You can Enable or Disable Memories in Google Chrome, a new feature that extends History in the browser. It is a dedicated page, which, when enabled, can be accessed via the chrome://memories
URL and shows your web activity overview.
Category: Google Chrome
Chrome 90 is out with AV1 encoder and read-only file paste
Google Chrome 90 is now available for download. This is quite and interesting release of the world's most popular browser, which includes such novelties as an AV1 encoder, the ability to paste read-only files from the clipboard. It also comes with a number of security enhancements, including blocking of the port 554 for HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP servers.
Global Media Controls in Chrome receive a progress bar
Global Media Controls is a feature of Google Chrome that allows controlling all active media sessions in the browser from a single flyout. Today's Canary build of the browser adds one more minor feature that many may find useful. It now includes a progress bar for the video stream you currently play, so you can scroll back and forth with ease.
Prevent Users from Installing Extensions on Google Chrome
How to Prevent Users from Installing Extensions on Google Chrome. System administrators often apply various kinds of restrictions to the software on the local network in order to secure the operating system and apps. Even such innocuous things as extensions and themes in the Google Chrome browser can be harmful, so admins often restrict them. However, this may be needed not only by a system administrator, but also by an ordinary user who has decided to increase the level of security on the child's home computer. So let's take a look at how to prevent users from installing extensions in Google Chrome.
How to restore closed tab groups in Google Chrome
You can now restore closed tab groups in Google Chrome
Tab Grouping is a neat feature that is available in Google Chrome for around a year. It helps users organize tabs into different set united by a common topic without creating dozens of individual windows. You can assign different colors and labels to each of the tab groups. Tabs Grouping is truly an amazing feature in times when people never close open pages in their browsers.
Tab Search in Google Chrome now includes Recently closed tabs
Google continues to improve the Tab Search feature in the Chrome browser. The latest Canary build of the browser adds recently closed tabs to the list of open tabs, so you can search through them as well.
Chrome has finally got a native option to disable the Reading list
Google is updating the Chrome browser with a new option for the Reading List. Since a lot of users find it inconvenient to use a hidden flag to disable the Reading List option, the Mountain View company has followed the users' feedback. The change is already alive in Canary.
Chrome is getting an option to disable Reading List
Reading list is a relatively new feature in the Google Chrome browser that extends functionality of bookmarks. It includes two section, Read and Unread. This allows you to track what you have checked from your bookmarks, and what your forgot to read.
Remove Search Tabs Button from Google Chrome Title Bar
Here is how to remove the Search Tabs Button from the Google Chrome title bar if you are not happy with this change. Google has enabled the tab search feature by default in Chrome 89, but didn't provide an option to get rid of it anywhere in the GUI.
Chrome 90 will default to HTTPS for domains and URLs
In Google Chrome 90 and onward, the browser will start loading websites via HTTPS by default when no protocol is explicitly specified, or a URL is partially entered by the user. Currently, Chrome will try to load a domain via HTTP if you type an incomplete URL for it. E.g. if you type winaero.com
into the address bar, it will first load http://winaero.com
.