Comments on: Increase Google Chrome’s Omnibox Popup Suggestion Count With an Undocumented Switch

By: Ish

Ish — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:07:05 +0000

Hi Geek
I tried this switch -omnibox-popup-count=10 . It doesn’t seem to work.
If I remove / apply the ” sign in front and the end of the full target name it gives an invalid target name error.
What to do. ——
More-ever I read in an article that a download in the chrome status bar can be dragged directly to the desktop.
But, was failed to do so.
Any comments ?? — mail me

Thanks
Ish Kapila

By: MatthewObrn

MatthewObrn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:46:26 +0000

Hi, i like the look of google chrome. I’m a firefox user, have been for years, I downloaded chrome and tried it for about 3 min and then deleted it. The reason for this is it’s simplicity towards saved passwords. Firefox has the master password option which allows you to encript your passwords so that anyone using your computer can’t login to any of your accounts. I had to disable this in firefox to let chrome import the passwords, but when i went to enable a function like it in chrome i had no joy. So based on this alone it had to go.

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:32:26 +0000

@TheGeek: Mind posting a how-to with instructions to remove the menu bar from Firefox? I’ve been looking, and I haven’t found an extension that deals with this the way I want it to (e.g., the menu bar disappearing). Thanks.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:18:49 +0000

@Marco: Here is what you get when you build Chronium manually on Windows: http://www.itwriting.com/blog/.....omium.html

I have yet to get it built on my Kubuntu Hardy i686 box, but I haven’t looked into it much yet.

By: Matt Freedman

Matt Freedman — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:31:40 +0000

@Marco: Google Chrome is Chromium. Chromium is just a codename (like Longhorn for Vista), they are the same product. As such, if you were to build Chromium manually you would end up with Google Chrome.

By: Vincenzo

Vincenzo — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:44:29 +0000

You don’t need an ad block plugin.

Just download and install PRIVOXY, then configure Chrome’s proxy as 127.0.0.1:8118.
Privoxy is a proxy that filter almost all ads in the page you visit.

Download and install PRIVOXY (www.privoxy.org)
Go in Chrome’s options (inside the wrench button), then choose “Under the hood”, press the “Change proxy settings” button, then the “LAN settings…” button.
Activate the “Use a proxy server for your LAN” check box and put 127.0.0.1 in the address text box and 8118 in the port text box.

By: Shawn McCollum

Shawn McCollum — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:55:04 +0000

It seems to be a automation interface. so far i’ve got basic javascript functions to work.

if(13) {print(5+6)} else {print(4+7+3)}
for (i=0;i

By: The Geek

The Geek — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:25:39 +0000

@Shawn

I was testing that out, but didn’t have much luck last night… if you figure it out send me an email.

By: Shawn McCollum

Shawn McCollum — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:42:46 +0000

Try this one.

-remote-shell-port=10

Then telnet into your localhost on port 10. I’m not sure what you can do with it but i’m checking on it. I’m also not sure what the normal port is for it, might be a security issue since there’s no login needed, but it also only allows localhost to connect. I’ll have to use ethreal to see if there is any communication on that port.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:02:37 +0000

I wonder why people still think that Chrome is OpenSource. It is NOT. Chromium is OpenSource. Google Chrome is based on Chrome and it�s doubtable that Google will ever publish the source code of any Chrome updates.

But people who want an Adblocker can simply use Chromium… and develop an adblocker.