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Google Chrome Portable - How to launch a local file as homepage?

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January 28, 2011 - 10:17am

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manuel1982

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Google Chrome Portable - How to launch a local file as homepage?

Hi,
I'm trying to setup a CD with Google Chrome Portable (using the stable).
Google Chrome should startup with an HTML file that is located on the disk.

I tried to do this via
[code]
AdditionalParameters=--homepage=file:////%PAL:DriveLetter%//index.html
[/code]

but this didn't work.

Does anybody know how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Manuel

January 28, 2011 - 7:49pm

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Aluísio A. S. G.

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Try without drive letter

Can you try using --homepage=\index.html?

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January 28, 2011 - 10:32pm

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Multiple Problems, 3rd one is major

The file protocol has 3 "/"s

where http is "http://", file protocol is "file:///"

Use "/", not "//"

No need to escape /s here as the launcher adds this value verbatim to the end of the command-line

%PAL:DriveLetter% is part of the PortableApps.com Launcher

AFAIK it is only used within 1 specific .ini file (AppNamePortable\Data\settings\AppNamePortable.ini) which isn't part of Google Chrome Portable's launcher.
Also Google Chrome can't find the a webpage at file:///%PAL:DriveLetter%/PortableApps/GoogleChromePortable/help.html [Firefox won't even try]

After some testing I'm thinking that you would probably have to rewrite the launcher to make this work.

~3D1T0R

January 29, 2011 - 2:30am

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Not using PAL

Google Chrome Portable isn't currently using PAL, so its environment variables aren't available (and it won't expand environment variables at all, either).

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March 8, 2012 - 5:49pm

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NXSmiggy

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Did anyone get this working?

Did anyone get this working? i'm looking for the same thing but via USB drive

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