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How to Add Chrome OS menu to Google Chrome Browser – Easy and Simple !

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Chrome Os Menu

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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26 comments

1 someguy { 02.07.10 at 3:54 pm }

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 “.

2 chrome story { 02.07.10 at 7:33 pm }

@someguy

Can you try updating the version to Dev ?

3 一分钟将你的Chrome浏览器打造成”Chrome OS” » Chrome迷 { 02.07.10 at 8:36 pm }

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4 一分钟将你的Chrome浏览器打造成”Chrome OS” - 果冻的博客 { 02.08.10 at 12:31 am }

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5 Kurt { 02.08.10 at 10:19 am }

Having same problem as someguy. Doesn’t work at all.

6 chrome story { 02.08.10 at 10:25 am }

@ Kurt

Strange … this is working fine for me on 5.0.317.2 dev .. can you try Dev version ?

7 Fred Zelders { 02.08.10 at 4:50 pm }

And what are the instructions for the Mac OS X version?

8 Kurt { 02.09.10 at 7:04 am }

Yeah, apparently this is only a dev version type of deal. :(

9 Change Chrome browser into Chrome OS | Chrome OS Fans { 02.09.10 at 8:52 am }

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10 chrome story { 02.09.10 at 10:40 am }

@ Fred

I am still looking for this info ! I dont have a Mac with me :(

@ Kurt

Wanna try it ? :D

11 Fred Zelders { 02.10.10 at 9:09 pm }

Sorry, an’t figure out myself

12 Fred Zelders { 02.10.10 at 9:09 pm }

Sorry, can’t figure out myself

13 Lagarto { 02.13.10 at 8:59 am }

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

14 chrome story { 02.13.10 at 10:00 pm }

@ Lagarto

it this for Mac OS X ?

15 Lagarto { 02.14.10 at 2:19 am }

Must work in any OS, but i can’t try in a mac right now.

16 chrome story { 02.14.10 at 3:03 am }

@ Lagarto

ok thanks :)

and lets wait until someone with a Mac tries this out

17 Fred Zelders { 02.14.10 at 7:57 pm }

In Mac OS X a shortcut (called alias in Mac OS X) to a file or url does not have a ‘target’ property :-(

18 chrome story { 02.14.10 at 8:00 pm }

@ Fred Zelders

thanks for the info … so are you suggesting that this trick won’t work on a Mac ?

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20 Fred Zelders { 02.15.10 at 1:48 pm }

@Chrome Story In Mac OS X it is not possible to ‘attach’ the target part.

21 chrome story { 02.15.10 at 2:42 pm }

@ Fred Zelders

That’s a bad news :(

22 Fred Zelders { 02.20.10 at 12:28 am }

But there must be a way of course.

Anyone a suggestion?

23 love2spooge { 02.21.10 at 5:39 pm }

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…

24 chrome story { 02.21.10 at 8:37 pm }

@ Fred Zelders @ All

any Mac users here ?

25 Lagarto { 02.21.10 at 9:33 pm }

Sorry, but Mac is not for geecks.

26 chrome story { 02.21.10 at 9:44 pm }

@ Lagarto

LOL … really ?

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