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  • Chrome notes - Notes about Google Chrome. Disable swipe reload Chrome will now refresh the page if you drag your finger down the screen, which I find annoying because it does it when I try to wipe of a smudge! To disable the so-called “pull to refresh” do the follo...
  • Chrome extensions - Notes about Chrome extensions. Privacy aka Forget About Privacy Most useful extensions can view the contents of every web page you visit. That is READ THE CONTENTS OF EVERY WEB PAGE YOU VISIT. I’m not sure people realise how significant this is. In ...
  • How to prevent Chrome tabs loading until selected - When you start Chrome it will load all tabs - very annoying and resource intensive if you’ve got lots of them. To prevent this, install the FooTab extension. You’ll have to do this manually: Download FooTab from http://sourceforge.net/projects/foo...
  • Quit Chrome with ctrl-q - Chrome on Linux (Gentoo) doesn’t quit on ctrl-q, you have to use ctrl-shift-w instead (the idea being that ctrl-w closes a single tab and ctrl-shift-w closes all of them). I think ctrl-q is not used by Chrome to prevent people hitting it accidentally w...
  • View source in Chrome on Android - To view a web page’s source code in Google Chrome on Android… Add a bookmark (of any page). View bookmarks and edit it. Change title to ‘View source’. Change URL to javascript:document.location='view-source:'+document.location; To use, visi...

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