I am developing a little extensions called "Tab Bundler", which in short saves all the open tabs in a window into a bundle that can be opened with the click of a button. When a bundle is opened however, no history of how the user got to that url is saved, ie. the user can't click back to see how they got to that url. This is functionality I want to implement. I looked for a while, googling, looking thoroughly through the google chrome extension documentation: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/history.html. But I couldn't figure out how to get this information without tracking it myself. Is that the only option I have? Any thoughts would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
Look, many people tried this before. You are not alone in this quest!
At the moment the answer in Google Code was: anybody asked for it when they where developing the History API. Then there's no elegant way to access tabs' history.
Of course, you can hook chrome.tabs.onUpdated to record every page and make your own tab's history...
You could probably hook chrome.tab.onUpdate as well as some state or focus change hook to correlate.
I really want this, please make it!
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I'm building react based web-app which is available as PWA in iOS. I have done so much R&D to solve my problem, but ended up with nothing. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated, let me explain the problem in detail:
In my web-app (PWA in iOS), there's a dashboard where list of external links are available, when you clicks on any link, it opens that link in in-app browser rather than a mobile's native browser. The reason why I want this is...
As I said there are list of applications, so, for example, let's say I'm clicking on link-1, the PWA opens the in-app browser, I'm login into that web-app, doing some work, then coming back to dashboard (PWA), and clicks on another link-2, it opens that web-link in in-app browser again, I'm login into that web-app, doing some work, then coming back to dashboard, now, when I'm clicking on link-1 again, it opens that in the in-app browser, and I have to login again go into the page I was on and do my work. This is little frustrating for user to having login again and again.
As I said these are external application, which means I don't have control over it, so can't store the token and pass it again when user clicks on the link.
I want somewhat like browser like experience where in, user does not lose his progress, even if he has opened multiple links from the dashboard, he can easily switch between the tabs.
The solution that I tried so far:
Open directly PWA of a link that I'm trying to open when click on link
(the iOS doesn't support this yet)
Open the mobile's native browser
(though business doesn't want this, as it's not good experience as user have to switch between PWA and browser, but still this is the only solution I can see)
(I tried window.open, _blank, but no luck with that in iOS, though it works well in Android)
Tried many solutions like: rel='external', _blank options, etc.
(but no luck so far.)
Tried loading external link in iFrame
(Due to security reason, it refuses to load external link)
I'm open for any solution that can fulfill my need. Even if you don't know the answer, please do like the question, I'd really appreciate your help, thanks in advance!
Looking forward hear everyone's thought on this.
I've developed and deployed my own custom add-on with some bookmarks in it. Now I'd like to know if it's possible when I click on one of the bookmarks, a webpage is loaded in to the sidebar.
So far, I've come to the conclusion that .setOpenAs(CardService.OpenAs.FULL_SIZE) or .setOpenAs(CardService.OpenAs.OVERLAY) is possible. Am I missing something here or is it just not possible?
Thx in advance!
You can't open a website within a sidebar addon. It'll be better if you create a browser extension to do it.
That sounds like a good feature tho, feel free to fill out a feature request on https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=191597&template=823911
I am working on an application that asks individuals to paste links to their social media and other relevant sites as part of the setup process. These later get turned into links on a compiled HTML page.
We are seeing a user issue that is arduous to deal with. When setting up the account on mobile, individuals do not understand that they need the website link to these various places, they try and open the target sites app instead (Facebook as an example), or they stare blankly unsure of what to put in the box or how to proceed.
I'm looking for a solution to this conundrum to help people achieve their ultimate end goal of putting the link on the resultant page.
I tried an iframe approach, whereby the thought was to load the target site, allow the user to navigate to the desired page, and hit a done button. Obviously this approach ran into several road blocks due to security restrictions and frame busting implemented by the various sites.
What would be great would be something like the file input, but for websites instead. We have the "URL" input; however, that only checks the URL for validity, I'm more interested in an approach that would open something akin to the file dialog, that would allow a user to navigate to a site and hit "done"
I've not been able to find anything that comes close. I'm seeing if someone knows something I do not, or has an idea I haven't yet tried. Ultimately, I'm trying to make it easy for an average consumer to choose the target for a link. (I'm fully aware how easy it is to open a browser tab and copy the link, I am truly supporting consumers who find that somewhat difficult / confusing)
Thank you for your time and consideration
I have also asked this question here at the chromium Google group.
I would like to be able to keep a context menu open even after a user checks, or unchecks, a checkbox. My plugin allows users to check which devices they are using when testing and when testing multiple devices, it is frustrating to open the context menu several times to tick each device.
Does anyone know of a way to do this? It does not seem to be supported natively. I don't really want to use some magic to re-open the menu, if possible, after a user checks a given device, hence the question here. If it is the best (yet hacky) way, then fair enough. I hope it's not! I think menu flickering would also look bad.
No, there is nothing in the API to allow that.
It might be an interesting feature request - if you're willing to spend time to formulate it at https://crbug.com/
I have a few Facebook groups and pages and they all work fine with sharing whatever I want. But on my main page (last 24 hrs), whenever I try to share something, all that happens is the share box pops up for a millisecond (no text) and simply vanishes.
I’ve tried it in both Chrome and Firefox, and on different computers, cleared caches, the lot; same result. It’s a fully public page too, so it’s not a security issue, I would think.
At the moment, the only way I’m able to get a rough idea what’s going on, is using Chrome’s right click → inspect element, or Firefox’es similar function. I’m not sure what I am looking for though, and I presume there is better software to debug things like this.
What software or plugins do you need to see what the code is actually doing as it executes? And hopefully highlight hangup points or show me where the issue likely is.
If this is an issue with Facebook products and not an issue with platform, the best way to highlight this issue is to file a bug report using Facebook's Report form (https://www.facebook.com/help/326603310765065/). It is highly likely that this is a known issue that engineers are working on, but it doesn't hurt to report the bug.