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How To Quick Restart Google Chrome Without Losing Tabs

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Google Chrome, the most popular browser among the internet users. And we should also agree with the truth that the Chrome browser is a major memory hog. We may find the system slow down sometimes. When we try to find a solution for that, we find the uninstalling of chrome add-ons as the most suggested solution. Doing a browser restart is also among the most recommended and useful solutions. Restarting a browser normally will be done by just closing the chrome and then double-clicking the application icon on the desktop. But this action will close all the browser tabs which we may find quite uncomfortable. Google has a special URL that helps the users to do a quick restart without having to lose the tabs.

For restarting chrome here is a quick URL that helps you do that and that is chrome://restart. Just copy and paste this URL into your browser’s search bar. Then press enter and it will just close all the browser tabs and will restart the browser again with all the tabs that are previously opened.

If you restart your browser a lot, then there is a need to make this web page as a bookmark and that will help you to quick restart the browser with just one simple click.

Here is how you can add quick restart to the bookmarks:

  • Open the Google Chrome browser and hit CTRL + D keys which will open bookmark window.
  • Enter the name of the bookmark that you wish to keep, for example, Restart.
  • Then click on the edit button available in the bottom of the tab.
  • Now copy and paste chrome://restart this URL in the URL box and then click on save.

That is it you are done with the setup and you can now easily restart the browser without the fear of losing your tabs.

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.

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