Starting in Google Chrome 71, there is a new feature that allows showing search keyword instead of the search URL in the address bar. It can be enabled with a special flag.
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Disable Google Chrome Sync and Auto Sign-in to the Browser
Starting in Chrome 69, the browser features significant changes to the user interface. These include a 'Material Design Refresh' theme with rounded tabs, the removal of the 'Secure' text badge for HTTPS web sites replaced by a Lock icon, and a reworked new tab page. Also, Google Chrome automatically signs you into the browser using the same Google account that you use to login to Gmail, YouTube, or any other Google service. If you are unhappy about this behavior, here's how to disable it.
Make Google Chrome Show HTTP and WWW parts of URL
Starting in Chrome 69, the browser features significant changes to the user interface. These include a 'Material Design Refresh' theme with rounded tabs, the removal of the 'Secure' text badge for HTTPS web sites replaced by a Lock icon, and a reworked new tab page. Also, the browser hides the protocol name (HTTP/HTTPS) and the WWW prefix from the URL when the address bar is not focused. If you are unhappy about this behavior, here's how to disable it.
Change New Tab Button Position in Google Chrome
Starting in Chrome 69, the browser features significant changes to the user interface. These include a 'Material Design Refresh' theme with rounded tabs, the removal of the 'Secure' text badge for HTTPS web sites replaced by a Lock icon, and a reworked new tab page. Also, the browser allows changing the position of the New Tab button (+). Using a special hidden option, you can control whether it appears to the left of tabs or to their right. By default, it appears after the last open tab.
Remove Close Buttons From Inactive Tabs in Google Chrome
Starting in Chrome 69, the browser features significant changes to the user interface. These include a 'Material Design Refresh' theme with rounded tabs, the removal of the 'Secure' text badge for HTTPS web sites replaced by a Lock icon, and a reworked new tab page. There is a hidden feature in the browser that you can use to remove the close (x) buttons from inactive tabs. Here is how it can be done.
Restore Secure Text for HTTPS in Google Chrome
As you may already know, Chrome 69 comes with a number of new features and improvements, including a refined look for the user interface, that is called 'Material Design Refresh'. Another change introduced in this release is removal of the green 'Secure' badge for web sites that use the HTTPS protocol. Today, we will see how to restore it.
Enable Native Titlebar in Google Chrome in Windows 10
As of this writing, Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. By default, Chrome draws its own title bar, which is gray in color and doesn't suit the appearance of Windows 10. If you don't like this feature of the browser, you can turn it off. Here is how it can be done.
Enable or Disable Native Google Chrome Notifications in Windows 10
As you may remember, the team behind the Google Chrome browser was working on adding support for native Windows notifications. This has finally happened. Starting today, they are rolling out the ability to use native Action Center notifications to stable branch users.
Enable Emoji Picker in Google Chrome 68 and above
As of this writing, Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. Starting in version 68 and above, the browser includes a fancy emoji picker which allows inserting emojis in any text field on a page. Let's see how to activate and use it.
Enable Material Design Refresh in Google Chrome
Starting with version 68, Google Chrome includes a new version of the Material Design UI that is not enabled by default. In this article, we will see how to activate it.
