Tag: chrome
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Parsing “Pollinator Post”
May Chen runs a treasure of an e-mail newsletter, the “Pollinator Post”, where she shares macro shots of insects and plants, mostly local natives, from her hikes around the East Bay, along with commentary drawing on her decades of experience as a docent. Until recently, these posts were available only via an invite-only e-mail group,…
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Save as “single file” via AppleScript is live in Chrome!
Back in December 2024, I got to submit a change to Chrome/Chromium adding support for saving as MHTML via AppleScript: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6107133/1 — Adding support for MHTML in Chrome’s Apple Script “save” action. Just now, I noticed that it’s live: It’s a little thing, but I’m excited. Woohoo!
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Chrome crashing
I’m unsure what triggered it — updating Mac OS, updating Chrome, or something else — but Chrome has started crashing for me consistently within seconds of starting up. I haven’t figured out a fix yet so I’m back to my old friend Firefox, but I did learn a few things. Crash logs go in ~/Library/Application…
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Adding support for MHTML in Chrome’s Apple Script “save” action
MHTML is a handy format for archiving pages. In Chrome, you can get it by selecting “Save Page As…” and choosing “Webpage, single file” as the output format. In a Chrome extension, you can get it via chrome.pageCapture.saveAsMHTML, which is what I use in the gg_download extension I’ve been hacking on. In the project I’m…