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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.
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 […]
Google Chrome browser sometimes gets you into trouble by showing errors that can be fixed and some can’t. You likely to experience most errors on development builds like Canary or dev. but its also not true, stable users also ran […]
Unless you’ve disabled Chrome PDF Viewer soon Google Chrome, starting Chrome Canary will open downloaded PDF files in it by default. Google thinks PDFs are safer to open in the browser. Of course, Chrome will still offer the option to […]
TechSmith has released Fuse app for mobile, available for iOS and Android which lets you import photos and videos into Snagit. Snagit 11.3 for Windows has added Google Drive integration and also support for Google Chrome browser by releasing extension […]
Chrome’s built-in Popup blocker can block popup windows on websites but not all as some JavaScript ones still skip through it and FYI, Chromium team is already working to improve their browser’s popup blocker to block these. We’ve covered Better […]
Recently Google has made available Android 4.4 kitkat’s ‘Ok Google’ feature to Chrome on desktop with Google Voice Search Hotword extension. If you’ve installed that extension, you can notice microphone icon in system tray keeps appearing in system tray (unless […]
There are so many apps available for Chrome on Web Store, it would be great if Chrome allows to test some of those without installing, currently Chromium team is testing ephemeral apps experimental feature on beta, dev. and canary builds […]
Chrome beta now shows speaker icon for tabs that are playing music or sound so they can be easy to find and turn off if you want. Till now we can enable audio indicators in Google browser through command line […]
Chrome web store now has dedicated tool -Chrome Apps Developer Tool- for Chrome extensions and apps developers that to offer better experience than developer mode available on Chrome://extensions which lets you unpack extensions and apps and do many more things. […]