Chrome Desktop Remote Extension
Latia Shiels
This is the companion extension for the Chrome Remote Desktop website ( ). This extension enables you to install, view, and modify the Chrome Remote Desktop native client from the web UI.Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.Chrome Remote Desktop is fully cross-platform. Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows and Mac desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks.For information about privacy, please see the Google Privacy Policy and the Chrome Privacy Notice.For help or troubleshooting please click here:
I ran into a small bug when accessing 1password while trying to use Chrome Remote Desktop. I have a large number of computers that I can remote into over Chrome Remote Desktop, and I keep them all in a secure note in 1password. I love the redesign 1password 7, but the issue is that not only does 1password not recognize which program I am using and attempt to fill, it does not come up at all.
To the best of my ability I don't think it is any user error or anything that I can help or fix on my own. It seems to be a bug which has arisen from the recent update to 1password 7, as this was not an issue in 6.
I hadn't used Chrome Remote Desktop before but I set it up and can reproduce the issue you're seeing. I haven't personally come across a report about Chrome Remote Desktop yet so you may well be the first to report it. I will file a bug report and we'll see about getting this fixed.
The bad news is until we have a fix in 1Password it looks like your best bet is to access the Secure Note via the main 1Password window. Not great but at least it will allow you to work around bad behaviour.
I've moved this to the Mac category because the Chrome Remote Desktop app does't appear as a Chrome process or directly use the extension. Whatever is happening here is the direct fault of 1Password 7 outside of the extension.
Thank you for the tip @johnwilson! I would expect things to work in this case, since the remote software is running directly on the operating system. We have anyway opened an internal issue to see if we can do anything to make it work through Chrome Remote Desktop as well :)
I have an Android tablet and smartphone and there are pages of apps in Google PLAY related to remote desktop. I have Chrome installed on both my Android 4.4.2 tablet and xubuntu 14.04.2, with the remote desktop extension for Chrome by Google installed on both machines. Is it a best practice to install the X11 server, if planning on any remote access to Linux?
Ubuntu has a built in VNC server. search for screen sharing and configure. which is better, is a matter of which performs more practically for you. VNC will be compatible with many of the Android apps, if you want remote access outside of your home network don't forget to forward TCP port 5900 in your router to your computer
When you open chrome remote desktop app, on the right side there is an arrow that opens the settings of the app. There you can set the screen options like full screen or screen selection screenshot of side bar settings in chrome remote desktop
I've found a workaround. You can open 2 chrome remote desktops on your laptop and open 2 sessions, one to each screen. But you have to use different ways to access, because if you use the same when you open the second session, it'll disconnect the first one.
So one of them you connect to the host using the option "remote access" and the other one you connect using the option "remote support" (this is the one you gotta generate a code). After connected, you select one screen to each session and change both to full-screen. A bit boring doing all these steps, but after done it works well.
SO the only way I have been able to solve this is by spanning the screens on the local desktop, then starting chrome remote desktop, showing both monitors from remote desktop, and going into full screen view. The resolutions are weird, but it does work where you have your one remote laptop screen on laptop screen and then your remote screen on your my screen. its still hit or miss. sometimes it looks great, other times its very fuzzy.
I use the chrome remote desktop and the TeamViewer at the same time - remote desktop for the first screen and the TeamViewer for the second screen. In this way, you can achieve dual monitor environment remotely. I hope this will help you.
I have already implemented a working Chrome extension to manipulate cookies from within the browser, not unlike EditThisCookie. Basic functionalities include adding, removing, editing, importing and exporting cookies.
Currently, importing and exporting cookies work with JSON flat files that have to be sent around, so for increased convenience, I was wondering if it is possible to import the cookies on my local computer directly into a remote computer via my extension. Basically, I would like to 'push and set' cookies from one computer to another. For simplicity, both are signed into the same Google account. Of course there needs to be a way to identify and authenticate the remote computer so I'm thinking of possibly using any authentication APIs that might be available.
As this idea is still in its infancy, I would like to ask if this is even technically feasible? Are there any technical limitations regarding Chrome extensions (how they are sandboxed etc.) that I should know about that would prevent me from achieving this goal?
Be aware that chrome.storage.sync will not provide a transaction log of all changes - only the latest state. Trying to store the transaction log in chrome.storage.sync so that you can perform the exact same operations is likely to hit storage quotas fast.
If the quotas or requirements of sync storage do not fit your use case, you'll need to make your own data backend server. It can communicate realtime updates to Chrome with chrome.gcm API or a WebSocket connection, and use Google's OAuth for authentication.
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I rarely do write-ups, but this one may be worth it. Many use Google's Chrome Remote Desktop - it's convenient, easy, more secure than several other 'home use' remote desktop tools, etc. After helping clean out a friend's computers, it's apparent to me how there's a phony/fraudulent version out there right now. At least at an initial glance, the 'scareware' seems to be a more clever and enhanced route of a scareware piece that has already been written up by Graham Cluley here and then here.
This all started when I was using a friend's laptop. While using the laptop, I noticed a pop-up asking to install/upgrade flash (downloading "Flashplayer.dmg")...an aware user would recognize it was shady.
Knowing not to mount the dmg file, I did the typical MalwareBytes scans, other common scans, and attempted to locate specific files to remove, etc. Some traces of malware were found, so they were removed. Unfortunately, cleaning this wasn't that easy.
We eventually noticed the same pop-up again a few hours later. I continue investigating the laptop, while my friend uses a different laptop...both start having the pop-up. Then we notice the iMac desktop starts getting it. I immediately glance at the Chrome Extensions, recognizing Chrome's syncing capabilities - at a quick glance, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. MalwareBytes did not fix any of the computers. Neither did Intego...the nagging pop-up would just keep coming up every few hours on all of the computers.
Once you recognize the problem, it's actually a simple fix. You just need to remove a fraudulent extension (specifically, one posing to be the 'Chrome Remote Desktop' in this case, from the Chrome browser). Yes, you can still run MalwareBytes to be sure afterwards - just remember that it didn't initially pick this up, using the latest definitions at the time of writing. Below are some more details on what made this extension scam clever...
Google's legitimate version of the Chrome Remote Desktop is a Chrome "App". The fraudulent version is a Chrome "Extension". What is worrying is that if a user simply searches for "Remote Desktop" or "Chrome Remote Desktop" in the Chrome Web Store, it shows the top 3 Extensions first, followed by the top 3 Themes, finally followed by the top 3 Apps.
Below is a screenshot to show how difficult it is to find the legitimate Google Chrome Remote Desktop, without knowing you need to go to the Apps section. Notice how the official Google version is nowhere to be found...instead, the fraudulent #2 and #3 spot is taken by "Chrome Remote Desktop" - however, the developer is "Chrome!Apps" and not "Google".
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