Chrome notes

From raju

favorite configuration on desktop

restore previous session

disable notifications

  • chrome://settings or Menu -> Settings
    -> Show advanced settings -> Privacy -> Content settings ->
    • Location -> "Do not allow any site to track your physical location"
    • Notifications -> "Do not allow any site to show notifications"

disable video auto play

Show the bookmarks toolbar

Settings -> Appearance -> Show bookmarks bar -> slide right

Set chrome as default web browser

Settings -> Default browser -> make chrome the default

After this, clicking on links in outlook will open them in chrome.

show home button

Settings -> Appearance -> Show Home button -> slide it right.

Set the home page to https://millionshort.com which is a search engine similar to Google.

Configuration

set up custom search engines

Manage passwords

Settings -> Show advanced settings -> Passwords and forms -> Manage passwords

Blocking ads

Store bookmarks in a different location

start google chrome with --user-data-dir

    "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome\Google Chrome.lnk" --user-data-dir="D:\chrome\profile1"
    

which will store all the bookmarks somewhere under D:\chrome\profile1.

Default bookmarks location: 'C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Bookmarks'

Ref:- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/user_data_dir.md

tags | where does chrome store bookmarks?, change default bookmarks location

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save pdf files instead of opening them directly

    Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy and security ->
    Content Settings -> PDF documents ->
    Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome -> turn on
    
    Settings -> Advanced -> Downloads ->
    Ask where to save each file before downloading -> turn on
    

Useful links

  • chrome://settings/syncSetup - to sync passwords across chrome sessions over different machines

Open multiple websites in chrome

delete autocomplete entry

highlight the link of interest -> shift+delete

restart chrome browser

If you type “chrome://restart” into the Chrome browser, it’ll restart the browser and re-open tabs. Use this trick if the connection is slow or if the browser does not load properly.

clear cache for just one website

chrome://settings/siteData -> search for the website -> delete it

Install an extension without admin privileges

  • Download the extension
    cd $software
    mkdir -p downloads unzipped
    
    cd downloads
    mkdir $extension
    cd $extension
    
    curl -L https://github.com/$user/$repo/archive/master.zip -O
    unzip master.zip -d ../../unzipped
    cd ../../unzipped
    mv $extension $extension_asof_`date +'%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'`
    
  • Add it to chrome
    • chrome://extensions -> Enable "Developer mode"
    • Drag the extensions folder above into it

Note:- The extension folder should contain manifest.json in it.

Match whole words

Problem
There is no way to search for "whole words" on a web page in Chrome. For example, it is not possible to search for "all" but exclude hits such as "install", "pitfall".
Solution
Install "Chrome Regex Search" extension

Now search using Ctrl+Shift+f -> \bword\b

Tested on: Windows 10 Enterprise with extension code asof 2019-12-19.

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