Chromium Netbooks » how-to http://chromiumnetbooks.com Chromium Netbooks, News and Reviews Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:46:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How To: Add Chrome OS Menu to Google Chrome Browser http://chromiumnetbooks.com/chrome/how-to/chrome-os-menu/ http://chromiumnetbooks.com/chrome/how-to/chrome-os-menu/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:33:41 +0000 admin http://chromiumnetbooks.com/chrome/how-to/chrome-os-menu/ Want to add Chrome OS menu to the Chromium’s Browser? Follow these steps:

  • 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
  • That’s it!

Note that the Chrome OS menu page is, otherwise, not directly accessible

]]> Chrome OS menu which is the first tab is not directly accessible on the Chromium OS. Even it you enter its address, which is http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu, you won’t be able to access the Menu. However, there is a workaround –

  • 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
  • That’s it

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Thanks Kamal for the tip!

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