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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.

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Download Chrome 29 Beta Windows Mac and Linux

Google Chrome 29 Beta Release Improves Omnibox Suggestions

July 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Download Chrome 29 Beta Windows Mac and Linux

Google has Released Chrome 29 Beta for Windows, Linux, Mac and Chrome frame. This version brings improvements to address bar or Omnibox which now offers “suggestions based on recency of websites websites visited, so you’ll get more contextually relevant suggestions

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Google Chrome to Improve Its Built-in Pop-Up Blocker

July 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Better Pop-Up Blocker coming to Google Chrome. Though Google Chrome automatically blocks most pop-ups that appear on certain webpages, some JavaScript pop-ups still skip through and appear, which is really annoying, Better pop up blocker extension blocks them to certain

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Mozilla PDF.js PDF Viewer in action in Google Chrome

How to Get Firefox’s PDF.js Viewer in Chrome and Opera

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Mozilla PDF.js PDF Viewer in action in Google Chrome

If you’ve liked Mozilla’s PDF.js, JavaScript powered PDF Viewer in Firefox-which shows PDFs inline in browser without need of any plugins- and want it in Google Chrome and Opera browsers through form of an extension, you can now have it.

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Opera
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How to Prevent Chrome from Adding Desktop Shortcuts for New User Accounts

June 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Generally, there is only one user uses Google Chrome on computer, (that’s you, with user name “First user”) unless you add few users. What if your relatives or family members or friends wants to access same Chrome browser instance from

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to
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Chrome Recent Tabs sub menu

Chrome New Tab Page Under Testing Gets Recent Tabs on the Menu

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Chrome Recent Tabs sub menu

Traditional New Tab Page which is available for all Google Chrome users on all channels like stable, bet and dev. is same. As you know Chrome team already testing another New Tab Page for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome OS

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome Packaged Apps to Available in Chrome Web Store from Today onwards

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Two months back Google made developer preview of Chrome Packaged Apps and Chrome App Launcher available for testing. But that time to install any Chrome Packaged App you need direct link of it and you can’t get it by browsing

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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How to Disable Service/Site Handler Requests in Google Chrome

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

If you don’t want Google Chrome to show site handler requests you can disable them easily. Google Chrome lets web services to request you to open some kind of links for instance when you visit Gmail login page in Chrome,

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Tips and Tricks
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Chrome 29 Now Available On Dev Channel Except For Windows 8

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google Chrome 29 now available on dev channel for all Windows (except Windows 8), Chrome Frame and Linux. Jason Kersey from Chrome team says in Chrome Releases blog” This build has a large number of bug fixes and other new

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Google Chrome App Launcher Shortcut Added to Windows Start Menu

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now to get Chrome App Launcher on Windows you need to install any packaged app in Chrome browser like test drive or CIRC and have to enable related flags in Chrome://flags page and restart the browser. Seems this not

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Reset Profile Settings Dialog

Google Chrome to get Reset Profile Settings Button

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Reset Profile Settings Dialog

Google Chrome on dev and canary builds soon to get Reset Profile Settings feature, at present Chromium build got this feature and is present behind a flag. This feature in Chrome to allow users to reset Profile settings when modified

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Google Keep Chrome App Window

Chrome App for Google Keep Now Available

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Google Keep Chrome App Window

Google Keep, simple note taking service got an Chrome web app, the specialty of this app is it works even offline too. Chrome Web store asks you to sign in to get the app launcher when you click on “Add

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome disable extensions command line switch

How to Disable all Extensions when you can’t open the Chrome browser?

May 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Chrome disable extensions command line switch

Sure, there is an extension available that lets you disable all Chrome extensions with a single click, but this extension will only be helpful when you able to launch the browser. But if Chrome browser denies to load and crashes

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Troubleshooting
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