Very often old websites does not work in Chrome and asks you specifically to use IE or Firefox. Many a times you would like to change the user agent string in Google Chrome either to check the mobile version of the site on your desktop or to try out it with different browser platforms. Until [...]
Life was easy before the new Facebook changes. You can share articles without any hassles with your friends. Now, whenever you click any shared news article on Facebook, you are greeted by an App. You are forced to install it for reading that article. The new installed App with monitor your behaviour and will recommend [...]
The current home page from the new tab shows the list of installed apps on Google Chrome. Most of these apps are generally links to your favourite sites, but unfortunately, not all websites have their app in the Webstore. So, normally you use “Most Visited” section to go to that specific site. Wouldn’t it be [...]
Along with the latest version of Chrome, Google has made significant changes to the in-built extension manager. However, if you install too many extensions then managing them becomes a pain. They take up significant space next to address bar (Omnibox), each one has a separate options page and it is difficult to update them. There [...]
Do you feel Chrome’s new page tab design is boring? Then you must see our previous post on 5 beautiful Chrome new tab extensions. A new addition to this list is Windows 8 Metro UI inspired, widget based aNTP or Awesome New Tab Page. aNTP is fully customizable with widgets, apps, icons, bookmarks and colours. [...]
Uncircle+ is a new Chrome extension that allows you to quickly find and remove inactive users from your Google+ Circles. This is an easy way to clean up your Circles and have more room to add new interesting people. How to use Uncircle+? Install Uncircle+ from its page on Chrome Web Store. Once installed, you should [...]
Picture-In-Picture For YouTube is an lesser known extension for Google Chrome that gives you a fair easy way to watch YouTube videos while browsing other websites and even when you are working on desktop applications. Once installed, the extension adds a new ‘PIP’ button, next to the existing Share button, on every YouTube video page. [...]
The Chrome download site does not display the latest Chrome version number and hence it is difficult to determine whether you are using the most recent one with the newest features and rectified security flaws. This is because Chrome automatically gets updated from Google servers from time to time. Therefore, Google assumes that you always [...]
There are various extensions available in the Web Store to decorate their Chrome installation. [See 5 ultra-useful new tab extensions]. One extension that I found really good to stylize my chrome’s default scroll bar and that give me that little bit of extra screen space or just for the joy of personalizing is Simple Scroll Bar X. [...]
When a non-US user visits the Google homepage, they are automatically redirected to the local version of the search engine for that country. This country version can be identified by looking at its tld (postfix after the dot sign in the domain name) which is Google.co.in for Indian users, Google.co.uk for British users, and so [...]
Google Chrome provides a very simple history feature to view past visited websites. It is very easy to use and solves most of the purpose. By default, your past visits are arranged in reverse chronological order with only few sorting options. Often it becomes difficult to search for previous visited sites in history. Chrome history [...]
Gtricks mobile interface beta is live at http://m.gtricks.com. Its about 7kb size page, so you can easily check of any updates through mobile conveniently. Recently, when we covered 5 tab extensions to fancify chrome some readers mailed me, asking how to open blank tabs for privacy concerns? That is, they wanted to remove or hide [...]
Are you the type of person who loves to customize things? Do you want to be different than the crowd? Do you want to experiment new ways to improve productivity? If your answer is yes, then here is something for you. We will have a look at 5 beautiful chrome extensions that changes the way [...]
You have to accept that some websites work only with IE (Microsoft’s Internet Explorer). They are designed that way and you can’t do anything for them. Especially intranet websites which were made years before Chrome or Firefox and now have cluttered layout in latest browsers. Another major problem is some links don’t recognize a click [...]
Have you ever installed untrusted softwares in your computer? If not, then why install third party extension on Chrome when there are 24 official extensions from Google to choose from. The Google Chrome Extension gallery contains 1000’s of extensions. But are they credible enough to use? Since some of the extensions have access to user-data [...]
As anticipated, Google has launched its extension gallery for Windows Chrome users and as an early Christmas gift, it has also released Chrome for Mac and Linux users. We have already informed you that Chrome extensions might go public by Google this week and yes, it did. In all, there are 435 extensions though you [...]
Sometimes it’s not easy install Google Chrome error free. There are various problems like corrupt installed file (exe) or failed operation at last step of installation. Chrome wont install or gives trouble in updating due to many reasons primary due to network failure, internet connection and corrupt installation. These Chrome updation or installation problems often [...]
Synchronizing Bookmarks can be of great help for people with multiple computers. It could prove very useful in cases where person access nearly same sites at office and at home. The Chrome blog has announced a new feature for Google chrome, which lets users to automatically synchronise their bookmarks. So now, you don’t need to [...]
