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Chrome's Flash sandbox improves with better security, less crashes

Ever since the Google Chrome development team started to cooperate with Adobe to bring the company's Flash Player technology to Chrome natively, it has been a major improvement for users security-wise. The […]

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Music-Plow for Chrome: find music while you are surfing on the Internet

So you read about Justin Bieber's new song somewhere online, or are currently browsing the Rolling Stone reviews section and found a song that could be exactly what you are liking. Since […]

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Shortcuts for Gmail: Learn Gmail hotkeys on the fly in Chrome

Remember KeyRocket? A free for personal use application for Windows that is helping you learn keyboard shortcuts while you use supported programs such as Microsoft Office or Windows Explorer. The developer team […]

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Search All for Chrome improves your search experience in the browser

Every Internet user has a favorite search engine that is being used for the majority of searches. While it may boil down to Google or Bing mostly when it comes to web […]

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Delete Google Chrome browsing data on exit

Google Chrome offers its users several options when it comes to clearing browsing data. One of the quickest ways is to use the Ctlr-Shift-Del shortcut to bring up the clear browsing data […]

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Currently for Chrome: weather and time on new tab pages

Are you one of those users who is not using the information that the Google Chrome browser displays on its new tab page? Or only infrequently? If you are not interested in […]

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Dead Mouse for Chrome: open links with your keyboard

I often prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse for operations in the operating system. This begins with simply things such as copying and pasting, but also moving the cursor […]

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Speed up Google Chrome, Chromium or SRWare Iron with IronCleaner

There is not a lot that you can do when Google Chrome starts to slow down after you have used the web browser for a certain period of time. While you could […]

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How to disable or remove Google Chrome plugins

The Google Chrome web browser - just like Firefox and other browsers - integrates plugins automatically that it finds on the system. Update: Things have changed quite a bit since 2012. Chrome […]

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Configuring Chrome's Click to play feature

I just read David Pierce's How to fix Chrome in ten seconds on The Verge blog where he described how he got rid of crashes and slow downs in Google's Chrome browser […]

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Get your 9GAG fix at work with 9GAG Mini for Chrome

9GAG is one of those Internet projects that has totally slipped past my radar. The site is one of the most popular Internet sites right now, with an Alexa rank of 251 […]

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Chrome's Flash implementation now fully sandboxed, internal settings coming

Google is continuing its work on integrating Adobe's Flash Player into the Chrome browser. While the company has made great progress in recent time in doing so, the developers today announced that […]

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Mass Download Images with Image Downloader for Chrome

If you like to download images from time to time on the Internet you are probably using a tool for that as it makes the mass-downloading of images more comfortable. While it […]

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Google Chrome for Android now out of beta

Google today has announced the release of the first stable version of the Google Chrome web browser for the Android operating system. According to Google, Chrome for Android is now available for […]

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The Default Browser in Windows 8, or, where are my links opened in?

When you run the Windows 8 operating system for the first time, regardless of having installed it by yourself or found it pre-installed on a PC that you have purchased, you will […]

Sort Items in Google's Black Bar the way you want

For now, Google displays a black bar at the top of most of its properties that link to other Google properties. If you look at the bar right now, you will notice […]

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Image Collector Extension for Google Chrome

While it is relatively simply to download individual images using a web browser's "save image as" option from web pages they are linked or hosted on, this method fails short when it […]

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Chrome Extensions eventually will use less memory than before

We have just confirmed that Google's Chrome browser is not the smallest cat in the alley when it comes to memory usage. While memory usage is not the only parameter that is […]

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Don't like Chrome's Download Bar? Then change it!

When you download files in Google Chrome, all downloads are listed in a downloads bar at the bottom of the screen. While this can be practicable at times, for instance to open […]

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Chrome uses way more memory than Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer

When you ask Internet users about their personal opinions about web browsers, some may tell you that they feel Firefox is using too much memory which is keeping the browser back, and […]

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Search for larger Anime images with IQDB Context

If you are a fan of Japanese anime, be it comics or movies, you probably also like to look at anime pictures on the Internet. Sometimes, you may stumble upon a picture […]

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Facebook Chat Notifications for Chrome

If you are regularly making use of Facebook chat, you have probably noticed that you can only keep up with messages if you have the Facebook site open and pay attention to […]

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Chrome Fix: Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site

On Google Chrome Canary, I have lately been getting the Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site error message when I was trying to install a userscript […]

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Google Chrome: First Metro version is out

A few days ago I mentioned that Google was about to release the first Metro version of the Chrome browser. As you all know, Windows 8 will ship with two user interaces, […]

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Save Ink and Paper with Print Friendly for Chrome

When it comes to printing out websites you often end with an output that is displaying more than what you actually needed in terms of information. You may see advertisement, menus, widgets […]

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Google Chrome Tab Stacking

Update: Google has pulled the feature from the Chrome browser again. It is no longer available, the flag has been removed and there is no setting that enables tab stacking in the […]

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eHistory adds advanced Search Operators to Chrome's History Page

If you do not clear your Chrome browsing history regularly you surely have a good reason for it, like the ability to check back on sites that you have visited in the […]

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Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on for Chrome

Many websites and services make use of Google Analytics, a web statistics service that is tracking web users on websites where the script is installed. Besides the tracking, there is also the […]

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Google News Reader, Read Custom News In Chrome

Computer users have many options when it comes to reading news. From the traditional way of visiting portal sites like Yahoo or newspaper websites like the New York Times site, to aggregators […]

Web Browser System Requirements Overview

When you are planning to install a new web browser on your system, or to upgrade one of the browsers to a newer version, you need to make sure that your system […]

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Google Web History To Merge With Chrome History

Google Web History is an automatically turned on service for Google account users who use Google search while being logged into that account. According to Google, it contains information about the searches […]

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How To Remove UTM_ Tracking Tokens In Your Browser

If you read a lot of blogs, you may notice that links on those blogs sometimes contain utm_ tokens after the web address they point to. You find this usually if another […]

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YouTube Video History Monitor and Notifier for Chrome

With so many YouTube extensions available for all web browsers, it is hard to come by an original add-on that brings something to the table that the majority of extensions do not […]

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FancyTube Adds Much Needed Features To YouTube for Chrome

For the world's most popular video hosting site, YouTube is really short on options and settings that it provides to its users. While that may be one of the secrets of the […]

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Image Properties Context Menu For Google Chrome

If you want to to find out more about an image posted on a website in the Chrome browser, your best bet is to either right-click it and use the inspect element […]

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Detect and Remove Inactive Google+ Users

When it comes to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus, you will find that friends on those networks fluctuate over time. While you will keep in regular contact with […]

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Monitor Craigslist Searches With Craigslist Notification for Chrome

If you like to buy stuff on the popular Craigslist website, you have probably noticed that it is not the easiest site to navigate and use. When it comes to monitoring specific […]

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Copy Tabs From One Browser Window To Another

If you like to work in multiple web browser windows on one computer, you may sometimes feel the need to drag tabs to another browser window. Every browser supports this operation, and […]

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Kill Evil For Chrome Takes Care Of JavaScript Annoyances On The Internet

JavaScript on websites can be used for quite the annoyances. From blocking access to the right-click context menu to tampering with the browser window's resize feature, or send every single click you […]

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How To Find Related Chrome Extensions

What do you do when your favorite Chrome extension stops working or gets pulled from the Chrome Web Store by its author or Google? While you could hope that the developer posts […]