Quick TIP to Resolve disappeared URL bar

Every Browser behaves strange including Google Chrome. I had an instance where address bar went missing and I had no clue how to bring it back. Funny isn't it! How will you search google query to fix the problem. (Ofcourse! you can try another browser :) ).                               

Below are the solution which you can try to resolve the disappeared URL Address Bar

• Browser has full screen mode and you might have pressed F11 to take your browser to full screen mdoe. Press the F11 key to exit fullscreen mode. The address bar is not visible when the Internet browser is in fullscreen mode.
• In case you are 'stuck' with  IE - Internet Explorer, then you have to  click the  View or Tools in the menu bar  which will can be seen at the top of the browser window screen, then  click on Toolbars, then select Address or Address bar. If the Menu bar is missing, press the Alt key to make it visible.
• Alternate way would be to find the Add-ons OR Extensions which you might have installed in your browser which must have set the address bar/ URL bar hidden. With trial-error method can can find out which add-on has caused it and keep it Disabled. You can click here to know more about - How to remove Browser Extension
• Finally, if none of the above g33ktricks does not work, the browser must have gone bad and Uninstalling and the re-install should fix the issue for sure.

Hack the Dino Jump Chrome Game

I am 100% sure that you must have seen this screen if you are a Chrome user. Yes, I am talking about the "No Internet" screen where you see 

"ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED" error message along with a nice black and white TRex.                                                                      

 

If you have seen it, you would also knew that, on hitting Space-bar button, the Trex jumps and an offline, inbuild game starts. Apparently, the game name is Jump the Dino TRex. This game is all fun to play while you wait for your internet connectivity to return back. You can play if for hours, if you keep your concentration full and do not make mistake by jumping or ducking at the wrong time.

If so, you feel to keep playing this game till the end, you can complete it on your own tirelessly forever or you can try hacking this game with two simple methods.

Either you enable autoplay or you become immortal. Immortality is boon that game developers use to test the games.

So how about trying immortality in the game.

First things first, how to start this game when you have Internet already.

Simply enter "chrome://dino" in to the Google Chrome URL, the game would launch. Another way to do this is, you need to know is "Inspect Element" feature which all the browser usually have for inspecting items of the  apps/ websites. To open this feature, right click anywhere on the browser and you would notice the dropdown menu has Inspect option OR you can try CTRL+SHIFT+I  / CTRL+SHIFT+C to open this menu. 

Among the different tabs, Click on Network Tab, Click on Offline option from the list.

This would launch the Dino game.

Trick to hack Dino game starts here

While in the game, in the same Inspect element screen, Click on Console option.

Runner.prototype.gameOver = function(){}

And Press Enter. This would result in No Game Over scenario. Check the screenshot above. The Dino just passed-by the cactus plant without the need of Jumping over it. But it ain't fun watching the dino passby without jumping so lets move to another trick.

The second G33ktrick which I was trying to explain was Auto-Play. If you want to try out AutoPlay where Dino jumps on its own, enter the below code as-is to the Console and press Enter. Refer the below screenshot from the Chrome Browser.

Let the game go on autopilot mode and enjoy it. You can boast your High Score record to your Friends.

const autoloop = function() { 

 if(window.Runner.instance_.tRex.jumping) 

{  requestAnimationFrame(autoloop);

return;  

} 

const tRexLocation = window.Runner.instance_.tRex.xPos; 

const cactus = window.Runner.instance_.horizon.obstacles; 

const nextCactus = cactus.find(o => o.xPos > tRexLocation);  

if(nextCactus && (nextCactus.xPos - tRexLocation) <= 120)

{ 

window.Runner.instance_.tRex.startJump(50) 

}  

requestAnimationFrame(autoloop);  

}  

requestAnimationFrame(autoloop);

Set Dark Theme on Chrome Mobile Application

One of the most used and famous browser everyone knows of is Google Chrome. The browser supports multiple platform like Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. The ease of use and quick webpage rendering and hundreds of useful extensions makes it highly used web browser.

Coming back to the topic, as of now Google has no roadmap to allow user to Set Dark Theme, so, here are few g33ktricks to allow you to set the Dark Theme OR set Night Mode on Android Chrome browser.

1. Set Dark Theme using Chrome Flag

1. Update the Chrome to the latest version from Play Store.
    Open PlayStore app - > Search Google Chrome -> Click on "Update" button

2. Open the Browser and type the URL – chrome://flags

Chrome Flags Page

3. Now Search for the term ‘Dark’.

4. Two options will be shown
Android web Contents Dark Mode
 and
Android UI dark mode.

5. Web Contents Dark Mode - This will make the content on the website dark
UI dark mode - This will make the Chrome UI dark leaving the content on the site unaffected.

6. Make your choice accordingly. Close the Google Chrome app and the Launch it again.

7. The Night Mode or Dark Theme will be set and the webpages will be having black background and white text.
You can reset this setting back by opening Chrome Settings and click on "Dark Mode" option.

2. Using Reader Mode

Reading mode shows the webpages like pages on the book providing ease of reading by removing Javascripts, ads etc.

Steps to enable Reader mode

1. Open Chrome app and Tap 3 dots on the Right-Top of the screen

2. Click on "Settings"

3. Search for "Accessibility" option and swithch-on the "Simplified" view.

4. Now Open any of  the web-page you like. Bottom of the screen will shown an option ‘Show Simplified View’. Click on it.

5. This will again show "Appearance" option again.

6. Simply increase the intensity of Dark in the given options.


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