How to Add Chrome OS menu to Google Chrome Browser – Easy and Simple !

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Remember this post and this post about changing Chrome browser in to Chrome OS in just two clicks ? And yes, that page stopped working as soon as people started using it. But, we have found a save fix, thanks to OMG Ubuntu, a great blog for ubuntu users, and here it is, simple, and easy.

The Chrome OS menu is at http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu for now. However, if you access this page directly on Chrome browser, it will not work. So, here is the first step you need to do, make a small change to your browser settings

  • 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, and ROCK ON !!

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someguy February 7, 2010 at 3:54 pm

This does not work on 4.0.249.78 beta (36714).

Chrome opens about 12 tabs with each address being a part of the user agent string. And before you ask, I’m not missing a “.

chrome story February 7, 2010 at 7:33 pm

@someguy

Can you try updating the version to Dev ?

Kurt February 8, 2010 at 10:19 am

Having same problem as someguy. Doesn’t work at all.

chrome story February 8, 2010 at 10:25 am

@ Kurt

Strange … this is working fine for me on 5.0.317.2 dev .. can you try Dev version ?

Fred Zelders February 8, 2010 at 4:50 pm

And what are the instructions for the Mac OS X version?

Kurt February 9, 2010 at 7:04 am

Yeah, apparently this is only a dev version type of deal. :(

chrome story February 9, 2010 at 10:40 am

@ Fred

I am still looking for this info ! I dont have a Mac with me :(

@ Kurt

Wanna try it ? :D

Fred Zelders February 10, 2010 at 9:09 pm

Sorry, an’t figure out myself

Fred Zelders February 10, 2010 at 9:09 pm

Sorry, can’t figure out myself

Lagarto February 13, 2010 at 8:59 am

Here is the solution, just change the quotes to normal quotes…
-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

chrome story February 13, 2010 at 10:00 pm

@ Lagarto

it this for Mac OS X ?

Lagarto February 14, 2010 at 2:19 am

Must work in any OS, but i can’t try in a mac right now.

chrome story February 14, 2010 at 3:03 am

@ Lagarto

ok thanks :)

and lets wait until someone with a Mac tries this out

Fred Zelders February 14, 2010 at 7:57 pm

In Mac OS X a shortcut (called alias in Mac OS X) to a file or url does not have a ‘target’ property :-(

chrome story February 14, 2010 at 8:00 pm

@ Fred Zelders

thanks for the info … so are you suggesting that this trick won’t work on a Mac ?

Fred Zelders February 15, 2010 at 1:48 pm

@Chrome Story In Mac OS X it is not possible to ‘attach’ the target part.

chrome story February 15, 2010 at 2:42 pm

@ Fred Zelders

That’s a bad news :(

Fred Zelders February 20, 2010 at 12:28 am

But there must be a way of course.

Anyone a suggestion?

love2spooge February 21, 2010 at 5:39 pm

it doesn’t work on 4.0.249.89 beta (38071) (windows), i have Dev version on my Linux PC i will try there this…

chrome story February 21, 2010 at 8:37 pm

@ Fred Zelders @ All

any Mac users here ?

Lagarto February 21, 2010 at 9:33 pm

Sorry, but Mac is not for geecks.

chrome story February 21, 2010 at 9:44 pm

@ Lagarto

LOL … really ?

Josh March 24, 2010 at 4:59 am

It don’t work either.

Suhail April 6, 2010 at 9:47 am

Its very easy.
Download the latest beta version of Google Chrome from filehippo.com and then open the browser.
In the address bar type

http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu

Now right click on the tab and Pin the tab.
From now onwards every time you open chrome, this tab will be there by default.

Tested on Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Snow Leopard).

And yes there is no need to change anything in the properties.

So Enjoy !!!

ChromiumFrk September 25, 2010 at 11:00 pm

It didn’t work with me, mainly because i don’t have the dev build.

chrome story September 25, 2010 at 11:12 pm

don’t worry about it … Chrome OS store is almost here .. they will roll out the menu and other things soon, to stable version !q

Yoonsik Park October 19, 2010 at 5:43 am

@gprogram
Grrr. No spam!

chrome story October 19, 2010 at 3:18 pm

thanks ! I didnt notice that one … removed that one !

Shaunak October 23, 2010 at 3:32 pm

well it does work , just remove the quotes and remove all spaces from the tag

chrome story October 23, 2010 at 4:33 pm

thanks buddy !!!!

Shaunak October 24, 2010 at 3:44 pm

My Pleasure

Shaunak October 24, 2010 at 3:45 pm

If you search in google chrome extensions galley ” Chrome OS Menu” you will get an extension that adds a menu just like the above webpage.

But you can add new apps to that.

Please guys , try that

Derek January 3, 2011 at 10:17 am

Oh wow, it works!
The code posted above won’t work, but just change (original)

-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

to

-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

(change the quote signs)
and it works fine.

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