Also on Windows it's still possible to use Chrome 36 with devmode. Download Dart (I'm using 1.5.3 distribution), and use Chromium from there (it's portable, just copy it to any folder). Also you need GWT-Developer-Plugin_v1.0.11357.crx of course, see previous post.
On Friday, July 11, 2014 3:35:24 PM UTC-7, Alex Epshteyn wrote: > > As of now, quite sadly, the GWT plugin is no longer supported in the > latest of versions of Firefox nor Chrome (starting with 35). I've been > using GWT since 2006, and I think it's a sad state of affairs that after so > much work went into GWT's OOPHM (a.k.a "Development Mode"), we're back to > Internet Explorer being the only browser that can be used for GWT debugging > on Windows. I think that SuperDevMode goes against the original "do > everything from your IDE" spirit of GWT, but I digress... > > The main reason I'm posting this is to describe my workaround to save some > time for anyone who still wants to use dev mode under Chrome and Firefox > (which I'm guessing is the majority of the people here): > > The hack I came up with (for Windows) was to install "portable" versions > of Chromium and Firefox. > > Portable Firefox 24: > http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox-portable-esr > Portable Chromium 35: http://crportable.sourceforge.net/ > > Then you need to manually install the GWT plugin into Chromium, since it's > now disabled on the Chrome Web Store: > 1. download the file GWT-Developer-Plugin_v1.0.11357.crx from > http://chrome-extension-downloader.com/ (entering ID number > jpjpnpmbddbjkfaccnmhnkdgjideieim into the search field) > 2. drag and drop the downloaded file into the chrome://extensions/ tab to > install the plugin > > The good thing about this Chromium build is that it seems to be immune > from Google's auto-updater, but for a limited time, you can also still get > Google Chrome 35 Portable at > http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable, and follow > the same procedure for manually installing the GWT plugin. > > I'm hoping that this hack will allow many of us to keep using the old dev > mode for a long time to come, and I'm also hoping that the GWT project > members will not abandon dev mode support. > > Question for GWT project members: I understand that both FF and Chrome are > getting rid of the NSAPI, which enabled the GWT plugin. Are there really > no other ways to keep supporting dev mode on the latest versions of those > browsers? Has anyone looked into "Native Client" ( > https://developer.chrome.com/native-client)? > > Best, > Alex > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
