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694 articles

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.

Google Chrome
Chrome 54 disable display scaling on High DPI settings

Fix Chrome 54 looks Zoomed In

October 13, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome 54 disable display scaling on High DPI settings

Chrome 54 stable has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and available for download. After upgrading from Chrome 53 to 54, have … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Chrome 55 desaturated favicons

Chrome 55 to desaturate Favicons in tabs when network errors are encountered

October 11, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome 55 desaturated favicons

One big change coming to Chrome 55 is Google will make the HTML5 the default experience, except for the sites that work only with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Popup dialog on Windows 10 startup

Fix MSN Page opens on Startup of Windows 10 in Chrome

October 3, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Popup dialog on Windows 10 startup

You might have noticed this when you use Chrome as the default browser on Windows 10: after loading Windows, once the connection to the network … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Chrome is this the new tab page you were expecting

Google Chrome: ‘Is this the new tab page you were expecting?’

September 28, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome is this the new tab page you were expecting

Google Chrome guards your new tab page and default search engine from being hijacked by malware, the browser asks, Is this the search page you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Chrome 55 Material Design in browsers top Chrome flag removed

Google removes the ‘Material Design in the browser’s top Chrome’ flag

September 28, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome 55 Material Design in browsers top Chrome flag removed

You can no longer disable material design in Chrome’s browser starting from version 55. Recently Google has made material design the default UI for Chrome … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Chrome Simplify page printing option

Chrome 53: Simplify Page option removed from Print Preview

September 13, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Chrome Simplify page printing option

No one was noticed! It’s gone! The useful Simplify Page option provided in Print Preview dialog by Google in Chrome, which lets you print … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome

Fix Chrome 53’s Extension Corrupted Errors and Re-enable the Disabled Extensions

September 4, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google Chrome 53, which has recently got material design on Windows has started behaving weirdly, the browser tends to disable the extensions and reports … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
Google Chrome
Material and non material versions of Chrome in one frame

How to disable Google Chrome’s Material Design?

August 30, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Material and non material versions of Chrome in one frame

Google is slowly transitioning desktop Chrome’ default design to Material design, this has happened to the Mac version of Chrome 52, next is Windows … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome
Chrome Applications tab formerly existed as Resources

Chrome Dev tools: Resources Tab renamed to Application

August 25, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome Applications tab formerly existed as Resources

Recently, Google has made a change to dev tools in Chrome browser, Resources tab has been removed and replaced it with Application. Only the name … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Go back with Backspace by Google Chrome extension

Google publishes extension to restore backspace functionality in Chrome browser

August 17, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Go back with Backspace by Google Chrome extension

Official extension to restore backspace functionality in Chrome is now available on the Web Store. With Google Chrome 52, Chromium team has removed the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Chrome Picture in Picture Viewer

Get Opera’s like Video Pop Out in Chrome

August 10, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome Picture in Picture Viewer

Opera‘s Video Pop Out feature is very useful for multitaskers, allows to watch a playing video on any tab in any position, all you … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
Google Chrome

Google: Chrome 53 will Fully Block Flash, Chrome 55 makes HTML5 default

August 10, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

With the ‘Detect and run important Plugin content’ set as default in the Chrome browser, the flash content smaller than 400px width or 300px height … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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