Now that I had found what the swipes did, I just had to see if there was a way to control it. Disabling Google Chrome Helper will stop all third-party plugins from running in Chrome. If you’re still struggling to troubleshoot a Chrome slowdown, and you’re sure that the Google Chrome Helper process is that the cause, then you’ll disable it entirely. Either way, in the kiosk environment it made more sense to control navigation with what was available on-screen. How to Disable Google Chrome Helper on Windows and Mac. Perhaps this is due to the transitions on the site or some other cause.
So, the gestures were the equivalent of simple back and forward buttons.įor some reason, the back gesture would not consistently load the previous page. After playing around with it and figuring out how to reproduce the action, I found swiping from left-to-right would take me back a page and from right-to-left would take me forward in navigation, if I had previously gone back. At first I had to figure out what this gesture was trying to accomplish. That was disabled with some Javascript on the site to disable right-clicking.Īnother gesture showed swiping to left to right would cause the kiosk to only show a black screen. You can tap two finger to get a context menu (right-click). A lot of things change having a touchscreen attached because Chrome includes built-in gestures. The kiosk has a touchscreen and no keyboard or mouse. I have previously created a managed kiosk using Google Chrome and was satisfied with the results.
