Improve HRD first run experience

remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js

 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /**
  * @fileoverview
  * A module that contains basic utility components and methods for the
  * chromoting project
  *
  */
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     return url;
   }
   var queryParameters = [];
   for (var key in opt_params) {
     queryParameters.push(encodeURIComponent(key) + "=" +
                          encodeURIComponent(opt_params[key]));
   }
   return url + '?' + queryParameters.join('&');
 };
 
+
+/**
+ * @return {Object.<string, string>} The URL parameters.
+ */
+base.getUrlParameters = function() {

[kelvinp, 2015/02/03 01:15:33]

Grouping it closer to the other url utilities

+  var result = {};
+  var parts = window.location.search.substring(1).split('&');
+  for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+    var pair = parts[i].split('=');
+    result[pair[0]] = decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
+  }
+  return result;
+};
+
 /**
  * Convert special characters (e.g. &, < and >) to HTML entities.
  *
  * @param {string} str
  * @return {string}
  */
 base.escapeHTML = function(str) {
   var div = document.createElement('div');
   div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(str));
   return div.innerHTML;
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   *
   * @param {string} string
   * @return {ArrayBuffer}
   */
 base.encodeUtf8 = function(string) {
   var utf8String = unescape(encodeURIComponent(string));
   var result = new Uint8Array(utf8String.length);
   for (var i = 0; i < utf8String.length; i++)
     result[i] = utf8String.charCodeAt(i);
   return result.buffer;
-}
+};
 
 /**
   * Decodes UTF-8 string from ArrayBuffer.
   *
   * @param {ArrayBuffer} buffer
   * @return {string}
   */
 base.decodeUtf8 = function(buffer) {
   return decodeURIComponent(
       escape(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(buffer))));
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * Generate a nonce, to be used as an xsrf protection token.
  *
  * @return {string} A URL-Safe Base64-encoded 128-bit random value. */
 base.generateXsrfToken = function() {
   var random = new Uint8Array(16);
   window.crypto.getRandomValues(random);
   var base64Token = window.btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, random));
   return base64Token.replace(/\+/g, '-').replace(/\//g, '_').replace(/=/g, '');
 };
 
 /**
  * @param {string} jsonString A JSON-encoded string.
  * @return {Object|undefined} The decoded object, or undefined if the string
  *     cannot be parsed.
  */
 base.jsonParseSafe = function(jsonString) {
   try {
     return /** @type {Object} */ (JSON.parse(jsonString));
   } catch (err) {
     return undefined;
   }
-}
+};