I'm not sure how to even ask this question, but let's say I have a program such as Google Chrome. How would I find out the "features" of it so I can use PowerShell to modify it.
For example, how would I have Chrome open a web page and click a button.
I know for IE, you can use $ie.document.getElementById("loginform").submit() to click a button.
Thank you,
Tony
You can't ever really get the same amount of control over non-Windows programs using Powershell.
In terms of Chrome, you could simply open the browser and go to a webpage with:
$Start-Process "chrome.exe" "www.google.com"
There is generally not that much more for further functionality, but with Chrome you may be able to do things like change settings and configuration. Check out the (large) JSON file Preferences and other config files, which you can find in Chrome's local appdata folder (Win+R, %localappdata%, Google/Chrome/User Data/Default). I'm not too sure but it may also be a bad idea to mess around with these files.
I also did a Google search and found this third party powershell tool for browsers, called Selenium. Here's the list of extensions.
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I always debug the WebView control with VS, I refer to the this official document Debug a WebView control in a UWP App.
Recently, I found there is a best way to debug the WebView control by using the
Microsoft Edge DevTools Preview App.
The problem is that it seems the only way to install the tools is Microsoft Store. Unfortunately the Miscrosoft Store is blocked on my machine, I want to know is there any other way to get the Microsoft Edge DevTools Preview tool? Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.
I found this article https://windowsreport.com/download-microsoft-store-apps-without-store which seems to show a way of doing this.
I cannot state if it definitely works yet as I have to wait for my IT to department to decide if it can be allowed.
Steps are:
Visit https://store.rg-adguard.net/
Enter https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/microsoft-edge-devtools-preview/9mzbfrmz0mnj
Download the file ending in appxbundle (to it's own directory not just "downloads")
Open Powershell as Admin
Execute something like Add-AppxPackage -Path "C:\Users\WindowsReport\Downloads\ee2546d7-f0e5-4aa2-be54-032299162322" (change path to the download directory you used earlier)
If you get errors you may need to download additional files from the same place you got the appxbundle file
We tried to load scripts but something went wrong.
Please make sure that your network settings allow you to download scripts from the following domain:
https://aid-frontend.prod.atl-paas.net/atlassian-id/front-end/4.5.0
Tried Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet explorer also tried with different PC.
Not able to login into bitbucket
I'm using Chrome Version 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit). I got the same error trying to log in to my group's Atlassian site, and I was able to fix it by specifically allowing JavaScript from Atlassian:
Open Chrome settings
Click on Advanced
Click on Privacy and Security
Click on Site Settings
Click on JavaScript
Make sure JavaScript is set to allowed
Next to Allow, click Add
Paste the URL from the error message in and click Add
I've faced a similar problem recently while traveling and trying to work from a new location.
First I've tried the steps from the previous answer which unfortunately didn't help me (but they definitely may be useful in a different case scenario).
I'm renting a house with an existing pre-configured WIFI router which I could get an access to manage it over the web UI.
I'm not sure which of the following helped me. I did the following changes to the router configuration:
Added the 8.8.8.8 as a primary DNS Server
Enabled IPV6
Disabled the built-in firewall (this one is the more likely one which fixed the issue)
I have a question about my ActiveX control not always working in IE on other machines.
Context: I'm working on an internal app for my company. It is designed to be a standalone web-page config tool for viewing a static customized version of our web app. The user may select the colors, images, and other settings they would like to see, and these will be present in the static mockup/preview version on their machine when they click a button.
Implementation: my javascript file creates a filesystem/activex object that essentially creates a temporary javascript file to which a list of values are written. Then when the user previews the configuration, the javascript file is located and values are loaded dynamically into the dom, etc etc. Naturally this functionality only works in Internet Explorer and is shady at best, but is my only way of implementing a purely zero configuration, client-side dynamic webapp.
Problem: When I test out my script, Internet Explorer prompts me twice about ActiveX controls and I say "yes" to them and the ActiveX functions work. I do this every single time I open my page. But sometimes when I send the file to another person so they can use it, they don't get the notifications so it doesn't work. However sometimes they do get notifications and it does work! I am using default security settings for IE so there should be no difference between my settings and theirs.
Could this be related to my user permissions vs theirs, or the fact that the files are read-only (because they are coming from source control and are also being made read-only when put on the shared drive.) or unknown dark Microsoft forces beyond human comprehension?
Thanks,
Josh
I believe you may want to create an HTA (HTML Application) instead of a web page. Writing HTA's gives you more privileges as far as ActiveX objects are concerned. Check out this page from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496(v=vs.85).aspx.
To answer your question about privileges, I believe that some of your coworkers' IE settings probably prevent web pages from using ActiveX objects. Your settings may be such that you are prompted whenever ActiveX object are about to be created.
I'm developing an internal Google Chrome Extension that needs a way to initiate print the current page to the printer. I do not want the default Print dialog to come up (so, javascript:window.print() is out of question).
As far as I understand, this is not possible just with the JS + HTML plug-in, so I'm also open to using the NPAPI plugin also (with a dummy mime-type). And I'm concerned for Windows platform only.
I'm also open for various hacks / workarounds if possible, though a standard solution would be nice.
If you think this is not possible, let me know if you know any feature request logged for it?
Any suggestions/clarifications are welcome..
In chrome (v18+) we have the --kiosk --kiosk-printing switches. One can print automatically to default printer without print confirmation.
You can see it from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6UHjuvI7IE
Since NPAPI allows you to create native C++ plugins that you can interact with through an object tag (which you can use from an extension), that would probably be the way to do it.
The tricky bit is that I don't know of a good way to get the bits for printing the page. The only person I know of who has done something similar to this actually got the window handle for the browser (available through NPAPI) and scraped the bits off of it to print that way, but that won't take into account print stylesheets or anything. You could also try using automation events to try to control the print dialog, but I have no idea if that would work or not.
By design, the browsers try not to let you do something like this, as it could open some serious vulnerabilities if any website could just start printing things to your printer without confirmation...
Anyway, if you find a way to do it with C++ you can use FireBreath to ease the creation of the NPAPI plugin.
There are various extensions that take snapshots of the current web page (for example, this one); you could adapt one to send the image to a printer via an NPAPI plugin.
I've recently been looking for a similar ability, and it seems like it would be quite possible using Chrome's new native messaging api.
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging
There are plenty of examples of this with C#, but here is one quick example of troubleshooting Chrome native messaging with a basic C# application
Native messaging from chrome extension to native host written in C#
I realize this may be a day late and a dollar short, but in case anyone else comes across this question, this is the solution that worked for me. From inside a C# app, you can directly print to installed printers using the PrintDocument class. If you figured out a way to get the page image, this would be far easier than using firebreath or NPAPI.
Disable print preview in Google Chrome on Mac
Quit Google Chrome
Launch Terminal on your Mac. (Search “Terminal” using the Search box)
Type defaults write com.google.Chrome DisablePrintPreview -bool true
Close Terminal and open Google Chrome
Disable print preview in Google Chrome on Windows
Close Google Chrome
From your desktop, right click Google Chrome
Click Properties
In the dialog box, add ‘ –disable-print-preview‘ at the end of the Target field sans the apostrophe (make sure to include the space before –)
Click Apply
Disable print preview in Firefox on Mac
In the address bar type “about:config” and press Enter.
Right click on the page, hover over ‘New’ and click on ‘Boolean’
Type ‘print.always_print_silent’ as the preference name and click ‘OK’
Click on ‘true’ and click ‘OK’.
Close the about:config window.
Disable print preview in Firefox on Windows
In the address bar type “about:config” and press Enter.
Right click on the page, hover over ‘New’ and click on ‘Boolean’ Type
‘print.always_print_silent‘ as the preference name and click ‘OK’
Click on ‘true’ and click ‘OK’.
Close the about:config window.
https://support.dryfta.com/how-to-disable-print-preview-in-chrome-firefox-on-windows-mac/
I want to insert some script into every page, which have some functions that will be called by the modified HTML of that page, using a Firefox extension. I am able to insert the JavaScript into the head of the HTML, and also modify the page, but the java script functions are not called by the onmouseover event.
Does someone has any pointer on how to do that, using java script in local extension or as a online resource.
No GreaseMonkey, I need to do it with my plugin and not ask user to install greasemonkey, my plugin and the scripts.
Greasemonkey does this. It's excellent!
Make a Greasemonkey script. See Userscripts.org for lots of example ones to work off.
Why not use Greasemonkey? It allows you to execute javascript on any page on Firefox, and if executing the code you enter isn't good enough you could dynamically add links to the head, too.
you can modify the DOM using Firebug. I am not sure if you can load files locally.. sounds malicious. Also, you can just run arbitrary javascript commands in the Firebug console (a la python/ruby console)
There are some Greasemonkey-to-extension "compilers" (or extension-wrappers) out there:
Arantius's GM compiler
Gina Trapani's multiple-GM-script compiler
I've used the first one with extensive internal tweaking over time. However, I don't believe the compiler is actively maintained (default max-version is only 3.0), so may not be up-to-date with the latest GreaseMonkey, or FireFox.
I think Gina Trapani's is more designed for multiple scripts targetting the same domain, but I haven't used it.
Neither of these is a "GreaseMonkey solution" per se, as the end-user never has to install GreaseMonkey. They get a real-live FireFox extension. The core is very similar to GM, but you can change or add as much as you like.