I like the default Chrome theme on Windows 10, it is modern, minimal and clean as the whole OS. After I tried a lot of other themes, I returned to the default, yet facing this seemingly insignificant problem, the address bar. As you know, if you use Chrome, the address bar is darker than the […]
Tag: Chrome
If you find annoying that a site starts to play this video without your permission, welcome to the club! As you may have noticed Chrome offers relevant options that are not convenient, since you have to mute everything, otherwise you have to add to a list each and every site you want to mute! There […]
OneNote Web Clipper is a free Chrome extension that helps you to gather web resources to Microsoft OneNote for use whenever you need them on your current or future projects. Of course you can always use the bookmarking function of your browser, which however is not that powerful; besides, if you work with OneNote what […]
Suddenly Thunderbird decided to stop opening web links, both http and https in Chrome, which is my default browser. I’m not surprised by problems like this. Installations, updates, modifications, create problems sometimes. The interesting thing is that the solutions proposed on line did not work, not one of them. I was advised to use the […]
If you write often when you are on-line using your Chrome browser, Ginger will help you avoid spelling and grammar mistakes. This way not only will you be able to communicate better, but your language skills will also improve. Ginger can also find synonyms or even translate. Note that by default it only marks your […]
Who wouldn’t like an extra layer of protection using the internet? Avast Online Security for Chrome is a free extension you can use to be informed about the “reputation” of a web site you are opening. To give you this information, Avast must have gathered feedback from users, which of course is impossible for all […]
Redirector for Chrome is an extension that lets you define web addresses Chrome should automatically bypass by opening some other addresses instead of them. It’s not unusual for various programs and web sites to open web pages you don’t really need. Sometimes you don’t need those pages at all, sometimes you need a special section […]
Tampermonkey is a free and powerful extension for Chrome that will let you use (or even write) some scripts that will make annoying web sites conform to your sense of what is acceptable! The extension is able to check for updates of any script you may have gotten from a web site. Note that Tampermonkey […]
Being used to Firefox gesture addons that work so well, it was a great surprise to find out as I was trying one after another that most of Chrome’s Gesture extensions are defective, especially regarding the so called “super drag”, when you drag a link to open it in a new tab, etc. I won’t […]
You may know already that to open the page listing anything you downloaded with Chrome browser, you can press the Ctrl+J keyboard shortcut. What if you wanted to clear this download list? At the top right corner of the Downloads page, three vertical bullets hide a menu containing the Clear All option. Unfortunately, you won’t […]