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Utility for unpacking and packing Chrome browser resources

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:29 pm
by Grey

In continuation of this topic (which itself continues another) :)
Okay. I compiled this little utility. And although I was told that the utility is old, and the algorithm has changed in the browser... but everything works. Then, with its help, I unpacked the browser resources (it is possible to pack them back). It will probably work with Chrome clones as well (if they attack :) ). Like this:

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./pak -u chrome_100_percent.pak /root/Documents/pak/100/
./pak -u chrome_200_percent.pak /root/Documents/pak/200/
./pak -u resources.pak /root/Documents/pak/resources

Well, there are a lot of icons there :) There are several with a logo.
Actually, the tool itself (compiled in Fossapup):

pak.tar.xz
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Re: Utility for unpacking and packing Chrome browser resources

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:39 am
by mikewalsh

Hm. In-ter-esting...

I've often wondered what's inside those .pak files. Now I know. Thanks for this.

"100_percent" & "200_percent", mostly icons. "resources", mostly source codes, proprietary binaries of all flavours, etc, etc.....

No way of telling which of those icons is the one used on the taskbar, though.

Mike. :|