Questions tagged [google-chrome]
Google's web browser available on both mobile and desktop platforms.
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Why is Facebook consuming a lot of computer's resources?
I have a problem when using the web version of Facebook.
My specs are:
CPU: Intel Core i7-11800H
RAM: 12GB DDR4
GPU: RTX 3050 Laptop 4GB (No MUX Switch)
All drives are SSDs
An image of task manager ...
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Pre-Terminated Browser Switching in Microsoft Edge
Good afternoon. One question, does anyone know how to set Google Chrome as the default browser in Microsoft Edge? Can it? Thank you very much and greetings to all!!(I use Windows 10)
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What exactly does Chrome store in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\PreferenceMACs
When I search for topics like moving chrome settings from one machine to another, I often see a references to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\PreferenceMACs. Looking at it, I ...
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Are the "full size" images from Instagram on a browser actually full size?
I am following the "view page source" method for getting the full resolution of an Instagram image, but feel like I'm doing something wrong. Let's consider this example.
If you view source ...
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Brave browser: I'm getting 'Redirect Notice' from Google Calendar links on my new laptop but not on the older one
I bought a new laptop and I'm using both right now, the new one and the old one.
I'm using Brave browser. Today, when I clicked on some links on my Google Calendar, they show me a 'Redirect Notice' ...
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How to auto-refresh Chrome in kiosk mode
I've a computer (windows 10) with a link in the startup directory to launch a web page with Chrome in kiosk mode.
It opens correctly but displays a blank page, until I press F5, at which point the ...
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Revert to using CVC for payments autofill in Chrome, instead of user password?
Chrome recently asked if I wanted to start using a new feature in which I could autofill my credit card information using my password instead of the card CVC.
I clicked 'yes' to give it a shot and ...
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Update Google Chrome extensions from the command line
How can I update Google Chrome extensions from the command line?
I'm running macOS 12.7.4.
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How to identify which chrome extension is opening spammy tabs automatically
I've got a very strange issue.
Randomly, every now and then, random websites will be opened up via new chrome tabs.
These websites appear to have some sort of thing in the URL relating to 'ad.strk' ...
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Google Chrome hangs for 20+ seconds before loading URL
When opening Google Chrome, I can interact with the UI and task manager shows no significant resource usage, but when I navigate to a URL there is a 20+ second delay. I can open multiple tabs and ...
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Chrome autofill alternative possibilities
It happens again again and again, chrome doesn't auto fill some information from saved autofill form.
There is many reasons it happens and most of them is the HTML/JavaScript on the sites.
It is why I ...
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Managing Cache that goes into user-data of Chrome Browser
In Chrome browser, we have GPUCache, ShaderCache, CacheStorage, ScriptCache,
now we have DawnCache, GrShaderCache.
They just keep making new folder for temp files and even mixing it into the user-data....
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Can Chrome open PDF documents in the system viewer app by default?
In Firefox, when I click on a PDF link it opens my default system viewer (SumatraPDF). Isn't Google Chrome capable of this behavior?
In Chrome's settings, here:
chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments
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Prevent toolbar from dropping down when moving mouse to the top while using full-screen applications in Mac OS
My ask is pretty simple; I'm using chrome remote desktop on a Mac, and in the remote computer if I move my mouse to the top of the screen to click a browser tab, it will trigger the Mac toolbar to ...
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How do I sign in using a passkey on a remote pc (RDP)
I've a PC 1 at work where I can sign in into e.g.: GitHub using a passkey which is stored on my iPhone. Bluetooth has two activated on my iPhone and on my PC 1.
I've a PC 2 at home where I can sign in ...
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Chrome's not showing data in local storage & no valid storage detectors found error
Since I'm cheap and need to find games that I don't need to pay for I've played a few amateur games made to run in the browser, which defaults to chrome.
One of those games has a bug with not cleaning ...
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How to stop running a program (like Chrome) from an external SSD
A few years ago, I did something that enabled me to install the Chrome browser on an external SSD and run it from there. Apologies for being about as unspecific as it gets!
Because I don't remember ...
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Font rendering issue with Blink based browsers in macOS
Recently Blink based browsers show unintelligible texts on some websites, it returns to the normal state when I change the font-weight manually. Never hear or saw a thing like this before. Any ideas?
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Open new Google Chrome tab in a named window
I'm on Linux and I use scripts to open webpages. I also group my tabs into named Chrome windows, i.e. --window-name="Group 1".
How can I open a new tab in a specifically named window? ...
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Cannot log out of site
I'm trying to log off a site, but it always keeps me logged in. What I tried in chrome:
Use incognito mode
go to devtools - application - storage - clear site data (including 3rd party cookies)
If I ...
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Does Chrome support OID Filters in the TLS handshake
Cite from rfc8446
The "oid_filters" extension allows servers to provide a set of
OID/value pairs which it would like the client's certificate to
match. This extension, if provided by the ...
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Chrome history is empty
Using Chrome 121.0.6167.160 on Ubuntu 22.04. Any time I access my history it's just a blank page with "Your browsing history appears here". It's the same on all profiles. I don't know ...
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Why sometimes the whole system crashes?
Sometimes when I work with Google Chrome, the whole system suddenly locks and the mouse and keyboard stop working. This usually happens when I'm working with Wampserver. Even once the local database ...
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When expanding Google Chrome to full screen, a black bar appears at the top
As soon as Google Chrome expands to full screen, a black bar appears on the top portion of the window. The portion is no longer clickable, as if you were clicking on the desktop, you can even transfer ...
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Passwords and cookies when running Chrome remotely
I use Ubuntu 23.10. I usually use Google Chrome on my desktop PC, and I have my passwords saved in Google Password Manager. This works fine. But when I login remotely from my laptop (also running ...
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“This site can't be reached - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” via Google Chrome (49.0.0263.75) on Windows XP. Works with Firefox
I cannot get into many sites on my laptop with Google Chrome on Windows XP. I am using Google Chrome (49.0.0263.75) and FirefoxESR (52.9.0) and I am getting this error in Chrome:
“This site can't be ...
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How can I autofill the "ID" field on Chrome?
I fill out a form occasionally and want to be faster because signups fill rapidly. How do I get autofill for the ID field circled below? Chrome already does autocomplete for everything else (name, ...
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Should I delete the snapshot folder of Google Chrome?
I see that in the folder %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Snapshots there are older versions as shown below.
Each folder takes up 2.5GB of hard drive space !
Is there a safe way to ...
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How to get a certificate out of Chrome now the padlock has gone?
I am used to clicking on the padlock in Chrome downloading the certificate and installing that in my jre.
Now the padlock has gone, I can not find how to download the certificate anymore.
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What is the current url format for Google Image searches? [migrated]
I use a program called Cold Turkey on my laptop that blocks specific URLs, and until recently, I was able to block all google image searches as they shared part of their url. Now, however, it seems ...
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Chrome-based browsers show wrongly some letters with diacritics on parts of some websites (Wikipedia, Wiktionary) [migrated]
This doesn't happen in Firefox or other non-Chrome-based browsers, but it happens in Opera, Thorium or Vivaldi.
The name "Țepeș", for example, looks like this:
when it should look like this:...
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Chrome on W10 cannot remember my default magnet handler
In chrome://settings/handlers, for magnet links, I can see my BitTorrent client's URL.
However the default is always missing, so I click on the 3 dot menu and Set as default
A Default will be added ...
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Having trouble with the "Blocked by your Organization" in Windows 11 with Internet Download Manager
I was running Internet Download Manager (IDM) on my Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop with Windows 11 Pro using Chrome browser. From the day I purchased the laptop, it has never been connected to an ...
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<Tabs from other devices> does not show all tabs and windows. Why?
I have 414 tabs shown in chrome.google.com/sync, but in chrome://history/syncedTabs (Tabs from other devices) it shows only 14 windows:
5 tabs
7 tabs
4 tabs
5 tabs
7 tabs
3 tabs
28 tabs
7 tabs
6 tabs
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How to revert Chrome to the old add to bookmark UI
Is there a way to revert the add-to-bookmark UI back to the earlier version that allows you to choose which folder the new bookmark will go immediately without having to click further?
That is in ...
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How to config Chrome policies per profile on Linux?
Some Chrome policies, like this, is listed as "Per Profile : Yes".
However, Chrome linux policy help [A]: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9027408
does tell how to config policy at ...
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"Your device is managed by your organization. Administrators can access..." issue on the chrome on my personal PC
My Chrome shows this message whenever I try to create a new profile. It's my personal laptop and not attached to any organisation. I have attempted almost all the solutions online to no avail. I want ...
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oracle vm instance, no matches found
I am trying to launch chromium on Oracle-Linux-8.9-2024.01.26-0 it is a vm i got from oracle, yet I get the following error
root/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux-121.0.6167.85/chrome-linux64/chrome: ...
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Chrome suddenly automatically opens PDF files in Adobe Acrobat after download
Since a few weeks, after I've downloaded a PDF file, Chrome suddenly has started to open these files in Adobe Acrobat. I have absolutely no idea why that happens.
Does someone know what the reason for ...
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Chrome network requests stall for exactly 10 seconds when using custom local SSL hostnames and certificates
I develop websites locally with mkcert tool to create SSL certificates for my domain (eg project.local). Then I point project.local to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file (/private/etc/hosts for me on Mac). I ...
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How to access reading list in a full page, special internal URLs?
When you use reading list feature in Chrome, it always go to sidebar.
Is there a way to access it via address bar? So it can be wider and not just sidebar.
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How to change the user icon in taskbar from Chrome Browser?
I found a way to change user avatars by changing them in C:\Users \...\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Avatars:
And they've changed in Chrome profile header:
But haven't changed in taskbar:
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I can't access Stack Overflow with Windows 11 + Wifi 6 router + Organization proxies
I am unable to access stackoverflow.com when using a modern router supporting Wi-Fi 6 via mainstream browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome).
I can access all Stack Exchange sites, such as superuser, ...
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Google account differs from other accounts
This is a weird issue and can't find any information online.
When we log into the one account (right-side), and search for images - the images load with low quality and the "more like this" ...
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Windows 11 (and Chrome) doesn't allow me to associate torrent magnet files
I'm using Transmission on Windows 11 and whenever I click on a magnet file in Chrome (which uses the OS file associations), I get the popup:
But when I go under Settings > Apps > Default apps ...
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Chrome "bleaches" screenshots
Every once in a while as soon as I press Win+S to start the Snipping Tool, Chrome takes on a "bleached" pallor. This only affects Chrome and it happens on all four of my monitors. Restarting ...
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Increase number of entries in Chrome Auto-Complete
Following best security practices, I have unique passwords for multiple accounts at the same service. The passwords are long and random, generated by the Google Chrome password manager, and stored in ...
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Why can't Google Chrome update without someone logged in?
I have a number of Windows 10 machines in an AD environment that host Chrome. If someone logs into the machine and goes about their business, it appears as if Chrome runs its updates just fine. If ...
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Stop Chrome from fetching favicon for a specific bookmark
I have a URL bookmarked in Chrome. Once in a while, Chrome requests GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0 from that server.
I do not want Chrome to access that server unnecessarily, at least unless I specifically ...
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Opening PDF previews with Chrome on an Optiplex 7010 or 7000 results in a grey square in the preview pane
As the title states. Opening PDF previews with Chrome on an Optiplex 7010 or 7000 results in a grey square in the preview pane.
Notes:
This issue does not occur for any other Optiplex series (5060, ...