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How to make google-chrome or chromium use less memory
My computer has only 4GB memory, and opening 8-12 random tabs on chrome or chromium often freezes my computer. Currently I'm using google-chrome-stable --process-per-site. This helps to some extent. ...
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Microsoft edge tabs detached from main window when clicked
I know dragging the tab bar downward will result in creating new windows for the tab, but this happens even if I just click a tab.
This is weird behavior that no other Chromium browsers report. I am ...
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Programmatically change settings
With Firefox, you can change browser settings with the Browser Console:
Services.prefs.setInfPref('browser.startup.page', 3);
Note that this does not work with the Web Console:
> Services
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How to disable browser's "sign in as" popup
When I'm using Google Chrome and many other Chromium-based browsers including Vivaldi and even the new Edge, certain websites will show a pop up with "sign in as" if I have password stored ...
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How to list all detected cameras in chrome (offline without a website)?
How can I get chromium to show me a list of all the webcams that it can see?
I do not want to use a website. I want something native in chromium that I can use offline without visiting a third party ...
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Disable Chrome scaling
So I have this small box display in Chrome
<div style="width:100px;height:100px;background:red"></div>
But it's in fact 130px big. Chrome is scaling all web because of my 1080p monitor.
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How to magnify in Chrome without scaling the page?
How do I magnify/zoom in the page in Chrome without changing the scale of the page. The built-in Ctrl,+ and Ctrl,- change the scale of the page to provide the zoom effect, but I only want to magnify ...
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How to block browser from using?
I have some exams coming ahead, but I have an addiction to YouTube. Due to this I have Customized many things in my settings like I have installed extensions like StayFocusd and StayFree which are ...
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What's the syntax of URL exceptions in Chrome's "Always keep these sites active"?
I want to keep certain tabs from ever being discarded automatically by Chrome. The settings have a section for doing so, but the syntax of the exceptions is not clear. Should I use regexes? Globs? ...
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All Chrome-based browsers have fractional pixel size on my system
I'm using an Ubuntu-based OS with XOrg as the display server. I don't have system-wide scaling enabled, and if I open this test in Firefox, it shows that the displayPixelRatio is 1. However, if I open ...
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Change Folder Icons in Bookmark Bar on Chromium Based Browsers
I have been using Opera for a while and I love the icons style in bookmarks bar:
Currently icons in Chromium based browsers(Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, Edge, etc...) are like this:
I would like to ...
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How to set permanent page zoom in incognito mode in Google Chrome?
In the Google Chrome settings, you can permanently set the value to zoom only in normal mode; in the incognito mode, it is reset upon a new launch. Now I use --incognito --force-device-scale-factor=2 ...
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Chromium browsers (Chrome/Brave) toggle device toolbar and profile switching have the same keyboard shortcut (how to override)
Specifically I'm using Brave the but the issue also appears in Chrome (and I assume other chromium browsers). When you press cmd+shift+m you get the profile switcher. However, if you have the dev ...
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Chromium browser showing blank page when transition from page to page
I'm running Chromium in kiosk mode in armbian using the following command:
chromium 'http://localhost/'
--window-position=0,0
--start-fullscreen
--kiosk
--noerrdialogs
--disable-translate
--no-first-...
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How to disable “dynamic” browser title bar contents
Quite a few web sites use the browser title bar/favicon to indicate changes they think I should be aware of (the most obvious example: I get a message in facebook, and the facebook tab of my browser ...
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