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A bad job with a good description

by cnst on 8/9/22, 7:34 PM with 2 comments

• by themedes on 8/9/22, 7:42 PM

  "And here is a benchmark that allows you to see if you fit this role. Create a Chromium build for Windows with a replaced icon. Just any icon, but make sure that it shows up both as an icon of the executable and in the taskbar. Also, modify the browser so that the navigator.platform property is always MacIntel."

  This must be some problem they are facing as I've come across this problem before in an old job where they hijacked the running instance of chrome and swapped out the icon to theirs on a profile for chrome so it would run their custom plugins and fool the user so to speak that it wasnt chrome. One day this mechanism broke as Chrome rewrote how they did icon management for profiles, much hilarity ensued as they tried in vein to fix it (they did eventually!)