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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.
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 […]
Till now Chrome asks to enable or remove third-party extension installed by Windows programs silently, this will no longer be case starting from January 2014 onwards, Chrome on Windows on Stable an beta channels strictly won’t allow extensions install outside […]
Firefox browser offers the safe mode option -which on using temporarily disables add-ons and custom settings- which lets you troubleshoot issues having the browser. Similarly Google has added concept of Safe Mode hotkey start to latest Chrome dev build which […]
With Google Voice search in Chrome, you can able to speak to Google by saying some search queries without typing anything from your keyboard and Google talks back to you with answers or results. Provided you need to have microphone […]
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 […]