A new set of Chrome Avatars, or Profile Icons have landed in the Chromium builds the other day. Now you can set Ninja as your profile icon.
Until you get the option to set your own profile icon anyway!
With this “initial drop of avatar icons”, Chrome Profile system and the “logged in experience” is set to make it to the prime time. We will soon see this being pushed to Dev builds and hopefully, as a part of Chrome 14 stable version when it comes out. If you want to download the .png files, click here.
Proxy Per network Per User
Another feature was added to Chromium today. This one lets you have proxy settings per user, per network. Here is the full documentation on this change.
feature: implement proxy per network per user – previously, proxy is per device i.e. one proxy for all networks for all users, and only owner can persist changes while non-owners can only change proxy during a session. – now, proxy is per network per user, i.e. each shared network can have a proxy for all users, each private network can have a proxy for each user, it’s up to each user if he/she wants to use the proxies of shared networks. this cl does several things: – migrate previously persisted protobuf-formatted device signed settings to string property on flimflam for each network that becomes active (i.e. that is connected to). – proxy changes are no longer persisted as signed setting to device; instead proxies are persisted to flimflam and only for the specific network and for the logged-in user if network is private. – in oobe/login screen, proxy configuration is only for network that is currently active i.e. being connected to. so to change proxies of different networks, you have to first connect to the network, then open the proxy page. – after login, proxy configuration is only enabled for remembered private networks or where user chooses to use shared proxies of remembered shared networks, regardless if network is active or inactive. – after login, proxy section is removed from “Under the hood”, and chrome://settings/proxy is no longer accessible. instead, on chrome://settings/internet, click on “Options” button of a network, in “Network” tab, if proxy is configurable, “Change proxy settings…” button will open the proxy page. – each time user connects to a different network successfully, proxy of that new network takes effect in the network stack, as will be reflected in chrome://net-internals/#proxy. bug: in proxy page, manual settings (http,https,ftp,socks) don’t show up. – fixed in javascript. BUG=chromium-os:13052,chromium-os:15278,chromium-os:17409 TEST=verify that proxy can be modified for different connected networks in oobe/login and different active and inactive networks after-login, and the different proxies take effect when switching between networks.
Hope you enjoyed this edition of the Chromium Story:-)
I figured the goofy (sorry) looking avatars had something to do with profile changes brewing.
I like how you phrased the ending line. I’m waiting for an angry outburst.
It was certainly humorous.
Do you think the Chrome team will polish the Chrome profile avatars, like the Chrome OS team did for the OS, or do you think it will leave them cartoony?
Want to add my own.
But now my spy is watching me from the corner of my black theme
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