If you have followed the development of web browsers in the past months you probably noticed that a fight for the HTML5 video format broke out between big players. Both Microsoft and […]
If you want to reopen a recently closed tab in the Google Chrome browser you have got the choice to right-click the tab bar and select re-open closed tab from the menu […]
If you follow the news on Ghacks you know that Google Chrome is the first web browser that offers an internal Flash plugin to enable Flash support in the web browser. The […]
Some computer users have no problem completing their daily work chores on the computer without ever giving in to distractions while others might need a little extra help to keep on working. […]
Up until today three versions of Google Chrome were available for download. Google Chrome 4 was the stable channel that was offered to all visitors who wanted to download the Google browser. […]
Most web browsers do not come with options to quickly jot down notes to access them at a later time again. Some browsers, for example Vivaldi, come with note taking functionality but […]
The Google Chrome web browser comes with a series of keyboard shortcuts that can be used to execute commands in the web browser. This ranges from opening new tabs with the Ctrl-t […]
The Google Chrome browser, much like Firefox, has a geolocation feature. Geolocation in this context means that websites and services can utilize the user's location to provide personalized contents. A basic example […]
The Google Chrome development team works constantly on three different versions of the web browser; A stable build, a beta build and the developer build (Update: add to that the Canary build […]
Math wizards take note. Chromey Calculator is an extension for the Google Chrome web browser that offers access to most of Wolfram|Alpha's and Google's mathematical calculations and functions. The extension places one […]
Some countries like China use a filter to block information from being accessible by Internet users. But it is not only countries who filter the Internet. Organizations, companies or schools are usually […]
Wikipedia Companion (update: now called Lookup Companion for Wikipedia) is a Google Chrome extension that adds options to search the online encyclopedia Wikipedia to Chrome's main toolbar. This means that you can […]
Update: YouTube Thumb is not working anymore. Use the Chrome extension Video Preview instead which offers the same functionality and works in all recent versions of the Chrome browser. YouTube displays preview […]
Many Internet users load websites by entering the prefix http:// and then the url (actual address) of the domain in the address bar of the web browser they are using. This is […]
Incredible Startpage is a browser extension for Google Chrome that adds functionality to the New Tab page of Google Chrome. The standard blank tab page in the Google Chrome browser is already […]
The Google Chrome web browser makes use of a feature called DNS fetching (sometimes also called DNS pre-resolving, or preloading) to improve the user experience while using the browser. The idea behind […]
The Google Chrome web browser has a handy translation feature that Google build right in to the browser. It can be used to translate web pages that are published in a language […]
Adobe Flash was natively integrated into the Google Chrome browser two weeks ago. As usual, the feature was disabled by default at first and had to be enabled with a startup parameter. […]
Skipscreen is a popular Firefox add-on that will automatically skip unnecessary screens on file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload or Mediafire. It will automatically bypass those screens to make it easier for […]
Update: The browser extension is no longer working in recent versions of Google Chrome. We suggest you use the extension Send to Google Maps instead which offers a similar functionality and works […]
The Google Chrome browser and its open source counterpart Chromium do not have options currently to configure default programs. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer ship with configuration options to set default programs […]
Google Voice is a an invite only US-only service by Google that provides additional benefits to phones and voice communication. This includes voicemail transcriptions, notifications, a single phone number for all phones, […]
Snap Links Lite is a free browser extension for the Google Chrome browser that enables you to load multiple links at once in the browser. There are only a few add-ons available […]
The feature to display taskbar thumbnails in the Windows 7 operating system was recently added to Chromium and later on to Google Chrome. The taskbar thumbnails were enabled by default with no […]
Google Chrome, like any other web browser, offers an option to save websites as bookmarks to open them again at a later point in time. Bookmarks are placed in the bookmarks manager […]
We took a look at a basic Google Chrome session manager back in January which allows you to save Chrome sessions, that is information about the open websites in the web browser, […]
One of the first things that many users do after installing a web browser is to install Adobe Flash as it is needed to display many websites and most of the hosted […]
Update: The browser extension is no longer available. There does not seem to be a comparable extension available for Google Chrome at this point in time. Check out the best music streaming […]
One of the recent additions to the Windows version of the Google Chrome web browser was support for the Windows 7 taskbar to show preview thumbnails of all open tabs of the […]
Google Chrome 5's development has reached a new milestone with the release of Google Chrome 5 Beta for Windows operating systems today. The official release version of the Google browser is still […]
If you want to search for videos on Youtube you can either go directly to the site and hack your search phrase into the search form offered there, use a search engine […]
The Google Chrome browser ships with a Task Manager that reveals information about the browser's memory consumption, as well as cpu and network load. When you open the Task Manager in the […]
Tabs Plus is a browser extension for Google Chrome that adds search, thumbnail previews, and drag and drop support to the browser's tab management functionality. Recent Firefox versions have an option to […]
Google added several new features to its Chrome web browser lately. We reviewed the new autofill and taskbar thumbnail features already that Google added to the latest developer release version of the […]
Google introduced another feature in the latest Google Chrome developer version next to the new autofill feature that we reviewed earlier today. This new feature is only available if the user runs […]
Google just added so-called Autofill functionality to development versions of the Chrome browser which allow you to fill out form information automatically. The Google Chrome web browser, at least the developer releases, […]
Update: One Manga Reader and the One Manga website for that matter are no longer available. Use alternatives such as Manga Viewer instead which you still find listed in the Chrome Web […]
Personal Blocklist allows Google Chrome users to blacklist specific domains or pages from appearing in the Google search results. This can be helpful in situations where results from a website should not […]
I noticed a strange behavior in Google's latest Chrome developer build. I'm not sure if the problem exists in other versions of the Chrome browser as well, but it is likely that […]
Most video portals like YouTube or Dailymotion display lots of content next to the videos that they host on the website. This includes advertisement, user comments, the site navigation and other features […]
