Is there anyway to install an extention without visiting to google app store?
For example I want visitors, can install my extention just one clicking a facebook ad or a banner?
Is it possible?
I read some article that mentioning about to verified site ownership to do this. But I want to make advertisement on facebook so I wouldn't be owner of the web page...
Does anyone have information on this subject?
Thanks.
Right click on the Chrome shortcut
In the Target field, add --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install after what's already there, let a space before
Save and start Chrome
You're probably looking for inline installation, performed via chrome.webstore.install.
In your webpage:
include <link rel="chrome-webstore-item" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/itemID">, where the URL is the address of your extension
then. call chrome.webstore.install().
Unfortunately, you can't do either of those things on a basic Facebook page, but you could do it on a web page you can fully control.
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HTML novice here stumbling around with modifying some email code that put together using some online generators and such. I am trying to send an email to customers with an embedded link that will automatically open the iOS app store "redeem" button for an app that I have gifted them.
The link to accomplish this for a given "gifted app" is as follows:
itms-apps://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/freeProductCodeWizard?code=PROMOCODEHERE?mt=8
This link works fine when clicked from iMessage, apple Notes, etc on iPhone (I.e., opens the app store and just has a redeem button, thus allowing the person to directly install the app to their phone). It would also work just fine if you remove the itms-apps:// portion and the user defaults to Safari browser - the issue I'm trying to avoid is if they use a non-default browser (Chrome, etc) so that the link goes direct to app store.
Within the email, I'm using the following (the itms-apps:// link is technically called from a variable, but I've tried it with and without variable to no success). The email sends and the button this link is in just does nothing on iPhone, isn't tappable etc.
TAP FROM iOS TO INSTALL
So far, as mentioned I've tried
Removing the variable which calls in the promo code app store link
Using a URL encoder to make sure special/reserved characters aren't an issue (result looks like the following)
TAP FROM iOS TO INSTALL
... but these options aren't working. Would love any thoughts as to how to approach this! Thanks in advance.
Try to add this in your Info.plist
I am searching for a best way to show WeChat profile in app after user click on link on some website.
I found some solution here but it's not working for me.
For example I tried these URIs:
link
Or in href attribute:
weixin://contacts/profile/{wechatId}
It's not working for me. After I click on this, WeChat app is opened and immediately closed. Or it show me not found error on Tips tab..
Is there some way to do it?
I think WeChat has not public profile webpage like facebook for now, you can only access other people's profile in the WeChat app by scanning a QR code or search by WeChat id/phone number. The code snippets that you mentioned above has been discarded by WeChat Official(But you may still can see it in some old official documentations).
If you still want to achieve this function, I recommend you just post your QR code in your webpage.
However, some people using the weixin:// as a bug to link WeChat to others apps. You still can generate a tickets like weixin://dl/business/?ticket=***. The *** contains your wechatid and is encrypted by some specific algorithms, which is not opened by WeChat official. And also, buying some third-part server tickets like this to get the jump link works for now but not stable.
Whenever I open a new tab in Google Chrome I see the Google search bar plus 8 thumbnails of recently visited (or most visited) sites. I never click on the thumbnails and find them to be annoying. Is there anyway to disable this in Chrome?
I can think of a hacky workaround like creating a blank page someplace and setting that to be the new tab page, but there must be a better way. Any ideas?
Since nobody answered I thought I would post and answer to my question:
Use the Empty New Tab Page extension for a new blank tab instead of the default new tab.
There are also some redirect extensions such as Momentum, which loads a different full screen image each day.
type chrome://flags then Disable "Top Sites from Site Engagement"
Chrome allows extensions to run on chrome:// urls so one such possible future solution is if AdBlock explicitly requests the permission to run on chrome://newtab then you can just block the div with id most-visited. But currently AdBlock does not request this permission.
You could edit the manifest of AdBlock manually to include this permission or suggest it as a future feature.
The default new tap page's url is chrome-search://local-ntp/local-ntp.html. You can press F12 to check it. It's a local resource located in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\{Version}\resources.pak
or
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\{Version}\resources.pak
Open it with a HEX editor, search text
cur.style.opacity = 1.0
, and replace it with
cur.style.opacity = 0.0
Tested on Chrome 77.0.3865.90 .
I'm trying to create just a simple html link to open a Chrome app when clicking it. Lets use the following example:
I have installed the app found at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-google-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl
If I open the app from the Chrome menus, it will open the app in a new browser tab, displaying chrome-extension://cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl/app.html as the URL in the address field.
So, naively I thought that I could just specify that URL to make it open if the link is clicked, i.e:
Link to the installed Chrome App
But that does not work. How should I do to link correctly to the (installed) app?
If you were in control of the app in question, you could use externally_connectable property and listen for requests to launch your app.
But it seems like you don't control that app. Normal webpage code is unprivileged and cannot call chrome-extension:// URLs and the like.
You could potentially make a launcher extension. Using the management API you can launch the app with
chrome.management.launchApp("cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl");
and that can, again, be triggered via web-to-extension messaging using externally_connectable. But that obviously requires that your users have two distinct Chrome add-ons installed, the app in question and your launcher shim.
url_handlers
If you are the owner of the app I recommend using url_handlers.
These need to be registered in your apps manifest.json.
...
"url_handlers": {
"openApp": {
"matches": [
"https://www.yourVerifiedDomain.com/openApp"
],
"title": "Open App"
},
}
...
Then you could launch the app with a simple link anywhere on the web or in an extension.
Open App
management permission
If you are not the owner of the app you'll need the management permission as Xan already pointed out:
chrome.management.launchApp("<appId>");
I have an alternative solution. My use case is I've written a Chrome App, that I need customers to use once, and only once. I was trying to figure out a friendly way to preclude these steps:
Click on the three bar Icon in Chrome
Click on More Tools
Click on Extensions
Scroll to the bottom, click on Get More Extensions
blah, blah, blah.
Instead you can look up your custom Chrome App at the Google Chrome Web Store, and get the web store link.
Heres the link, using the Chrome App mentioned in the original question above.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-google-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl
That's pretty handy if you've never seen the Chrome App before. For my situation, that's all I really need. Info offered here (1.5 years after original question answered) in case somebody else has a similar need. And here's the link to the Chrome App store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps
I have made a page in html5 with css3. It works fine on local (I dont use any server, just doubleclick in the index to open it).
I want to put it in google drive. I have load all the documents needed, but when I try to open the html, I can only see the text (I mean, it is not being executing, I can see just the source code).
Any suggestion?
Not available any more, https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
Host web pages with Google Drive
Note: This feature will not be available after August 31, 2016.
I highly recommend https://www.heroku.com/ and https://www.netlify.com/
EDIT: As of August 2016 Google Drive can no longer be used to host static web pages, so this solution no longer works.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your content files to this folder.
Right click on your folder and click on Details.
Copy Hosting URL and paste it on your browser.(e.g. https://googledrive.com/host/0B716ywBKT84AcHZfMWgtNk5aeXM)
It will launch index.html if it exist in your folder other wise list all files in your folder.
I don't think it is necessary to "host" the content using the way from the accepted answer. It is too complicated for a normal user with limited developing skills.
Google actually has provided hosting feature without using Drive SDK/API, what you need is just few clicks. Check this out:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2881970
It is the same to the answer of user1557669. However, in step 4, the URL is not correct, it is like:
https://drive.google.com/#folders/...
To get the correct host URL. Right click on the html file (you have to finish 1-3 steps first and put the html in the public shared folder), and select "Details" from the context menu. You will find the hosting URL right close to the bottom of the details panel. It should look like:
https://googledrive.com/host/.../abc.html
Then you can share the link to anyone. Happy sharing.
Now you can use
https://sites.google.com
Build internal project hubs, team sites, public-facing websites, and more—all without designer, programmer, or IT help. With the new Google Sites, building websites is easy. Just drag content where you need it.
While drive allows you to edit plain text and HTML files I don't believe they allow the HTML to actually be displayed. I don't think they want people hosting websites from their drive space.
A lot of the solutions offered here do not seem to work anymore. I'm currently on a chromebook and wanted to view an HTML5 banner. This seems impossible now through Google Drive or other apps (as mentioned in previous comments).
The method I ended up using to view the HTML5 was the following:
Open Google Adwords (create a free account if you dont have one)
Click on Ads in the top panel
Click on "+AD" and choose image ad
Choose "upload an ad"
Drag and drop your zip file into the area
Click on Preview
Voila, you will see your HTML5 banners in their full beauty
There may well an easier way, but this way is pretty good too. Hope it helps and worked well for me.
Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.
Open the HTML file & you will see "Preview" button in the toolbar.
Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/... from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.
Found method to see your own html file (from here (scroll down to answer from prac): https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/YY_fou2vo0A)
-- use Get Link to get URL with id=... substring
-- put uc instead of open in URL