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Clear browsing history in Android

May 18, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Listed below are the steps clear the browsing history of Google Chrome in a Android Device such as Nexus or Samsung tab.

Solution 1: History screen

Step 1: Click the Menu option in Google Chrome (right hand side)

Step 2: Select History from the drop down list.

Step 3: In the History screen, click the Clear Browsing Data option available at bottom of the screen.

Step 4: Select the required option under Clear browsing data and click Clear button. Apart from browsing history, you can clear Cache, Cookies and Site data, Saved passwords and autofill data

Solution 2 : Advanced Option

Step 1: Click the menu option and select Settings from the list.

Step 2: Click Privacy option under Advanced section.

Step 3: In the Privacy screen, click the Clear Browsing Data button to launch screen. Then the Clear button to delete all the browsing history.

Turn off Pop-up blocker on Google Nexus 7

January 28, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

This is a short article on the steps required to turn off pop-up blocker in Google Chrome installed on Google Nexus 7. By default the pop up blocker is enabled in Google Chrome. But if you are frequently accessing websites that display popups that you need to have access to then you can turn off pop blocker using the Settings available as part of Google Chrome.

Step 1: Launch Google Chrome on Google Nexus 7

Step 2: Access the Chrome Settings by tapping option available at the top right hand corner.

Step 3: In the Google Chrome settings screen, tap the Content settings option under Advanced section.

Step 4: Now to turn off the pop up blocker, un mark the checkbox with label as Block pop-ups to allow pop-ups from websites.

Disable highlighting of links when pressing tab in Google Chrome

September 18, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Google Chrome has a feature which when pressing tab highlights the links and form fields. If you are user who heavily uses keyboard tab for navigating between the form fields and you do not want the tab to be highlighted then you can disable this feature using Chrome Preferences.

Click the Chrome menu on the menu bar and select Preferences from the list of available menus.

In the Preferences window, click the Under the hood link.

Navigate to Web Content section available in Under the Hood page.

Now un tick the check box with label as Pressing tab on a webpage highlights links, as well as form fields. This would only highlight the form fields when pressing tabs.

Create Shortcut for Google Chrome Extension

August 8, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

In this tutorial we will cover the steps required for creating a shortcut for a Google Chrome Extension. If you like a chrome extension and you intend to use it quite often then you can create shortcuts to access the extension.

Open a new tab page in Google Chrome and right click on the extension for which you want to create a shortcut say for extension like Google Docs. This would display the following list of menus.

Now select the Create shortcut option from the menu list.

In the Create application shortcuts window, select the places where you want to create shortcuts like Desktop, Start menu and Quick launch bar and click on the Create button. And now you could see the shortcuts getting created in the selected places.

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How to import a certificate in Google Chrome

July 8, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

A SSL certificate can be imported in Google Chrome using option menu. Click on the wrench icon –> options –> Navigate to Under the Hood tab

Scroll down to Security section and click on the Manage certificates button

Click on the import button and use the Certificate import wizard to import a certificate

Click Next and using Browse button locate the certificate file with a .cer or .cert as file extensions.

Click Next to continue with Certificate Import Wizard

Specify the location of the Certificate Store

And click Finish to complete the process.

How to turn off pop up blocker in Google Chrome

July 5, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

Google Chrome has an inbuilt pop up blocker feature. The default option is set is Do not allow any site to show pop-ups. You can disable pop up blocker in Google Chrome using Options menu similar to ie8 pop up blocker

Click on the Options menu

And navigate to Under the Hood tab and Click on the Content settings button

In the Content settings window, navigate to Pop-ups tab and select Allow all sites to show pop-ups under the Pop-up Settings.