Among these added features, some need to be enabled by users themselves. All such untested features are available for toggling at the url chrome://flags. I am having Google Chrome Version 33.0.1750.46 Here are some of the interesting and useful experimental features I noted hidden among the huge pile.
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One added feature you will acknowledge when you install the updated version of Google Chrome and you no longer have to worry about people snooping around your saved passwords. A new feature automatically enabled on the newer versions of Google Chrome require you to reauthenticate yourself by entering your machine's password before you can view your saved passwords in plain text.
Before you Begin:
Depending on the version of Chrome you have installed, some of the experimental features mentioned below might not be available on your PC. That’s why it is recommended to have installed the latest version available on the store.
Google’s warning over the use of experimental features:
These experimental features may change, break, or disappear at any time. We make absolutely no guarantees about what may happen if you turn one of these experiments on, and your browser may even spontaneously combust. Jokes aside, your browser may delete all your data, or your security and privacy could be compromised in unexpected ways. Any experiments you enable will be enabled for all users of this browser. Please proceed with caution.
If you feel the browser is not working as expected and want to roll back all the changes you have made, click the Reset all to default button present on the top right of the Flags page and it's done.
10 Hidden Features you would thanks Google Chrome for:
One of the most irritating part of Google chrome was that if while downloading the downloading is interrupted (due to, say, loss in internet connectivity) no matter whether the server that is hosting the file supported resuming downloads or not you can't resume the download. Not only the restarted download caused annoyance, it also lead to wastage of your data so you had to rely on softwares like IDM to for downloading
If you are not connected to the internet 24x7 or want to go back to a page you read a few minutes back but disconnected from the internet just now, enabling offline cache mode will save the pages automatically.
Some websites request the browser to not autofill the form on that page. Enabling this option will ignore a web page’s request to turn autocomplete off and thus save you the hassle of filling it manually, if you have enabled Autocomplete on Chrome, that is.
If you disliked the infobar that slid down below the Omnibox (or bookmarks bar) offering you to translate the web page when you were on one with foreign language, enabling this option will activate a new UX which is more visually appealing.
If your PC isn’t that personal and you share your Google Chrome with your family/friend, enabling this new profile management system brings new features such as profile sign-out and new avatar menu UI.
If you love Google Now notifications on your Android/iPhone, enabling this option will turn on Google Now notifications support on your Google Chrome.
As Google states it, this option enables “various Notification Center features under construction/polish”.
If you don’t like the way the tabs shrink when you open a couple of dozens of them, this option will change the way the tabs are arranged. The image below will make the situation crystal clear.
According to the mini-description given below this option, Chrome will predict your finger’s future position thus giving it time to load that frame before you finger actually reaches there. As scrolling wasn’t that bad already on my PC, I didn't notice anything significant on enabling this but this sure sounds cool!
If you are accustomed to the way you are allowed to drag an open tab to create a new window containing that tab only on Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera, enabling this option on Google Chrome will let you do the same.
I hope you didn’t face any problem while enabling/disabling any of these features. As I stated in the Before you Begin section above, if Chrome starts behaving abnormally for the changes you did, you can anytime reset all the changes you made by a single press of the Reset all to Default button.
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