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Enabling And Using Read Later Option In Chrome For Android

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Around August last year, Google Chrome has introduced a new feature for its users. The new Read Later option will allow the users to save a web page for offline viewing. This feature can even be considered as a feature that Google has introduced to compete with popular bookmarking service – ‘Pocket’.

Steps For Enabling And Using Read Later Option

Chrome features will be hidden as we know, they will need to be enabled manually. So, here are the steps involved for enabling and using the Google Chrome ‘Read Later’ Option.

  • As a first step, head to the Google Play Store and update the Google Chrome application on your device to the latest version
  • Once the update is installed, open Google Chrome browser and then head to ‘Chrome://flags’
  • On the experiments page, type Read Later
  • Here, you need to enable the Read Later flag. For that select Enabled from the pop-up window
  • After enabling that, tap on the relaunch button to restart the web browser
  • Once the restart is done, open the web page on which you wish to use this read later option on
  • Now tap on the address bar where you see the address of the website, and long press on it, a pop-up with some options will open, select Read Later
  • Note that this article will be added to your reading list
  • Now, if you are thinking about how to access your reading list, don’t worry. Just open Chrome Menu>Bookmarks>Reading List
  • You will find all your saved articles under the reading list. If you ever wish to remove an article from your reading list, you can just simply click on the three-dot icon on the top right corner of the screen and then click on ‘Mark as read’

That is it. You are now done with the setup. This is how you can enable and use the read later option.

Step By Step Guide For Enabling Extensions in Google Chrome Incognito Mode

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Google Chrome is indeed one of the best operating systems. Browser extensions in Google Chrome are one of the most powerful features. Visit the Chrome web store to install your favourite extensions on the web browser. However you can force and allow specific extensions to run even in the Google Chrome Incognito Mode. It is actually very much easy to do, here is how you can do that.

Steps To Enable Extensions in Google Chrome Incognito Mode
  • As a first step, open your Google Chrome web browser on your PC
  • Then click on the ‘Extension’ option that can be found as an icon on the toolbar, then select ‘Manage Extensions’

Make sure you are running on the latest version of the Google Chrome browser as you will find this option in the latest version itself

  • Now Chrome’s extension page will open
  • Now locate the name of the extension that you would like to enable in the Google Chrome Incognito Mode. Then click on details
  • On the next page, just enable the option ‘Allow in Incognito’
  • Now, you can open the Incognito window and click on the extension icon. You will find the extension name there

That is it. You are done with the setup. This is all about enabling extensions in Google Chrome incognito mode.

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.