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If you’ve too many tabs open in browser, you may open the website which you’ve already opened in the same window, this causes a duplicate tab. To avoid this, Firefox browser offers ‘switch to tab’ button in URL bar dropdown. Google Chrome has now this feature available for testing behind a flag. Enable ‘Switch to …
Don’t like Chrome’s gray title bar on Windows 10? You can disable and change it to white in version 67, find out how you can do that
Google is now testing the redesign of omnibox suggestions by displaying images and descriptive text. Chromium team calls the feature as ‘Rich Entity Suggestions ‘and is available behind a flag for testing in dev and Canary version of Chrome.
By updating Chrome extensions page to material design, Google has removed Get more extensions link to Chrome Web Store from Chrome in version 65, know how to restore it.
Chrome Cleanup tool which finds unwanted software that can damage Chrome browser has been integrated into Chrome Settings in version 65, when needed you can now initiate an unwanted software scan without needing to manually download the tool, find out how.
Finally, Google has added the ability to Chrome history page to use Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut for selection of multiple history items and you can delete them after selecting.
If you’ve Privacy concerns about Google Chrome Software Reporter tool sending unwanted software info to Google, you can disable or block it from doing so on your computer, here is how that can be done.
A change made by Google in Chrome 64 is resulting New Tab page to display 4 thumbnails instead of 8. If you want to view 8 tiles on new tab, you can, here is how that can be achieved.
Chrome 63 released with new flags page, security and bug fixes and improvements, check what’s new in this version of Chrome here
Learn how to disable the material design for bookmarks in Chrome 63
Chrome 63, 64 and later versions only allow you mute site (not tabs), but you can mute tabs in Chrome like before, here is how that can be done.
Have you deleted or lost Chrome bookmarks? You can get them back with Chrome bookmarks Recovery Tool, available for Windows, Mac and Linux.