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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up a "clean" Windows XP sp3 machine with Chrome and minimal other 
software installed.
2. Install the ClickOnce for Chrome extension into Chrome.
3. Try to launch any ClickOnce application.  Rather than working correctly, the 
browser displays a "Missing Plug-in" message.

On a development machine with Visual Studio 2010 installed, the plug-in works 
correctly/as expected.

The problem is that the NPClickOnce.dll executable is compiled with the CRT 
linked as "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)", which means that the DLL requires that 
the MSVCR100.DLL runtime file be PREINSTALLED on the system.  If VS2010 is 
installed, or the runtime redistributable from VS2010 is installed, that 
condition is met.  For MOST end users, this condition will NOT be met, and the 
NPClickOnce.dll cannot be loaded, resulting in the "Missing Plug-in" message.

This can be fixed by changing the Project settings in VS2010, under 
Configuration Properties > C/C++ / Code Generation, setting "Runtime Library" 
which should be "Multi-threaded (/MT)" for Release mode, and "Multi-threaded 
Debug (/MTd)" for Debug mode.

This will increase the size of the NPClickOnce.dll, but will make the DLL 
usable without any unspecified prerequesites.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Launch the codebase URI from a program shell e.g.
http://somehost/apppath/applicationname.application

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The Chrome browser opens then a browser tab is opened that runs the application 
however the browser tab that has been opened remains open. The behaviour on 
Internet Explorer, which is the correct behaviour, is the tab that was open 
closes immediate leaving only the application running

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Window 7 32Bit. Chrome 26.0.1410.64m

Please provide any additional information below.
This prevents application developers from using platforms with Chrome as the 
default browser from launching ClickOnce applications programmatically

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Chrome 16.0.912.63 m
2. Try to install a ClickOnce .application manifest
3. It will just load on the screen as text

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expected the extension to work and actually launch the clickonce install.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Windows 7, Chrome version 16.0.912.63 m

Please provide any additional information below.

I have restarted Chrome, tried to uninstall/reinstall the extension but it does 
not appear to let me install a clickonce application despite the use of this 
extension.

Like Chrome, Firefox now prevents add-ins from changing the user agent string.  
The solution implemented by the .NET plug-in for Firefox is to set the 
X-ClickOnceSupport header.  See 
https://connectppe.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/667720/microsoft-
net-framework-assistant-1-2-2-for-firefox-does-not-report-net-version-in-user-ag
ent 

Might that also be possible in a future version of ClickOnce for Chrome?

Hi Eric,

First, thanks for creating this extension.

I'm on a project where we launch clickonce in a hidden iframe.  This solves two 
problems, the user doesn't leave the page and blank windows or tabs are not 
opened.

The "GoBack" method causes a problem with the above described pattern because 
it is going back in history for the main window not the iframe.  Since our site 
is essentially an ajax application it sends the user back to the login page.

I've coded up a way for this extension to read query string parameters.  And 
I've also made the GoBack function conditional.  So if the browser is chrome I 
can add the parameter "&cofc_goback=false" (where cofc is an acronym for 
clickonceforchrome).


        if (browserDetection.browser == "Chrome") {
            url += "&cofc_goback=false";
        }

        ClickFrame.location = url;

I've attached the cpp and h file.  I would like to contribute this code to the 
project.  Would you consider adding this contribution? Could you respond to 
issue post to let me know?

Thanks
John Cavalieri

hello -- using the scriptable embed method to avoid the page refresh issue in 
Chrome.  Our url actually navigates to a service we've built, launching our 
client application if it isn't running, and loading some content select by the 
user on the host page.

We're having an issue where this runs okay via a standard link, but when the 
embed launcher takes the same url as a parameter, the GET, as seen by Fiddler, 
shows the url terminated incorrectly.

Here's the href for the link we're using:

<a 
href="http://swebintegrations.goldmail.com/addtogoldmail/?url=http://cdn.goldmai
l.com/content/52659/Seasonal%20Messages%20-%20Happy%20Halloween%202_b8d6c1bd-3e8
1-4445-a801-766bb4b74afa.gld" id="click_once"><div id="get-gld-button"><div 
id="get-gld-button-text">Make a GoldMail With These Slides</div></div></a>


and here's what fiddler reports for the embed.launchClickOnce GET -- you can 
see extra characters at the end of the URL:

GET 
http://swebintegrations.goldmail.com/addtogoldmail/?url=http://cdn.goldmail.com/
content/52659/Seasonal_Messages-Happy_Halloween_1_954c886b-1763-4144-b37c-a36cac
019d7f.gldldd HTTP/1.1
Host: swebintegrations.goldmail.com
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) 
Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1
Accept: */*
Referer: 
http://127.0.0.3:83/Home/Assets?gmID=frczzc3soaxg&subject=Happy%20Halloween%20%2
31
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: NLVisitorId=TNpn61tXAZ-DW2RH; 
__utmx=266943000.00015014762103304041:2:1; 
__utmxx=266943000.00015014762103304041:1314061807:2592000; 
WRUID=74882544.1655182053; 
__utma=266943000.1513721706.1306194835.1314047543.1314061810.13; 
__utmz=266943000.1303164264.25.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); 
__utma=230474398.403552504.1316111825.1316111825.1316193720.2; 
__utmz=230474398.1316111825.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); 
ASP.NET_SessionId=rrssle0jzidti2moxsquywcy; 
VisitorID=93887a6f-f63e-474b-bd5b-02ae2ad6f5d5; VisitorCreatedTime=1317356089714

Finally, here's my embed code - I confirmed that the url was okay just prior to 
calling launchClickOnce

        <script type="text/javascript">
            //http://code.google.com/p/clickonceforchrome/wiki/AvoidingPageRefresh - avoid the forced refresh
            $('#get-content').click(function (e) {
                //hook the click function to the button div
                e = e || window.event;
                var element = e.target || e.srcElement;
                if (element.tagName == 'DIV') {
                    //alert($('#click_once').attr('href'));
                    var embed = document.createElement('embed');
                    embed.setAttribute('type', 'application/x-ms-application');
                    embed.setAttribute('width', 0);
                    embed.setAttribute('height', 0);
                    // Have to add the embed to the document for it
                    // to actually instantiate.
                    document.body.appendChild(embed);
                    embed.launchClickOnce($('#click_once').attr('href')); //get the href of the anchor tag inside the get-content div
                    // Don't remove the embed right away b/c it can
                    // cancel the download of the .application.
                    return false;
                }
            });
        </script>

Hello,

I feel that I'm not in the right place to ask for answers but I don't know 
where to do it actually.

I need to find a solution to deploy the plugin on multiple computers (SCCM 
package). The thing is I don't know how to do it. I tried to capture the system 
file modifications during the plugin installation, which are :

- C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Local 
Storage (chrome-extension_eeifaoomkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl_0.localstorage and 
chrome-extension_eeifaoomkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl_0.localstorage-journal have 
been added)

- 
C:\Users\97960a\AppData\Roaming\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Extensions\eeifao
omkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl (the folder 1.2.8_0 has been added)

When I copy / past those files and folder on a another computer and user, the 
plugin seems to not work (I don't see it in the extensions but I thing this is 
normal).

I saw this thread 
(http://code.google.com/p/clickonceforchrome/wiki/How_can_I_install_the_plugin_f
or_clickonce_manually) but during my capture nothing has been written on the 
registry (the thread is dated 2008...).

Does anyone know how to do it or if it's even possible ? Or at least where I 
can address this topic to get some leads ?

Thank you by advance.
Gilles

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download any ClickOnce installer
2. The page is reloaded
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The page should not be refreshed to keep the current state.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.2.1
Windows 7
Chrome 23

Please provide any additional information below.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Chrome for Work
2. Run "Setup ClickOnce for All Users.bat"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I receive and error:  Chrome is not installed for this user(s).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

ClickOnce Launcher 2.0.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Installation appears to be working using "Setup ClickOnce for Current User.bat"

Hi,

How can I install the plugin for clickonce manually?

Thanks,
AviB

After an automatic reboot, I assume from a Windows auto-update, a browser 
window came up from this url: 
http://www.clickoncechrome.com/install.html#update2

"ClickOnce for Chrome got an important update" web page loaded automatically, 
is this legitimate?

What version of the product are you using? 2.0.1 
On what operating system? Win 7 Home Premium 

Thanks for the help
Jeff

The .dll contained in Clickonce for Chrome loads and works fine in both Firefox 
and Safari but there is no installer. Firefox already has an extension that 
implements Clickonce and I'm not sure if any Safari users actually care about 
Clickonce... so I'm creating this work item to see if there's any interest in 
an installer for those browsers (probably one one installer for all three 
browsers).

So star or comment if you want this and I'll see what I can do.

It is now definitely possible to do it, but I'm not sure which one to pick just 
yet.

Option A: change the userAgent header (like IE)
Option B: add a X-ClickOnceSupport header (like Firefox .NET Assistant plugin)

In either case the helper application would need an update.

In IE the user agent string (only for scripts in IE9) shows the installed 
versions of the .NET Framework.  Since it isn't practical to change the Google 
Chrome user agent I should expose a property on NPApplicationLauncher 
containing the list.

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

Without the .dll, how to we get the .NET component to handle ClickOnce 
applications?

It is very convenient to be able to offer a direct link to the installation 
dialog. However, this is only possible for extensions that have one or more 
verified websites.

Please add and verify a website.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add to head of html file:
<link rel="chrome-webstore-item" 
href="http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeifaoomkminpbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl"
>

2. Add link with onClick javascript:
chrome.webstore.install('http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeifaoomkminpb
eebjdmdojbhmagnncl', undefined, function(err) {console.log('Chrome Webstore 
installation failed: ' + err)});

3. Click and see the error on the console:
"Chrome Webstore installation failed: Inline installs can only be initiated for 
Chrome Web Store items that have one or more verified sites."

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

The old way no longer works, because there is no .dll file registered anymore.

Have to come up with a new API.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to access link from Google store 
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickonce-for-google-chro/eeifaoomkmi
npbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl)

What is the expected output? 

Plugin available for installation within Chrome.

What do you see instead?

Error page about missing item.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Not relevant.

Please provide any additional information below.

When I click on a clickonce link, the clickonce application starts as expected, 
but the web page containing the link is also refreshed...

This does not happen in firefox of internet explorer.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to install ClickOnce for Chrome 
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickonce-for-google-chro/eeifaoomkmi
npbeebjdmdojbhmagnncl)

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expect that the extension will be installed. Instead, there is a message "This 
application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled."