High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
About Chrome's network stack and optimizations to load web pages faster.
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High Performance Browser Networking: HTTP/2
HTTP/2 will make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust—a rare combination—by allowing us to undo many of the HTTP/1.1 workarounds previously done within our applications and address these concerns within the transport layer itself. Eve...
How to: Throttle CPU in Google Chrome
Chrome allows you to throttle the Network and the CPU. Both settings are useful to measure the performance of you application and reproduce ...
Google Chrome Frame - Google Code
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.
How to disable material design in Google Chrome
A few releases back, Chrome started using a Material Design UI on desktop. If you don't like it (on some window managers or GTK themes it's ugly), you can disable it.
- Visit chrome://flags/
- Search (
Ctrl
+F
) for "Materia...
How to downgrade Google Chrome in Ubuntu
If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check if the problem disappears. Keep in mind though that running outdated software, especially web browsers, is in most case...
How to copy your „Google Chrome“ or „Chromium“ profile without creating an online account
Google Chrome saves your profile data in ~/.config/google-chrome
.
To transfer the profile to for example a system you have setup freshly do following steps:
- make a copy of
~/.config/google-chrome
- install google-chrome
- restore your backu...
Google Chrome: How to find out your currently installed theme
So you downloaded a theme for Chrome a while ago and don't remember which one it is?
You can go to chrome://settings/appearance
(on Chrome 61+) to see the theme's name, and click a link to open it in the Chrome Web Store.
If you are on an olde...
Chrome: Making high-resolution website screenshots without add-ons
If you want to make a screenshot of a website that works well in print or on a high-DPI screen (like Apple Retina displays), here is how you can capture a high-resolution screenshot.
You can do this without an addon:
- Open the website
- If you ...
Web development: Accepting a self-signed certificate in Google Chrome
Working with a self-signed certificate is much easier, when the browser accepts it.
Google Chrome
Warnings from chrome might not be accurate
Even though the certificate is working locally, chrome might still complain that th...
Force Google Chrome to run in English on Linux
If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have two options:
- Switch your system to an English locale
- Head over to
/opt/google/chrome/locales/
and remove any.pak
files except those starti...