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Its happening, Chrome stable and beta channels started disabling external extensions installed by third-party programs in Windows, these extensions once disabled, are grayed out and can’t be enabled like before. Few months back, Google said from January 2014 onwards, it […]
Recently, Google has added Reset browser settings button to Chrome browser which allows the user to restore browser settings to its defaults, the main reason behind adding this setting/feature is third-party programs in Windows continue to change Chrome search engine, […]
As you already know, sometime back, Google has made available ‘Ok Google’ feature in Android to desktop Chrome in the form of Google Voice Search Hotword beta extension. After installing this extension, you can go hands-free and say “Ok Google” […]
You can view and manage all cookies and site data stored by websites you’ve visited in Chrome browser by going to chrome://settings/cookies page, to delete cookies for a specific website you need to search for that site, select it and […]
Recently Google has enabled redesigned New Tab Page for Chrome by adding its logo and search bar at center. Thumbnails for most visited sites fetched from your history appears below search bar. And Apps shortcut which takes you to Chrome://apps […]
When you try to install an extension from your computer (not from Chrome Web Store) by dragging and dropping onto Chrome extensions page you may get ‘Attempted to downgrade extension’ error, let us see how to overcome this error and […]
If you want to uninstall Chrome completely to do a fresh install, then you may want to export all bookmarks you saved in browser to HTML file so that after reinstalling Chrome you can import them from same file. We’ve […]
Chrome on Windows already doesn’t allow extension installs from other websites except Chrome web store by showing error ‘Apps, extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website’, you can still overcome it and install third-party extensions in browser […]
Two months back to make searching from ‘new tab’ faster and simpler Google has updated Chrome New tab page- also shows Google doodles if Google is set as your default search engine- with search bar, this was done to avoid […]
How many read the text that appears when Incognito mode window is opened, may be the text too large to skip for reading or you’re already familiar with it to ignore. Chromium team has simplified Incognito landing page they’ve reduced […]
Google Chrome has offered Recent Bookmarks folder in the past in Bookmark Manager but seems as if it has been removed recently, don’t know the reason why. Now to see newly bookmarked pages in Chrome, you need to open Bookmark […]
Till now Chrome used to reveal plain passwords it stored when you click ‘show’ button at chrome://settings/passwords dialog, this may change in future and you may have to enter your Windows account password for it to show. This is because […]