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Enabling Live Captions With Google Chrome’s New Global Media Controls

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Google Chrome gained the ‘Global Media Controls’ feature that allows you to control the playback from any tab, without having to switch back to the source tab. Recently Chrome has also added another feature that lets you enable live captions to any of the videos on the internet.

Enabling Live Captions For Videos On Google Chrome

  • As a first step, just open the Chrome browser, then head to chrome://flags
  • Search for ‘Global Media Controls’ and enable ‘#global-media-controls-modern-ui’ flag from the available options in the drop-down menu
  • After enabling that, search for ‘Live Captions’ and enable  #enable-accessibility-live-captions’ flag from dropdown menu
  • To make the changes applicable, just restart the Chrome browser
  • Now open YouTube or any other video streaming service. Play any video and there you will find the ‘Global Media Controls’ icon pop-up in the address bar next to the website address
  • Click on that icon, turn on the toggle to turn the live captions on

How To Send Any Link From Your PC To Mobile Phone Using Chrome

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Browsing the internet will be a regular task for many of us, we can say. But this task is mostly done in computers rather than on mobile phones. What if we found an interesting piece of an article or something interesting while we browsing in our PC? We will find ways to share it on our mobile phone. Right!! How do you send any link from your PC to your mobile phone?

What I personally do is sometimes I share it using FB messenger. I share to myself. Sometimes I share in Telegram. Sometimes I save the link in Google Keep notes and then open the link on a mobile phone.

Don’t you think it is something that takes and needs some effort? Yes. Right! There is actually a better and simple way to make the process easier. Do check it out.

Steps To Send Any Link From PC To Mobile

  • To begin with the process, you need to open the Google Chrome browser and type in chrome://flags in the address bar and then press enter.
  • Type “Send tab to self” in the search bar of Chrome flags and select Enabled from the drop-down menu or paste the following in the address bar of Chrome. Or just click on this link chrome://flags/#enable-send-tab-to-self
  • Now you are done with the setup, just simply relaunch the browser and you will find a “Send to *device name*” option whenever you right-click a tab or link. If you have logged in your Google Account on multiple devices, choose the device you like to send the link.

So, these are the simple steps that are involved in the process of sharing a link in your PC directly to your mobile phone. We hope you find this process helpful and try to make use of it every day.

How To Limit Visits To Time Wasting Websites In Google Chrome

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So far we have seen so many guides, tricks, and tips for using the Google Chrome browser to the fullest and making the most out of it, but now today in this article we are going to make you learn and make the best of your time while you work on Google chrome. We tend to get diverted most of the time, but here is how you can stay away from the time-wasting websites in Chrome and make the most of your time.

Stay Away From Time-Wasting Websites

The method pretty simple and easy and it doesn’t require much of your efforts. All you need to get is a simple Chrome extension, you just need to install the Chrome extension and it will help you to stay focused on your work.

Just make sure you are not in incognito mode while installing this extension

Strict Workflow is a wonderful extension that helps you to stay focused on your work.

You just need to install the Chrome extension on your Google Chrome browser.  

Then you will notice a small apple-shaped icon on the right side corner on the top of the Chrome browser. Just right click on it and it will show you the drop-down menu and then click on the options. Here you can choose the settings where you can add the certain websites that you think waste your time and there are already some websites in the list and you can edit, add them according to your preferences. Then save the changes and the app will work and help you in blocking the websites that waste your time.

So, for some strict and serious time management, you need definitely need to take the help of this extension. We hope and wish Strict workflow makes your life more organized and peaceful without any waste of time and distractions.

How To Set Up Full Dark Mode In Google Chrome Browser

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Many of the internet users these days prefer using Google Chrome as their primary browser. It is preferred by so many people considering its stable performance and the way it syncs with our Google account. However, there is a disadvantage in using Chrome for long hours especially during night time. The white screen of the Chrome browser will cause extensive damage to the eyes. Now, here is good news to all the people suffering from the strain to the eye problem. Google is looking towards bringing back the fully functional dark mode in Google Chrome. Exciting right! If you cannot just wait until Google releases this feature, then you can try using this feature right now. Here are the simple steps involved in enabling the dark mode in Google.

Setting Up Dark Mode In Google Chrome

  • Open the Dark Reader extension in your Google Chrome browser by visiting the apps section of the browser in the app store
  • Add the extension to your Chrome browser. Dark Reader extension isn’t just a theme but an extension that darkens the content of the webpage. To get complete dark mode, you can also try installing just black theme
  • Now you are all set to enjoy the dark mode in Chrome
  • The webpages look completely dark when you are using dark mode
  • If you are bored of dark mode and would like to make an exit, then you should simply click on the dark reader extension and click on ‘Remove from Chrome’
  • Then as the last step, you can simply open chrome://settings and scroll down to Theme and finally click on reset to defaults

This dark mode in Google Chrome is not only easy to set up and use even before Google officially released it, but it is also super comfortable. So, try enabling it with a few simple steps mentioned above.

How To Free Up Your RAM Space Hogged By Your Google Chrome

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Chrome the most popular browser and the most widely used browser is very much known for hogging memory. This can make your device go slow, to avoid this you can follow some simple tips and thus make chrome’s RAM usage at a minimum level. Follow these simple things and free up RAM space on your device

Web browsing has become more complex than people give it credit for. Think about it: When you’re using a computer, most of what you do takes place in your browser, from opening tabs to watching videos and using web apps or extensions that integrate with the rest of your machine. That’s a lot of stuff.

Steps To Free Up RAM Space

  • Temporarily closing your tabs can help you a lot. You can make use of a variety of extensions to suspend the tabs and stop them from using up your RAM
  • Selectively suspend tabs by using come awesome Google chrome extensions like OneTab, TooManyTabs
  • If you are not in a way to choose and suspend the tabs then let Chrome choose for you, some apps like TabMemFree, TabWrangler will help you to suspend the unused tabs for you.
  • Enable text mode in Google Chrome as it would load all the web pages in text mode which saves a lot of memory. This will remove texts and other extras from the website.
  • Read mode helps you in case you want to view images, this mode will strip out flash and ads out of the web pages.
  • Clean up your Chrome extensions and unwanted extras.
  • Always keep your Chrome updated.
  • Clear up your cache regularly

These tips will help to free up RAM, try these and your browser should work fine. Clear out some space in RAM and then you will be able to do the task of browsing really quick and fast without any kind of lags.