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Till now to delete an unwanted suggestion in the address bar in Google Chrome, you need to use Shift+Del shortcut on the keyboard, that’s no longer required in future Chrome versions as you can able to remove those with your mouse. A bug that created 11 years back to allow users to discover a UI …
If you’ve updated Google Chrome to version 78 and noticing “Aw, Snap!” errors in Chrome when you launch it, you’re not alone, Google has acknowledged they’re aware of this issue and suggests to update Symantec Endpoint Protection to version 14.2 or later. If you’re using Windows Defender or other third-party Antivirus such as Avast or …
Chrome Canary update dialog now informs users incognito windows if you’ve any open won’t be restored if you relaunch Chrome to apply the update.
In Chrome 78, when you hover over a tab, tab title & domain info,will be displayed instead of tooltip, here is how to disable new Tab Hover Cards feature.
We’ve covered Microsoft already added back button and jumplist support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Chromium Edge browser, Chromium team now has provided back and reload buttons support to Chrome PWAs, you should be enabling “Desktop PWAs support minimal-UI” flag in latest Canary 80 to see them. Google Chrome has added support for PWAs …
Google has currently enabled “Preview Page” context menu option (formerly Sneak Peek) in Chrome 79 on Android which allows to view linked page content in an overlay and lets you open it in a new tab, Chromium team could soon show security indicator and URL for preview content as they decided to experiment “Ephemeral Tab” […]
Microsoft adds High Contrast mode Support to Google Chrome and Chromium Edge on Windows, here is how you can enable it
Do you hate website notifications? Who doesn’t? Though you can block all of them from Settings in Chrome browser, by doing so, you’ll miss notifications from your favorite sites. An experimental feature “Quieter notification permission prompts” is now available in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers (Canary channel), which when enabled, without showing the usual dialog, …
A while back, we’ve covered Chrome Canary is testing grid layout for shortcuts on New Tab Page that supports animations with improved drag-n-support, the feature is going to be enabled and set to roll out to all users now. The new layout for NTP shortcuts is available behind a flag till now, Chromium team to […]
Google Chrome automatically discards unused tabs after a certain period of time when the memory is low, the Chromium team is now testing another variation for this. Freezing of eligible tabs that have been backgrounded for 5 minutes, the company offers this for checking behind the “Tab Freeze” flag in Chrome 79 Canary. This feature …
The popular ad-blocking extension, UBlock Origin is still available on Chrome Web Store, but the upcoming version may not be available or extension won’t be updated in future as RC1 build of same has been rejected by Chrome Web Store team by citing it as “bundling unrelated functionality” which users need to accept, they told […]
Both Google and Mozilla noticed a spike in print crashes in Chrome and Firefox browsers with the recent Windows 10 Update, the teams relieved after the Patch Tuesday update resolved the issue. Microsoft recently acknowledged the updates they published for various versions of Windows 10 caused “intermittent issues when printing”. This affected all the applications […]