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The Chrome Web Store has just received several updates. These are not major changes, and upon first glance you might not see the difference, but these are changes worth knowing about, especially if you’re a developer, you like offline apps, or you live in Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco or the United Arab Emirates. If you live in one of these six countries, the Chrome Web Store is now available in your country, which means you can enjoy all the extensions and apps it has to offer.
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If you regularly use Google Reader or any other feed reader, you’ve probably noticed a missing feature in Google Chrome. Most browsers offer a built-in way to detect and subscribe to RSS feeds, but Chrome doesn’t. The Google-created RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome adds this missing feature, along with previews of RSS feeds.
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Have you ever performed a Google search, found what looked like a good result, clicked the link – and then found yourself staring at a dense page full of information? You wanted a quick answer, but you ended up looking at a long webpage with no idea where the information you want is.
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Web browsers have become much more secure and hardened against attack over the years. The big browser security problem these days is browser plugins. I don’t mean the extensions that you install in your browser – I mean those plugins that any web page can take advantage of, like Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, and Oracle’s Java.
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Add Bing's beautiful background photos to your Google homepage. If you love the pictures featured on the Bing homepage but despise their search results, this is the Chrome extension you've been looking for. Whatever you think about Bing, Microsoft's cash-bleeding search engine, you have to admit one thing - the pictures on the homepage are beautiful.
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With an immediate first glance, the title (or the need) sounds a bit stupid. The simple answer you would say – open Chrome and copy-paste the link of the webpage you have opened in Firefox. Absolutely possible… but to me that’s bit of a productivity killer especially when I might need to open more than a single page from Firefox to Chrome.
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You’re probably familiar with browser extensions, but there are many other ways to customize your browser and tweak websites. The web isn’t a one-way, passive medium – you have the ability to remix websites you view on the fly, adding features or changing their look. Each of these methods has its own advantages and drawbacks.
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There is some fantastic news for Google Chrome users this week, as the latest version of the browser has just gone live, and is available for download right now. Version 19 of Chrome adds tab syncing built-in to the browser, which is a feature Chrome users have waited for. This new version of Chrome is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame operating systems.
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While Flash is on its way out and about to be replaced by HTML5, it is still used abundantly for web content, predominantly for displaying annoying ads. Not only are a lot of flash elements irritating, Flash also consumes significant amounts of bandwidth and is known to be a security risk. So there are good reasons to block it.
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Chrome’s default start page has nothing to be ashamed of. With its neat appearance and quick access to apps, most visited pages and recently closed tabs, it’s fast becoming a great option for a default start page, which doesn’t require any additional installation. However, Chrome’s start page is not perfect for everyone, and other great options do exist out there in the form of browser extensions.
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You can think of this Chrome extension as the “Read-It-Later” for YouTube videos. It performs nearly the same job for YouTube videos as does the so named browser add-on does for webpages. The Chrome extension called Video History for YouTube has a few more tricks up its sleeve which makes managing all the YouTube videos you watch (or intend to) a little easier.
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The browsing world is divided into two groups: add-on lovers and add-on haters. Well, OK, not everyone loves or hates add-ons, but there are strong opinions on how good or bad it is to have many of them installed on your browser. Which side are you on?
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Browsers these days are much more powerful than they used to be. A large part of this power comes thanks to add-ons (as they are called for Firefox) and extensions (in Chrome). Browser extras let us do wonderful things, such as control how tabs behave, make webpages easier to read, and even have a better [...]
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Remove features you don't like from Gmail, leaving behind only the things you do. Gmelius is a simple extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera that lets you turn off parts of Gmail you're not interested in, including ads. Gmail's interface is great, and largely clean, but recent changes at Google leave minimalists pulling their hair out.
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Whether you like to admit it or not, we all make heavy use of our computer's spell checker. They save us from all sorts of typos and downright horrible spelling. Thankfully, more powerful software such as Microsoft Word also includes a decent grammar checker to make sure that your sentences also make sense, and aren't just spelled right. Life is great until you come to the browser.
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