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Chrome Sync Error: Update Sync Passphrase [closed]
I have an issue with Chrome (v20.0) and its Sync feature. Recently, I began seeing an orange exclamation mark next to my wrench icon. When I click the icon I see a line that says "Sync Error: Update ...
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1answer
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How can I make Trello auto-login when Chrome starts?
Does it make a difference if I use the same account I use for Chrome?
I really need it to be starting up when I ever I start Chrome, without having to sign in every time.
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YouTube stops buffering when video is paused
For some reason YouTube isn't buffering videos whilst they are paused.
It started happening two months ago. At first I thought it was just a global change by YouTube, but after venting on Twitter I ...
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How to resize a messages in Gmail even narrower?
Gmail message windows can stretch far and wide:
And they can be narrowed, spilling text over into the next line, while keeping all text visible.
But at a certain point (about 450px wide), ...
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3answers
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Any plugin to control GMail message editor with keyboard?
I want to use GMail's various rich-text capabilities with the keyboard. For example, I want to type Ctrl + M to indent, Ctrl + Shift + M to dedent, and do all the other actions (like adding a link or ...
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Why is panda poet so slow on Chrome but not on Firefox?
PandaPoet is a WebApp come Game that I like to play. Recently (this year) I've found that the games doesn't load properly when you make moves, and the images don't refresh properly, instead overlaying ...
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Search YouTube favorites?
Can anybody that has Chrome and can actually do it, answer? Also, for Firefox 3.6 (latest version of ff), only those that can do it.
I'm not looking for somebody just pointing to an extension, but ...
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Is there a web view of my synchronized Google Chrome bookmarks?
Google Chrome synchronizes my bookmarks between computers. When I am away from a computer that has Chrome on it is there a way to view these bookmarks on the web?
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1answer
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Chrome doesn't display URL gadgets in Google Sites
I own a Google Apps domain, and I've built a site in Google Sites. Within the site I've embedded some gadgets, added by URL.
The problem occurs when I open the site in Chrome: the gadgets aren't ...
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1answer
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Can you make Google search results category (web, images, maps, etc.) show on top?
I was using a public computer the other day and was surprised to find google search results rendered a little differently on its Chrome than on my laptop's Chrome.
Basically, the search results ...
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yahoo mail search broken in chrome, how can I fix it?
yahoo mail search is broken in chrome.
frequently I search and get a blank screen.
I use the old yahoo mail interface (for mainly for memory). A solution involving the new interface isn't of ...
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1answer
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View YouTube videos in Gmail?
I have this annoying problem with YouTube videos, and the problem is the viewing experience. One or two weeks ago, when I clicked on YouTube video in Gmail (from "Your Personal YouTube Digest" ...
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How to get LastPass Binary Chrome Extension to work across synced machines
Setup:
I use Chrome Sync regularly across two machines
I use LastPass as my password manager (it's already paid for this year so no alternatives suggestions, please)
The binary version allows you to ...
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1answer
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When using Chrome, why does Twitter's home page redirect me to a search for “searchTerms”?
This has been going on for some time. Whenever I type twitter.com into Chrome's omnibar, I am redirected to https://twitter.com/search/%7BsearchTerms%7D?source=desktop-search. Given the tweets showing ...
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1answer
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Ctrl + F not working for browser page search when using Google Docs
When I do Ctrl+F in Google Docs, it shows the "document find view". What I would like is the "browser find view" when in Google Chrome.
What keys do I need to press to do a browser Ctrl+F in Google ...
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2answers
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What is the best Google Chrome extension for Delicious? [closed]
I use a Chrome extension which works very well with Google Bookmarks, allowing syncing with local bookmarks and easy adding and reference to existing Google bookmarks.
The Delicious extension that I ...
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Backup Chrome synced data (accounts/passwords)
Today I realized I lost 2+ years of web account/password data that was synced across all of my Chrome instances (iOS, Win7, total of 4 computers). My bookmarks were OK. It's happened to a few people ...
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0answers
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What features does Google Drive background app offer? [closed]
I have noticed that the current version of Google Chrome has background apps and the only one that is running on my PC is Google Drive.
I don't know what I'll loose from Google Drive if I turn Google ...
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1answer
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Google Chrome application: total newbie question about saving items to a database from the browser [closed]
I have a relatviely simple question: I'm building a digital scrap book and would like to add a browser extension. I was wondering if it was possible to build a Google Chrome extension which would ...
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2answers
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How can I hide Disqus from websites that I visit?
Often when I visit a webpage, the comments section is many times longer than the actual post. This makes scrolling very cumbersome, as the actual post takes up a very small portion of the scrollbar.
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2answers
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Opening files directly in Google Chrome [closed]
I'm frequently opening files from websites (e.g. doc files) and is seems Chrome is missing the option to open it directly instead of saving it first (like possible in e.g. IE, FF, Opera). Any hack ...
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1answer
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save all open webpages for offline browsing [closed]
Is there a way to save all the open web pages in the browser to a disk?
If several webpages are open and just one click saves all those to a disk it would be very handy. One would not have to rely on ...
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2answers
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How to bypass a websites print version?
I'm trying to save a PDF of a page from the dailymail.co.uk website. When I open the print dialogue (in Safari and Chrome) the page looses all its formatting to become a stripped back printable ...
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2answers
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Disable twitter's keyboard shortcut
For the simple reason sometimes I want to search the timeline using Command + F and when I try it some shortcut will be activated and I'll be moved away from the timeline after having loaded many ...
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0answers
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'p' character not working inside Gmail Tasks
I'm using Chrome 20.0.1132.57 m and always have one tab open with Gmail. I also have the Tasks window open. When typing within the tasks window, the 'p' character never shows up. I'm able to write the ...
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0answers
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How can I find cached file of Google Chrome? [closed]
What I want to do is making application that uses chrome cache file which is saved in local disk.
(Only separate cached file. e.g. f_001bf0)
ChromeCacheView application is very similar with my ...
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Chromium Language-based Custom Font [closed]
How to customize font for a particular language in chromium?
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2answers
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Is it safe to install Google Chrome extensions which explicitly state needing access to my data on all websites?
I'd like to install a Google Chrome extension (in particular, StayFocused) and it warns me that it will have access to my data on all websites.
I find this quite scary as I'd like to keep some ...
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3answers
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How to make Google search not redirect
When I click an entry in the Google search results, it first queries Google server and then redirect to the page. For example, search foobar gives:
<a ...
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1answer
448 views
Different results from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer using Google
When I search for .NET related questions on Google Chrome using Google, it does not display results from MSDN.
When I do the same search from Internet Explorer I get results from MSDN.
I clear out ...
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2answers
340 views
Open Google Docs without going to docs.google.com and searching
To access to my Google Docs, the regular way is go to docs.google.com and search by doc name. To shorten this process, I have a custom search engine in Chrome like http://docs.google.com/#search/%s. ...
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2answers
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Random codes appearing at the end of URLs (Wordpress site)
I use WordPress on my website and I've noticed the following code at the end of URLs when viewing pages/posts. The codes vary depending on the browser (Chrome, Safari and Firefox.)
Chrome: ...
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1answer
561 views
Opening AdWords in Chrome
Recently (that is this year at least), I've had problems opening the AdWords site in Chrome; when I log in, the header displays and the main content area says Loading.... After a minute or so, that ...
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Advanced date logic in Google Spreadsheets
1.) What is a way to use conditional formatting to get Google Spreadsheets to highlight cells that are up to 7 days away from current date?
Ex: Today is 4/9/12. I have a cell with a date in the sheet ...
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1answer
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Pearltrees doesn't work in Firefox, but works in Chrome
In Firefox, if it's the first time I visit Pearltrees, the Pearltrees progress bar goes until the end, then it stays a fully loaded bar and nothing else happens. If it's not, the Pearltrees progress ...
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1answer
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Hide twitter recommendations for chrome?
I'm on Chrome and want to hide the worst feature ever to introduce to Twitter - the "who to follow" box.
There's a few extensions out there, however sadly they don't come up-to-date with the new ...
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1answer
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YouTube Black Screen of Death
When opening certain videos on YouTube, I am met with a "Black Screen of Death". In other words, there is a black screen from the top of the URL bar to the bottom of my screen. I can still interact ...
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Bold fonts are corrupt in Chrome [closed]
I just noticed this morning that my Facebook bold fonts look funny and are not rendered properly like the lines aren't fine (I don't have a screenshot right now, it's on my other PC). I checked if it ...
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1answer
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What do these Google search operators/attributes mean?
In the Google Chrome search engines, there is the default engine URL defined as: ...
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3answers
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Force HTTP loading of Gmail [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Log into Gmail without SSL
I want Gmail to open in HTTP mode in Chrome. I don't care about security or man-in-the middle stuff; who would want to read my emails anyway?
...
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4answers
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Disable the Google Plus red notification number on Gmail, Google search, etc
How can I disable the big red number showing on the Google account bar that comes from Google+ activity?
Whenever there are new notifications from Google+ the box turns red showing a number or count ...
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0answers
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Twitter randomly fails to load in Chrome [closed]
I've been noticing over the last few weeks that when I try to load Twitter through Chrome, it will randomly decide to hang on trying to load the page, showing nothing but a blank white page, like the ...
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1answer
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Does Chrome have to be running in order for Gmail to handle mailto links?
I noticed that Google Chrome has a feature which let's Gmail handle mailto: links. I'm wondering whether or not Chrome has to be running on the computer in order for this to work or not.
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1answer
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Do I have to be an owner of the website in order to create a Google Chrome app for it?
I want to create some apps to add to Google Chrome (so they appear as an app in the "new tab" page) that are nothing but a link to websites like Facebook, Stack Overflow, etc.
Can I publish it to the ...
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0answers
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Changing the default RSS reader of Google Chrome [closed]
Where can I properly change the default RSS reader setting of Google Chrome? I didn't find it in the settings.
When I click "subscribe", it subscribes me to Winamp. I really wonder how that happened! ...
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1answer
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How can I set up Trello desktop notifications?
What do I have to set up in Trello in order to get pop-up notifications through Google Chrome?
There's a bug on the Trello development board about strange desktop notification behavior, but I haven't ...
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1answer
593 views
Sending open tab links as an email or syncing with Google Chrome [closed]
How can I set up Google Chrome to send an email with all the open tabs in the browser? Or, can I have it so that the links clicked at my office are synced with the browser at home.
The effect I want ...
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1answer
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What kind of data does TrelloScrum keep?
TrelloScrum is a Chrome extension for doing Scrum in Trello.
It 'has access to all your Trello data'.
Does it transmit anything to a server? If so, what information does this server retain?
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How to keep Facebook chat online in Google Chrome with facebook tab closed
I was just trying to stay in touch with Facebook without keep the Facebook tab always open.
Now I can check any notification with this Google Chrome extension
And I have to open the tab only when ...
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3answers
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How can I have Google account bar tabs open in the same window?
I'm taking about the account bar that's at the header of the page, not the Google browser toolbar or the tabs in Chrome itself.
Is there a way to configure the Google account bar to open items in the ...
