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Confluence and Google Chrome - How to fix the rich text editor

Confluence uses a lot of javascript. Every plugin comes with a its own (sometimes several) javascript libraries. And no browser handles javascript better today than Google chrome.

BUT - there is one problem to the wide spread adoption of Google chrome for us Confluence lovers. The rich text editor.

I turns out there is a simple "user agent" check in the MCE plugin that looks for to check the browser type.

How to fix the Rich text view in Google Chrome

  1. Create a new shortcut to Google chrome on your desktop. (Copy and paste an existing one or right click it in your start bar to create short cut)
  2. Rename it "Chrome (wiki version)"
  3. Right click and edit the properties.
  4. add this to the end of the target: -user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

That's it. Now, you can use chrome as usual but when/if you want the rich text editor, just use the shortcut to open a new window!

You should know see the rich text editor of confluence in Google Chrome

(note that other sites like gmail, and twitter, don't work right in this modified version - use your regular shortcut for those).

Let me know in the comments if this method works for you. Thanks.

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