Full Screen Helper

This is just a simple Chrome Extension that aims to help navigation when running Chrome on Kiosk mode with tablet/phone devices.

Capabilities

This extension can show a little dockbar injected inside HTML pages to provide some functionality controlled by windows registry

####Available buttons/features:

• Reload buttons
• Battery power indicator
• Wifi signal strength indicator
• Button to redirect page to a fixed address
• Program opener
• Collapse button
• Zoom buttons

Also it provides:

• Autoreload on loading page error (dns, connection etc etc)
• Allow access only to a set of websites defined throught a whitelist

Install

This extension uses Chrome nativeMessaging support for opening external files and retrieving wifi signal strength

Step 1:

Compile host_application - under native/ - with a C++11 compiler

Step 2 (Optional ?):

Deploy to Chrome Developer Dashboard your own extension located under extension/

You can skip this step if you are willingly to use my published extension, but there is no warranty on future updates

Step 3:

Deploy these files in a fixed directory:

• native/ * manifest.json * wifi.ps1

and host_application.exe

Substitute inside manifest.json the full path to host_application.exe and the extension ID you are using

Step 4:

Deploy native/register_application.reg substituting the path to manifest.json you deployed in previous step

Step 5:

Add configuration inside machine registry as explained below

Step 5b

Define a whitelist of permitted sites (example can be found below). No or empty whitelist is considered as full access to sites

Step 6:

Install extension through Chrome Store or force install policy and restart Chrome

Registry configuration

An example can be found inside native/create_configuration.reg

Whitelist configuration

An example can be found inside native/create_whitelist.reg

Tested on

Windows 10 x64 + Chrome 56.0.2924.21 beta (64-bit)

Links

Chrome Web Store GitHub

Future

• Add settings page