How to Customize the Best New Features in Chrome 90
Chrome 90 is here, and some of the cool features you get are done automatically – no action is required on your part. Others require you to dig into some of the settings or adjust the Chrome flags to view them. This is the cat and mouse game you’ll find in any Chrome release, and we’re ready to hunt.
However, before we get into those features, let’s talk about the quick automatic changes you’ll find in Chrome 90. The browser comes with an all-new AV1 encoder that should improve video quality (and lower bandwidth) WebRTC. based on video conferencing in your browser. Additionally, Chrome will now use HTTPS connections by default whenever you visit a website – which you probably did already, thanks to extensions like HTTPS Everywhere (which you should still use if you come across a rare website that launches Chrome to switch back to HTTP).
And finally, you can now hide Chrome’s reading list right from the browser UI, instead of setting Chrome’s fancy flag to do so. It seems, as it were, something like. You first need to enable the reading list with chrome://flags/#read-later , but once you do, you can right-click the bookmarks bar to quickly show or hide it.
Of course, Chrome 90 has more hidden or hidden features. For example, you can right-click the address bar and select “Always Show Full URLs” because the browser will soon switch to display only the domain of the site you are visiting, rather than its full URL. For ordinary people, this is great; this makes them harder to confuse or phish, as the domain they are connecting to will be much more obvious (compared to a giant URL that might not be easy to spot). However, if you are a power user, you will probably need this complete URL.
If you want a quick link to all the latest features of your Chrome browser, enable this flag: chrome://flags/#chrome-tips-in-main-menu . When you do, you will receive a new link under Help> Tips for Chrome , which will take you to the Google website, which will tell you a little more about what your browser has been like lately.
Another cool feature to try can be found by enabling the following flag: chrome://flags/#clipboard-filenames . Now you can copy and paste content to websites using normal keyboard shortcuts instead of dragging and dropping them onto the site. So, for example, all you have to do is press CTRL + V to paste the file you copied from your desktop folder into your Gmail message as an attachment. Goodbye drag and drop, or worse, cumbersome attachment buttons that force you to search for the file every time. Copy this. Insert this. Email attachments couldn’t be much simpler.