Back in August, Google announced that they would be "de-emphasizing" Adobe Flash Player in Google Chrome. HTML 5 will be loaded in place of Flash except for sites that only support Flash. For those sites, you will be prompted to enable the browser plug-in. In September and with Chrome 42, Chrome disabled Flash content that was loading behind the scenes, typically related to … [Read more...]
Google Chrome goes back and forth on Backspace as back button
Almost universally through all of the different web browsers, the backspace key on your keyboard can serve as the Back button to navigate to the previous page. It has been this way for a long time and perhaps it made more sense in the prior days with less content creation in the browser. Now, I am sure almost every person has experienced it at least once, the painful moment … [Read more...]
Open Google Now cards in full browser
Like many articles, this one stems from something that annoyed me. Android, at some point, changed how their Google Now cards in a light version of Chrome. They claim it is faster but I would gladly trade the speed for the familiar, full-featured Chrome browser. Fortunately, there is a setting to disable this light "Powered by Chrome" browser and use your full, preferred … [Read more...]