Hot answers tagged chrome-for-android
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The Chrome page in the app store says this about the new permissions:
This version requests two new permissions, Camera and Modify Audio Settings, to support WebRTC, an experimental feature under development.
WebRTC itself is designed to expose your camera and mic to the browser, so that web-apps can implement video-conferencing and other multimedia ...
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It does not, and Flash is also not supported as of now. Information Week reports (and I can personally corroborate):
Web apps and extensions, including Adobe Flash Player, are not
supported in the initial release of Chrome for Android Beta.
Trying to visit the extensions Web Store page on my Xoom results in a page which simply says the following:
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I've ended up using Tasker, it is trivial to create a task to kill a specific application (Google Chrome), than add a shortcut (widget) to that task on the screen.
Edit: I've actually created a task that not only kills Chrome, but restarts it afterwards as well, all in one click:
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Since EbookDroid is open source, I took a quick glance at the AndroidManifest.xml, the pertinent information is this part, between lines 24 and 33:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
<category ...
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One way to trigger the hover on links is to long-press the link, wait for the menu to appear, and the press the back button to cancel the menu. This also works in some other browsers.
Note that this doesn't work on all links. Just tried on the example you mentioned, doesn't work, probably because there's a slight delay between the onMouseOver event and ...
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There's no direct relation between the Chrome Mobile and any Firefox version.
What you can do, is to synchronize the information from your Chrome mobile to the Chrome desktop version, and then, using a desktop application, pass the bookmarks for any other browser.
Xmarks is a FREE Bookmark Sync application that supports among others, synchronization ...
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The short answer is: no, Chrome extensions (which are packaged as .crx files as mentioned below) are not supported on Chrome for Android.
This is answered in detail by the Chrome Web Store FAQ:
Will apps work on Android?
If your app is pure HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript and is hosted on your servers there is a good chance that it will work in the ...
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I didn't find any way to do this except by connecting your phone to your computer and using remote web debugging feature to change user agent string.
Use this documentation to enable and start using Remote Debugging: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/debugging
Open any web page in your Chrome for Android
Navigate to localhost:9222 in Chrome ...
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For now, AFAIK, every action associated with a mouse click can be accessed using a touch or a long-touch. Combo using a key-press and a touch aren't well supported (if supported at all).
Long-Touch over a link, gives you a popup with:
Open in new Tap;
Open in incognito mode;
Copy link address;
Save link as.
For future reference, Google Chrome shortcuts ...
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Yes. According to the guide here on sideloading apps onto your Kindle Fire HD it should work fine. You will need to allow the installation of apps from unknown sources which can be done in the Device menu. Note that for certain apps, including Chrome, that need a Google account you'll need to download and install the Google Framework and to reboot your ...
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Because Android apps don't have an "exit" button like PC and Mac programs do, when you leave Chrome (or any other app), it's designed to preserve all the state so that it'll be there for you next time. If it closed all the tabs every time, then whenever you try to "share" a link, or paste some information into email, or even if you take a phone call while ...
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The Javascript engine in Android's Browser/WebView can be either JavaScriptCore (lower end phones) or V8 (higher end phones). Chrome also uses V8. Both engines are written in C++.
Javascript is never compiled to Java bytecode, instead it is interpreted and/or JIT compiled into ARM bytecode.
My guess on why V8 on PC is much faster than V8 on Android is ...
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Google Chrome Application for Android
The Google Chrome Application for Android comes with some sync features as to allow users to keep their web-experience mirrored to other devices or desktop computers.
You need to be signed in on the services screen:
If you're not on the sign-in services screen, touch Menu > Settings > your email address to manage ...
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The amount of scroll you get on a fling is based on the friction assigned to that flick action. In the stock browser the friction assigned to the vertical fling is really low. So your fling isn't a command to get to the top / bottom of the page, there just isn't enough friction to stop you from getting there. You can test this by finding an insanely long ...
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Firefox was never the default Android browser. The actual default browser is based on the open-source WebKit engine, which also powers the Safari browser on desktops, laptops and Apple's iOS-based mobile devices.
In the other hand, Chrome is based in Chromium and offers more options and performance than the stock browser.
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According to their bug tracker, WebRTC is currently broken on Firefox Android. You can get audio or video, but not both, and attempting to get both results in your getting neither.
As for Chrome Android, it's only in the beta (M25 and later) and is disabled by default. To enable it, type chrome://flags into the url bar, then scroll down and find the ...
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With a combination of Tasker and Rotation Locker you can keep your auto-rotation off but create a profile that sets the orientation for certain apps.
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Launch Chrome
In the overflow menu, choose Settings
Under basics, tap the entry for your account
Disconnect the account; you'll be warned that the data will remain but you'll lose your synchronization
Tap Sign in to Chrome at the bottom of the screen
Choose the account you want to use for synchronizing
Obviously for this to work you will need to have ...
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There is very little you can do! The calendar application is wired up to trigger a open intent to the web browser to accept the invites, its written up in the package's manifest.
<activity android:name="GoogleCalendarUriIntentFilter" android:label="@string/app_label"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay"
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Chrome's tab switcher view is only available on phones, not tablets. This is by design, since phones don't have space for the tab bar that tablets have. The Chrome documentation describes the differences between phones and tablets in how you work with tabs.
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As I wrote in an addendum to my question, the issue was user error stemming from the less-than-obvious way the Android OS file system works. Everything visible in the file system is under a top-level (the real top) directory called "sdcard". Thus, file:/// URLs only work for paths like file:///sdcard/foo/bar.
I'll add with questionable relevance that if ...
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It seems the method you describe is currently the only true way of doing this. However, if you press the back key, it will close the current tab once you've gone back through the history of THAT tab. So if you open up lots of tabs but then close each one after reading, this is a very quick method for you (1 click). If you do extensive browsing in each tab, ...
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There is no way to change this for just one app, but it can be changed globally by increasing the DPI value.
You will need to be rooted to change the DPI value. This app will change your device DPI.
You will have to play with different values, but take a nandroid first!
Edit: I played around with DPI values and 240 will force the phone ui mode for apps. ...
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This is probably because of the amount of RAM on the device you are using. It sounds like the system gave the RAM that was being used by Chrome to the phone app. It saw that Chrome was no longer the active app and the phone app was requesting more RAM so in order to free up the RAM it had to close Chrome.
If Chrome was using a majority of the system RAM, ...
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How to get mobile site in Firefox to be displayed as in Chrome for Android if spoofing doesn't help?
Note that both iOS browser (safari) and Chrome (desktop or for Android) are based on WebKit engine. That's why they are so similar in what they render.
Firefox browser uses a much different engine: Gecko.
As an answer for what you want to do, I think that given the CSS and javascript the mobile site loads is different depending on the rendering engine, ...
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Turns out I was doing it wrong (well at least on my my ROM).
You need to perform two double-taps.
Double tap the URL. The first tap will select all of the URL and the second will deselect it and give you the text cursor and that little text selection tab helper thing.
Double tap the URL again to bring up the menu.
Or you can just keep quickly tapping ...
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You could workaround this problem by sending the page to Gmail App, and there you can copy the URL from the draft message body. Then you can delete the draft from Gmail.
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Looking at the hardware specs of your phone, having 412MB of free space is equivalent to having just 2.5% of internal storage available, which seems pretty close to a low memory condition. I read somewhere (can't find the page now) that during installation you need twice as much space as what the app will finally use.
So for installing Chrome, which uses ...
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If you go to Setting\Apps\Chrome and scroll down to "Launch by default" and hit "Clear defaults" it will stop automatically opening in Chrome and will ask you which app to open it with when you hit "Yes/Maybe/No". However, if you try to open with Calendar it still goes to the browser with the same issue.
One workaround I have found - there is an app called ...
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When you request a web page using a web browser, your web browser sends User Agent string with this request too. Using this string, a website can detect technical specs of user viz. web browser, OS, device etc. In case of Nexus 7, Blogger isn't pushing mobile version. So, better contact Blogger dev team for that. Its a Blogger issue.
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