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Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome
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Recently Google added this annoying pop up to the dev channel.
Someone answered here (Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome) to edit the chrome.dll to get rid of the pop up.
However, the method described there does not seem to work anymore.
Additionally, it would be nice to have a batch script that patches chrome.dll should Google push a new update.
EDIT: Open to new hacks, since wOxxOm stopped maintaining his useful script (the manual method seems to be outdated as well)
I am adding here the official ways to solve this issue and I know they are not optimal, but it makes sense that these solutions are present here.
The first solution and the most complicated one is to create a Google Store Account and go through all the steps to activate it, with it you can upload your extension package and keep it Private, so you can share the link to this package to who will need to install it, this way that message will never show since the extension has been approved by Google team and it's secure.
The second option is to download the Chrome Dev Browser, linked Here, it wont show on the screen that you are downloading the Dev Channel, you have to trust it is happening. This version of the browser works side by side with the official version so you don't have to uninstall or anything, and all settings are separated so it's really like a different browser.
I am using version 64 of it and it solved my problem with the extension.
If you can't use dev/canary builds the easiest way to remove the pop-up is to package your extension and then use group policies to whitelist it, as outlined here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38011386/991321
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Is there a way to disable the same origin policy on the Mozilla Firefox browser by toggling a flag in the browser?
This is strictly for development, for not production use.
Please note:
A similar question asked 3+ years ago yielded an accepted answer that recommends users to install a plugin. I consider this less secure and more cumbersome than toggling a flag (e.g. in the about:config, or passing a parameter when starting the browser like in Chrome).
After having tried to find a Firefox setting for various hours, and after having opened a bounty, I think the right answer to this question is:
At the moment of writing (March 2018), it is not possible to disable the same policy origin in Firefox by simply setting a flag.
I would personally recommend people to use Chrome instead for this kind of work, because disabling this setting is very easy, quick and doesn't involve installing third-party software.
There is a boolean in Mozilla Firefox that should allow toggling of the same origin policy called security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy.
Go to about:config in your browser and accept the risk:
Then search for security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy and double click it to toggle it to false like so:
I have not tested this but in my experience, this is the flag controlling the same origin policy.
Rather than directly answer your question, this alternative might be viable if you also have ownership of the server
Get your server to add the following response header. (+ Apply a DevOps process or piece of code to ensure only apply this code during development)
Access-Control-Allow-Origin
.. With the value of your origin domain, e.g.
http://example.com or alternatively * for all domains.
So I wasn't able to do this using Firefox. I was able to do this inside of chrome using the following. My purpose was for testing endpoint access to a server without CORS being setup.
google-chrome disable-web-security -allow-file-access-from-files — allow-file-access
Your google chrome executable can vary to whatever you have linked it to.
Source: https://medium.com/#siddhartha.ng/disable-cross-origin-on-chrome-for-localhost-c644b131db19
I have the latest update for Nightly (34.0a1 (2014-08-14)). It addressed one of the two problems I have from the previous update, which was the disappearing input fields. The other problem was the shrinking of the Google search field. What can I do to fix this?
See screenshot here.
#Acnologia, we are aware of the issue and have logged a bug with Google for them to fix the issue. You can follow along on here if you need more details.
The way I worked around the problem was to close Nightly, open Internet Explorer, and then re-download Firefox Nightly over the version I already have (DO NOT DEINSTALL!). Apparently it reset the version back to "34.0a1 (2014-07-21)" - before the "Google Search Results Page Searchbar Too Small" issue started. Then each time I start Nightly and Windows7 asks me if I want to allow the application to make changes to my computer, I answer "No" so Nightly does not get updated.
Then, each evening after I get home from work, I Google the past 24 hours to see if the issue has been fixed yet, and I will not update Nightly again until it has.
I realize this is a cheap workaround, and I would love to be able to trust Nightly Updates again, but this common issue should have been foreseen before the build was released. - And I will give them another week or two to figure it out, and if not... bye, bye Nightly!
I'm making a windows app for a client using Chrome in kiosk mode. They'd like to burn the project to CD. While this works fine with chrome portable on a read access device it doesn't with a read only device. A warning pops up asking to temporarily copy it to the local drive to run from there. Clicking yes allows the program to work but i'd like to suppress this as they won't want to see it every time. Is there a way for me suppress the warning or cache to the cd before it's burned?
I need to use chrome, not another portable browser. I could be being naive and they're may be a better option than using Portable apps chrome download.
I asked the same question on the Portable apps website and got this response. It worked great although take note of the distribution license.
Add a text file called GoogleChromePortable.ini in your GoogleChromePortable folder that says
[GoogleChromePortable]
RunLocally=true
this will make it copy the profile to the temp folder on the computer and run from there whether it's in read only place or not.
also notice Johns reminder in Pyromaniac's thread (http://portableapps.com/node/37168#comment-207403) - giving someone, especially a "customer" a copy of Google Chrome, Portable or otherwise, is illegal, don't do it.
Link to forum
http://portableapps.com/node/37164#comment-207482
I've investigated the license agreement and found this
21.2 Subject to the Terms, and in addition to the license grant in Section 9, Google grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to reproduce, distribute, install, and use Google Chrome solely on machines intended for use by your employees, officers, representatives, and agents in connection with your business entity, and provided that their use of Google Chrome will be subject to the Terms.
So legal as long as it's kept internal. Works great if anyone ever stumbles on this question. Chrome makes an awesome portabl app.
To get around user policies you can try a pretty software does what you want.
http://codecanyon.net/item/html5-2-desktop-app-converter/4527199
This uses chrome engine and creates kiosk like portable engine for your given URL or local files. It makes pages looking like windows application. Hope helps.
Note: I'm not the author :)
Here's a link to where I got something that worked for me.
In the Support section, there is a performance note that advices copying GoogleChromePortable.ini from the GoogleChromePortable\Other\Source directory to the GoogleChromePortable directory and editing it to set RunLocally=true in order to increase performance, well this sorts out the warning that pops up.
However take note of the privacy implications of doing this as also stated in the same section.
Hope this helps someone.
You could try Chromium (portable) which also includes chromedriver from chromium snapshots page. Pick one with the biggest number (scroll down):
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/
Background to this problem: Within out company we are working on an add-on to help us do some nifty things. To make it easier to administer we would like to have a password required to at minimum remove the add-on, but probably also to disable it.
I've seen this achieved in for example Public Fox but this is non-sdk style add-on. So my question is if there's an easy way to do this using the SDK? I've looked through the docs but I haven't found anything, probably because I don't know what I'm looking for.
To anticipate the question "why not use that add-on as well?" I think it's enough of a hassle to make sure everyone has one add-on installed, let alone two.
If you want to lock users down, what you're really looking for is a deployment technique where your Firefox deployment installs your extension by default, and to an area of the hard drive that the user does not have write/delete access to. See the Mozilla Wiki for more details on ESR builds and enterprise deployments:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deployment:Deploying_Firefox#Firefox_Customization_.28CCK_and_Repackaging_Tools.29
Since Google stopped supporting Notebooks, I decided to look for alternatives and so I gave TiddlyWiki + TiddlySnip a shot. However, when trying to install TiddlySnip2.1, I'm getting this error:
"TiddlySnip" will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates
I followed the procedure specified in the site which is to add tiddlysnip.com in the Allowed sites-Add ons list but it still won't work.
And to add insult to injury, the support for the extension has been stopped as well.
My final workaround is to use an older version(1.21-beta), which I was able to find, but I'm finding it a bit unstable.
Did anyone have any success with this?
Thank you.
Eureka! Google has saved me! Their google group has a post on how to shoehorn it into Firefox 3.5.x: http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlysnip/browse_thread/thread/e5edef97dec18a17/ce49452f6397083a?lnk=gst&q=does+not+provide+secure+updates#ce49452f6397083a
Right Stumproot, however I just feel the need to look for alternatives.
OT, I went as far as going into the irc channel of tiddlywiki to find out and it seems that there's no other way around this issue than to use the older version.
I think that the TW community still plans to continue developing TiddlySnip but for now it's on hold so TW users will just have to make do with the beta version.