A Sense of Doubt blog post #1766 - Control the Chrome
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https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-browser-settings-tips-tricks/
12.15.2019 07:00 AM
Tweak These Google
Chrome Settings to Level Up Your Browsing
Get
the most out of Google's Chrome browser with these tips and tricks.
Chances
are you spend a lot of your computing time inside a browser window, and quite
possibly inside a Chrome tab; Google's browser has come from nowhere in 2008 to
dominate the browser landscape on desktop and mobile. Part of Chrome's appeal
is its ease-of-use, but it also has more advanced features just below the
surface that can help you do more in less time.
To give your time online a boost, try these Chrome tips
and tweaks. If you'd rather go for a more privacy-focused browser, give one of these alternatives a spin. Or if
you're heavy into Apple's ecosystem, try our guide to Safari on iOS and macOS.
1. Mute noisy sites
No one likes their browsing interrupted by auto-playing
ads or videos. If one site is proving particularly annoying, you can silence it
permanently. Right-click on the site's tab at the top of Chrome, then
choose Mute Site. Pages from that particular domain won't be able
to make a peep until you choose Unmute Site from the same
menu.
2. Bring back closed tabs
Chrome keyboard shortcuts can make a real difference to
how quickly you can get stuff done; see here for a full list. One of our
favorites is Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows (or Cmd+Shift+T on
a Mac): It brings back the tab that you most recently closed. You can keep
pressing the same shortcut to open more and more recently closed tabs.
3. Change the look of Chrome
Chrome comes with a theming tool that you might not have
discovered yet. Open up a new tab then click on the Customize button
in the bottom right. You can choose an entire theme based around a background
image (Background), or set a specific gallery of colors (Color and
theme), and even change the shortcuts that show up on new tabs (Shortcuts).
DAVID NIELD VIA CHROME
4. Look up your passwords
Chrome does an excellent job of remembering your passwords
and user names for various sites, but you might not always be logging on inside
Chrome. If you need to look up a password, open the Chrome menu
and choose Settings, then Passwords. You can search for
a specific user name or URL at the top, then click the eye icon to
reveal the password.
5. Switch between profiles
Just like you can have user profiles for different people
on Windows or macOS, you can have multiple Chrome profiles, too. It keeps
passwords, history, settings, and more separate, and it works for different
family members or just for different parts of your life, like work versus home.
Click your avatar (top right) then Manage People to get
started.
6. Embrace the emoji
If you think one emoji is worth a thousand words, you'll
be interested in this one. You can right-click inside any text box in Chrome on
Windows or macOS, then choose Emoji & Symbols to quickly
access a gallery of icons and pictures. If you can't find what you're looking
for straight away, use the search box at the top or the category list at the
bottom.
DAVID NIELD VIA CHROME
7. Find tabs you've opened elsewhere
As long as you're signed into the same Google account, you
can quickly access open tabs on other computers where Chrome is installed. It's
helpful for bringing back a tab from your office computer while you're at home,
for example. From the Chrome menu, choose History,
then History again, then click on Tabs from other
devices to see a list.
8. Load up the task manager
Chrome has a task manager, just like Windows and macOS.
It's useful for troubleshooting problems, closing down problem tabs, and
generally seeing which sites are hogging all of your system resources. To get
it up on screen, open the Chrome menu then choose More
Tools and Task Manager. Click on any entry in the list
then End Process to instantly kill it.
DAVID NIELD VIA CHROME
9. Cast your tabs
Google Chrome can send open tabs—or even your entire
desktop—to a Chromecast device on your local Wi-Fi network. It's perfect for
everything from big screen presentations at the office, to sharing photos with
the family at home. Click the Chrome menu button (three dots, top right)
then Cast to choose a local Chromecast device.
10. Send pages to other devices
We've talked about checking on open tabs on different
devices, but you can be more proactive about this if you want. Right-click on a
tab header and choose Send to Your Devices, and you'll then see a
list of all your devices where you're signed into Google Chrome, from phones to
laptops. Take your pick to send the tab to the other device.
11. Quiet down the notifications
Plenty of sites now ask to send you notifications through
your browser, and if you think this is getting a bit out of hand, you can take
back control. On any site, click the icon to the left of the address bar
(either a padlock or an info symbol), then choose Site settings,
then Notifications to choose whether to enable alerts from the
site.
DAVID NIELD VIA CHROME
12. Pack the bookmarks bar
When you save a bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar, it shows up
underneath your tabs. (Choose Bookmarks and Show
Bookmarks Bar from the Chrome menu if you can't see it). Right-click
on each of these bookmarks in turn, choose Edit and clear
the Name field, and you'll be left with a compact row of
favicons, so you can pack a lot more bookmarks in.
13. Enable reader mode
Chrome includes a stripped-down, distraction-free reader
mode, but it's not enabled by default, and it's still a little rough around the
edges. To get it, open a new tab and visit chrome://flags, then set
the Enable Reader Mode flag to Enabled. Relaunch
Chrome, and choose Distill Page from the main Chrome menu to
put any page into reader mode.
14. Make full use of the omnibox
You probably already know you can type web searches as
well as URLs into the Chrome omnibox (the address bar at the top of the page),
but there's lots more you can type in here too for instant answers. Try typing
in calculations, or entering "define..." and then a word of your
choice, or looking up a conversion between different units of measurement.
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