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Remember this post and this post about changing Chrome browser in to Chrome OS in just two clicks ? And yes, that page stopped working as soon as people started using it. But, we have found a save fix, thanks to OMG Ubuntu, a great blog for ubuntu users, and here it is, simple, and easy.
The Chrome OS menu is at http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu for now. However, if you access this page directly on Chrome browser, it will not work. So, here is the first step you need to do, make a small change to your browser settings
- Right click on the Google Chrome Browser icon on your desktop.
- Select “Properties”
- Look for “Target”
- In the ”Target” box, after chrome.exe” put a space, and add the following line of code
- -user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5″ -pinned-tab-count=1
- Now, Click “Apply” and then “OK”
- Now go to “Options” menu in Google Chrome settings.
- Under “Home Page”, select ” Open This Page”
- Enter http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu
- Hit “close”
- Restart your Chrome browser, and ROCK ON !!
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This does not work on 4.0.249.78 beta (36714).
Chrome opens about 12 tabs with each address being a part of the user agent string. And before you ask, I’m not missing a “.
@someguy
Can you try updating the version to Dev ?
Having same problem as someguy. Doesn’t work at all.
@ Kurt
Strange … this is working fine for me on 5.0.317.2 dev .. can you try Dev version ?
And what are the instructions for the Mac OS X version?
Yeah, apparently this is only a dev version type of deal.
@ Fred
I am still looking for this info ! I dont have a Mac with me
@ Kurt
Wanna try it ?
Sorry, an’t figure out myself
Sorry, can’t figure out myself
Here is the solution, just change the quotes to normal quotes…
-user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5″ -pinned-tab-count=1
@ Lagarto
it this for Mac OS X ?
Must work in any OS, but i can’t try in a mac right now.
@ Lagarto
ok thanks
and lets wait until someone with a Mac tries this out
In Mac OS X a shortcut (called alias in Mac OS X) to a file or url does not have a ‘target’ property
@ Fred Zelders
thanks for the info … so are you suggesting that this trick won’t work on a Mac ?
@Chrome Story In Mac OS X it is not possible to ‘attach’ the target part.
@ Fred Zelders
That’s a bad news
But there must be a way of course.
Anyone a suggestion?
it doesn’t work on 4.0.249.89 beta (38071) (windows), i have Dev version on my Linux PC i will try there this…
@ Fred Zelders @ All
any Mac users here ?
Sorry, but Mac is not for geecks.
@ Lagarto
LOL … really ?
It don’t work either.
Its very easy.
Download the latest beta version of Google Chrome from filehippo.com and then open the browser.
In the address bar type
http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu
Now right click on the tab and Pin the tab.
From now onwards every time you open chrome, this tab will be there by default.
Tested on Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Snow Leopard).
And yes there is no need to change anything in the properties.
So Enjoy !!!
It didn’t work with me, mainly because i don’t have the dev build.
don’t worry about it … Chrome OS store is almost here .. they will roll out the menu and other things soon, to stable version !q
@gprogram
Grrr. No spam!
thanks ! I didnt notice that one … removed that one !
well it does work , just remove the quotes and remove all spaces from the tag
thanks buddy !!!!
My Pleasure
If you search in google chrome extensions galley ” Chrome OS Menu” you will get an extension that adds a menu just like the above webpage.
But you can add new apps to that.
Please guys , try that
Oh wow, it works!
The code posted above won’t work, but just change (original)
-user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5″ -pinned-tab-count=1
to
-user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5″ -pinned-tab-count=1
(change the quote signs)
and it works fine.
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