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After a second (or is it third?) round of possible Chrome OS images captured by the ever-popular A. Nonymous Tipster on his trusty-but-low-res digital camera, speculation around Google’s ethereal OS is bound to keep heating up.
I located a reference to Chrome OS in the Chromium source code’s switches file yesterday, and today I was intrigued to find not just a few lines in a file but an entire directory.
Nestled in the 204 branch is a chromeos folder which only contains a couple of files at this point. They do provide a couple interesting insights, however:
- The status bar contains a clock, an application menu, and a non-working battery indicator.
- Some information about the single sign-on cookie: “To support single-sign-on for Chrome OS, we need a way to inject cookies into Chrome. In the case of session cookies, putting them into Chrome’s cookie jar DB doesn’t work. This CL adds a command line flag that tells chrome the name of a Unix pipe to open, from which it can read said cookies.”
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