Questions tagged [google-chrome]
For questions about Google Chrome insofar as they relate to interaction with a specific web application. Questions about Chrome settings or features should be asked at superuser.com.
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How to set different color themes to OS, web browsers and other programs [migrated]
These days I was suspecting something weird after the installation of my OS updates. I use the dark theme on my Pop_OS and automatically my web navigators Chrome and Firefox are synchronized with the ...
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How to fix emoji and special characters rendering inconsistently on Win10 in Google Doc created on Win 11 [closed]
I created a Google Doc on my Win11 machine using both emoji's and special characters.
When I opened it on my Win10 machine, the display of those was inconsistent.
The most curious part: they show ...
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How to viewing selected calendar events for selected calendar
I have been trying to use the Google Calendar web app in an intuitive fashion.
Below is a screenshot of what appears when I log in from my Android phone using Chrome for Android.
Consider that on the ...
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How to change the primary language for google services? [duplicate]
Even though I set the primary language to Polish and the second language to English, Google services are displayed in Turkish.
I would like the menu on Google websites to be in Polish. I don't know ...
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All extensions disabled in Chrome managed with Family Link [closed]
On my computer and on my children's computers, there are Chrome profiles for my children's accounts. These are logged into Chrome with their credentials. These browsers are "managed by your ...
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How to hide suggested posts on LinkedIn?
Suddenly my feed on LinkedIn is full of "Suggested Posts" that I've no interest in. How do I hide them?
The support page only recommends selecting "I don't like this subject" or &...
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All adblock extensions disabled in Family Link managed chrome browser [closed]
On my computer I have Chrome profiles for my children's accounts, logged into Chrome with their credentials. These browsers are "managed by your parent", which is me.
Today I opened Chrome ...
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A link in a space task only works on the first click
When viewing tasks in the Tasks tab of a Google Chat Space, if a task contains a hyperlink, the hyperlink only opens on the first click. If you click again, nothing happens.
Viewing another channel ...
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How to make Chrome address bar show bookmark URLs when searching bookmarks?
See the following screenshot, when I wanted to search bookmarks (triggered by the @bookmarks search engine) with keyword nvim, only the 3rd bookmark's URL (with title "Getting Started with Neovim ...
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Where is the reply button in Google gmail (Chromebook)
You'd think that in an email application the "reply" button would not only be visible but would stand out. I cannot find it in Google gmail on my Chromebook.
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Is there any way to see full content of Facebook posts without clicking "See more"
On Chrome for desktop, when browsing Facebook, long posts are not shown in full.
I need to always click "See more" to view each of them.
Is it possible to make Chrome to always show those ...
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Do you now have to install the Skype App on mobiles to get to the actual video-chat page?
The Question
On a phone using Android and Chrome, I'm signed in to Skype, I easily access my account-details-page, but cannot get to the actual video-chat page ( something called something like go....
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How to avoid Show ¶ messing up the word wrap? [closed]
This text is word-wrapped as expected:
until I Show ¶, which messes it up:
losing WYSIWYG at Print:
How can I avoid this?
This is on latest Windows Chrome. I don't know which version of 365, since ...
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How to avoid dialogs going semi-transparent? [closed]
If I double-click a word, I get this (untitled) dialog box:
If I then move the mouse to reach it, it goes semi-transparent:
How can I avoid dialogs going semi-transparent like this?
This is on ...
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Disabling the Google suggestions which appear below the website I clicked on
Since some days ago Google changed its way to show search's results; in particular, when you do a research, you get a list of websites:
If I click on a website and then I go back to the webpage of ...
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Is there a way to get a "permanent" URL to a Gmail inbox or Google calendar? [duplicate]
I typically bookmark my Gmail inbox and Google Calendar page so I can navigate to them quickly. But since I have multiple Gmail accounts, these bookmarks work inconsistently since the only unique ...
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Explain "Allow calendar.google.com to open all web calendar links?" [duplicate]
I've opened https://calendar.google.com in Chrome. I see an icon in the address bar. When I click on it, it displays this dialog:
Allow calendar.google.com to open all web calendar links?
[ ] Allow [ ...
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Launching Google Tasks standalone in separate window [closed]
How do I launch Google Task manager in a separate window standalone with no tabs and no menus in Windows
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Is there a way to see if someone is (already) online at Google Meet (free version)?
The commercial versions of Google Meet seem to have an option to see if someone is online or not. Is there a way to see if someone is online in free versions of Google Meet?
If I join the "...
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Is there a way to modify the gmail unread badge to show the number of new emails since last open?
Currently, when Unread message icon is enabled, gmail will display the total number of unread emails in your inbox.
I personally cannot be bothered to clear out my inbox, so this number becomes ...
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In Gmail, keyboard shortcuts for font selection do not work on Mac Chrome/Safari
In Gmail, ⌘⇧5 and ⌘⇧6 are supposed to change the font of the selected text when composing a message. I want to format some text as Fixed Width font with a shortcut.
But on my end (Mac), they never ...
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Are there differences in the way WebSocket API is implemented in different browsers? [closed]
I am new to websockets and have been asked to investigate a problem we’re having with our app. Our app uses xmpp.js, and its behavior when there is no internet connection is different depending on the ...
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Lost all my google bookmarks even when synced
I recently reset my computer due to a bug, and in doing so it deleted chrome. I made sure to sync all my passwords and bookmarks, but upon re-installing I realized they had all disappeared and ...
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Why does google keep not show up in the Google Chrome Apps shortcut below the navbar?
I was wondering: Why does google keep not show up in the Google Chrome Apps shortcut?
Is it possible to adjust which apps getting displayed there?
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Google Chrome not displaying text [closed]
Yesterday I was installing mods for one game with tool called Vortex (https://www.nexusmods.com/about/vortex/) when suddenly my Google Chrome stopped working properly, most sites I visit don't have ...
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new Instagram design
How do I turn on Dark Mode for Instagram? A friend's account on Google Chrome Windows pc
Can switch appearance
These are popular Instagram designs
But a friend created an account and found this new ...
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how to download the audio of Bing translator's text to speech
https://bing.com/translator
I already knew that we can record it use whatever apps that can do it.
but I want to know can we find the audio file in the browser?
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CTRL+LMB does not work on DuckDuckGo Ad links
By CTRL+LMB I mean holding down the Control key, and while it is depressed, clicking the left-mouse-button.
Here is a detailed screenshot:
I did a duckduckgo search for these keywords bike phone ...
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Whatsapp web push-notification only working when tab is opened (Chrome)
Whatsapp web push-notification only working when tab is opened (Chrome)
Unlike YouTube and Instagram whatsapp web push notification are not working when tab is closed in Windows 11.
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Using Chrome on an Amazon Fire tablet, how can I revert Gmail to the version that was the default until yesterday?
Using Chrome on an Amazon Fire tablet, today I find Gmail changed to a simplified version where the initial screen is a full-width inbox message list and little more. How can I revert it to the ...
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How to remedy the fail of Gmail's Print on a message in a new window? [closed]
In Gmail, I use:
and then
but get this fail
despite Settings
How can I remedy this?
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Is it possible to assign search priorities in Google for specific websites?
Is it possible to prioritize Google search to show my favorite sites first? Basically I would like some sites, for example superuser.com, to display first in the search results instead of sixth, ...
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How to copy and paste HTML (including images) from password protected pages?
I want to copy HTML (including images) from a web page to google docs.
This works fine if the web page is public.
But if the page needs a login, then the images are not inserted into google docs.
I ...
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How can I log into youtube on a chrome browser without logging into Chrome?
I have a google account and use chrome at home and at work.
At home I log into chrome and it automatically logs me in to youtube.com.
At work, I use chrome as a guest, but am able to log into ...
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Chrome incognito and 2-step verification in Gmail [closed]
Every time I login to Gmail in incognito mode in Chrome on W10 I have to verify 2-step with a code sent to my phone. I don't want to save the login or account details of this G-mail account on my ...
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Facebook Messenger in the browser keeps logging me out
Using a Lenovo Chromebook C330 2-in-1 Convertible Laptop and want to use Messenger. Thing is, don't want to have it installed natively to not deal with notifications. Therefore, currently using the ...
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Google showing wrong country [duplicate]
I'm in the UK but whenever I go on to www.google.com in incognito, it always goes to the UAE version and I don't know how to fix it. It shows UK when I'm signed in.
At the bottom of the page it says &...
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Outlook Email Message Access Failure after new Third Party Popup
Since yesterday, after I log in to Outlook online, a popup appears. It starts:
"We and various third parties process data to: store and/or access information..."
(The text is like an image ...
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How to organize YouTube Playlists?
I'm trying to figure out a good way to group my playlists rather than having them just exist as a huge list. I do a lot with playlists where I create them for different subject areas I'm interested ...
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Is there any way to access a Gmail delegated account in mobile (Android, iOS, etc.)?
Delegate and collaborate on email lets delegates read, send, and delete a shared account's email messages. It helpfully avoids exposing someone's general Google password to various people and risk ...
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Drag google chrome window from maximized state? [closed]
I used to be able to grab the chrome window and drag it. What this would do is, it would make chrome go from maximized to smaller window state and I was able to place it where I wanted.
Recently (...
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Can I, How do I, stop Chrome from asking to switch/continue Google Profiles when I use another account on Gmail or GDocs
When I login to another of my Google Accounts, Chrome Asks if I want to switch/continue in that profile. I want to be able to stop this notification behaviour, because the pop up is annoying.
I do ...
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Does google classroom use your webcam?
A few days ago I got kaspersky security cloud free and on opening google classroom, it popped up saying that google classroom was using my webcam. I checked that this was only when I launched ...
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How to spoof the google search result with different Geo location
Do we have any way to bypass the actual geo location in google search result page.
In the Google result end of page, we can see the phrase "Based on your past activity". how it picks this ? ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to 'focus' cell I'm typing in so that the left/right buttons don't shift to adjacent cells?
I'm on a Mac, using Chrome. When I type abcde in a cell in Google Sheets, and then want to move the cursor to the left within abcde in order to backspace c, I have to manually click the cell to focus ...
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Google search: any way to easily toggle between search in one country and one other?
I need to make many searches, and for each search I first need to restrict my searches to USA (where I am now), then to Italy. I know both Italian and English very well. Google preferences allows ...
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Page format messed up on double click (Google Chrome)
Recently, I've had this strange happening on my Chrome browser. On many sites, sometimes, when I double click (I think that's what made it happen), the entire layout of the webpage is disoriented. ...
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Notification icon on pinned Chrome apps (Windows)
I am using mattermost as a pinned chrome app in a separate window accordingly to here
Now I know that there are also real clients for this app but our company hasn't allowed it yet.
Is there a way to ...
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Keyboard shortcut for adding to Reading List in Chrome
Chrome added a Reading List feature in late 2020 as an alternative to bookmarking. If you click the star to bookmark, you'll see both "Add Bookmark" and "Add to Reading List". Is ...
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Using Google Hangouts in Chrome browser to make calls with Google Fi number- have no call history? [closed]
Lost my phone, using hangouts via my browser (chrome). I open it via the app launcher thing:
So I guess google hangouts has no way of listing my call history!? I can't seem to find a list of calls I ...
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