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[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.

Google Chrome is a free desktop browser that uses the Blink rendering engine (a fork of WebKit) and V8 JavaScript engine. It was launched in 2008 with a goal of making the web faster.

Tag alert! General usage questions about Chrome should be asked on Super User.
The tags below should be used on questions about development in the following areas:

• for Packaged Apps development in Chrome/Chromium
• for extension development in Chrome/Chromium
• for DevTools in Chrome/Chromium

Most of Chrome's source code is released as part of the open-source sister project Chromium. It was assembled from 25 different code libraries from Google and third parties such as Mozilla's Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, as well as and a number of other open-source projects.

is available in 53 languages and was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008, in 43 languages, officially a beta version.

Platforms

Chrome is available for:

  • Windows: Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
    (Windows XP is no longer supported: Chrome 49 is the last compatible version)
  • OS X: 10.6 or later
  • Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 or later / Debian 7 or later / openSUSE 12.2 or later / Fedora 17 or later
  • iOS 7.0 or later (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad)
  • Android 4.0 or later
  • Google TV

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Why do fonts appear jagged in Chrome?

My fonts seem to appear really jagged and and hard to read in chrome, how can I make them appear smooth? They didn't used to be like this.
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Is there any way to export time graphs from Chrome developer tool?

I'm using the Chrome developer tools to review a web site for a client, and it would be nice if I could export the results of the time graph. Is that possible?
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How to get cursor position in a Chrome DevTools source editor from extension?

I develop Open in Editor extension for Google Chrome DevTools that allows to open source file in external editor using context menu. It works perfectly in most of cases (Network panel, Performance panel, Style inspector, and so on) when file…
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Self-signed SSL certificates not working with MAMP and Chrome

SSL certificates created by MAMP are not working in Chrome. I'm getting a "Not secure" issue. Is there a workaround for this?
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Chrome ignores the ETag header and just uses the in memory cache/disk cache

If I understand correctly, the flow for using ETags works as described now: Browser sends the request to the server. Server sends back the image with an ETag Browser saves the ressource along with the ETag On the next request, the browser sends the…
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Why can't you create Custom Elements in content scripts?

I attempted to create a custom element in a Chrome extension content script but customElements.define is null. customElements.define('customElement', class extends HTMLElement { constructor() { super(); } ... }); So apparently…
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Google Chrome --allow-file-access-from-files disabled for Chrome Beta 8

I have been developing an AJAX application using jQuery and Microsoft Seadragon technology. I need to have access to the html5 canvas function toDataURL. With Google Chrome, the same origin rule applies to this function which means that a page run…
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Chrome Image EXIF Orientation Issue

I'm building a web app that shows pictures. Most of the pictures were taken by smart phones and have EXIF rotation information. I'm exposing a url which return the image blob without modification. I've notice that when I put this url in img tag…
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Strange diagonal lines in Chrome/Chromium (bug?)

When I use CSS filters, shadows, transformations, SVG (or similar), my Chrome/Chromium shows a strange diagonal lines: filter:drop-shadow(0px 0px 10px #dce810); transform:skew(-15deg); No error in Firefox (Windows) / Canary Chrome 58.…
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Chrome fails to free memory, garbage collection doesn't occur as expected (Mootools/MochaUI library)

Background: I'm currently working on an intranet site that makes use of the MochaUI library (working from the virtual desktop demo). I'm using Mootools 1.2.4 and MochaUI 0.9.7. The windows that are opened in my "virtual desktop" implementation load…
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Get Chrome's "Recalculate Style" Profiling Event Affected DOM Elements

Is there a way to actually get the DOM elements involved in Chrome's "Recalculate Style" event? All it says is like "59 elements". But it is very time consuming to slowly start removing elements from the DOM and re-running the timeline profiler to…
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AJAX request to local file system not working in Chrome?

I am working to dynamically create a UI from XML using jQuery. My jQuery is working in Firefox but in Chrome it's not working. It gives me this console error: Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome,…
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ERR_CACHE_READ_FAILURE in google chrome

more often than not, I get a list of ERR_CACHE_READ_FAILURE errors when loading a web page in google chrome - this results in assets not being loaded, images, style sheets etc. what would be the cause of this? I have tried disabling browser…
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Set a breakpoint in XHR in Chrome

I have a page that sends an XHR request when a form is submitted and I would like to get Chrome to break when it receives a response. It seems like the best way to accomplish this would be if Chrome has a javascript function that I can call that…
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Is WebRTC really peer-to-peer protocol?

WebRTC is a peer-peer communication protocol. I wonder, is it really peer-peer if it does require a web server? For example, to create a "room" one has to create it at apprtc.appspot.com or https://hello.firefox.com/something.
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