Google Chrome Browser
INFO:
Settings/Preferences/Profile - Location
Chrome's settings are stored in a user's profile in:
Linux
.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
Windows 7, 8.1 and 10
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
macOS
Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Replace <username> with the name of your user.
For more information covering multiple Chrome profiles (as opposed to user profiles) see this article.
Site Engagement
The Site Engagement Service provides information about how engaged a user is with a site. The primary signal is the amount of active time the user spends on the site, but various other signals may be incorporated (e.g. whether a site is added to the home screen).
For a full explanation, click here.
Restart
Paste the following in to the address bar and then press return:
chrome://restart
Discards Performance and Memory Saver
chrome://discards
and
chrome://settings/performance
Memory Saver
When enabled, Chrome frees up memory from inactive tabs. This gives active tabs and other apps more computer resources and keeps Chrome fast. Your inactive tabs automatically become active again when you go back to them.
About Flags
chrome://about/
Experiments
chrome://flags
Extension Keyboard Shortcuts
chrome://extensions/shortcuts
HOWTO: GENERAL:
Reload All Google Chrome Browser Tabs
- Click the first tab
- Click the last tab
- Right Click
- Reload
Update Flash From Within Browser
- In the address bar at the top, enter chrome://components and press Enter.
- 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
Reader Mode
- chrome://flags
- Search for Reader Mode
- Change Default to Enabled
- Press Relaunch
To use, look in the address bar that looks similar to an open book, hovering over it should show the legend 'Enter reader mode'. Click on the icon to display a simplified version of the page.
Hidden Simplified Reader Text Only Mode
Sick of adverts and popups?
- Go to chrome://flags
- 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.
HOW TO: DISABLE
Tab Hover Card Images
Enable this feature ...
chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m110
... and restart the browser ...
chrome://restart
... then disable this setting ...
chrome://flags/#tab-hover-card-images
...and restart again.
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
Memory Saver For Specific Sites
chrome://settings/performance
- Click the Add button
- Fill in the site details, then click the Add button
- Rinse and repeat for any other required sites
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
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 is designed to free-up resources, 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 stops them from working. Undertake the following chrome flag changes:
chrome://flags/#web-contents-occlusion chrome://flags/#calculate-native-win-occlusion
Set both the above to Disable, then press Relaunch.
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
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: 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'.
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
Android App
Close All Tabs
On an open tab press and hold the close cross, then click the resulting 'Close all tabs' pop-up.
