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Many modern apps now-a-days keep commonly used actions on the bottom of the screen. It's very reasonable for the users who uses large phones. There is a flag on Chrome for Android that moves the address bar to the bottom of the screen. This option is available from a year, but it wasn't quite stable. There aren't any improvements on the stable version of the app, however, if you use the developer or canary version of the web browser then you'll love the new design. The address bar now works perfectly and beautifully shows URLs and search suggestions as you type. You can also pull the address bar to reveal the suggested articles, recent downloads, recent bookmarks, etc. One of the most interesting features for the chrome home is the new bottom tab UI. It now shows four shortcuts to Home, Downloads, Bookmarks, and History. If you want to try this, then follow the steps written below: Open Chrome and type chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-home on the address bar...

There are two secret flags on chrome for android that allows us to tweak the progress bar animation. I tested all of them, and they work quite smooth. Take a look at these flags and see if you like any animations other than the default. The first flag allows to choose the animation. There are six different options available: Default: It has a little to animation. Disabled: As the name suggest. Choosing this option will disable the progress animation. Linear: It shows the progress smoothly in a single series as the page loads. Smooth: It is actually similar to the default animation, but with a little higher frame rate. Smooth Indeterminate: It is similar to fourth animation but shows lite animations when page stops loading. Fast Start: Choosing this option will make the progress bar to load faster in the first portion of the site and slower as it finishes. The second flag allows to choose page progress bar completion time. There are five different options available....

Salmon Player is a light-weight digital music player for Chrome that plays media files from your PC and Chromebooks. It looks awesome with beautiful material design touch. There are plenty of music players for Chromebook and Chrome browser for PC, but there are rarely any media players which offers material design. Try Salmon Player. It supports MP3, OGG, and WAV file formats. It has few interesting features like drag and drop music files from HDD/SSD, keyboard shortcuts, music search etc. Salmon Player will automatically scan music files once you add a source folder. Please note that it will only add files from the selected folder and you have to manually add each folder one by one! The design is neat and clean, as advertised. It offers three color schemes and there is an option to display album cover as background. Follow the following steps get started. Go to this link (Chrome Web Store) and install the application. Launch the app after Chrome finishes downloading and i...

Google is slowly adding material design to Chrome for desktop. A new material UI Downloads page has been introduced in Chrome Canary and it's default Downloads page in the Canary version from the last week. They are also working on new enhanced UI for Settings page, it's still developing and you won't find it usable for now. Previous simple UI in PDF viewer is also replaced by material design viewer in canary version of Chrome with much better navigation support. It's still developing but you can enable it in the stable version of Chrome too. Here is how. Type " chrome://flags " in the address bar (without quotes) and hit enter. Now scroll down to the flag that says " Enable material UI for PDF " and choose " Enabled " from the drop-down menu. Alternatively, you can open " chrome://flags/#enable-pdf-material-ui " from the address bar. It'll directly take you to the Material UI PDF Viewer section where you can ...

Online music streaming services has taken over the world with storm. Almost all of you will be familiar with Spotify, Soundcloud, Gaana.com etc. But not all people have access to Hi-Speed Internet connection to stream music in good quality. There are many music player apps available to stream your local music files. If you're a Chrome users then you might want to try Enjoy Music Player . It is a music player app which combines local and online music on your Chromebook (and Chrome for Windows or Mac). You can use this app to play your music files stored in your local drive, or explore Trending Songs (needs Internet connection). Interested? Follow the following steps to get started... Go to this link and install this app! Launch the app. "Local" tab will display music stored in your PC locally and "Online" tab will allow you to stream songs available in the directory. To play local music, you'll first need to select where music is stored so that ...

Do you ever wanted to select and move multiple tabs at once in your Google Chrome browser ? There are times when we often open many-many tabs in browser and it become cluttered. It is also difficult to manage tabs. Without an option of selecting multiple tabs, you have to move and merge each tab one by one. Drag and drop a tab in Chrome and it'll turn into a new Window. It's one of my favorite feature on Chrome. Try this. You'll probably like it. You can enjoy this feature by following the steps explained below. Follow step by step. Hold CTRL  key.  Select each tab you want to move. Release CTRL key when you finish selecting the tab you want to move. Drag the selected tabs outside of the current window and a new Window containing all the selected tabs will be created. You can also close multiple tabs at once . Want to select and close multiple tabs in Chrome? Follow the following steps. Hold CTRL key. Select the tabs you want to close. Release CTRL k...

If you stream lots of video in your Chrome then you might be aware of the audio icon which is displayed on the tab while playing an audio or video. You can handle the audio easily if you played it yourself, but it become difficult to stop the video if a tab starts to play a noisy sound without your consent. Sometimes, the audio ads are attached in the page which starts to play automatically when you visit that page and the most irritating part is that the ads are hidden somewhere you can't find easily. It is an experimental feature which can be enabled through flags page of Google Chrome. I had already shared various experimental features like offline browsing , profile manager etc. In this post I will share you an experimental feature which will tweak the icon that indicates the tab is playing an audio. After enabling this feature, you can click that icon to mute the audio instantly. Open Google Chrome (if you're using different browser). Type  chrome://flags/#enable...

Pocket which used to be called Read it Later is a service for saving web pages and articles. You might go through various articles through out the day. It is not possible to remember everything you go through, read it later service become handy at that time. It allows you to save and organize pages reading it later. Many times, old pages are removed or access to it is denied. You can save interesting articles in Pocket so that you will not find it difficult for finding it later. There are many other services which does the same things (like Instapaper) but Pocket is much better than those. It also allows you to save embedded video in any articles. Read: Enable Offline Browsing in Chrome . It is available for almost all the platforms and the good part is that it will sync all the saved contents to all your devices. You can install official Pocket app on iOS, Android, Firefox and Chrome. I mostly browse web pages on my PC and whenever I find a useful article which is worth read...

Extensions are the most important part of any web browser. Without an add-on or extension, it can't succeed. It adds tons of functionality to a web browser and improves its performance and usability. But the worst part is the choice of your browser. You can't install extensions designed for Internet Explorer on Firefox or any other browser. Do you know? Opera web-browser uses the same web rendering engine as Google Chrome. It means you can install plethora of Chrome extensions on Opera and vice versa. Chrome users can find it little difficult to install Opera extension on Chrome. It is quite easy for Opera users. Follow these easy steps. From your Opera, go here and install chrome extension installer. Next, open Chrome extensions page . Find the one which you think worth installing. Note: You can only install the extensions. It will not work for web apps. Click on red Add to Opera button. Opera will warn you that the extension was disabled because it was n...

Google Chrome is definitely one of the fastest web browser. But every browser isn't perfect. There are many annoying things in Chrome like high memory usage, CPU usage etc. Sometimes good features for some may be annoying to others. For example when you close the last tab, the browser will shut down automatically. Google probably does this to improve user experience but it's is annoying when you accidentally close the last tab. Users who wants to close the last tab will first need to open a new tab than close the other unnecessary tabs. Can we keep the browser open after closing the last tab? Yes! There are many extensions which does this very well. Last Tab Standing can be useful extension if you're annoyed with this Chrome feature. The extension opens a new tab page when you close the last left tab. Developers says this extension doesn't read any page data. It request access to tabs, so it can open and close the tabs as needed. This extension will not keep ...

Incognito mode is a great tool for Chrome users. But it is little difficult to switch between normal mode and incognito mode and it can take too much time. For switching a normal tab to incognito, you'll have to copy the URL, than open an Incognito Window and load the page. If you don't want that much hassle than try Incognito Tab Switch . This extension does the task of switching between the two very easily with one click. But, it will add a new button in the toolbar which you can click to switch between the two modes. If you have lots of extensions like Adblock Plus , OneTab , Click & Clean than your toolbar might be filled with too many button. Does this extension worth installing? Read below how it works. Tip : You can easily hide any buttons from the toolbar. Right click on the button and click hide, the button will not longer be visible in the toolbar. You can add the button back from extensions page. Hide one which you don't need from your Chrome Toolbar....

You can run any website as an standalone application with Google Chrome web browser. Chrome is also an app platform and it can run web and offline app in their own window just like any native app available in your Windows computer. Since Chrome can run a website as app than their must be a way to create a shortcut for our favorite blogs. It is very simple to create a application shortcuts. Lets start the tutorial with first explaining the difficult process for achieving this task. Create a new shortcut of Chrome on your desktop. We'll edit this new shortcut to convert it to our app. Tip: You can just copy and paste the Chrome shortcut available on desktop again. Don't worry about the duplicate files. Right click on the new Chrome shortcut and select Properties. Now look for Target field in the shortcut tab. Add --app=http://www.spicytweaks.com at the end of ...chrome.exe" after adding a space. See the image below. See screenshot above while I was...

By default, Google Chrome includes your search engine on new tab page along-with the list of some most visited websites. It looks simple and you can't do much to customize it. If you're bored with the default new tab page than you should try some of the awesome new tab page extensions on your Google Chrome to make the best use of your best browser. Every time you open the browser, you're presented with the new tab page. You can use any the extensions given below and make it much more useful. With these extensions on Chrome, you can create to-dos, customize background images, fresh-up yourself and much more with simple and minimal interface with distracting yourself. Try these... I know you'll like it. Momentum It is one of the most popular extension of Chrome Web Store. It should be with its simple and minimalist look. You'll get a new beautiful image updated everyday on your new tab page. Not only the image but you will become familiar with some inspirational...

Have you ever lost your Internet connection? My Internet connection goes down several times a day and it feels too boring without any Internet for several minutes. But thanks to Chrome for making users enjoy even after the Inter is gone. In one of my previous post we seen tweak to work offline in Chrome , that trick allows to browse previously loaded pages after losing the Internet connection. But, you don't want to get bored by reading old posts and webpages. If so, you should try new endless running T-Rex game on Chrome. After losing my Internet Connection, this game really helps me to pass the time and I don't close the Chrome now. You'll not have access to it without losing your Internet. If your Internet never goes down than turn off the router or Network. Playing T-Rex Runner Game in Chrome Turn off your Wi-Fi or disable any Network you're using. Then open a new tab page and load any website. You'll see a customized error page like the one shown belo...

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world. Its wide popularity is because of its features and simple look. And to serve users further, it send some personal information to Google and it's not a good idea to have your personal data recorded without users permission. In my previous post we learned searching Google and Internet without Losing Privacy  and in this post I'll show you how to optimize Google Chrome for Privacy. Also, to achieve maximum Privacy settings we might disable some interesting features of Google Chrome. Read this post carefully and apply settings according to your needs. Sync If you'll connect your Google account with chrome than your data will be automatically synchronize your data and save it to Google Servers. If you don't want this feature than follow the following steps to disable this option. Go to Settings. In the "sign in" section, click on Disconnect your Google Account. From the dialog box that app...

Ever wanted to share Online images or documents to clouds such as Dropbox or Google Drive? Ballloon is an extension for Chrome which can share any online documents and link to cloud with one click. Cloud file haring sites make it easier to edit and sync documents across all your Computers. When you download cool things on web than you'll have to download the file first before uploading it to your favorite cloud sharing site, which will take little time to synchronize your cool things. With Ballloon, you can fly (save) online images and other documents easily without wasting time on download & upload manually. You will also like to know how to create Chrome theme yourself without any knowledge of program with a Chrome extension. Want to download this Chrome Extension? You can get it from the link given below. Clicking the link will take you to Chrome Web Store from where you can download and install this extension on your browser. It is very easy to use, but if get lo...

Few months earlier, Google was testing a a new Bookmark feature that is known as Stars. But it was removed from the store and can't be downloaded more. Now Google offers similar features with the new Bookmark Manager for Chrome which makes Bookmarks more powerful with many new features. Previously, I have shared you an Extension which can create Chrome theme easily. In this post, *I will share you a new Bookmark Manager which is available in Store from few days. Try installing it on your Chrome and I am sure you'll like it. It has many features and some of the interesting features listed below. Bookmarks will be saved with one click just like the native Bookmark Manager. You can choose image thumbnail for the Link (if the post have images). Automatically categories the Bookmark, and you can categories it manually. Search function is improved in the new Bookmark Manager. Also, description and thumbnails will be automatically added to almost all of your previous B...