7 Chrome features for Android, which will make web surfing more convenient
Browsers Android / / December 19, 2019
Mobile version of the Google Chrome offers a host of features that can help you achieve maximum comfort when viewing Web pages. Here are seven not the most obvious features that you might not know.
1. Fast closing all tabs
The number of open tabs with active browsing sometimes reaches several tens. Close them one by one - not the most comfortable pastime. Fortunately, you can do it with all tabs at once thanks to the unobvious Chrome options.
- Click on the icon with the number of open tabs, or just put your finger on the address bar and swipe down do - it be deployed in all the tabs on the screen.
- Go to browser menu (three dots icon) and select "Close all tabs".
Note: This item appears in the menu only when deployed on the screen all the tabs.
2. Search by image
If the search query to select a picture, the Google will find other copies of it in different sizes, as well as the most similar images. This feature is a search engine can be useful, if you see on the photo web page that you want to download a higher resolution. Using Chrome to make it very simple.
- Hold your tap on the image.
- Select "Find this image in Google».
- Click "Other dimensions" at the top of the SERPs or "Similar images" at the bottom - depending on whether you're looking for.
3. Disabling of content recommendations
On the Chrome new tab screen displays the chosen algorithm links that should in theory be of interest to you. But not all users require such compilations. In addition, the output of the recommendations consume system resources and bandwidth. Therefore, if you wish, you can disable them.
- Copy this link and paste it into your browser: chrome: // flags / # enable-ntp-snippets.
- Once on the hidden settings page, next to the item Show content snippets on the New Tab page, click "Default" and select "Disable."
- Restart Chrome.
If you did everything correctly, the recommendations should disappear from the new tab page.
4. Scaling pages and text
If a picture or other item on too small a web page, you can bring him with a gesture to consider. But the developers websites sometimes block this possibility. Fortunately, Chrome allows you to get around the ban by a couple of simple steps.
- Open the "Settings" browser and navigate to the "Features" section.
- Check "Force zoom".
Then you can zoom in any web page.
In the "Accessibility" is another useful option - "Zoom Text". It can be useful to people with low vision, and everyone who does not want to overwork the eye is too small print. Moving the slider to the desired level, you set the font size to be displayed on the default site.
5. Quick search selected text in Google
Sometimes you need to insert a word or a fragment of the readable text at Google, to find related information. To do this, you can select some text, copy it, open a new tab and paste in the search box, or use the context menu of your browser. But Chrome has another, faster way.
- Click "Settings" and then "Personal data".
- Make sure that the option "Quick Search" is enabled.
If the quick search mode is activated, each time you select text at the bottom there is a dedicated button for instant insertion fragment to Google.
6. Search on the open page
A Web page can contain tens of thousands of characters. But what if you need to find among them only deals with a specific word or phrase? For this purpose, the Chrome menu, provides the function of local search "Find on page". It is well known to experienced web surfers. But if you did not notice it, you know: it will find for you any of the characters in the text.
7. Download pages for offline viewing
Recently, Chrome users can upload web pages to your mobile device and view them without having to connect to the web. This feature has been available in the past, but only in the test mode, and it had to include hidden Chrome settings. Now she works for everyone by default. To download the open page, do the following:
- Open the browser menu (three dots icon).
- Click in the top row on the arrow button.
Saved pages so get into the section "Downloaded Files", which can be opened in the browser menu.
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