The chrome browser of my computer at workplace has installed some plug-ins. Now I have bought a new laptop. How can I install the same plug-ins at my computer quickly?
You can use the sync function from Chrome. It also sync the installed plugins. Read this article: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165139
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I am figuring out ways to install chrome extensions on windows machines without hosting extension on chrome web store. I found a way to use windows registry but seems like there also update url should also be from chrome web store(attached links below for reference). Is there any other alternative to install extensions on user machines without hosting it on web store.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/external_extensions#preferences
https://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-from-malicious.html.
Note that I don't need it for development purpose.It is for the users who want to test the extension before we publish release it
Is it possible to install and run chrome headless on a headless Linux box without installing the audio and xorg dependencies?
If not, then is there a special headless build of chrome/chromium which doesn't pull xorg and audio libs?
This troubleshooting doc on puppeteer should be of some help (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md), it oultlines all the package necessary for running Chrome on a linux machine (more specifically for web servers).
Depending on your end-goal, I wrote a service that provides access to headless Chrome at https://browserless.io. More or less treats Chrome in hosted fashion, so you don't have to try and get it running yourself, which is a time consuming process.
In any case, hope one of those helps!
I'm working on a Quick Meeting type app. Where I want to check whether my app is installed on the system or not.
My Application installer copies the plugin to "Internet Plugins" folder on Mac OSX and ".mozila/plugins" on Linux.
I'm using this web plugin(NPAPI) to detect whether a application is installed on the system or not.
As we know, web plugins can access using navigator.plugins.
If plugin is found in plugins array then we were deciding to launch the application using custom url handler implemented by installed app, otherwise download the installer and ask user to install the app first.
This works fine with Firefox and Safari but not with Google Chrome. Also Chromium doesn't support NPAPI plugins and Google Chrome is dropping support for it.
I thought of using Pepper Plugin, but it doesn't have any api to check installed apps nor to access local files say in users home dir.
Any idea how to do it. Any pointer on this would be helpful.
Since you are registering a custom protocol already, this boils down to detecting the presence of a protocol handler.
I have observed inconsistent behavior using the Web Developer extension (Chris Pederick) in Google Chrome on these different machines:
My PC running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
A VirturalBox Virtual Machine (VM) running Ubuntu 12 on my PC
A VM running a updated, fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on my PC
I have the same version of Google Chrome and Web Developer installed on all these machines. However, for some reason, Web Developer does not work as expected on my PC. It works perfectly on the Ubuntu VM and the Windows VM.
On my PC, about 95% of the time the Custom Tools functions (Validate CSS, Validate HTML, etc.) in Web Developer do nothing when clicked (they should open new tabs to the W3C validators).
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Google Chrome on my PC several times. I have even manually gone through the file system and registry to completely remove all traces of Google Chrome before reinstalling. Nothing I've attempted so far has corrected this problem.
Of course, due to Google's 'field trials', all these machines have slightly different variations (as reported by chrome://version), but I would doubt that is the source of the problem.
Any ideas or suggestions?
OK, here's a possible clue...
It has baffled me why this problem NEVER occurs in my virtual machine (VM); only on the host. Same version of OS, Chrome, and Web Developer installed on both. May have discovered why.
My standard settings for VMs is to use only one CPU. As a test, I changed the VM to use two CPUs. BOOM! I can reproduce the problem on my VM. Change back to one CPU - can not reproduce the problem.
Does this suggest a problem with threading in Chrome?
I am using custom sync options to synchronize only some of the artifacts from a Google chrome installation - just Bookmarks, Extensions and Open Tabs. All three are working on well on my two windows computers - but on the Linux machine, I am not getting the extensions. I have tried wiping the Linux Chrome data (by removing ~/.config/google-chrome/ and re-configuring it, the the problem remains the same.
I am wondering if there are any logs that the chrome browser produces that can give me a hint on what the problem might be.
Thanks a lot
Looks like this is not a bug but a "feature", different support of extension per OS, but seems there might be hope this is fixed in future releases see:
Chrome Web Store to get multi-platform app support for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and Chrome OS
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