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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 showing audio indicator in tab

Google Chrome to natively Show Audio Indicators for Music Playing tabs

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments
Chrome showing audio indicator in tab

Finding which tab is playing audio in Google Chrome or for that matter in any browser is difficult, but there is a Chrome extension for that but that should’ve been native feature in Google browser. And guess what! bug submitted

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome Print Preview dialog gets Print Selection Option

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Till now to print selected or highlighted text on page in Chrome you need to use “Ctrl+Shit+P” shortcut to switch to default print dialog on Windows and then need to select “selection”. Chrome has avoided this hassle for you by

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome clear browsing data dialog showing message to use incognito mode

Psst! Incognito mode (Ctrl+Shift+N) may come in handy next time

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome clear browsing data dialog showing message to use incognito mode

If you’ve opened “Clear browsing data” dialog in Google Chrome and deleted browser’s history once in the past 24 hours and to delete cache and browser history if you to get to same dialog again in that 24 hours period

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome to warn reinstall the browser if it is outdated and can’t auto-update it self

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

If due to any reason Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism fails and if your Chrome browser left behinds one major version from the latest version, then Chrome to alert user to manually reinstall the browser. Brief about how Chrome updates it

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Chrome flags page with reset all to default button

Now You can Reset All Chrome Flags to their defaults

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome flags page with reset all to default button

About ://flags page formerly known as about:labs page available on Chromium and dev. and Canary builds of Chrome, these flags are experimental features under development being aimed at developers and advanced users and not for regular users. That’s why they

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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RecycleBin extension for Chrome showing list of tabs with links you've closed

Recycle Bin for Chrome lets you restore Closed tabs in Browser

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
RecycleBin extension for Chrome showing list of tabs with links you've closed

Have you accidentally closed a tab in Chrome? and couldn’t find it in history page, if you don’t want this to happen again for you then you should install Recycle Bin extension for Chrome browser. This extension remembers closed tabs

Posted in: Google Chrome
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Chrome App Launcher Now Available on Dev.Channel for Windows

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu 2 Comments

Chrome app launcher that available on Chromebooks till now which shows all apps installed and lets you access them from one place outside the browser is now available on Chrome dev. channel for Windows. Google wants you to test this

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FooTab makes Chrome to Load Tabs on demand on Startup

February 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Do you want Google Chrome to load tabs on demand like Firefox does?, you can get that behavior on startup with an extension. Firefox won’t load tabs from previous session on startup unless and until you select them but last

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Chrome menu UI changes

Google Chrome 26: Menu Gets bigger and background Color Changes to White

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome menu UI changes

Latest Google Chrome 26 dev. channel sports new UI style for Chrome menu with white background color and it has also grown bigger in size and context menu gets coat of white paint too. Get ready for two significant(?) UI

Posted in: Google Chrome, News
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Chrome history page with group domains feature enabled

Google Chrome to offer group visits by domain option for its history Page

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Chrome history page with group domains feature enabled

Chrome history page got “Group domains” option on top-right side of page (not enabled by default though), when you tick the checkbox next to it, your browsing history of visits to the same domain will be grouped and shown. You

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Google makes SSL Search default in Chrome

January 1, 2013 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Google is enhancing the security for Search in Chrome by sending the searches from address bar over SSL for not-signed in users where till yesterday this encryption being offered to signed-in users only, now Google has turned on SSL protection

Posted in: Google Chrome, News, Security
Google Chrome

Why Google doesn’t offers Master Password in Chrome Browser ?

December 25, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Firefox, Opera browsers offers Master password where Google Chrome is not! if you want to know the reason(s) for Google to not to offer … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, Security Tagged: Master Password
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