(information is taken from here )
- 1.Get the url of your Chrome Installation path to your chrome installation e.g C:\Users-your-user-name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application>
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- Launch the Google Chrome browser from the command line window with the additional argument ‘–allow-file-access-from-files’. E.g ‘path to your chrome installation\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files’
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- Temporary method you can use each time you are testing
- Copy the existing chrome launcher
- Do as above and save it with a new name e.g chrome - testing
- Alternatively, you can simply create a new launcher with the above and use it to start chrome.
Slightly Permanent Method
- 1.Go to the menu entry/ launcher for Chrome (.desktop file)
- 2.Open the launcher properties dialog.
- 3.It should look something like this: ‘/usr/bin/google-chrome %U’
- 4.Change it to ‘/usr/bin/google-chrome --allow-file-access-from-files‘ to make the flags work permanently
- 5.You may also need to delete and re-pin your launcher(s) after modifying it. Chrome should launch with the specified flags enabled after the modification.