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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

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
Google Chrome

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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Blink Lands on Chrome 28 Dev. Channel

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Blink rendering engine for Chromium, fork of WebKit has been landed on Chrome 28 dev./canary channels and available for testing. At present you can’t really spot/see any difference the way Chrome works with Blink as Google developers working on it

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome Office Viewer Extension: View Microsoft Office Files in Browser

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Chromebook already supports viewing of Microsoft Office files like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint directly in the browser, Google has now ported this functionality in form of an extension to Google Chrome (Beta) users on Windows and Mac. Office Viewer Extension

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
Google Chrome
Adding command line switch to Chrome executable path

Don’t like Chrome’s New Menus? Here is how to Disable Them

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Adding command line switch to Chrome executable path

When Google Chrome 26 was on dev.channel we’ve spotted the new context menus with white background and we’ve reported them here, which are now ported to stable channel. It seems most of users don’t like these white context menus, here

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
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Google Chrome New Tab Page Google Now

Get Google Now Look for Chrome’s New Tab Page with an Extension

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Google Chrome New Tab Page Google Now

Are you bored with the New Tab Page that you regularly see when you open New Tab in Google Chrome browser, meet an extension named New Tab Page which adds Google Now cards like Weather, News with Google Search,Voice search

Posted in: Google Chrome
Google Chrome

Install Gmail Blue Extension for Google Chrome

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If you’ve heard about Gmail Blue prank on April 1st by Google you could’ve known that by now that Google told it for fun, what if you really want Blue theme for Gmail interface? guess what a developer has made

Posted in: Google Chrome
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Offline Cache Mode Experimental feature in Google Chrome to let you read web pages Offline

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

Internet Explorer and Firefox has “work offline” mode, Google Chrome doesn’t have this mode, but currently Google is working on “Offline Cache Mode” feature for their browser which allows Chrome to load web pages from local cache. Offline Cache Mode

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Google Chrome

Remove Chrome Notifications Icon in System Tray on Windows Easily

April 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Have you found Notifications icon shown by Chrome in the system tray annoying? instead of hiding it you can remove it easily. From few days Chrome Canary and dev. builds started showing “Chrome – Notifications” icon in notification area on

Posted in: Google Chrome, Tips and Tricks
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Chrome New Tab Page with Google Search

Chrome New Tab Page Adds Search by Default, do you Like it?

March 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome New Tab Page with Google Search

Back in December 2012 Google began testing their experimental New Tab Page for few users which has default search provider logo, search box and four thumbnails for most visited pages underneath will be shown when New tab is opened by

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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How to remove Google Chrome if you can’t uninstall it?

March 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment

If you’re not able to uninstall Google Chrome browser from Control Panel then you can manually remove it so that you can able to reinstall Chrome on your computer. When you want to uninstall Chrome to reinstall new version if

Posted in: Google Chrome, How to, Troubleshooting
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Chrome now lets you Set any URL as Homepage by dragging It onto Home button on Toolbar

February 5, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

You’ll be surprised to know this: Google Chrome till now doesn’t allows to drag and drop any web address onto home button on toolbar … [Read more…]

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