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Questions tagged [google-chrome-os]

This tag is dedicated to questions about Chrome OS.

Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.

One of the popular usage is on Chromebook - http://www.google.com/chromebook/

For more details: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

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Kiosk Mode on non-managed Chromeboxes?

I'm trying to turn on Kiosk mode for an non-managed chrome box following the official instructions but when I'm on the chrome://extensions page in developer mode there is no Add kiosk application option. Did this get removed at some point leaving…
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Google Chromebook / Chromebook Kiosk mode - does the browser/app run in incognito mode? Does it accept cookies?

I have successfully set up a Chromebook on Kiosk mode, however the app don't seem to remember my login details via cookies. i.e. if I click on "Remember me" on the webpage after I enter my username and password, it will not remember it next time it…
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Update Chrome OS emulator for Android Studio

I am developing an application for Andropid with a min sdk of 30. I have no problems testing it on phone or tablet emulators, but I have not been able to do it for Chromebooks. I have installed a Chrome OS Device emulator in Android Studio, but it…
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Chrome OS Emulator is crashing on startup

I tried to debug my Android app on Chrome OS emulator in Android studio. This is the tutorial I followed: https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/emulator The problem is, it crashes on startup. If I try to launch it via terminal, I get this…
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How do I find out the IP address of my Crostini container?

I'm running a Node.js server on Crostini, and trying to access it from and Android browser running on the same Chrome OS device via localhost:8080 doesn't work. I've tried penguin.linux.test:8080, but that didn't work either. Looks like the Android…
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How to detect Pixelbook Pen button?

I follow the doc here to catch the button pressed on Pixelbook pen while drawing, but the TOOL_TYPE_ERASER event is never thrown. When I tried to print the log, I don't see any differences between holding and release the button:…
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Chromebase Kiosk App - Invalid Application

I am attempting to create a kiosk app for an Acer Chromebase that I have. I know the Chromebase is setup to accept and run a kiosk app successfully as I used a publically available kiosk app to test and the Chromebase ran it. So that part of it I…
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Using File System as source of videos for playing offline

I am trying to add offline functionality to my HTML5 video player. I am attempting to write the files into the chrome file system as a blob and then read them from there. I believe that I am running into an issue where the files are not actually…
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How to test android app for Chromebook compatibility without having Chromebook hardware?

Google announced android apps support in Chrome OS on Chromebooks. Is it possible to test my android app on Chromebook without having Chromebook hardware? Any emulator or VirtualBox image, etc?
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How to enable developer mode on Chromium OS running in VM (virtualbox)

I am trying to test android app on Chrome OS running in VirtualBox based on these instructions on android developers site. One of steps is to enable Developer mode on Chrome OS. Instructions for some devices can be found here but I am not sure how…
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Event to detect "Tablet" mode transition in Chrome OS?

I recently purchased an ASUS c100p Chromebook and noticed that when the device is flipped all the way back into "tablet" mode that sizable windows are maximized by default. If they have fixed window bounds they are effectively treated as modal…
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Unable to register U2F token from the Chromebook login window

We have our own SSO server which has the feature to allow U2F token registration from within the authentication process. This feature works well on a PC using Chrome (with or without the U2F browser extension). It also works well when used from the…
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Detecting Chrome OS with Javascript

I want to detect Chrome OS with Javascript, and I'm using navigator.userAgent for this. Now, I'm running Chrome OS, and my navigator userAgent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 6680.78.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.102…
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Why is this Google Chrome (Hosted) App invalid for Kiosk mode?

I have been trying to make a Kiosk Mode App from my Chrome book. But when I go into the "Manage Kiosk Applications" and enter in the Chrome Store URL for my app, I get a "Invalid Application" error, but if i just install the app from the store, it…
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Insert mode on Google Keyboard

I've just been typing HTML in a browser tab online and all of a sudden had triggered insert mode (where typing overwrites the following character) using a keyboard on a Chromebook (Chrome OS) - I had no idea how to switch it off so just had to save…
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