Set start page for google chrome - google-chrome

Browser start up going to a specific page even though I tried to changed it in settings and uninstalled the app which leads to.
It can be changed once but it changes to default after a while.
What is the solution?

It means you have not cleared virus-like program. Use some special tool like CCleaner to clean all unwanted programs, reinstall chrome.
If that's not working, re-install Windows (or iOS, Linux or what ever OS you are using).
Future tip
Always double check all checkboxes/radio buttons when installing anything. Sometimes there is even decline button that must be clicked instead of checkbox/radio button.

Google provides a tool to reset and recover your Chrome software from malicious software, addons, and extensions called the Software Removal Tool. You might give that a try.

Related

Chrome is not clearing cache

I am working on a new site and whenever I change CSS settings chrome will not accept those changes unless I close out of chrome completely with Task manager and relaunch it. I have a tried quite a few things. Below is a list of things I've tried:
Versioning the CSS file (I am using a PHP date stamp at the end of the CSS file
Enabling "Clear Cache while developer window is open" in the Developer console
Using Ctrl + F5 to clear cache on refresh
Going to Application and Clear Storage in the developer Console
Clearing Cache folder in local AppData
Deleting CSS file from stie, refreshing, and readding file.
Incognito mode
Adding Launch options to chrome shortcut --disk-cache-dir=null
Adding Browser Plugins to delete cache.
Anyone have any ideas how to help? It is extremely annoying and inefficient to close chrome every time I want to check a CSS change. Another annoyance is that I am trying to listen to music in the browser so if I close chrome I have to go back and get my music playing again and it's just as of now extremely annoying and way more time consuming than I want.
I've tried looking at other articles online about cache busting and other articles on Stack Overflow but I've tried to do most of what they suggest and I haven't seen any positive outcome yet. Most articles say to add some sort of random string or version on the end of the CSS file as a GET request but that isn't working though I know that has worked for me in the past.
pres f12 > f1 > network > disable cache (while DevTools is open). This should solve your problem
Development server was running various caching tools though they should have been turned off. After disabling them chrome started to work better and most of the time CTRL+F5 did the trick.
"clearing cache" is not as easy as it should be. Instead of clearing cache on my browsers, I realized that "touching" the server files cached will actually change the date and time of the source file cached on the server (Tested on Edge, Chrome and Firefox) and most browsers will automatically download the most current fresh copy of whats on your server (code, graphics any multimedia too). I suggest you just copy the most current scripts on the server and "do the touch thing" solution before your program runs, so it will change the date of all your problem files to a most current date and time, then it downloads a fresh copy to your browser:
<?php
touch('/www/sample/file1.css');
touch('/www/sample/file2.css');
touch('/www/sample/file2.css');
?>
then ... the rest of your program...
It took me some time to resolve this issue (as many browsers act differently to different commands, but they all check time of files and compare to your downloaded copy in your browser, if different date and time, will do the refresh), If you can't go the supposed right way, there is always another usable and better solution to it. Best Regards and happy camping. By the way touch(); or alternatives work in many programming languages inclusive in javascript bash sh php and you can include or call them in html.
I used to have the same problem, and I believe it's a (pretty annoying) bug with chrome. You can use the CSS Reloader Chrome Extension to solve it. Not ideal, but better
If you are trying out new CSS updates, I suggest using Chrome's "Inspect" function to dynamically update CSS settings and observe the results interactively. This may save some time during update cycles as compared to manual edits alone.
Another option to try is to define "cache-control" meta tags in your head section. For development/testing, you may want to have no caching. For a real website, you may want to have a shorter age limit. Refer to the following SO Q&A.
Using meta tags to turn of caching in all browsers?

Default search in Google Chrome locked to smartsputnik

I have deleted and created a new user, cleared history, cleared cache even uninstalled and then installed chrome again, but nothing. Any solution for that.
I have seen some software while searching on different websites but em afraid they can also b some sort of malware, what should i do, any Help......
You can change registry in Windows by running regedit.exe, usually you don't need external tools for that. A quick search for "smartsputnik" in regedit reveals that some Chrome-related entry contains a link to it. Changing it back to what it should be, that is e.g. what Chrome uses for its search query, should fix the issue. For my colleague it was
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}
After the change, you can delete the offender from search engines as well, that seemed to be impossible while it was the default. That helped to restore Chrome itself, but this blog post says it will also append "http://smartsputnik.ru/?ri=1&uid=" as the argument to random shortcuts. That could be devious, but I've not observed that yet, will check and see.
BTW, my colleague did not install any software recently, so it looks like this malware learned a new trick.

Making Google Chrome leave itself alone

Let me preface this question by saying: It's crazy. I know it is. But the requirement is not mine, it's someone else's, and I'm trying to honor it.
I need to install a months-out-of-date version of Google Chrome so I can run repeated tests against it. But it's proving to be surprisingly difficult to turn Chrome updates off.
I did the trick of disabling the "Google Update" plugin in chrome://plugins. After that, I uninstalled Chrome and installed the old version. I double-checked that the version was the old version and that updating was non-functional ("error 3"). I didn't even see "Google Update" listed in chrome://plugins at all after this. So I thought I was good.
Then just now, I fired up Chrome to look at it again, and it was back to the newest version!
Is there something I overlooked? Are they doing some kind of black magic here?
Windows
For Microsoft Windows, here is the simplest and lowest-impact solution I have found.
Create a text file with these lines:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update]
"AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes"=dword:00000000
"UpdateDefault"=dword:00000000
Save it to a file ending with ".reg" somewhere on your desktop. Double-click it to install new registry keys.
This disables automatic updates, and when you open "About Google Chrome" from the tool menu, you get the helpful message "Updates are disabled by the administrator."
Mac
(Instructions anyone may want to add for Mac OS can go here...)
Don't do this.
Really. I wasn't kidding. Updates are important.
See #1.
You're still here, so I can only assume that you're crazy enough to really want to turn off updates: http://support.google.com/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146164 explains how you can disable updates via policy. Editing registry entries locally should be effective.

Quirky Google Chrome Beta/Dev channel behavior persists even after uninstalling and reverting to stable

We have several FogBugz customers who have reported an error in Chrome where if the user presses Enter in an edit box, the edit box will lose focus and they'll have to click back in to the box for it to gain focus.
All users reporting this error (that we're aware of) have mentioned using Chrome Beta. We don't support Chrome Beta, so we advise downgrading to Chrome Stable. We can't repro the bug on Stable.
One of our users uninstalled Beta and installed Stable. He tried again and was again able to reproduce the bug, even after clearing his browser's cache (with no tabs open) on Stable.
In a related scenario, another member of our team noticed quirky behavior in Chrome persisting when switching from Chrome Dev to Chrome Stable. He also cleared his cache and noticed the behavior persisting in Chrome.
Have any other web developers experienced this kind of behavior in Chrome with customers using their web applications? If so, is there anything you can do within your application to help users and/or do you know of a way to completely "wipe" Chrome and revert it to the Stable version? (at the moment, the latter option is preferred).
Moving up versions should be okay, since Chrome is designed to upgrade smoothly.
Moving down versions (like dev to stable) can be problematic, since there's really no provision for older versions of Chrome to understand new versions of the user directory.
If you want a fresh start, you can wipe your entire user data directory. However, since this directory contains everything about the user (caches, saved passwords, apps/extensions, etc), all of that will be lost.

Minimize Chrome browser to tray?

How to minimize chrome browser to tray when I click on standard minimize button?
I don't want Chrome to appear in task bar.
Can we implement this by Chrome extension code?
As amer pointed out, there exists an extension solely purposed to do this functionality.
Luckily, the extension is open source and has a home here you can borrow it as long as your extension itself is kept open source (you should check the license for details).
Note, though, that since the chrome extension APIs don't provide this functionality (tray icons and hiding browser windows), the extension resorts to an NPAPI plugin (you can see in the source trunk that it bundles a .dll file, and that is open source (C++) too!).
It's not the best case scenario, Google discourages NAPAPI unless it's the only way (in this case, unfortunately, it is) due to security openings. The extension on the Chrome Web Store will ask for permission to "Access your data on your computer" which is seen negatively by wary users, especially and justifiably so if you don't take an effort to explain that general permission wording more clearly in your extension description.
Also the extension is targeted at Windows platforms, so you would have to look into specific NPAPI implementations for Linux and Mac if you need to support them.
Use the open source project RBTray on SourceForge. then you can minimize any window to the icon tray. Works on Windows 7.
Once you run it, you need to right-click on 'minimize' icon of any window (left-most one, the one that normally moves window to task bar). Window will be moved to system tray instead.
This extension exists:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ajedaeoideoipodoijpbpabhhadnniac