Questions tagged [google-chrome]
Google's web browser available on both mobile and desktop platforms.
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Chrome DevTools - Network - Remove overview time filter
Once you click, and thereby filter, on the network timeline overview, I cannot find a way to undo the filtering.
When double clicking, it increases the filter to all, but subsequent requests won't be ...
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How to clear cached web fonts in Chrome
I'm trying to reproduce a bug where HTTPS Everywhere is preventing a web font from loading, but the web font seems to have been cached, preventing me from reproducing the bug. Neither Ctrl-Shift-R ...
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Can I run a packaged Chrome app as a tab in the browser?
I use a few packaged Chrome apps, namely Wunderlist for Chrome, Text, and Google Keep.
Packaged apps launch a new window when you click on their icon on the New Tab page:
I keep a Chrome window ...
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Ability to pin a Chrome tab group?
Chrome has recently introduced this great tab group feature.
However, I am still trying to find out how to pin an entire tab group so that it keeps its primary position and doesn't get pushed to the ...
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Chrome Address Bar has a delay
Chrome as a delay (around 1sec - 2sec) between when I first click the addressbar and start typing and showing what I typed. There is only an initial delay, so after the delay the letters, suggestions (...
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How to stop minimized Chrome windows opening automatically in Mac OS
I often leave a Chrome window minimized in the Dock (with something I want to read/do later, and don't want to find again, for example). In the meantime, though, I'll often click on links in emails, ...
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Chrome developer tools - network panel gaps
In the Chrome developer tools, under the network tab, I'm curious to know what is happening during the gaps. If you look at my image below, I have highlighted in orange the areas where these gaps ...
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headless chrome save page as mhtml
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to make Chrome save a site in MHTML from command line. I'm aware of --print-to-pdf, --dump-dom, and --screenshot but neither of them is what I'm after.
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Disable "Highlight DOM updates" in Chrome's devtools
When I open a developer tools in chrome and my website is loading, or javascript is adding some elements, then chrome highlights new/changed element. What I want to say is this:
I know that some time ...
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How to clear Chrome DNS cache now after they changed it?
They seem to have changed the chrome://net-internals page and it doesn't seem to work anymore. I have tried flushing the socket pool too. It works in incognito.
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Chrome Localhost Connection Refused
This question is not a duplicate because the suggested duplicate does not solve this problem. There is no such flag on chrome://flags/.
I'm using the Google Chrome web browser and WampServer to ...
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Chrome disable white blank page flash before website is loaded
When going to a new webpage in Chrome, the screen will flash white before the website is loaded. This is annoying as I have a lot of websites set to use dark themes with Stylish and the transition is ...
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How to sync Chrome extensions' details?
Chrome Sync can sync extensions, browser settings, etc. I have enabled these sync settings:
Each extension can sync its own settings using chrome.storage, however the details of each extension are ...
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Google chrome logs out from every webpage after system user has logged out
Every time I log into my account I have to again, and again, and again log into every webpage I'm using, because Google Chrome logs me out of everything I am logged in to. However, some cookies do ...
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Changing Chrome's text zoom when connected to an external monitor
I have a laptop with a rather small builtin monitor, making it very hard to read stuff unless the chrome text zoom level is increased to 125%.
One of the external monitors that I connect the laptop ...
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Back button of Google Chrome after clicking a hyperlink whose target is on the same PDF document
PDF documents have hyperlinks to the contents on the same document (analogous to "#section" hrefs for an HTML document). Where's the back button to go back to the page I was on (where I clicked the ...
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Force Chrome to keep history longer than 10 weeks
I am looking for a way to have Chrome keep my history for longer than 10 weeks. The main functionality I am looking for is the ability to see hyperlinks displayed in purple for websites that I've ...
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How to migrate Firefox bookmarks with tags to Chrome?
Firefox exports HTML without tags, or else as a JSON file. Since Chrome doesn't do tagging, a workaround would be to put the tags in the title so that text is still searchable once imported to Chrome.
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Upload file via URL
I'm a recent Mac convert. In Windows when I wanted to upload a file to a website I could do this (see the URL in the File Name text field):
However there's no way to do that in the upload dialog for ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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Stop chrome from prompting when running external URL handler?
I've configured an external handler for telnet:// links following these instructions. It works great, but every time I click on a click chrome asks me:
Open xdg-open? http://<site i am browsing&...
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Ubuntu 18.04 "Web Content" & "WebExtension" high CPU usage
I'm here to talk about a strange phenomenon.
I'm on a Ubuntu 18.04 Xfce.
Firefox 68.0.1 (64-bit)
Chrome 76.0.3809.87 (64-bit)
VSCode 1.36.1 (64-bit)
To resume, I have some very high CPU usage with ...
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Why is Chrome on OSX resizing the window when the autohidden menu bar is shown/hovered instead of overlapping it?
I'm on Mojave and Chrome 69.
When an app is in fullscreen mode and I move my mouse towards the top of the screen causing the Apple menu bar to display, it overlaps the current app for the duration ...
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UBlock Origin: Blocking specific advertisement on YouTube via custom filtering
There is a slightly annoying advertisement box outside of the video in the newest YouTube redesign:
Here's a link to the example video I used in this case, but the box appears on many other monetized ...
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Does a disabled extension keep its permissions on google chrome?
For example, would an extension that has the two permissions:
Read and change all your data on the websites you visit
Read data you copy and paste
that was installed and disabled on Chrome still be ...
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How to increase the scrolling speed in Google Chrome without using a plugin on Ubuntu?
I am using Google Chrome on Ubuntu but Ubuntu does not provide any setting for setting the scrolling speed. I know there is a plugin for solving this, Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller. However, its ...
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Chrome: autocomplete domain first?
Firefox usually decides to be smart about this, and it actually works fairly well.
Lets say you have a google search cached. In Firefox, you can start typing in the address bar and it will only ...
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Is it safe to remove old Chrome extension versions?
I just looked how I can slim down my home directory and noticed that Chrome's .config directory is unusually big. More than 600 MB in my case.
Most of it is occupied by by the Google Play Music ...
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How to install extensions on Chromium without the web store?
I tried to install the Reddit Enhancement Suit, when Chromium complained that I can only install extensions easily from Web Store. It downloaded the .crx file. How can I apply it? The linked help page ...
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Extensions to import ICS events to Google calendar
Which chrome/firefox extensions or stand-alone desktop applications can allow me to add .ics events to google calendar ?
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Display pdf in presentation mode on a chromebook?
Is there any way to display a pdf in fullscreen presentation mode on a chromebook? I have crouton installed but I want to give a presentation without boot into crouton. I found one chrome extension ...
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Google Chrome Task Manager update rate: How to slow it down?
Is there any way to slow down the sample/update rate of Chrome's Task Manager?
The display works fine for e.g. sorting tasks by memory footprint, because that's pretty stable; but it's terrible for ...
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In MacOS Chrome, if "Browser" process (according to Chrome Task Manager) is using 90% CPU, what URL or extension is the culprit?
Sometimes when I open a new webpage in Chrome, my Mac (Big Sur 11.2.1) will suddenly start maxing out one CPU. But sometimes even after I close the tab (and for good measure, other recently-opened ...
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Exclude domain from DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Edge or Chrome
I run a local BIND DNS server for my own development work. I like the idea of DoH in my browsers, but it is interfering with my use of BIND - instead of getting pages from my local development server, ...
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How to granulate Chrome's zoom levels?
In Firefox I can do this:
as you can see whenever I ctrl and +, I zoom with my changed values, 115%, 120%, 125%, etc. in 5% steps. How can I do that in Chrome? I don't want to go from 110% to 125% ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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How can I change the color of active tab? (Linux)
I use Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome. Is there any possibility to change the color of active tab in chrome without changing the theme?
I use GTK+ theme and I want to keep the consistency. Now active and inactive ...
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How to hide tab bar in chrome but still use tabs?
I use the Tabs Outliner plugin in Google Chrome because I like to see my tabs organized hierarchically. The issue I have is that tabs still display in their normal place (horizontally across the top) ...
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Ways to Recover Lost/Closed "Pinned" Tabs in Chrome?
I know this was TECHNICALLY an already-answered issue awhile back - and then was subsequently brought to life again briefly - but I have been experiencing this issue (only twice, but I had about 15 ...
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Google Chrome wrong dns resolves
I'm experiencing this strange issue:
Google Chrome is resolving paypalobjects.com in a wrong ip
I did these operations without success:
clear/flush chrome brosing cache
clear/flush chrome dns cache
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Missing Gmail notifications in windows 10 action center
Up until about two months ago I received Gmail notifications in the action center of Windows 10. Suddenly they disappeared.
The notification icon stays empty even when there is new mail. Google ...
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Chrome history not properly synchronized
I've had to switch a lot between different computer recently and realized that Google Chrome's history synchronization feature doesn't work properly for me.
What I've tested so far:
I had the ...
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In Google Chrome browser, why does Gmail use so much of the CPU when hardware acceleration is enabled?
Here's a screenshot of the issue.
On the right, Windows Task Manager showing high Chrome CPU usage.
On the left, Chrome's Task Manager showing it's all coming from the Gmail tab.
If Hardware ...
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Edit or extend chromes redirect limit
I have an internal web app that displays images (among other functions). Google chrome will inconsistently give me an error when retrieving images (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS). Sometimes I will ...
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Intercepting redirects in Chrome
Is there a way in Chrome to intercept meta/301/302 redirects and decide whether or not to follow them?
I'm looking to do the same thing that Django and Symfony 2 do to intercept requests:
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Is there a Google Chrome extension that lets me define hotkeys for sites?
This is driving me crazy because I tried all the Google searches I could think of and I still can't find a suitable addon.
I need an addon where I can define hotkeys that will take me to the sites ...
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How to get Chrome to STOP offering to remember password for one site?
In searching this site for "Chrome password" I see lots of questions about how to get Chrome to remember a website password, but I have the opposite problem: I want Chrome to STOP asking if it should ...
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View history of Chrome "Send to your devices"
As explained here, Google Chrome can send pages from one device (computer or phone) to another. However, if you view the shared page and navigate away, the sent page stops being accessible. Is there a ...
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My Chrome's "Add to Reading List" button disappeared overnight - how can I get it back?
A few months ago, Google Chrome updated the "Add Bookmark" button (inside the right side of the address bar) so that clicking it will show a menu with two choices: Add as a normal bookmark, ...
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Google Chrome - Open Tab and add to group - commandline
Is there a way to launch a new tab in Chrome and have it added to a specified tab group from the command line?
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