There are tons of hidden features in
Google Chrome that you almost never hear about,
so I thought I would go over 11
pretty cool features that you don't
really ever hear about in Google Chrome,
some of them are really useful, a couple
of them are just pretty neat, but either
way you should be pretty interested
especially if you use Google Chrome as
your primary browser and of course as
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it so let's get started now the first
couple settings are actually in a hidden
settings window they probably didn't
even know existed there are a bunch of
these in chrome but the first one that I
want to mention is the chrome flags page
so to get to this all you do is go into
the google address bar and type in
chrome colon slash slash flags and that
will bring up a bunch of hidden and
experimental settings that you can
access from anywhere else
the first 1i want to talk about within
this page is the tab using UI control
feature which basically makes it so
anytime a browser tab is playing
something it will show a speaker symbol
and in addition to that you can actually
mute that tab just by clicking on that
speaker symbol so you don't have to go
searching for which tab is playing the
audio and if it is then instead of
having to go to the tab and find the
video then you can just click on the
speaker symbol and it will mute the
entire tab so there's no fussing around
trying to figure out how to do it
alternatively you could also right click
on that tab of its playing music and
click new tab but it does the same thing
number two is the fast tab window closed
setting and this I don't really
understand the explanation but
essentially it does something with
javascript and loads the tab and
different way so that when you go to
close it supposedly makes it close
faster or if it's a window closed the
window
I don't know if I personally noticed a
difference because maybe my computer is
just closing it fast anyway but I think
it's good at least enable I mean why not
and that way if you do come across a tab
sometimes you try to exit something it
doesn't quite respond right away
hopefully in some situations enabling
this feature will make the tab close
instantly you would
hope number three is being able to
disable smooth scrolling that's another
setting in here i personally hate smooth
scrolling it's terrible in my opinion I
like to be able to scroll and have it go
right with the mouse so there is a
setting on the flags page that just is
says smooth scrolling and you can
disable it that way
don't have to worry about it anymore
because at some point google chrome did
introduce smooth scrolling by default
no idea why they would do this i think
it's a terrible feature it's not even a
feature just makes everything annoying
so you can disable it
number four is another one of these
hidden settings pages which is the net
internals so it's chrome colon slash
slash net dash internals and it's going
to show you all sorts of complex and
interesting network data that you may or
may not be able to ever use but it still
need to be able to see so for example
there's a dns section so maybe if
something is not resolving or it says
dns error you can go to that page and
see which servers using or something
like that if you know how to do that
there's also a bandwidth page where it
will show you all the bandwidth in real
time it's like a timeline so that's
pretty cool so if you have to maybe see
what speed something's downloading at
over time that could be useful
there's also a bunch of other settings
that i have no idea what they do to be
honest and maybe no one even knows
except if you're a developer but you
might still want to be able to play
around with it and see what other kind
of stuffs in there and number five is
also another settings page the quota
internals so quoted dash internals and
this is going to show you the space
usage on your hard drive so whether it's
the chrome software as a whole or
individual websites so you can go and
expand it and see what kind of storage
each website might be using is a
temporary cash so maybe if you notice
that chrome is taking up a bunch of
space for some reason and kind of get an
idea of maybe why this website is
loading slow you can see that it's huge
that huge website is just taking long to
download so lot of useful possibly
information in there all right now
number six is one that is pretty useful
and you guys may not have realized this
before but you can actually use google
chrome to play basically any video or
audio or media file and
do that all you do is drag the file into
chrome just dragging as if it was a new
tab and then it will open up that file
let you play it and why this would be
really useful especially is when you
combine it with the casting feature so
you may have realized that if you have a
google cast a prom cast rather or Google
cast feature in a TV or something you
can actually broadcast that tab or
google chrome as a whole to the TV or
the chromecast so you can what you can
do is load that video or audio into
chrome and we'll play it and then you
can broadcast that it casts that video
now to your TV so you don't actually
have to use any special software it's
supported writing chrome so that's
actually really useful especially for
those of you who have a google
chromecast but if not you can still use
to play video files quickly
alright next number seven is not useful
at all it's the t-rex game it's a fun
little thing that's hidden in chrome and
get to this it's actually on the network
disconnected page so you can either
disconnect from the internet altogether
or just go directly to that error page
even if you're connected so the URL is
right here its network error / 106
something like that but if you go to
that URL in chrome then it will bring up
the network error page and then what you
do you'll see the t-rex and you press
the spacebar and now it will start a
running game of the t-rex you just jump
over stuff like a fun little easter egg
basically not useful at all the kind of
funny to show your friends all right now
number 8 isn't exactly a feature that's
built into chrome per se but it's still
something having to do with chrome that
Google doesn't really advertise and i
think is cool and that is the chrome
experiments website is a website that is
run by Google and is basically used to
host different examples of cool demos
that developers have created using
different chrome features and
technologies kind of as a way to demo
some awesome stuff they've made so you
just go to chrome experiments calm and
then you just you don't even have to
install anything you just mostly just
click on it and it'll run whatever neat
little applet someone is created and
none of these are really useful at all
but still it's another thing that is
neat and maybe getting some ideas if
you're a developer
or if you want to just see all the cool
stuff that people are coming up with all
right number nine is another very useful
one
this is the chrome task manager so like
windows chrome actually has its own task
manager and to get to this you go to the
regular Settings button and then you go
to more tools and expand that and go to
task manager and now it's going to show
you all the different processes running
within chrome so that includes the
different tabs and also the plugins that
you may have running the extensions and
then it will show you all the
information about each of these
processes running so i'll show you the
cpu usage of each the ram usage how much
network data all that sort of stuff so
if they plug in is being slow or
something like that or maybe you noticed
chrome is running really slowly lately
after you install an extension or maybe
something is causing a bunch of issues
you're not sure which extension it could
be you just look at the extension of the
task manager and kinda go from there
alright coming here the end number 10 is
the find my phone feature is very
similar to apples Find My iPhone feature
although i do believe this is only for
android phones so what you do is you
just type in find my phone into the
google chrome address bar and will bring
up a google page google search page with
the dialog box and information about how
to find it
it'll probably make you log in but then
it'll basically just show a map after
locating your phone via GPS and show you
exactly where it is or possibly where
last was and then you have a couple
options from there you can actually ring
the phone so play a sound
it'll actually also play a message on
there so if someone stole it you can say
hey I'm going to get you or something
like that and then there's also a
recover phone option which gives you
several options either from locking the
phone or even erasing it so you have a
lot of options there just by typing
findmyphone a case you lose it or just
can't find it
all right now finally this is the best
most useful feature in all of chrome
it's my favorite most of you hopefully
already know about this but i thought i
would mention it just in case you didn't
and that is the reopen close tabs
feature and you can do this by either
right-clicking in the top bar and
clicking restore close tab or just
pressing can
troll shifty remember that command ctrl
shift T I use it all the time if you
close a tab accidentally or maybe even
close several and the one you wanted to
look back at and close several times
again just keep pressing it and it will
open up your most recently closed tabs
and it will open to the same page
because i don't believe it gets rid of
the actual storage and information that
was in those until you close chrome as a
whole so super useful super simple
I don't know if it's exactly a hidden
feature but it is one that I know a lot
of people don't know about and it is
probably one of the most useful features
i think so you guys need to know about
it if you didn't already and i think
that's it those are 11 hidden features
in google chrome some of them are very
useful some of them are just kind of
neat so hopefully found pretty
interesting maybe didn't know about too
many of them and if you guys did like
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