Quoting from https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/apps_vs_extensions: We’ve already had the concept of “web apps” in the browser for a few years, as something more rich and interactive than a website, but less cumbersome and monolithic than a desktop application. Examples include games, photo editors, and video players; all of these categories are viable as tightly focused apps running … Read more
The official way to disable the popup is this: Pack your extension: go to chrome://extensions, check Developer mode and click Pack extension Install the extension by dragging and dropping the .crx file into the chrome://extensions page. You’ll get an “Unsupported extensions disabled” popup if you try restarting Chrome at this point. Then for Windows 7 or Windows 8: Download Chrome group policy templates here Copy [zip]\windows\admx\chrome.admx to c:\windows\policydefinitions Copy [zip]\windows\admx\[yourlanguage]\chrome.adml to c:\windows\policydefinitions\[yourlanguage]\chrome.adml (not c:\windows\[yourlanguage]) … Read more
The default locations of Chrome’s profile directory are defined at http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory. For Chrome on Mac, it’s The actual location can be different, by setting the –user-data-dir=path/to/directory flag.If only one user is registered in Chrome, look in the Default/Extensions subdirectory. Otherwise, look in the <profile user name>/Extensions directory. If that didn’t help, you can always do a custom search. Go to chrome://extensions/, and find out the ID of … Read more
I’m currently building an open-source plugin for Chrome. It’s pretty far done — but there’s a couple bugs I’m trying to sort out. Essentially, a div (injected into a page’s HTML) that moves throughout any and all webpages needs to be the topmost element so that it’s visible. This is achieved by z-index @ 999. … Read more
Something that commonly happens is that the manifest file isn’t named properly. Double check the name (and extension) and be sure that it doesn’t end with .txt (for example). In order to determine this, make sure you aren’t hiding file extensions: Open Windows Explorer Go to Folder and Search Options > View tab Uncheck Hide extensions for known … Read more
I am writing a chrome extension. And I want to use jQuery in my extension. I am not using any background page, just a background script. Here are my files : manifest.json My background.js file just runs another file named work.js The main logic of my extension is inside work.js. The contents of which I … Read more
Instead of opening the file, you have to: extract it (crx are zip files), then visit chrome://extensions, enable developer mode, and load unpacked extension. The reason for this is: lots of people try to abuse chrome apps/extensions to install nasty applications to your browser. So Chrome tries to make it impossible to automatically side-load these … Read more
keep getting this error: “Manifest is not valid JSON. Line: 1, column: 1, Unexpected token.” i don’t understand what the issue is with my code? here is what i have so far:
speedtest.net is run by Ookla and their Speed Test application. Unfortunately they don’t provide any public APIs for speedtest.net which you could use. Although I doubt either of these meet your needs, they do provide Speed Test Mini and a hosted reporting solution for their full Speed Test software package (which includes CSV exporting capabilities). The reason you’re unable to … Read more
In recent versions of Chrome only CRX3 format is supported: Instructions for Repackaging Please see the following article for detailed instructions on how to repackage Chrome apps and extensions into the CRX3 format. If you use an open source library to build extensions please verify CRX3 support with that vendor. In addition you can use … Read more