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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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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 Can I Prevent Gmail from Opening a New Tab when I Switch Accounts?
It seems that about 2 weeks ago, Gmail began always opening a new tab (in Chrome at least) every time I switch Accounts.
Previously it only opened new tabs when I logged into a new account, but if I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I get Gmail to ask me to be a mailto handler again?
I noticed that when I open up Gmail on Google Chrome, a popup near the top asks me if I want to let Gmail be my "mailto:" handler.
If I select "No," I'm assuming that Gmail will no longer ask me to ...
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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
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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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1answer
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Google Chrome Crashes Every-time I close a tab with a YouTube video open
Lately I have been having an issue. Whenever I close a open tab in Google Chrome which has a YouTube video open in it, it crashes. The browser just freezes and then a window pops up saying Google ...
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Fast Google Chrome extension to add custom CSS to any webpage? [closed]
I tried Stylebot, but it's pretty slow. I can feel the pages lagging when I scroll. Is there a simple extension that can easily inject any custom CSS into the webpages that I visit?
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What information is being accessed by a third party that supports “log in with Google”?
There are some applications that you can add to Google Chrome.
However, some of them require you to log in to a Google account. During that process you get a message along the lines of "xxx is asking ...
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1answer
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Can not set Google Translate on Google Chrome [closed]
In Firefox i was able to double-click and translate a word by using an add-on. But firefox tried something and can get only English explanation of english words.
I want to see the double-clicked ...
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1answer
562 views
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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Evernote sidebar in gmail
Is there some way to have access to evernote in gmail in google chrome? Something similar to Xobni would be great, as it adds a permanent sidebar on the right, but their evernote support is only ...
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1answer
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Gmail crashing in Chrome?
Since the change in Gmail's interface, I've noticed that the Gadgets I use have disappeared. When I tried to expand Gmail's sidebar there were no line with three dots to grab and today I couldn't ...
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1answer
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How do I get rid of the big blue bar at the top of Google?
How do I get rid of this big blue bar at the top of Google:
It is really annoying!
I am running Google Chrome on a Mac.
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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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0answers
470 views
Gmail removes newlines from some emails [closed]
24 hours ago, Gmail started removing newlines from some emails, so the whole email I sent is an understandable one-line glob.
Details:
Using Chrome 15.0.874.106 on Ubuntu 2011.04. No problem with ...
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How can I force Google Maps to update “My location” when I move?
I travel a lot and I use Google Maps to help me get around a lot.
The My location feature is very handy when you're lost and find a WIFI hotspot but it has one problem.
My Location likes to cache ...
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1answer
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Why do YouTube videos start late?
The only problem is that YouTube videos don't start immediately. Watching animated circle icon - instead of the video - is annoying. When the video starts, there is no problem with it, it loads fast.
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Sort Gmail by Date? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to sort your email in GMail by something other than the date received?
Is there any way to sort Gmail by date in the web interface? The priority inbox is ...
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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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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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1answer
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Search suggestion works only in the factory search provider [closed]
I just installed Chrome. Surprisingly, the search suggestions (predictions) won't show up if another search provider but the built-in one will be selected.
I even tried to create a new provider ...
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Tabbing out of the “to:” field in Gmail
I noticed recently that I can't seem to hit Tab to move on to the Subject field in Gmail. Pressing Tab simply inserts a tab, which is rather useless in the To field.
Is that new or have I just not ...
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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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StumbleUpon bookmarklet to favorite any website (not the ones I get to using their toolbar)
The situation is as follows
I want an easy way to thumbsUp/favorite any websites which I didn't stumble upon using StumbleUpon but I want it among my other favs (to also cusomizes my future ...
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1answer
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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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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 ...
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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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GMail stuck in redirection loop in Chrome
I can't access GMail through Chrome as it displays an error message saying that too many redirections were triggered. This probably has something to do with the system time as I have to reset it on ...
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1answer
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Task alerts ala Outlook with Google Calendar/Chrome?
The only feature i miss from outlook after we made the switch to Google Apps at work is the alarm popup that rised when you programmed it. Outlook had lots of options when programming the alarm or ...
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2answers
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Facebook chat only page
I don't remember exactly how I got to it, but I opened a page (external possibly) that only showed the chat interface of facebook. It was quite similar to the gabtastik screenshot
What I wanted ...
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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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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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1answer
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Offline Evernote Access in Chrome
Is there a way to access my evernote notes offline in Google Chrome?
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710 views
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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Is there an advantage to using google.com rather than google.com.au as my search engine in Chrome?
I'm an Australian living in Thailand. I use Google Chrome as my primary web browser. Out-of-the-box, Chrome's combined address bar/search box will return results from google.co.th. That's fine but not ...
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How to hide data from rescuetime while in incognito
I just starting using rescuetime to try to keep track of my productivity, but I've run into a bit of a snag.
Generally, I keep track of my unproductive time by being in incognito mode in Google ...
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Chrome address bar Google search engine
I am using google chrome as a browser and fire up empty tags and type directly to the address the search query. The problem that raises is despite the fact that I had defined google.com as a default ...
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A clear understanding about Mozilla Firefox web applications
I have seen lately a concept of installing open web applications in Firefox and Google Chrome just like extensions here .
While the site says it as a installable websites. It looks very similar to ...
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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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How do I open links to a specific website in a non-default browser on a Mac? [closed]
My default browser is the latest Chrome on the latest OS X. I want to open links to pivotaltracker.com (from Skype, email, wherever) in a Fluid browser that is dedicated to Pivotal Tracker. Googling ...
