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How to change your Google Chrome background
Add a splash of personality to your browsing experience.
By default, Google Chrome offers a seamless and minimal experience that works well for most people. However, it can look a bit boring without some customization. The new tab page is functional, but it's not really all that welcoming. Thankfully, you can customize the background by using themes, uploading your own image, or using one of the many Chrome extensions.
Google Chrome's big security update features real-time URL checking
Avoiding phishing attacks just got easier.
Oftentimes, your browser is the first point of defense between your PC and the viruses strewn across the internet. There are other ways you can catch a nasty computer virus, but for the most part, clicking a shady download link or falling for a convincing phishing email are the main ways people end up with something bad on their system.
How to run Steam games on your Chromebook
Here are all the options for running Steam on your Chromebook for gaming.
Steam is one of the most popular gaming platforms on the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. If you recently purchased a new Chromebook, you might feel a bit excluded from the gaming party, but it turns out there are actually several methods to run Steam on ChromeOS. In fact, Google and Steam partnered together to make it possible to run Steam on ChromeOS through the Beta channel. There are also some other ways to get Steam games on your Chromebook, which we'll cover in this guide.
Google is making it easier to change your search engine and browser
With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) coming into effect in the European Union this week, Google is making major changes to its products and services.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is coming into effect soon in the European Union (EU) with six big tech firms, described as "gatekeepers", primarily being impacted. These include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. The aforementioned firms have already started implementing changes to their affected services in anticipation of the law, and now, Google has shared some ways in which it is improving its compliance status in accordance with the DMA.
How to export Google Chrome bookmarks: A step-by-step guide
Planning to ditch Chrome? Here's how you can take all your bookmarks with you.
Google Chrome ranks high in our list of best browsers for the right reasons. There's a good chance it's your favorite browser, and you're reading this on a Chrome tab. It's far from the best option out there, though, and plenty of convincing alternatives like Vivaldi in 2024 exist. So what if you want to switch to a different web browser and take all the bookmarks of your favorite web pages to help you make your browsing experience much easier on your new laptop or smartphone?
Some of Chrome’s best search features will soon be available with poor connectivity
A bad internet connection won’t keep you from using Google Search
Google Chrome is a widely used browser for many reasons, one of which is its integration with the company’s powerful search engine. Whether you’re using it on desktop or mobile, Google Search within Chrome can help you quickly find the answers to your most pressing queries. While the Big Tech company has been banking on its AI-focused Gemini initiative, it hasn’t allowed its other products and services to fall by the wayside. Now, several new improvements are being made to Chrome, exhibiting Google’s continued dedication to its popular browser.
Chrome just got three ‘experimental’ AI tools you’ll want to enable immediately
Best of all, they're available right now.
As artificial intelligence rocks the technological world, we can perform more cool things with AI than we've ever been able to. Almost every facet of technology has been influenced by AI by some way, and our web browsers are no different. The browser AI battle has heated up in recent weeks, with companies around the world finding new ways to implement AI into their software. However, Google is determined not to be beaten, as it has revealed three AI-powered features for Chrome available starting today.
10 best text-to-speech extensions across browsers
Check out these ten text-to-speech extensions that can take over the duty of reading text from web pages while you take care of chores.
Every mainstream news website these days has the option for the online news to be read to you. Wouldn’t it be great if this option extended to other aspects of your online activities, such as reading long documents or PDFs? Unlike listening, reading requires your complete attention, but what if you could get reading done while getting some annoying chores out of the way? Text-to-speech (TTS) browser extensions are one way of having an online tool to read out text from web pages, PDFs, emails, documents, and more. These extensions can work on your laptops as well as on mobile devices and tablets.
5 great Firefox extensions and tweaks to improve your privacy
Retaining your privacy online can be difficult, but these great extensions make it easier than ever
Firefox has been in a weird state for a while now. Chrome and Chromium's dominance is complete, making up 62.85% and 75%, respectively, of the browser market in 2023. Firefox has been in consistent decline, but in recent years, Google has repeatedly attempted to use Chrome's dominance to advance technologies that make it easier to track users online and protect advertising revenue. Most recently, for example, Google has caused controversy with its Manifest V3 changes to the Chrome Extensions API.This push to control underlying web technologies has been concerning, highlighting the importance of browsers and tools not built exclusively on Chromium. Firefox is one of the largest holdouts from Chromium, and Mozilla and the open-source community have quietly been building up a great suite of privacy-focused tools and extensions to help protect your privacy online. All the extensions we'll cover today are also FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).
Google agrees to settle lawsuit accusing it of tracking users in Incognito mode in Chrome
Google has finally agreed to settle a $5 billion lawsuit that claimed that it does not properly respect the privacy of Chrome Incognito users.
Back in 2020, Google was sued in a $5 billion lawsuit claiming that the company harvested the data of its Chrome customers even if they were using the browser in incognito mode. The claimant argued that services like Google Ad Manager and Google Analytics still collected information about the preferences and browsing activities of the user and while they were not tied directly to a profile, a user could still be identified by augmenting this data with previously known information about online habits. After about three years, Google has now agreed to a settlement in this landmark case.
How to manage bookmarks in Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge
Organizing your bookmarks folder can help you speed up many redundant tasks
Given the amount of time we spend online within our web browsers, one powerful management tool that’s often overlooked is bookmarks. If you have an optimized bookmark strategy, it can save you a lot of redundant tasks, such as manually opening the same destinations every time you fire up your browser, or spending time searching for that important article you discovered a few days ago. It’s important to note that this is a constantly evolving process and the more you involve yourself with ensuring your bookmarks are optimized, the more productive your browser experience will be. We will try to explore how to best manage your bookmarks across the three most popular browsers on Windows: Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
How to go between tabs in Chrome
Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers, and tabs make it easy to multitask. Find out how to switch between tabs with ease.
Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers, thanks partly to its tabs. Chrome's simplicity and efficiency also make it the go-to web browser for millions of people. Using tabs makes it easier to navigate between multiple websites. However, these tabs can often become disorganized, making switching between them difficult.
Best Chrome extensions in 2023
Here are some of the best Chrome Extensions to help you improve your productivity or just enable more nifty features on websites!
It's hard to deny that Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers, regardless of the platform. It comes pre-installed on all Android smartphones and Chromebooks, and has become the browser of choice for many people on Windows computers because it syncs your data across all Chrome devices. Even if you use alternatives like Brave or Microsoft Edge, those browsers still use the Chromium engine. So many elements, like the sync functionality and Chrome extensions, still work.
How to run AutoCAD on a Chromebook
In this tutorial, we look at options for running the popular computer drafting software AutoCAD on a Chromebook or ChromeOS tablet.
It's a common misconception that Chromebooks aren't capable of running powerful software found on PCs or Macs. If you're an engineering student, you might need to run some fairly intensive applications on your laptop. Chromebooks are a great solution for students because they're secure and cost-effective.
Best Chrome Web Store games in 2023
Want to have some fun on your Chrome browser or Chromebook? Here are some of the best games you can grab on the Chrome Web Store.
The Chrome Web Store remains an excellent resource for adding functionality to your Chrome browser or Chromebook. There are all kinds of extensions and add-ons for you to try, including themes to spice up your Chrome session and password managers for more security. The ecosystem of Chrome add-ons is really diverse but did you know there are also come games you can play there, too?
Chrome and Google search catch up to Bing and Edge with new money saving shopping features
The shopping experience on Google and Chrome got a few improvements to help make finding the best prices this holiday season easier
Google is rolling out some improvements to Google search and the Chrome web browser to help make your shopping experiences easier this holiday season. You'll notice a new deals destination on Search, new ways to check for discounts on Chrome, and even see price insights and ways to track prices. The features are pretty similar to what you already get in Microsoft's Bing search engine, and also the Microsoft Edge web browser.
How to remove Chrome extensions or disable them
If you're looking to remove a Chrome extension, here's an easy guide on how you can do so on Windows, Mac, Linux, or ChromeOS.
Most modern browsers, including Google Chrome, support extensions, which add additional features to the browser or provide quick access to services. Installing too many extensions, however, can add bloat to the browser and make it run slowly. Chrome is already known for taking up a significant amount of system resources, so you wouldn’t want the extensions to further strain the system. In this guide, we’ll tell you how you can easily remove Chrome extensions you don’t need.
2 easy ways to run MATLAB on a Chromebook
You can run MATLAB on a Chromebook in two ways: using the online platform and using Linux apps.
It's a common misconception that Chromebooks aren't capable of running the powerful software found on PCs or Macs. If you're an engineering student, you might need to run some fairly intensive applications on your laptop. Chromebooks are a great solution for businesses and students because they're secure and cost-effective, but can they run something like MATLAB?
How to split screen on a Chromebook in clamshell or tablet mode
Here are all of the available methods for using split screen on your Chromebook or other ChromeOS device.
If you use your laptop for work, multitasking is pretty important. Split screen functionality is one of the nicest features out there to help get things done. Most people are familiar with multitasking gestures on their phone, but you can also use similar gestures or use a mouse trick to enable a split screen on your Chromebook.
How to copy and paste on Chromebook
In this short tutorial we discuss how to copy and paste on a Chromebook. We also include a few additional tips and keyboard shortcuts.
If you recently made the move to ChromeOS from a Mac or Windows PC, the new keyboard layout can be confusing. One of the first things you probably noticed is that your new Chromebook keyboard doesn't have a Caps Lock key. After that initial shock subsided, you probably started thinking about your beloved keyboard shortcuts. When it comes to keyboard shortcuts, it's hard to find a more important trio than copying, cutting, and pasting. Whether you use your laptop primarily for work or for play, you likely use this functionality daily.