By default, the New Tab (Plus) icon is located on the right side of the last live tab. Usually it’s unchangeable but Google’s undergoing some experiments to allow you to re-position this icon to a different place. Since it’s an experimental feature, you can only change it through a new […]
Capturing a screenshot of any web page in full isn’t as easy as it sounds. Printing or saving it to PDF simply doesn’t cut it. You will need something else to help out. If you are using Google Chrome as your main browser, Full Page Screen Capture is a perfect […]
Ever since Google Chrome opened the door to allow websites send notifications to the desktop computer, more and more websites have taken advantage of the opportunity to add the ability to provide users with desktop notifications. While it could be useful for web apps like Slack, it also can make […]
There are other ways to block websites on your computer. For example, you can modify the hosts file on Windows to redirect them to nowhere. Or, use a specified DNS server that has the parental control built-in. But if you want to block websites on the browser level, Google Chrome in […]
Starting Chrome version 59, the material design is enabled by default on Settings page in Chrome. Rather than seeing the classic view of the Settings page, you are seeing this layout by default now once you updated your browser to version 59 or above. It’s actually pretty clean and looks […]
To get a better internet access performance, Google actually built a caching system not in Chrome not only for the site content but for DNS as well. So if flushing out DNS cache on your operating system didn’t work out, clearing up Chrome’s own cache should be your next step […]
PGO, short for Profile Guided Optimization, is a compiler optimization technique in computer programming that uses profiling to improve program runtime performance. Google started to implement some of the features from Microsoft’s PGO library in its recent Chrome releases. As a result, Chrome is up to 15% faster on Windows […]
When you are visiting a website and found it’s slow, do you ever wonder if the page load time is similar to others around the world? Or, if the slowness is due to your WiFi, the website, or the internet speed provided by your ISP? If you are using Google […]
There are reasons why you need to restart Chrome to have a fresh start without losing any opening tabs. Maybe one of the tabs you are visiting became unresponsive. Or, the browser occupied too much RAM that needs to be released. You can use the X button to close the […]
It started happening recently where the Chrome browser threw out this error message when I was trying to access Microsoft website. This site can’t be reached www.microsoft.com unexpectedly closed the connection. When I tried it on other browsers, including Edge, Firefox, or Safari, they all work fine. It even works […]