Chrome

Extensions

• wasavi — vi editor for any web page.
• cVim — Vim bindings for Google Chrome.

My cvimrc:

set noautofocus

" Mappings - same as Penta.dactyl on Firefox
map <C-u> scrollPageUp
map <C-d> scrollPageDown
imap <C-i> editWithVim

" Mappings - custom
map <C-j> nextTab
map <C-k> previousTab
map <C-o> lastUsedTab

Start cvim_server.py on startup:

./cvim_server.py &

• Vimium — Vim-like extension for Chrome / Chromium - not tried yet.
• Session Buddy — A tab management extension for Chrome, recommended by several HN readers. Not tried yet.

Session management

• Tab Session Manager

In Use. Support LAZY load of session. Support AUTOSAVE, but NOT to user saved sesssion (so when closing a session we want to keep, existing session must be replaced). DOES NOT save HISTORY.

• The Great Suspender

To try. Seem to provide simple session management feature in addition to suspend tabs.

• Session Buddy

Lot of user, but apparently no lazy load.

• session manager

NO LAZY loading.

How-To

Manually install an extension

• Download the extension source (for instance from GitHub)
• In Chrome, Go to More tools → extensions, and click the checkbox Developer mode.
• Click on Load unpacked extension..., and point it to extension source directory (containing manifest.json.

Fix ZScaler authentication - import ZScaler SSO cookie

ZScaler is a corporate filtering proxy. Users must login with Single-Sign-On to get access to internet resources. If authentication fails in Chrome but, say, works in Internet Explorer, one can import the authentication cookie in Chrome/Chromium and hence skip the failing authentication step (from calebcoffie.com).

• First, go to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files, and locate the zscaler cookie, which is named cookie:%username%@gateway.zscaler.net.
• Open the cookie in WordPad (or copy/paste into WordPad). You should have something like this, where the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX are the actual cookie (secret) value:

_sm_au_c
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
gateway.zscaler.net/
...
...
...
*
_sm_up_c
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
gateway.zscaler.net/
...
...
...

• In Chrome, create a new cookie using extension EditThisCookie, and import both cookies above using the templates below, where the cookie value must be replaced with the one found above:

{ "domain": ".gateway.zscaler.net", "hostOnly": false, "httpOnly": false, "name": "_sm_au_c", "path": "/", "secure": true, "session": true, "storeId": "0", "value": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "id": 1 }

{ "domain": ".gateway.zscaler.net", "hostOnly": false, "httpOnly": false, "name": "_sm_up_c", "path": "/", "secure": true, "session": true, "storeId": "0", "value": "XXXXXXXXXXXX", "id": 1 }

Enable Chromecast

To enable chromecast support in Chromium [1]:

• Go to chrome://flags/#load-media-router-component-extension
• Set to Enabled.
• Relaunch.

Troubleshooting

chromium: Blank window when used over ssh tunnel

When opening chromium through a ssh tunnel, the application opens but all pages are blank.

The problem is apparently linked to a broken MIT-SHM detection code [2]. Download the fix from this link or this archive, then compile and load it:

cc -shared -o XlibNoSHM.so XlibNoSHM.c
LD_PRELOAD='libdl.so ./XlibNoSHM.so' chromium