An option to enable Do Not Track headers landed in today’s Chromium release which web users can make use of to notify servers, websites and scripts that they do not want to be tracked on the Internet. The main aim of Do Not Track is to provide Internet users with an option to opt-out of [...]
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Pearls Extension: permanent on-page find for Chrome
Most users make use of the browser’s on-page find search tool to find words or phrases on a page. That works well if you need to find something on a single page, and depending on the web browser that you use, on pages that are linked on it. The on-page search in Google Chrome is [...]
One-Click access to all of Google Chrome’s privacy settings
There are numerous reasons to make sure that your web browser does not leak information to the Internet or the browser maker if that is not required for functionality that you use. Preferences that handle features such as third party cookies or prefeteching are usually not found in a single location where they can be [...]
Find out what’s behind a link with SwiftPreview for Chrome
If you hang out on a site where image links get posted all the time, say on Reddit or 4chan or any of the other sites where that is happening, you are probably spending more time clicking through than looking at the images as it is often a hit and miss kind of thing. Finding [...]
How to disable Google Chrome’s Action box + icon
If you are running Chrome Canary, and maybe other versions of the web browser as well, you may have noticed the + icon that Google has added to the browser’s address bar. If you do, you also may have noticed that the classic star icon, used to add a bookmark to the browser, has been [...]
Why you need to check permissions before installing extensions in Chrome
Whenever you install an extension in the Chrome browser, you see a prompt that you have to confirm before the extension gets installed. This prompt highlights the rights of the extension and may include the ability to access data on specific websites, access browsing data such as tabs, browsing activity or bookmarks, or other data. [...]
Gmail addon to share files from, send files to SkyDrive
Microsoft in preparation of the Windows 8 launch has evaluated all of its products to sort out some and focus on others. One of the products that the company has moved into the focus is SkyDrive, its cloud hosting service, file synchronization and document management service. Microsoft has linked the service directly with Microsoft Accounts [...]
Fix Google Chrome crashes and hangs
I have not really noticed any crashes or hangs in Google Chrome, or other web browsers for that matter, in recent time. That said, I do know of a few users who are experiencing crashes in the browser, either because they emailed me asking for help, or because I know them personally and they have [...]
How to ignore #hashtags on Google+
Users of the Google+ social networking site can add hashtags to their posts to categorize and describe posts. The search on the site supports hashtags so that searches can include one or multiple hashtags, or only hash tags to find only specific contents. To search for hashtags on Google+ simply enter #example in the search [...]
Modify the Google Bar with +You Gbar for Chrome
Google’s black bar that is displayed on nearly every Google property is highly inflexible as there is no option to remove or exchange products listed in the bar. What good is a link to Google Docs if you do not use the service? That’s probably the main reason why extensions like Big G Black Bar [...]
Google Chrome: Control website permissions from the address bar
If you are using Google Chrome 23 or higher you may have noticed a change to how website permissions are controlled in the browser. To do that in previous versions, you had to open the content settings of the browser to manage which websites could load images, cookies, JavaScript, handlers, plugins or popups and which [...]
List of Chrome URLs and their purpose
Just like Mozilla Firefox or Opera, Google Chrome ships with a set of internal URLs that you can access for various purposes. From displaying internal information to downloads, looking up crashes or the browser’s experimental features that you can enable to test them out, there is something available for anyone here. But which pages are [...]
How to disable Java in your web browser
By now you have probably heard about a new Java vulnerability that is been actively exploited on the Internet. I do not want to rehash all that has been said, and would like to suggest articles on ZDnet and Securelist for that which should provide you with an overview of the threat. Only that much: [...]
How to activate Chrome extensions with shortcuts
If you are using Google Chrome and have a number of extensions installed, you have probably asked yourself if there is a way to activate the extensions more easily. While some place their icon in the browser’s main toolbar and others in context menus, you sometimes may encounter extensions that do not do that. And [...]
Google’s new JavaScript benchmark Octane released
All modern web browsers are considerably fast when it comes to rendering web pages and executing JavaScript code. You usually find Google Chrome at the very top of results and the other browsers trailing behind by a bit. If JavaScript performance is important to you, you might want to test each browser on your system [...]
Enable or disable Chrome extensions for specific websites
Extensions in the Google Chrome web browser can either be enabled or disabled once they have been installed. When they are enabled they are automatically active and may display an icon in the toolbar of the browser or run background processes. And while you can take care of the icons, you can’t really control the [...]
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 core reason for the security boost is the fact that Flash Player is getting updates when Chrome updates, so that it is less [...]
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 through the Rolling Stone reviews section and found a song that could be exactly what you are liking. Since the song is not linked directly on the site, or embedded on it, you may be inclined to search for it on [...]
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 behind the program has released an extension for the Chrome web browser that does the same for Gmail. If you ever wanted to [...]
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 searches, specialized search engines that search specific sites like eBay or Wikipedia, and innovative search engines like DuckDuckGo may also be favored by [...]