Enable JavaScript in Chrome This guide will step you through the process of enabling JavaScript in Google Chrome. These screenshots are taken in Chrome on Windows but the process is identical on Mac and Linux computers. Click the 'Customize and Control' button This will reveal a menu with lots of options. One of them will be named ' Settings'. Select the 'Settings' menu item The Settings screen will now appear.
Search for the JavaScript settings As you type in ' JavaScript' (it's not case sensitive) you will see Chrome start to change what's shown on the settings page. It will reveal the ' Privacy' section and highlight the ' Content settings.' Button with the yellow ' JavaScript' callout.
Click the ' Content settings.' You are then taken directly to the JavaScript setting. Change the JavaScript setting You can now choose ' Allow all sites to run JavaScript' to enable/activate JavaScript, or ' Do not allow any site to run JavaScript' to disable JavaScript. If you want to only run JavaScript on certain websites, you can use the ' Manage exceptions.'
Button to control which websites JavaScript will and will not run on. Once you have made your setting (either enabled JavaScript or disabled it), click the ' Done' button to confirm your choice. You will then be returned to the main Settings page tab.
When you want to see logged messages or run JavaScript, press Command + Option + J (Mac) or Control + Shift + J (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS) to jump. If the Java application does not relaunch, manually relaunch so you can take advantage of the latest Java. If you choose Skip This Version, but later decide to check for an update, you can launch the Java Control Panel by clicking the Java icon in System Preferences. Go to the Update tab to initiate an update check.
You can now close this tab and resume your normal web browsing with your new setting. JavaScript is now enabled Congratulations, you just enabled JavaScript.
Manual Updates If you would like to update Google Chrome manually in the future, you can do so via a combination of the Finder and Terminal applications. Launch the Finder, click 'Go,' and then click 'Go to Folder.' Enter one of the two following commands in the window that opens: /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/ /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/ Which command works will depend on the setup of your Mac.
Only one of the commands will work. When it does, click the file labeled 'CheckForUpdatesNow.command.' Clicking this file opens a new Terminal window that will update Google Chrome.