If you want to understand how to use Google workspace, you can ckeck-out this link:
Live edit CSS and JS with Google dev tool
The only big limitation is that with google dev tools you can't edit DOM elements directly in the "elements" panel, neither the inline style definition.
However I found a better way for doing it;
There is an extension for Google Chrome that combined with an Intellij Idea plugin makes you live editing HTML, CSS, JS and it work amazingly.
It is probably better than using Google Dev Tool. The only disadvantage is that you cannot inspect the elements you are editing in the browser itself but you can obviously do it in your IDE which is even better.
I documented the process here if you want to take a look:
Live edit CSS-HTML-JS with Intellij Idea
Luca
Is there a way to change the grouping/ordering of the scripts in the Chrome developer tools?
I love this tool but this list format is the worst for editing. I have files with the same name(typical for ExtJs OO development), and trying to search and open one up for debugging is tiresome.
It would be nice if the js files would be listed ungrouped, in alphabetic order by filename, but also displaying the path name.
I figure this might not be possible, and the only suggestion will be to post a bug to google. But I figured its worth a shot!
As Alexander mentioned, Ctrl + O in the Scripts panel will give you the "Open File" dialog but it will not list the full path. You can file a feature request at new.crbug.com
It's also worth nothing that Chrome 19 just came out with a new script navigator that should display things better for you:
What I'm trying to do is to save the changes I make to CSS and HTML on different sites with Firebug.
Just to be clear, I don't expect Firebug to upload the changes to the server via FTP or anything. I just want to save the changes locally, so only I will be able to see them.
For example I've seen a few Firefox/Chrome extensions that add a download button under every video on Youtube, so I know it's possible to do that somehow.
If you have a different way to achieve what I'm trying to do, I'll be glad to hear about it.
(It doesn't have to be with Firebug.)
Thanks in advance!
If you don't mind using Web Developer Toolbar it's easy to save changes made to the DOM (and CSS).
When you install the toolbar, you'll get a "View Source" menu, click on that and choose "View generated source". Then just copy and paste that into a .html file.
You did not say if you alter your HTML or CSS, if CSS, FireFile is a very good addon for this.
Edit, with some Googling, i found FireDiff, which states that it can export changes made in Firebug, i have not tested it bit it's worth checking out.
You could try using Greasemonkey.
It has support for adding custom scripts that are run whenever you load a page (linked to which pages it should load on) and that can make changes to the page dynamically.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
The http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ web developer toolbar will let you add a user style sheet to a site which should achieve your goals.
This may or may not be exactly what you're asking for, but you can download the extension FireDiff in order to save changes made with FireBug. I made a little tutorial on how to do it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OmZLX2zd4
I have a somewhat simlar use-case that I solved differently. I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for or not. I'll describe the behavior and if that is helpful I'll explain exactly how I implemented it.
I changed the code that execute when you click "Run" (or Ctrl+Enter) to check to see if the first line of the code is a hard-coded string //LoadFromFile:<file path>. If it is, and the file exists then I pull the file off of the local file system and run it instead of executing the code in the console window. This way I can use an external text editor to write code.