Google Chrome Browser

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Restart

chrome://restart

Disable Web Occlusion

WebContents Occlusion, the new feature suspends Chrome tabs whenever you move any window on your machine over the top of the web browser. It's designed to free-up resources on your laptop or desktop machine. And since you've placed a window in-front of Chrome, Google assumes you're working on something else.

Yeah, well that breaks a lot of things for people and and stops them from working.

To fix it, go to these settings, disable both and restart Chrome... 

chrome://flags/#web-contents-occlusion
chrome://flags/#calculate-native-win-occlusion

...damn goalpost moving.

Disable Chrome Tab Hover Cards

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-cards

Change both options to disabled and restart Chrome.

Thank God for that.

https://www.downloadsource.net/how-to-disable-tab-previews-tab-hover-cards-in-google-chrome/n/16270/

Get More Done with Google Chrome

Great new features coming...

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/get-more-done-with-google-chrome/

Reload All Google Chrome Browser Tabs

  1. Click the first tab
  2. Click the last tab
  3. Right Click
  4. Reload

Enable Reader Mode

  1. chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
  2. Enabled
  3. Relaunch
  4. Visit web site > Click 3 dots menu > Choose Distill Page

Enable Hidden Simplified Reader Text Only Mode

Sick of adverts and popups?

  1. Go to chrome://flags
  2. Search for Reader Mode Triggering and change default to Always

Now press 'Show simplified View' at the bottom of the screen and the page will reload with no images and just text.

About Flags

chrome://about/

Experiments

chrome://flags

Disable Tab Hover Card Images

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-card-images

Extension Keyboard Shortcuts

chrome://extensions/shortcuts

Password Checker

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-checkup/pncabnpcffmalkkjpajodfhijclecjno/related

Update Flash From Within Browser

  1. In the address bar at the top, enter chrome://components and press Enter.
  2. Under "Adobe Flash Player," click Check for update.

Thanks - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784

Clear or flush the DNS cache

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/google-chrome-clear-or-flush-the-dns-cache

Clear Browsing Data Cache

Windows


iOS

Chrome > ... > Settings > Privacy > Clear Browsing Data

HOW TO: ENABLE

Default Handler for Mail To Links

You may have to remove the current mailto link handler... 

chrome://settings/handlers

Then reload your Gmail page and click the diamond shapes in the address bar and Allow

Display https:// & www. In Address Bar

NEW

  • Paste in the address bar: chrome://omnibox/
  • Tick 'Show all details'
  • Restart Chrome

OLD

  • Paste in the address bar: chrome://flags/
  • Locate the entry: Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme
  • Set the state to "Disabled"

Thanks to How To Geek

HOW TO: DISABLE

Notifications

"Sites can ask to send notifications" > OFF 

chrome://settings/content/notifications

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Autoplay of Videos

chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

Mute Picture-in-Picture

In the Omnibox (address bar) paste & go to: chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features

Set the option to "Enabled"

RC4 Insecure Cipher

See Ghacks page.

Thanks to Ghacks

HOW TO: GPO

How to install Chrome policy templates on Windows machines

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/01/how-to-install-chrome-policy-templates-on-windows-machines/

Turn off Google Chrome automatic updates on Windows using Group Policy

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/10/turn-off-google-chrome-automatic-updates-on-windows-using-group-policy/

Settings/Preferences/Profile - Location

Chrome's settings are stored in the a user's profile in:

Linux 

.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences

Windows

Mac OS X

Start Google Chrome with a specific Profile

google-chrome --profile-directory=Default
google-chrome --profile-directory=Profile 2

HOWTO: Crash Google Chrome Browser Intentially

DO NOT click this link - http://t/%%30%30

HOWTO | BACKUP | BOOKMARKS

  • Menu button to right of address bar
  • Bookmarks | Bookmarks Manager
  • Organize | Export bookmarks to HTML file...
  • Select your download location

Bookmarks Location - Manual Backup

https://www.techjunkie.com/where-are-google-chrome-bookmarks-stored/

https://www.solveyourtech.com/where-are-google-chrome-bookmarks-stored/

HOWTO: LAUNCH: BBC Home Page Webapp

chromium --app=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ --app-window-size=500,500

or 

chromium --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5" --app=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ --app-window-size=500,500

HOWTO: LAUNCH: Last Browsing Session

If you have not changed Chrome's settings save tabs on exit there is a a way to launch the last session: 

Terminal:~$

google-chrome --restore-last-session

HOWTO: SETTINGS: Alter Tab Behaviour

Default: Settings --> On start-up --> Open the New Tab page

Alter: Continue where you left off

List of Chromium Command Line Switches

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

HOWTO: ACCESS: Hidden Features

chrome://about/

Found here.

HOWTO: INSTALL: Pepper Flash in Gentoo Linux

The Adobe Shockwave Flash player plug-in that is installed by default is not the only version of the technology.

Google have been working with Adobe to produce a more stable and secure version which they have called 'Pepper'.

http://goo.gl/QIzjd

To use it, follow these instructions...

Go to chrome://plugins in the browser and disable the Adobe Flash plugin. 

emerge www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

>>> Installing (1 of 1) www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-9999
* checking 4 files for package collisions
>>> Merging www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-9999 to /
--- /etc/
--- /etc/chromium/
>>> /etc/chromium/pepper-flash
--- /usr/
--- /usr/lib64/
--- /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/
>>> /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libpdf.so
>>> /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/PepperFlash/
>>> /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/PepperFlash/manifest.json
>>> /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
* 
* To enable Flash for Chromium, source	/etc/chromium/pepper-flash
* inside /etc/chromium/default. You may run this as root:
* 
*   # echo . /etc/chromium/pepper-flash >> /etc/chromium/default
*

Start Chromium and go to to chrome://version 

Chromium       25.0.1364.97 (Developer Build 183676) 
OS             Linux 
WebKit         537.22 (Unknown URL@0)
JavaScript     V8 3.15.11.15
Flash          11.6.602.177

Test by going to http://www.adobe.com/swf/software/flash/about/flashAbout_info_small.swf

HOWTO: INSTALL: Pepper Flash in Ubuntu Linux

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/07/how-to-install-latest-flash-player-in.html

HOWTO: INSTALL: Chromium in Ubuntu Linux

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:a-v-shkop/chromium

HOWTO: FIX: Small Code Font On Media Wiki Sites

http://wiki.indie-it.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css

HOWTO: DOWNLOAD: Windows .msi Installer

To install Chrome Browser for all users you need to use the .msi (not .exe) version found here.

HOWTO: DOWNLOAD: Third Party Software Removal Tool (Windows Only)

If you are suffering problems with Chrome which you think may be linked to third party software, help is at hand.

Google have released a tool to reset Chrome and remove any third party software from interacting with it, it can be downloaded here.

This tool resets Chrome back to its default setting be sure to back up your data beforehand (bookmarks etc).

Thanks go to ghacks.net for their article on the matter.

Desktop Extensions

CLUT - Cycle Last Used Tab

Android App

Close All Tabs

On an open tab press and hold the close cross, then click the resulting 'Close all tabs' pop-up.

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