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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 a good news to all the people suffering from the strain to the eyes 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 which 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 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.

Here Is How You Can Change the Chrome’s Bookmark Icons

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Bookmarks in the browsers are the most useful ones and also popular among internet users. They make the task of internet users very easy by giving them easy access to the various websites they visit on a regular basis.  But have you ever felt bored of the icons in your Google Chrome browser and there is actually a way to get rid of those boring icons and here is how you can do that?

Changing Bookmark Icons In Chrome

Changing bookmark icons in Chrome is actually really easy, and all you need is the image that you want to use as a favicon, and a Chrome Extension. The extension I’m going to use is called “Favicon Changer”, and it works very well. In order to change the favicon of a bookmark in Chrome, just follow the steps below:

It is a pretty simple process and all you need to do is just using a simple chrome extension called Favicon Changer.

  • Add the extension favicon Changer to your Chrome browser.
  • In the second step, you need to search for an image that you would like to use as favicon on your browser bookmarks. Websites like freefavicon can be useful for finding the images for your bookmarked icons.
  • Now go to the website that you would like to set as a bookmark, or if you have it bookmarked then open it in the new tab.
  • Now click on the extension icon, here you have to select whether you want to set the image for the single page or the entire website.
  • Click on the browse and then select the image that you would like to set.
  • Once you have selected the image, just click on change.

Use these simple steps, and change the icons of your websites in Google Chrome. There are a lot of other Chrome Extensions that you can use to achieve the same results. We hope and wish this one helped you.

How to stop Google Chrome from using too much RAM in Windows

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Google Chrome is without any doubt can be said as the most popular browser as it is the most widely used browser on the internet. It has attracted the users with its cool features and is available for almost all the platforms and operating systems.

But the one complaint that every Chrome user is tired of is the high amounts of RAM usage by the browser that results in the slow working of the device. Here is a fix for all the Chrome users that they can try by following the simple steps below.

  • Not many people know the fact that Google Chrome itself has a task manager built-in in it
  • It handles the processes that are currently running in the browser
  • You can access the Chrome’s task manager by simply Shift + Esc keys and it will show you the list of all the currently running processes and you can end the processes to limit the RAM usage

If you can’t end the processes each and every time and wish to try something else, then here is another simple process for you.

  • Open the Google Chrome browser and type chrome://flags/#enable-tab-discarding in the address bar and click on enter
  • Then navigate to the option Automatic tab discarding and enable it
  • This option disables the tabs that the users haven’t used in a while and thus limiting the RAM usage

You can thus make the most use of your RAM space either by ending the processes in your Chrome’s task manager or enabling the tab discarding option.

Learn To Capture Screenshots In Google Chrome Without Any Extensions

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There are a lot of different ways for capturing your desktop screen of the web pages on your Google Chrome browser. You can make use of the very old print screen key option, or even capture the screen using a windows snipping tool or any other third party applications of your choice. There are also different Chrome extensions for taking screenshots.

Google Chrome includes a built-in screenshot tool, but it’s a bit hidden. You’ll first enter two sets of keyboard shortcuts, then enter a command to capture a full-page screenshot of any web page.

But very few people know that Google Chrome is actually capable of taking screenshots. It has the built-in capability to screen capture your desktop without the help of any third party application or extension.

  • Open any web page using the Chrome browser
  • Then go to Settings>Developer Tools or you can just simply press the F12 key

capture the screen

  • You can see a pop window open
  • Click on the device toolbar icon and you can observe that icon turned into blue
  • Now come back to the web page without closing the pop-up window
  • Select the device from the list of devices available there
  • Set the zoom to 100%
  • You can click the rotate button if you wish to change the orientation

That is it, you are now all done with the setup and here is how you can capture the screen

  • You can see a three dot icon on the right side of the webpage, click on it
  • Click on show device frame option to enable it
  • Now finally you can just click on the capture screenshot option from, the same menu, which will save a screenshot of the device in PNG format.

Chrome will automatically download the full page. From here, crop as needed to get the image you need. Capture pictures from Chrome when you need.