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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.
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 […]
You can explore Google Earth in three ways: on Desktop, Web and Mobile. You can install it’s application on Windows, Mac and Linux, on Web browsers- Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer- you can install Google Earth plug-in, on Android and […]
Whenever you try to install an extension in Chrome from Web store a dialog pops up showing ‘it can access your data on all websites’. By installing that extension you’re allowing that extension do that thing. User must know what […]
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. […]
A while back, we’ve covered about Chrome 32 Beta update which lets your track down noisy tabs with the help of indicators and we also mentioned in that post Chrome on Windows 8 mode looks completely different to the current […]
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 […]