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Google Chrome guides and news from Techdows: new features in each Chrome release, flags and settings worth knowing, extension recommendations, and solutions to frequent Chrome issues on Windows and Mac. Kept current with Chrome’s rapid update cycle.

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Chrome policies page showing Quic policy

Disable Chrome’s Managed by your Organization due to QUIC Policy Set by Avast

April 23, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome policies page showing Quic policy

Avast free antivirus creates Quic Policy for Chrome to show managed by your organization message in menu and other parts of browser, here is how to remove it

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Chrome generated QR code for a web page

Chrome’s Page Sharing QR Scanner is now working in Canary

April 17, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Chrome generated QR code for a web page

Back in December, we’ve reported Google has started working on a feature to share pages from Chrome on the desktop to mobile by generating a QR code, the company then added a flag to Chrome Canary, which when enabled, offers an option in right-click menu to share Page’s URL via QR code, the feature is …

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome tests showing tab sending to device animation in address bar instead of desktop notification

April 1, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chrome Canary tests showing sending animation in omnibox instead of desktop notification when you select a device in the web page context menu to send a tab

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Context menu Show full URLs flag

Chrome Canary now Always Shows FULL URLs if you enable this Flag

March 25, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Context menu Show full URLs flag

Recently we’ve reported Google Chrome will offer an option in its Omnibox context menu to let users see websites full URL in the address bar, the initial implementation landed for the related flag in Chromium isn’t great where you need to select “Show URL” option every time in right-click menu of Omnibox when needed, a …

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome’s new Safety Check scans for bad extensions and compromised passwords

March 22, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Google adds Safety Check into Chrome Settings to do a quick scan for issues on updates, passwords, Safe Browsing and Extensions

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Microsoft improves the Scrollbar Scrolling in Chrome and Edge browsers

March 20, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Microsoft Edge & Chrome have Composite Threaded Scrollbar Scrolling enabled by default in Dev/Canary because of that scrollbar scrolling is more responsive

Posted in: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, News
Google Chrome

Chrome 83 offers an option to see full URL in Address bar

March 20, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Google Chrome tests an option in the omnibox context menu to show a website complete URL without hidiing https and WWW

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome quietly enables Tabbed UI for Translate bubble

March 19, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 3 Comments

Google has changed the Translate bubble UI for Chrome 80 stable on Windows, Mac and Linux to the tabbed version with Google Translate branding

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Chrome gets Two-Page View for PDFs, here is how to enable it

March 12, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

After Microsoft Edge Legacy, Google Chrome now too has two-page view feature available for PDFs in PDF Viewer with name “two-up view”

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Classic Microsoft Edge with Two Page Layout view for PDF

Chrome’s PDF Viewer to let you View two PDF Pages Side by Side

March 4, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Classic Microsoft Edge with Two Page Layout view for PDF

Google is adding a two-up mode option to Chrome PDF Viewer on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS to view two pages in PDF side by side.

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, News
Google Chrome

Google Search begins using Chrome’s Text Fragment in Featured Snippets

March 1, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

After experimenting with Chrome’s Scroll to Text fragment, Google has started to use it for featured snippets in search results,

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Google Chrome shows notification to review the new Terms

February 28, 2020 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google has started to push Terms of Service changing notification to Chrome users asking to review new the terms before March 31, 2020

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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