Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Chromium OS Menu

(Note: I don't know how long this has been the case. I think it's recent)
Previously, the page for the main menu would be inaccessible to anyone without an @google.com email address (read: Google employees only). That page now redirects to http://welcome-cros.appspot.com/menu, and it only needs any Google account. If you use the Developer Tools ... thing, you can make a sidebar visible.




What's interesting is that the file browser entry links to http://kan.homedns.org/fb/, which I think was used in the original presentation of Chrome OS. Instead of having some cool integration with Microsoft Office files, it directly linked to Microsoft's Live editor. (Pretty weak, I know.) Obviously that feature's still in development.

3 comments:

  1. Cool.
    Exactly how do you make that sidemenu visible?
    Care to share?

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  2. Also would be cool to say where is the file browser showed at the screenshots, because the Chromium browses through the file:/// protocol and the UI presented is not very user-friendly =/
    PS: posting by Chromium OS running in virtual machine, and despite the system performance liking a lot =D very good work done 'til now, google, congratulations !
    PS2: go, magalmovel! go!

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  3. @Anon1: Google seems to have taken down the page, going to /menu just redirects to /. But I right-clicked on the page -> Inspect Element, found the sidebar element, and modified the CSS to remove display: none.

    @Anon2: Yes, file:///... is quite ugly. chrome://filebrowse (no r) is the new file browser URL.

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