When you search on a website for a few times in Chrome, Chrome will add it as a custom search engine, aka OpenSearch, along with special keyboard shortcut for you to use it. For example, after you search a few products on Amazon, a custom Amazon search engine gets installed […]
Chrome version 57 was released about a week ago with a nice feature called Tab Throttling that throttles individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power. The result will make your battery last longer on your laptop. However, even though it’s a nice […]
Chrome version 57 was released yesterday with an important feature that most of you may not even notice. Starting with this version, Chrome will throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power. That’s something that Google’s Chromium team finally did to prevent background […]
Having a bookmark file in HTML format has a few benefits. Not only can you use it as a backup file to import to other browsers but you can also open it up directly in any browser and open the sites listed in your bookmarks right from there. Import/Export bookmarks from/to […]
By design, when you are in the full-screen mode in Chrome you don’t get to see the tabs you have open in the browser. But there is a way to get around it. Tab Revolution is a new Chrome extension developed to just solve this particular need, displaying tabs when […]
To clear the cached data in Chrome, you can go to Settings > Show advanced settings… > Clear browsing data or a keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Delete. From there, you can choose what type of cached file you want to clean up and from when. If you have a Google […]
Want to give your plain Gmail inbox a colorful eye candy to bright your day? Gmail Sender Icons is a small Chrome extension that visualizes the senders using their domain and favicon if applicable so you can easily identify where the emails come from without even looking at the sender’s email […]
Chrome added this “Print Scaling” feature in Chrome since version 56, not one that you can use right out of the box but as a Flag that you need to enable manually. Before you use the feature, head over to chrome://flags/#print-scaling, select Enable to the “Print Scaling” flag. Click Relaunch […]
Traditionally speaking, an equalizer is a circuit or equipment used to adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal, often used in sound recording and reproduction. In modern days, a software version of it exists almost in every app that plays music, regardless of which platform they are […]
Here is how it works when it’s enabled. When you need to close Chrome, instead of clicking the X to close the browser, you click the user icon and choose Exit and childlock. When you open Chrome next time, you will have to enter your Google account password to get […]