I’m a big fan of Google Chrome, i’ts fast, and clean, and it does exactly what it says on the tin! I had noticed, I had a problem playing embedded video though.
As I use this format on PeteNetLive it was my only gripe, (well that and syncing bookmarks, but I cured that with Xmarks). Took me a bit of searching but I got it fixed in the end.
Solution
1. Download THIS (Yes I know it says Firefox – trust me!).
2. Close all your browser windows.
3. Run the file you downloaded above.
4. Now you can play embedded video.
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You’re used to having a “Page” icon, and a “Spanner” icon in Google Chrome. But now it’s disappeared?
Solution
Don’t panic, the new version of Google Chrome has amalgamated both icons into one, all the tools from the old “Page” icon are now on the “Spanner”Icon.
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A recent update of Chrome (in my case to 6.0.472.59), turned off AutoFill, I use autofill to remember information for web forms a lot, so because I’m lazy I wanted it turned back on again.
Solution
1. From with Chrome, Click the “Spanner” / “Customise and Control Google Chrome” Icon > Options.
2. Select the “Personal Stuff” tab > Form autofill section > AutoFill options.
3. Tick “Enable AutoFill to fill in web forms with a single click” > Close > Close.
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It’s annoying but for some reason Google Chrome simply downloads .jnlp files rather than opening and launching the Java applications. You would think that associating .jnlp files so that they open in Chrome would fix the problem, but it does not.
Solution
1. Go to the link that you are trying to launch the Java application from, and Chrome will download it, as before.
2. By default Chrome will list the download on the bottom of the page, and to the right of the filename is a small drop down arrow, click it.
3. From the menu that pops up select “Always open files of this type”.
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Did you know you can install Java and Flash with the Ubuntu Restricted extras pack?click here
At the time of writing, Adobe have pulled the previous beta of x64 bit flash for Chrome, which is annoying because I am running it on my x64 Ubuntu 10.10 box.
Solution
To be honest more of a workaround than a solution, but you can get chrome to install the x32 bit version and it will run it as a separate process.
1. Launch a terminal Session (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), issue the following command followed by your password.
I’m running Chrome 11.0.696.25 beta (At time of writing) and I’ve seen this error a few times, usually with Facebook, and it’s been more of an annoyance than anything else. I’ve seen it on my Windows 7 machine, and on my Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook.
Solution
1. Launch Chrome and click the Spanner Icon > Options > Under the hood > Content Settings.
2. Select “All cookies and site data.”
3. Select Remove All >Restart your browser and you should be fine.
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I know all modern browsers can open multiple ‘Home Pages’ at startup, but that’s not what I wanted. There are a few tech sites that I visit once a day, and they are all in my bookmarks. I tediously click each one to visit these sites. So I thought ‘There must be a way of opening all these sites, at once, from a batch file or a single command?”
I use Chrome as my browser of choice, so I worked out how to do it, then I thought “I wonder if Firefox will do the same?” (it will). Finally for completeness I thought I would do the same for Internet Explorer, and lost the will to live! (That’s why it’s not included in this article).
It took me twenty minutes to find out how to delete a cookie for a single site today. All the information I found was for older versions of Chrome, that had the ‘Under the bonnet’ section.
Solution
1. As shown open the browser settings.
2. Show advanced settings.
3. Scroll down to the Privacy section > Content Settings.
4. All cookies and data.
5. Here you can simply “Remove All” to get rid of all of them.
6. Or search for specific sites, to remove single cookies.
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