Iuse the stable version of Google Chrome as my default browser on my system. I now need to work on a project requiring the development version of Chrome, yet I do not wish to replace my system install of Chrome.
Does there exist a standalone package of Chome which can be unpacked into a folder and executed entirely from there? Ie, it should not require anything to be installed, it should not touch the profile associated with my installed version of Chrome. I should be able to download different versions of this into different folders, and be sure that they do not conflict with each other..
I believe Chrome on Windows installs itself into the Application Data (/Users on Win7) folder of a user. While I can't test this at the moment, try creating a new user account, install Chrome, then log into your other account. Then try running both at the same time. Might be a bit hard to find the executable.
Another option would be to run it in a VM. More expensive versions of Win7 have this somewhat built-in (you need to download an XP image from Microsoft, but the VM software is pre-installed, I think) but you can also install VirtualBox + your own ISO. On a decent computer system, you shouldn't get too much of a performance hit.
A really silly way of doing this is installing the multiple concurrent users Remote Desktop hack, Remote Desktopping to your own computer (if that's possible) and running the second Chrome install as a different user.
Go ahead and create the shortcut, then open Chrome Apps chrome://apps. The shortcut icon should be in there. Right click on the app icon and check "Open as window." After that, the shortcut will open as a window.
Like many others have said, --app= should do it for Chrome Version: 83.0.4103.61. The --kiosk option opens a chrome tab, not a borderless "app" window. I'm on macOS Catalina and decided to brew cast install chromium and ran:
For example, create a chrome shortcut on my desktop and set the command line flags to open up a specific web page, and have the URL/Search and bookmarks bars hidden, and have it so it is not possible to open up new tabs in that window.
So about a month ago, where I had a quiet evening in the airport I pulled Chrome DevTools from the git repo, and wrapped the app with node-webkit. A few hours later, after figuring out how node-webkit worked, I had a functional prototype of DevTools as a standalone app.
In these "material times", where everything is getting re-designed into the material design pattern, it was natural for me to grab the AngularJS Material components, and try to create a somewhat material-inspired UI.
As a developer, with no special design expertise, I spent quite some time reading the Material design specification, and I was quite surprised how little "desktop" focus there is in the spec. It's like the design team simply have forgotten that we have this thing called a "desktop" computers, where we use these oldschool interactions called mouse and keyboard.
So I spent quite some time searching for examples of how material should be applied to desktop apps, and after a while I came to the conclusion that there wasn't any great examples around, so I started experimenting.
Let me introduce what I call the Chrome DevTools App. It's a standalone app that runs Chrome DevTools in its own process. It's powered by node-webkit, and it's able to run on Windows, Mac and Linux, completely independently of Chrome.
When you start the app, you are presented with a list of "targets", similar to how they are presented inside Chrome at chrome://inspect. For now, you'll need to have an instance of Chrome running with remote debugging enabled, before the targets show up, but going forward we can make that much easier.
Click one of the targets and you are taken to the second screen in the app. This is where Chrome DevTools is instantiated, and connected to the relevant Chrome Remote Debugging endpoint. From here you can use Chrome DevTools just like you are used to within Chrome, there's no difference.
Chrome DevTools is pretty damn close to being a fully featured editor. I've been quite vocal about this in the past, as I still think DevTools should be something different than an editor, but in the perspective of separating DevTools from the browser, we could easily make the editor part of DevTools much more prominent.
With relatively few UI changes, as DevTools already have functionality to read the filesystem via its much hidden Workspaces feature, we could easily turn DevTools into something like a basic version of Brackets. It's straightforward.
Another perspective of seperating DevTools from the browser is the independence of one specific browser. If Chrome DevTools wasn't bundled together with Chrome, but something you installed seperately, we wouldn't have the bias of DevTools only working with the browser it came bundled with.
With DevTools separated from one specific browser, a natural next step would be making the DevTools app work with other browsers. I already explored this idea about a year ago, in my What if you could use Chrome DevTools with Mozilla Firefox? blog post, where I showed how my RemoteDebug Firefox adaptor, could be used with Chrome DevTools.
Imagine if we invested time in such adaptors, and the Firefox adaptor was packaged as a Firefox extension (yes, it's possible). Firefox instances would then be able to showed up in the "targets" list within the DevTools app. The same tool, now with multiple browsers.
We have already seen this with projects like node-inspector, that enables developers to debug their node.js applications using Chrome DevTools. We have also seen other explorations like PonyDebugger, that allows developers to debug their native iOS applications using Chrome DevTools.
I find this perspective really interesting, as there's something about being able to re-use our tooling with various runtimes. It's just nice to be able to re-use all the hardwork put into DevTools, instead of reinventing the wheel(s), just because the runtime is different.
Today both node-inspector and PonyDebugger are including their own DevTools front-end, which is a version of Chrome DevTools hosted via a small HTTP server running locally. By having DevTools as a standalone app, there isn't a need for these tools to include their own front-end.
Instead they simply should make their remote debugging endpoint discoverable to applications like Chrome Devtools App. Imagine if we used mDNS to expose remote debugging targets on the network from various runtimes like node.js and browsers, and made the Chrome DevTools app look for them.
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The 1Password manager extension is our newer 1Password in the browser: -started-browser/
It is a standalone extension that does not connect to the desktop app (yet) and shows up automatically inside usernames/password fields when you visit a website, making it super easy to autofill and save new logins or even generate passwords.
We recommend using this extension because of the enhanced autofilling it provides. It does not have a keyboard shortcut to autofill because it will show up inside the fields automatically, making it unnecessary to press a keyboard shortcut.
The "1Passowrd extension (desktop app required) is our good old 1Password Classic extension. It connects to the desktop app and allows it to interact with your browser and autofill in websites. It also allows you to unlock 1Password with Touch ID and remain unlocked when you close the browser, as well as utilizing the desktop app's keyboard shortcut (CMD + / ) to autofill.
However, this extension does not show up inside usernames/passwords and every time you need it you will have to call it manually by using the shortcut or by clicking its icon on the top right corner of your browser.
This extension will probably not get updated anymore but it is still a valid option that you can download from our website.
I have a related question. I use a stand alone license on a Windows laptop. My laptop broke and I am setting up a brand new laptop. I have the 1P Windows app working fine on my standalone license. I installed what I believe is the new Chrome extension and it is forcing me to sign into my account with email, secret key and master password. Since I have a standalone license I do not have a secret key. How can I get this new Chrome extension to work?
The new 1Password browser extension always only supported vaults on 1Password.com, so far it has never supported standalone vaults (this was the case even before desktop integration was temporarily removed).
Based on this thread here, it appears Touch ID integration is in the works. And point #2 is explained in your response when you say the chrome extension "is a standalone extension that does not connect to the desktop app (yet)".
Yes, I understand that it wasn't supported when desktop integration was being tested before, but thought that there may be plans to merge the classic extension with the new extension, as the desktop app and new extension will soon be able to communicate directly with each other.
I admit the second point is nitpicky and there's an element of "who moved my cheese". It's not the end of the world for me to click into the field first and I use Vimium, so I can still do it with the keyboard regardless.
I am still confused. You guys say I must choose between 1Password (in the browser) and the 1Password Classic Extension. You guys say don't use both, but if I only use the new In The Browser 1Password, I no long have 1Password in my system menu bar and I NEED THAT FOR ACCESSING 1PASSWORD WHEN NOT ACTUALLY LOGGING IN OR CREATING A LOG IN.
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