I am looking for a way to detect, within an extension, if a Chrome browser install CAN be opened in Incognito mode: I need to find the value of IncognitoModeAvailability.
I am not looking to find out if the browser IS in Incognito mode. Nor am I looking to find out if the extension will work in Incognito. Nor am I trying to make an extension work in Incognito.
I'd like the Chrome extension to be able to detect if the Chrome browser install even HAS an incognito mode as a possibility. Having trouble finding anything that speaks to this.
Any assistance is appreciated!
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I have an extension loaded into my Google Chrome and I’d like to be able to tell whether it is enabled or not without having to open Chrome and go to the extensions page. Is there a way to do that?
If that matters, the extension is located in the appdata/local/Google/chrome/default/extensions folder.
I'm trying to build a screen recorder as a Chrome Extension. The idea is that the recorder can log all mouse and keyboard events, and also store a stream of images from the browser client window. I want to do all of the recording from an incognito window. So far, I'm not managing. Is this even possible?
Yes, it's possible. User just has to allow incognito mode.
Here are the steps below to get this done:
1. In chrome://extension find your extension press details
2. Then Find the section that says allow in incognito.
Just turn it on, this will work.
We are automating chrome extension with sahi.
we have loaded our chrome profile with sahi with extension added on profile.
we weren't able to get dom elements of extensions.
so we are navigating to the url: chrome-extension:/extension_id/popup.html
but sahi doesn't navigate to this url.
but i have read with selenium we are able to get it.
Please help me out, with this automation
I'm not sure, I understand the problem here. But if you want to change some options on chrome. I use this Chromium Command Line Switches to find correct option to set when set browser on 'browser_types.xml`.
For example:
<options>--no-default-browser-check --user-data-dir=$userDir\browser\chrome\profiles\sahi$threadNo --proxy-server=127.0.0.1:$port --disable-popup-blocking --always-authorize-plugins --allow-outdated-plugins --enable-npapi --incognito</options>
I am able to launch Chrome browser with extension in the browser. But I am not able to interact with the extension.
When I launch Chrome browser manually, I go to chrome://extensions and configure command for that extension and set short cut like "Alt+H" to launch the extension from short cut and after hitting Alt+H the extension gets invoked.
But when I launch chrome browser with extension using watir webdriver, the configure command setting for that extension is not set. After I set that manually again to "Alt+H" and try to invoke the extension on the browser which is launched using watir-webdriver, I don't see extension getting invoked.
Please let me know how can I interact with the chrome extension using watir-webdriver.
I do not think watir can interact with the extensions. It can only interact with the page. But, I could be wrong. I had moderate success with Sikuli when I needed to do something like that.
Is there any shortcut or an extension to reload extensions in Chrome? This is a really big pain while developing extension for Chrome.
I think the best way to do this is to actually open the popup in a page. To do this use the URL:
chrome-extension://{extension-id}/{page.html}
This allows you to use Chrome Developer tools and when you press refresh the extension is refreshed with the latest code changes. It also updated the extension popup.