I need the browser path that depend on different OS .
For example ,
in Win7 , Firefox's path might be
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Chrome might be
%APPDATA%\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
I am developing a Eclipse plug-in ,which help user launch browser for specific url in a project, it's going to speed up the web developing .
Sometimes we need to use chrome/firefox/IE8/safari to test web page ,
so that's why I am developing such a plug-in.
My user could set up the browser path manually now ,
and I could let them use default browser as first one. (it's already done.)
If I could have the paths in different OS/path ,
I could check if there's existing those file and setup the path by default.
(Just like what selenium-rc does.)
If there's any one have the information for default browser path?
The difficult part is there's too many OS and too many browsers,
hope you could help me to get the information.
Any browser that running on PC is welcome ,
like opera,IE,chrome,firefox,safari...etc
Query the default application of the HTTP protocol. Use the COM interface if possible.
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Background: I have a readme file which is a .html file.
I am using _file.openWithDefaultApplication() to open this up in the browser.
This works perfectly and I thought was foolproof. Problem I have is it seems I have a better fool for a co-worker who was testing my application.
His Windows PC had NO default application set for a .html file so when he selected a default application, he choosen "notepad".. as you might have guessed, reading a .html in notepad was useless but Windows 8 choosen this as the default from that point onwards.
Question 1 Can I test if the application has a default application, so I can warn someone to open a .html file in a browser.
Question 2 Can I choose to ignore the default application if it is not a browser or somehow remove the default?
I can't find anything that lets you get the path to the browser executable directly. But if you are down with writing a native extension, you can probe the Windows Registry to get the path. Compare it against a known whitelist of popular browsers.
The Registry keys to inspect for a documented at Windows RegKey - Default Browser Application Path and at How to determine the Windows default browser (at the top of the start menu)
Writing native extensions is a bit of a hassle, and I've never written one for Windows desktop. It might be more trouble than you've bargained for.
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Basically, I'm creating a webpage filled with images of movie posters that link to video files, as a means of making a more visually-appealing form of my local video library.
I'm using
<a href="C:\blah\movie.mkv"><img src="poster.jpg">
It works exactly how I want, HOWEVER, it opens the file in the browser rather than opening it in its default program, as I would like. I would like each link to open the file in the program titled "VLC Media Player", as specified in Windows for each of their filetypes.
Let me know how I can do this (in the simplest form--I'm not too smart :P)
Thanks!
If you are creating web pages on your local system for you own use then you may want to consider looking in to a WAMP server setup. This uses php and should allow you to call VLC using the exec command. Would take some learning however.
There is very little you can do to control how a client will handle a resource.
You can use the Content-Disposition HTTP response header to state that the resource is an attachment (and thus recommend that it be downloaded instead of opened).
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="movie.mkv"
You can't, however, stop browser native support or a plug-in from handling something instead of having it open in a separate application (let alone cause it to be opened in a specific application).
If the browser is configured to open video files internally, then nothing the author of a website can do will make it switch to using a application instead.
When doing webkitRequestFileSystem in window.PERSISTENT option in Google Chrome, where on my filesystem do files get written? I'd like to drop files there and have Chrome interact with them while I'm building and debugging this app.
For me, at least on Mac OSX, they're stored under /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/File System for me. If you're using profiles, there will be profile directories instead of Default. However, each origin's saved files/folders are obfuscated under directories that won't be easy for you to interact with.
For debugging the Filesystem API, you have a few options:
Use this extension to view/remove files.
See the tips here: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/08/Debugging-the-Filesystem-API
That includes viewing stored files very easily using the filesystem: URLs.
Drop the Filesystem Playground demo (http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/filesystem/filer.js/demos/index.html) into your origin. You can use that to view/rename/delete files/folders easily.
Chrome DevTools now has support for the Filesystem API for viewing the files stored under an origin. To use that, you will need to enable the Developer Tools experiments in about:flags, restart, hit the gear in the devtools (lower right corner), and enable the 'FileSystem inspection' under the experimental tab.
Just for completeness: on linux it goes into ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/File\ System/
On Windows XP, it is here: c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System\.
On Windows 7, the location is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System.
It's not very useful to browse it because file and dir names are obfuscated (but content in files is unchanged).
As ebidel wrote the best way is using browser of filesystem: urls that incorporated into Chrome. It's excellent! You can get the url using fs.root.toURL() where fs is a FileSystem object that you get, for example, from window.webkitRequestFileSystem().
Seems like the filesystem storage is encoded to prevent exactly what was trying to do. I ended up writing a very simple file manager available here. Start up any web server (I like mongoose for its 0 setup) and go to the /filemanager.html route
I saved a file called log.txt on MAC
It ended up at
~/Library/Application\Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Storage/ext/panbljeniblfmcakpphmjmmnpcaibipi/def/File\ System/iso/p/00/
with file name 00000 and no ext
If you are using MAC OX, and you have more than one profile on your chrome, or you cannot find default in the path, replace default with profile. But depending on number of profiles you have, it could be profile 1, profile 2, etc
We are trying to distribute a basic HTML file with some links to a PDF document in a USB drive for advertising purposes. The idea is that an autorun opens up this HTML in the default browser. However, this might not be a good idea since it would look very amateur-ish and we will have to rely on the default browser's technology (which unfortunately has a good chance on being IE6/7!)
We've explored a few alternatives, but we can't find one that really fits what we are trying to achieve:
Mozilla Prism
Altough it seems like it's designed with offline web apps in mind, the executable creates files in the user's AppData directory and it's hard to configure the default paths. Also, Firefox doesn't have a default PDF viewer, so we will have to depend on the user's default PDF viewer (which might be Adobe Reader)
Mozilla Chromeless
Since Prism is inactive, the idea is still developing with Chromeless, which allows the developer to create the browser interface with basic HTML/JS/CSS. The main issue here is that somehow the build isn't loading HTML, all that's showing is a gray iframe. I'm not sure if it's just me, because there's nothing on the issues page.
Portable App
We could throw in the portable version of Firefox or Chrome and customize the XUL for Firefox or open Chrome in app mode.
Firefox's advantage is that it kind of supports relative paths (resource://), but it doesn't have a built-in PDF viewer. Chrome has a very good and lightweight PDF viewer and the built-in app mode is a very useful feature for us, but I can't find how to open a local path without the usual absolute path (file:///C:/) since we don't know what's the drive's letter.
Has anyone figure out how to handle this kind of issues? Thanks.
This has been asked three years ago, but it's unanswered, listed high in Google, and I stumbled over the exact same problem and can imagine that many others that seek to ship portable web apps that can be run locally and with a minimum of dependencies will encounter this issue, too.
The solution I am now going with is the node-webkit.
You can treat it like a portable version of chrome, however it excepts a relative path to your app's entry point, is about 40 MB smaller, and much more customizable than the --app mode of chrome (which isn't customizable at all if I remember correctly).
Github & Download:
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit#downloads
An extensive guide:
http://thejackalofjavascript.com/getting-started-with-node-webkit-apps/
My usage suggestion for Windows:
First create an app package as explained in the guide linked above
For the node-wekit to load with your app, you need to start it like this:
nw.exe app.package
Where nw.exe is in the root of the zipped folder you downloaded and app.package is a zip file (can have any name) that contains your app data and package.json.
To do this silently, you can use a BAT file containing the (amended) call above and a VBS file containing something like this:
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "cmd /c launchNW.bat", 0, true
launchNW.bat being the name of your BAT file. Now run the VBS file; a window containing your web app should pop up without the command window appearing with it.
Finish reading the linked guide to learn more about customization options to do things like hiding the browser UI etc.
I'm trying to load images from a relative folder /media/one.jpg but it never loads, I use the same script to load from my local folder and it does.
The absolute path e.g c:/mydir/one.jpg does not work either. Earlier I used to throw things at my server and get jpegs from there. But for testing purposes I need these images locally available.
Any Idea?
Just solved it Use loadImage("media\ears.jpg"); double slash instead to single and it works :)
For security reasons flash files can access only web or only local files, with can be set in the project properties. If you want to build a web application like a webpage or just a part of a webpage, than you should choose network only, but this way you can test your work only on a webserver (that can be localhost too ). If you want to build a desktop application, witch has no relation to web, then select the "local only" option in your project properties.