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Chrome on Windows Only to Allow Extensions from Chrome Web Store

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Chrome can be started in Safe mode with a hotkey

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Fix Chrome is Showing ‘Voice search has been turned off. Details’ Error

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Troubleshooting
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Fix Google Chrome’s ‘your preferences file is corrupt or invalid’ error

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Google Chrome to Open Downloaded PDF Files in It by Default

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Snagit 11.3 Released with Google Drive Integration and Adds Chrome and Windows 8.1 Support

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Stop Annoying JavaScript Popups in Chrome with this Extension

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Microphone Icon in System tray showing ‘Google Chrome is using your microphone’ Message

November 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Chrome to Block Adobe Reader Plugin by Default, Here is How to always open PDF files with It

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Creating a New Profile for Google Chrome on Windows is Easy

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Google Chrome to Automatically Block Malicious Software Downloads

October 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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New Tab Page for Chrome with Search bar is now Default, Rolling Out to All

September 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

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 […]

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