Enable the Default Web Apps in Chrome 8
Google Chrome Webstore is at our door steps. Lets get ready to welcome it. Chrome 8 has already sneaked in to our PCs, and is capable of loading some default web apps.
Lets do a little editing and get the default Web Apps working on Chrome 8. Here is how.
1. Close all Google Chrome windows.
2. In Windows, right-click on a Chrome shortcut from your desktop, select “Properties” and append the following text to the Target field: ” –enable-default-apps” (don’t use quotes, but don’t forget to add a space before adding the command line flag). Click “OK” to close the dialog and then open Google Chrome.
On a Mac, quit Chrome, open the Terminal and paste this:
open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app –args -enable-default-apps
For Linux you could use this:
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome -enable-default-apps
3. Type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar (or click on the wrench menu and go to Tools > Extensions).
4. Click the “developer mode” link and then click “Update extensions now”.
5. After less than a minute, your new tab page should look like this:
Enjoy and don’t forget to share this with your friends. And yes, I almost forgot to say thanks to Google System Blog.
15 Responses to “Enable the Default Web Apps in Chrome 8”
Does this work with Chromium to?
Im testing it now.
Should work on Chromium
It dowsn’t work for me.
When Chromium opens, it opens a page that he cant load:
xn--enable-default-apps-475k/
I updated the extensions turned on and turned off, but still it doesnt work.
probably a typo in the code you typed ? extra space or something of that sorts ?
“C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe” –enable-default-apps
USERNAME is my username, but that is private.
Does this work on the Chrome 9 dev version? I’ve tried it with the terminal line with mac but it comes back with an error.
I can’t get it to work either.
I think we can better wait for 7 december.
The right syntax on the Mac is two dashes before the enable flag, no open, no –args.
Examples:
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium –enable-default-apps
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium –enable-default-apps
This said I just tried it on the latest build and it doesn’t seem to have any effect (yet)
nda
We should look here for the right switch: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc?revision=64662&content-type=text/plain
kurtextrem, if you search you’ll find
(of course you have to add the initial –)
nda
yeah, yeah, but in Chrome 9.x / Chromium 10.x it doenst work
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