Monday, January 3, 2011

about:flags




type about:flags into the omnibox to open a page where you can enable some experimental features

Media Player
Enables mp3 playback and video playback in a standalone popout media player.

Advanced File System
When you enable it, you can see a USB drive or SD card come up in a panel, but you’re unable to navigate through folders, making it impossible to open any files. This also enables the ability to make new folders when saving stuff to your downloads. It also adds a back button to the downloads shelf (ctrl+o).

Side Tabs
This changes the UI for the tabbed browsing interface. This is more likely to be used on widescreen monitors, and is not really that intuitive for laptop configurations.

Remoting
This enables the famed “Chromoting” remote desktop-style interface in Chrome OS. As of right now, it doesn’t appear to do anything more than enable the Cr-48 as a client, with the Chrome browser being the host on my other computer. The understanding now is that this will be different than Citrix’s Receiver products, which is aimed at using enterprise applications like SAP within Chrome OS.

Disable Outdated Plugins
With this option, any plugin that is out of date will automatically be disabled. The issue of plugins having vulnerabilities is an issue on a cloud OS that is supposed to provide for automatic updates. It will be interesting to see whether or not this will become a feature, which would seem to be the best idea to keep users from having to worry about old plugins.

XSS Auditor
This is another safety feature that arrived in Chromium at the same time as the outdated plugins flag. XSS allows for something called cross-site script injection which can put malicious code into your browser and then allow it to move on to other sites. Again, this seems like something that should come standard.

Background Webapps
Some web applications are going to require background processes to be running in order for them to work. This is a feature that may be required in future apps made by developers. It will notify users that there are app processes running via a number near the wrench icon. This is already a feature that is found in Chrome.

Click-to-Play
Click-to-play gives you the ability to choose what plugins run on a page . You have the option in the settings menu to determine whether or not you’ll see things on a site that you might deem annoying, like Flash advertising.

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