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How to use GPG with Gmail?
I would like to read and write GPG encrypted mails within Gmail. I found FireGPG, but the support for Gmail has been discontinued (and I am using Google Chrome as a browser).
What is the most ...
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2answers
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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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3answers
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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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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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3answers
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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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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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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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3answers
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Limit search among a set of websites with Google Chrome
What setting do I need to adjust or create to make the search in Google Chrome limit itself to a pre-defined set of websites?
For example, I want to search all the Stack Exchange sites ...
8
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1answer
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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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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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3answers
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GOOD online IRC client for freenode on Google Chrome OS?
I wonder if there is a good online IRC client especially for Freenode, besides http://webchat.freenode.net cause that one really, really suck :)
There are no notifications, you can't save your ...
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1answer
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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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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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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 ...
7
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1answer
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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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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 ...
7
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1answer
351 views
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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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
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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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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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1answer
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Why my Gmail goes partially unencrypted whenever I start writing a new message?
When I enter my Gmail account (Ubuntu precise, Firefox with a few addons—AdBlock, WOT, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere) the encryption of the page works normally (snapshot 1), and keeps on doing so until 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
294 views
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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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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3answers
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What are the advantages of Chrome Web Store?
Is Chrome Web Store going to be just another web directory managed by Google for their own purposes? What would be the benefit to a regular user of web applications if and if not using the Chrome ...
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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Why Is Google Drive convinced that I'm offline?
Okay, this is messed up. I opened up my budgets spreadsheet as I do every week, and realized that I could only edit 1-2 cells before everything would freeze up. Inspecting the UI, I found a tiny ...
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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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3answers
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Difference between bookmarking and installing an web app in Chrome?
What is the difference between bookmarking an web page (or web app) and installing an web app in Chrome? Is there any performance improvement for installed web apps? Or any other benefit?
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1answer
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How can I add a shortcut on my desktop to a document in Google Docs?
I would like to have a shortcut on my desktop to a excel document in Google Docs?
How can I create a shortcut (icon) like this? I use Google Chrome as web browser.
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Google Trends keeps coming up in Chinese
I'm having a problem with Google trends: it keeps coming up in what it looks like Chinese.
I tried to eliminate several potential causes:
Signed out of my Google account -> still in Chinese.
...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Gmail: Recover deleted email from browser cache
I've permanently deleted an important email from Gmail Trash folder. And as I understand it, there is no way to recover the email from inside the Gmail application.
But, I figured that my browser ...
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4answers
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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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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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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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1answer
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Adding BBC Programme RDF feeds to Google Reader
I would like to add feeds to my Google Reader notifying me of new programs from certain BBC series.
Chromium gives me a feed to add, but Google Reader does not accept it, giving me the errors
...
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2answers
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Embedded Youtube videos are missing fullscreen functionality
If I view videos on Youtube, I see the fullscreen button, as well as being able to double-click the video.
If a youtube video is embedded on a non-youtube site however, I'm missing both the button ...
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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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0answers
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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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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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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 ...
2
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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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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 ...
2
votes
1answer
833 views
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
565 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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1answer
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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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3answers
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Gmail Unread Messages Favicons
How can you get Gmail to show the number of unread messages in the favicon? Specifically, are there any plugins for Chrome that allow me to do it with both regular Gmail and Google Apps? I've used ...
