Questions tagged [google-chrome]
[google-chrome] is for questions related to development with Google Chrome, a web browser that uses the Blink rendering engine. Warning! General support for the browser is off-topic: questions about using or configuring the browser should be posted on https://superuser.com. Chrome OS and Chromium are off-topic: questions about [google-chrome-os] or [chromium] should use those tags.
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Official locator strategies for the webdriver
In the official W3C webdriver documentation, it's clearly stated that the location strategies are:
State Keyword
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CSS selector ...
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Access variables and functions defined in page context from an extension
I want to control youtube.com's player in my extension:
manifest.json:
{
"name": "MyExtension",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "...
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Is Chrome’s JavaScript console lazy about evaluating objects?
I’ll start with the code:
var s = ["hi"];
console.log(s);
s[0] = "bye";
console.log(s);
Simple, right? In response to this, the Firefox console says:
[ "hi" ]
[ "...
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Disable same origin policy in Chrome
Is there any way to disable the Same-origin policy on Google's Chrome browser?
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Accessing `window`/DOM/HTML of the webpage from the extension
I'm writing a Chrome extension and trying to overlay a <div> over the current webpage as soon as a button is clicked in the popup.html file.
When I access the document.body.insertBefore method ...
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How does chrome driver interact with Chrome browser?
It says
ChromeDriver is a standalone server that implements the W3C WebDriver standard
It looks like W3C WebDriver standard only defines the interface between the automation program and ...
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Weird behavior with objects & console.log [duplicate]
This code:
foo = [{id: 1},{id: 2},{id: 3},{id: 4}, {id: 5}, ];
console.log('foo1', foo, foo.length);
foo.splice(2, 1);
console.log('foo2', foo, foo.length);
Produces the following output in Chrome:
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Chrome / Safari not filling 100% height of flex parent
I want to have a vertical menu with a specific height.
Each child must fill the height of the parent and have middle-aligned text.
The number of children is random, so I have to work with dynamic ...
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Hide scroll bar, but while still being able to scroll
I want to be able to scroll through the whole page, but without the scrollbar being shown.
In Google Chrome it's:
::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
But Mozilla Firefox and Internet ...
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Can a website detect when you are using Selenium with chromedriver?
I've been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you're using Selenium even though there's no automation at all. Even when I'm just browsing manually just ...
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Disabling Chrome Autofill
I have been running into issues with the chrome autofill behavior on several forms.
The fields in the form all have very common and accurate names, such as "email", "name", or "password", and they ...
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WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser
I am trying to launch chrome with an URL, the browser launches and it does nothing after that.
I am seeing the below error after 1 minute:
Unable to open browser with url: 'https://www.google.com' (...
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window.close and self.close do not close the window in Chrome
The issue is that when I invoke window.close() or self.close() it doesn't close the window. Now there seems to be a belief that in Chrome you can't close by script any window that is not script ...
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Disabling Chrome cache for website development
I am modifying a site's appearance (CSS modifications) but can't see the result on Chrome because of annoying persistent cache. I tried Shift+refresh but it doesn't work.
How can I disable the cache ...
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How can I make setInterval also work when a tab is inactive in Chrome?
I have a setInterval running a piece of code 30 times a second. This works great, however when I select another tab (so that the tab with my code becomes inactive), the setInterval is set to an idle ...
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