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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.
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 […]
Due to phasing out of support for NPAPI plugins, even though you’ve disabled Chrome native PDF viewer in Google Chrome, it still doesn’t allows to open PDF files inline through plugin of Adobe Reader installed on your computer. Chrome blocks […]
A browser profile contains all important data such as bookmarks, extensions, passwords and other user data and it is stored in a separate folder from browser installed directory. This profile folder won’t gets deleted when you uninstall browser. A corrupted […]
With Automatic Updates, Safe Browsing and sandboxing, Google Chrome browser is already more secured. But these are not enough, where nowadays malicious programs somehow gets installed on users systems and hijacking browser settings- FYI Chrome already prevents third-party programs from […]
Chrome New Tab Page with Search bar almost makes omnibox redundant. Experimental New Tab Page which Chrome team has been testing since a long time for Windows, Mac and Chromebooks that offers Search bar to search is now the default […]
Not getting used to Gmail’s new compose?, you can get old compose in Gmail back easily without much difficulty. When Google has launched new compose experience for Gmail that opens in a pop-up window, they’re offered the option to opt-out […]
If you’re using Chrome Canary latest version on Windows, you’ll likely to see “a” in Chrome menu, what is that means and why it is there?. It means Chrome Windows Canary build is an Aura build. Soon Linux platform will […]
You’re just one app away from getting Chrome App Launcher on Windows. When you install a new app from Chrome Web Store, you’ll have the option to get App Launcher. When you sign into your Google Account, you can start […]
PDF Mergy Chrome app easily combines multiple PDFs into a Single PDF. Sometimes need arises for us to combine PDFs, there are many services and desktop apps available online to do the same. Meet PDF Mergy, web app for Chrome […]