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How to send webpages from Google Chrome to your phone?

September 11, 2019 by admin

Do you have multiple devices that you work on and want to continue reading a web page that you are reading on your PC ? We already have multiple extensions in Google Chrome to achieve the same. How about having this feature in-built in your Google Chrome browser? That’s exactly what Google has done to your favourite browser. Google has started rolling out update to Google Chrome which will bring this handy feature across multiple platforms. This means that you don’t have to worry about switching webpages across all your devices without worrying about working on technalities to get this job done. This is pretty straight forward and doesn’t require any third party extension. Let’s see how we can send a web page from your PC or Mac to your Android/iPhone or Vice-versa!

Step 1: update your Google Chrome browser right away.

Step 2: open any page from your Chrome.

Step 3: now go to the address bar and highlight the URL.

Step 4: You will find a small ‘Send this page’ icon towards the right extreme corner of the address bar.

Step 5: Clicking on the icon will open the list of devices on which you are using Google Chrome with your account and you can send your current page to any of them. Viola !

Send the webpage from Google Chrome to iPhone

As you can see from the above, the tab has been received from my Google Chrome on PC to Google Chrome on my iPad. I can now continue reading the webpage on my iPad from whete I left off on my PC previosuly. It works seemlessly.

Changing Google Chrome’s Default Search From Regional Google To Google.com

September 20, 2011September 20, 2011 by admin

If you use Google Chrome much and love searching right from the address bar, you might be knowing that any search you perform from the address bar will take you to a regional Google search like Google.co.in or Google.co.uk etc.

In case you want the search results from the more generic version of the Google (i.e google.com) and are looking to change the settings so as to reflect the same in the Google Chrome’s address bar default search, here are the steps you need to follow:

Steps:

1. Right click on the address bar and choose “Edit Search Engines”.

Alternatively you can access the search engines settings by typing the following URL in the address bar:

chrome://settings/searchEngines

2. You will notice that the regional version of the Google search engine has been set as your default search engine under the ‘Default Search Options’ as shown in the following screenshot.

3. We need to add a new custom search engine (in our case the international version of the Google) and then make it the default search engine.

To do that type the name of your new search engine in the empty box and then type the keyword (There are no rules in filling these two boxes). That now leaves you with the URL box which holds the key. As we need a international version of the Google to serve us, key in this value (and hit Enter):

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

4. Now that we have added a new search engine, we are now left with making it the default search engine. Hover your mouse over the newly added search engine and you will now see an “Make default” option right next to the search engine entry. Click the ‘Make default‘ button as shown in the screenshot:

5. You will now notice that your newly created search engine has been made the default search engine and is found under the ‘Default Search Options’ listing.

6. You have successfully changed the default search engine of your Google Chrome and you might want to test it.

Perfect! Isn’t it?

[Tip] Play Angry Birds Online From Any Web Browser

May 12, 2011 by bharath

Angry Birds, the popular iPhone game which later made its way to Android and other smartphones (with touchscreen) is now available online. Yesterday during the 2nd day of Google I/O 2011 developer conference, Peter Vesterbacka, head of ‘Rovio’ announced the launch of web based version of the Angry Birds game. The web-app version of the game has been apparently built using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Though the web app is designed keeping Google Chrome in view, the game still works in most of the modern browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari etc.

Angry birds online game

How To Play Online:

Chrome users, can head over to this Chrome web store page and install the app to get started (already more than a million users using the app!).

If you are on any other web browser, visit Chrome.angrybirds.com and start playing the game right away! This is a beta release and the game is currently having 63 levels (7 additional special levels for Chrome). The game is available in 2 version; SD (Standard) version and HD version.

Quick Links: SD Version | HD Version

[Download] Google Chrome 9 Stable Offline Installer

February 9, 2011 by bharath

Google chrome 9

Google Chrome 9 stable version has been released and is coming just after two months of the release of the Google Chrome 8 stable version. Hitting the landmark of version 9.0 (current version 9.0.597.84) is quite a good achievement for the two and half year-old browser from the search engine giant.

The new version includes few enhancements like:

Chrome Instant: Courtesy of Google Instant, this new feature in Chrome auto-completes the URL bar with the pages that you visit frequently as soon as you start typing it in the address bar.

Chrome instant demo

WebGL: Bings Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Chrome and enables you to experience a rich 3D experiences without needing to install any plugins. Visit the Google’s demo page to test the WebGL capabilities of Chrome browser.
Chrome Webstore: The Chrome Webstore (integrated into Google Chrome) has been made available to the users in the United States. Users can quickly access the Chrome Web Store on the New Tab page. (Try Tweetdeck app)
About:conflicts: New about:conflicts lets you quickly check for any possible conflicts with third-party software that conflicts with Chrome (Windows only).

Besides these new features, Google Chrome 9.0.597.0 is coming with five important security fixes and Adobe Flash 10.2.

Download Google Chrome 9.0 :

As usual, unless the Google Chrome’s “Auto update silent mode” is disabled, you should automatically get updated to this version if you were using an older one. You can also quickly check for update by going to Wrench > About Google Chrome.

>> Online Installer:

Google Chrome 9 Stable:

Windows (Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP)

Mac

Linux

>> Offline Installer (Full Setup):

Windows (23.96 MB)

Mac (32.35 MB)

Tip: Learn how to make Google Chrome to use Flash Player 10.2

[How To] Delete Cookies In Google Chrome

February 8, 2011 by bharath

This simple step-by-step guide is to teach how to delete individual browser cookies in the Google Chrome browser. Follow the steps carefully to clear or remove individual or all cookies in Chrome.

Steps:

1. Click on the wrench icon towards the left-hand side of the Chrome window and click “Options” from the list.

2. And in the “Under the Hood’” tab, click on the “Content settings..” button.

content-settings-chrome-options

3. Click on the “Show cookies and other site data..” button.

Cookies settings in Chrome content settings

4. Now you will see all the cookies stored for different websites in Chrome

cookies-google-chrome

Select the cookies that you want to delete and click the Remove button delete that particular cookie. To delete all the cookies stored in your browser, click the “Remove All” button. The settings are almost similar on Chrome installed on other operating systems like Mac OS X, Linux etc.

Quick Tip: Show Or Hide Bookmarks Toolbar in Chrome

December 10, 2010 by bharath

google chrome

Usage of bookmarks is surely on the rise these days, the fact that so many bookmarking related services are now increasing also explains this fact. Google has a dedicated bookmark bar just below the address bar. Bookmarks bar in Google Chrome is pretty much useful to quickly add, or open your favorite links stored under the bookmarks folder. However you might want to have a choice whether to show the bookmarks bar or not in your Google Chrome. It’s pretty much simple and most of the Chrome users might be already knowing this tip. In case you don’t, read on..

Tip: By default bookmarks bar is shown in Google Chrome. To toggle between enable or disable the bookmarks bar, just press Ctrl + Shift + B.

no bookmarks bar in chrome

>> Alternatively, you can right-click on the bookmarks bar and choose uncheck “Always show bookmarks bar” option to hide the bookmarks bar. Once hidden, you need to use the above said keyboard shortcut to enable the bookmarks bar again.

Always show bookmarks bar in Google Chrome

[Tip] Enable Web Apps In Chrome 8

December 10, 2010 by bharath

chrome web store

Google has recently launched the Chrome Web Store, where you can find number of web apps , extensions and themes for Google Chrome. If you want to enable the web apps in the recently released Google Chrome 8 (they’ll show up when you open a new tab), follow these steps:

1. Make sure Google Chrome is not running on your computer.

2. If you are on a Windows machine, right-click on the Chrome shortcut, and choose “Properties” from the context menu. In the “Target” filed under “Shortcut” tab, append it with “ --enable-default-apps" (without quotes but with the initial space). In general, the target field should look like this:

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-default-apps

Chrome shortcut properties

3. Click “OK” to save the settings and close the properties window.

4. Click the wrench icon, Tools > Extensions.

5. Expand the “Developer mode” icon.

6. Click on the “Update extensions now” button.

chrome extensions page

7. Open a new tab and now you must see the all the web apps that are currently enabled for your Chrome. The default web apps are Google Docs, Google Calender, Gmail etc.

Apps page in Google Chrome

This tutorial is intended for Google Chrome 8 running on Windows machine, if your are on Mac or Linux, you might want to read the original story at Google OS blog.

[Tip] Force Chrome To Use Flash Player 10.2 Beta

December 4, 2010December 4, 2010 by bharath

Google Chrome logo

Adobe has recently updated the Flash Player and released the beta version of the Flash Player 10.2. The newer version included a major feature upgrades like Stage Video hardware acceleration which decreases your CPU utilisation when playing HD videos. When you download the flash player and install, you will understand that it’s only going to be used by all the browsers except Google Chrome. You may wonder why is Google Chrome left alone! But the fact is that Google Chrome (32-bit browser) includes a built-in Adobe Flash Player. Chrome automatically updates the Flash Player whenever there is new version of Chrome is released.

So even though you have installed the beta version of Flash Player 10.2, Chrome still uses the stable version of the flash player. To make Google Chrome use the 10.2 beta version instead, follow these steps:

1. Open Google Chrome, type about:plugins in the address bar and hit enter.

2. Expand the “Details” button on the upper right corner

3. Under the “Flash”, you should see two versions, one is the integrated plug-in and the other is the system plug-in file.

If you are on Windows, the location of the integrated plug-in would be :

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Applications\<version>\gcswf32.dll

location of the system plug-in would be:

C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll

If you are on other platforms, these are file names for the integrated and system plug-ins:

Platform	Integrated Plug-in	System Plug-in
Windows	gcswf32.dll	NPSWF32.dll
Mac OS	Flash Player Plug-in for Chrome.plugin	Flash Player.plugin
Linux	libflashplayergc.so	libflashplayer.so

4. To force Chrome to use the beta version of the flash player, you must disable the integrated plug-in gcswf32.dll (i.e the plugin that is found in the Chrome folder) as shown. Click “Disable” button against it.

Disable integrated flash plugin in chrome

And when you have done that, it should look like this:

Disabled integrated flash plugin in chrome

That is it! Restart Google Chrome and see if the browser is able to load the flash content on the pages( ex: this Stage Video). If it is able to do, then it is to understood that the it is making use of the beta version of the flash player.

Note:

If you disable the Google Chrome’s integrated flash player plug-in, you will no longer receive the important security updates for the built-in plug-in and you need to use the system installed plug-in which has to be updated manually. Also, disabling this built-in Chrome plug-in will disable the Google Chrome’s sandboxing techniques incorporated to make the plug-in more secure. It is highly recommended that you use the integrated plug-in unless you really want to test some features using flash player beta on Chrome.

If you want to enable the integrated plug-in back, enable it in the step 4 to make run Chrome using it.

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[Tip] Disable Or Remove GoogleUpdate.Exe Process

December 4, 2010 by bharath

When you install Google products like Google Chrome, Picasa and others on your system, new Google Update service gets installed on your computer, responsible for running “googleupdate.exe” process in regular intervals. This process regularly contacts Google servers to check if there are any updates available to the Google products that you have installed on your system. Agree, this is essential to keep your Google products up-to-date by installing the important security updates etc., but definitely you may not like to dedicate some of your CPU resources to the process to keep it running continuously. The same process is responsible for the Automatic Silent Update feature in Google Chrome. If you don’t want to run Googleupdate.exe process on your computer, follow these steps to stop running it on your computer.

You can’t find the GoogleUpdate.exe in the start up items using msconfig, but you can surely find it in the Task Scheduler as it gets added to the Windows Task Scheduler.

Steps:

1. Go Start Menu, type “tasks” in the search box and click “Task Scheduler” from the results under “Programs” section.

2. Find an entries starting with “GoogleUpdate” in the tasks and disable or remove them to stop running again on your computer.

disable google update tasks

3. Press Windows + R to open the RUN command box, type “regedit” and hit OK.

regedit in run command

4. In the registry editor, try and see of you can find an entry with value “Google Update” in the following paths:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run                                                     
                        and       
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

If you could find a value with that name, right-click on “Google Update” and select “Delete”. Restart your system to see the changes in effect.

Please note that when you remove GoogleUpdate.exe, the Google software will not be updated automactically you might need to download the updated versions manually. Also when you install any other products like Google Earth, the GoogleUpdate.exe comes back to your system and you might need to repeat the above steps all over again!

[Download] Google Chrome 8 Stable Version

December 3, 2010 by bharath

Google Chrome 8

Google Chrome has just been updated to stable version 8.0.552.215. Google Chrome 8 is coming with over 800 bug fixes and other minor improvements. The big feature enhancements in Chrome 8 is the addition of a built in PDF viewer (and yes, it is secured in Chrome’s sandbox) and the latest version also updated to support the upcoming Google Chrome Web app store .

Download:

If you are already using an earlier version of Chrome, just click the wrench button and choose “About Google Chrome”. Google Chrome’s “Auto update silent mode” should get you the the latest version of the Chrome. If it didn’t, it’ll for sure now when you choose to open “About Google Chrome” as shown here:

Google Chrome updating

Or if you may choose to download the Chrome online installer. If you want to download a standalone offline installer so that you can install it on any other computer without an active internet connection, you can do so by downloading the exe setup file from the following link:

Download Google Chrome 8 Offline Installer [23.42 MB]