Now, what is the need of resting the chrome browser on Android? Many times you just want to reset the chrome app because of annoying behavior or you want to give your smartphone to children, sister or brother and before giving to them you want to clean all your history, accounts and other data from Google Chrome on Android with just one click. These are some scenarios where you need to reset the browser on Android. So, without much delay lets see this step by step guide to reset the chrome settings on Android.
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Reset Chrome browser settings in Android phones First, go to your Android system settings. The location of Apps option might be different from phone to phone becuase of custom Android skins.
But if you are using the stock Android then you can easily find it out. You will get a complete list of installed apps on your smartphone. And best of all, it doesn't take much to uncover all of Chrome's carefully concealed treasures — if you know where to look. Continuing on our recent theme of digging up hidden features and out-of-sight time-savers , I decided to break out my metaphorical spelunker's hat which is quite some cap, lemme tell ya and dive deep into Chrome's cloudiest corners to see what sorts of goodies I could unearth.
And good golly, did I find some fantastic stuff. The six settings on this page will make your Android-based web browsing more powerful, more efficient, and more pleasant. They're all just sitting there waiting to be found, too — so really, why not take advantage of what they have to offer? Before we spelunk any further, though, one quick word of warning: All of these settings are part of Chrome's flags system, which is a home for under-development options that are still actively being worked on and aren't technically intended for mainstream use.
It also evolves pretty regularly, so it's entirely possible some of the settings mentioned here may look different from what I've described or even be gone entirely at some point in the not-so-distant future. Exclusive extras await! What's more, the flags system has loads of advanced options within it, some of which could potentially cause websites to look weird, Chrome itself to become unstable, or even your ears to start spewing a delightfully minty steam.
Hey, you never know. So in other words: Proceed with caution, follow my instructions carefully, and don't mess with anything else you encounter in this area of the browser unless you actually understand it and genuinely know what you're doing. This first secret Chrome setting for Android is probably my favorite — 'cause it's just so darn useful, at least with the way I tend to hop around websites on my phone which is probably best described as an "all over the place" kind of hopping strategy.
See if the need applies to you: Do you ever find yourself looking at a web page and wanting to open a link without navigating away from the page you're already viewing? Maybe it's something you want to peek at quickly just to see what's there — or something you want to scan over before going back to where you were a second earlier.
Usually, you'd have to go through the clunky process of opening the link as a new tab, switching over to that tab, looking at the newly opened page, then closing it and going back to your original tab. Well, stop that silliness immediately, you silly ol' salamander. Chrome has a much better way to handle this.
It's a supremely smart peeking panel that pulls up any link in an overlay atop the page you're viewing. You can swipe the panel up or down to view more or less of the secondary page — and if you eventually decide you want to send the page into its own tab, you can do that with a single tap, too.
But if you don't, you can just swipe it away when you're done and then go on basking in the glow of your original page without any real interruption.
And that's it — you did it! Go ahead and give yourself a quick pat on the back, you audacious explorer. From now on, you can open up any web page, press and hold any link within it, and then look for the "Preview page" option in the menu that pops up to experience the joy of in-browser multitasking.
And an extra bonus tip: If you want that preview panel to appear in a more visible state right off the bat — instead of starting as a tiny tab that you then have to swipe up to see in detail — go back to that same Chrome setting and change its status to either "Enabled Open at half state" or "Enabled Open at full state" to find the style that works best for you.
Android's had a system-wide Dark Theme option since 's Android 10 release, but you know what's weird? Even when your device is in its fully darkened state, pages in your phone's web browser are still as bright as day or, um, however bright they usually are. As of now, Android's dark mode doesn't have any impact on the web as it appears within the Chrome Android app — only on the menus and other areas around the actual page you're viewing.
And that's a bit of a bummer, since a big part of what you do on your phone probably revolves around what's inside that browser's borders. But wait! Chrome actually does have a way to make the entire web responsive to Android's Dark Theme.
It's just not activated or available by default. Once you flip that switch, though, any page you open on the web will automatically transform itself whenever your phone's dark mode is enabled. Insert wild oohing, ahhing, and optional and generally not encouraged undergarment throwing here. There's one more series of steps in this one.
Once Chrome restarts itself, you'll have to go and finish enabling the new setting that we just uncovered:. And there ya have it: From here on out, whenever you activate your phone's Dark Theme, any pages you're viewing within Chrome will automatically follow suit.
One related tip: If you ever decide to deactivate this flag and turn the setting off, be sure to first head back into Chrome's main settings menu and uncheck the box next to "Dark websites.
Google's been experimenting with the way it shows tabs in Chrome on Android for something like years now — but for most people, by default, tabs typically seem to show up in the standard full-screen card view that Chrome's had for quite a while now. There's a newer interface available that ditches the full-screen cards and instead gives you a grid of small thumbnails, where you can see all of your open tabs at once:. Whether that's better or worse is mostly a matter of personal preference, but visual differences aside, the grid setup opens the door to some other interesting new advantages — which we'll get into next.
For some reason, this particular change requires two restarts to take effect, so after Chrome restarts, you'll then have to close it again — by swiping up from the bottom of your screen to get to Android's Overview interface and then swiping away the Chrome card, if you're using Android gestures , or by tapping the square-shaped Overview button and then dismissing the Chrome card, if you're still using the old three-button nav setup — before you'll see the new setup.
Another Chrome feature that feels like it's been under development forever is tab grouping — something that's broadly available on the desktop front now but still curiously tucked away and hidden on Android.
Once you have tab groups enabled, you'll be able to drag and drop tabs on top of each other within that fancy-schmancy new tab grid we just looked at — and that'll group 'em together for advanced organization on your phone. You can even give each group a friendly little name to make it even easier to keep track of:. Now just tap that dapper tab count number in the upper-right corner of the browser and try dragging any open tag onto another one to make your first group.
Once you make it, you can tap the group to open it and then tap its title to rename it. Speaking of having way too many tabs open, how 'bout saving yourself the trouble of keeping 7, things open at once and instead saving some articles for later reading? Chrome actually has its own built-in system for accomplishing this from right within the browser — if you know how to find it.
And hey, how 'bout that? Tap that "Read later" option, then go look for the new Reading List section within your browser's bookmarks, and Then, the next time you want to save something for later reading, press and hold the link to the story, then select "Read later" from the menu that comes up.
Note that for whatever reason, this works only with links as of now — not with a page you actively have open. Go figure. When you're ready to find the stuff you've said, tap the three-dot menu icon in Chrome's upper-right corner, select "Bookmarks," and look for the "Reading list" option there.
If you don't see it right away, you might have to hit a back-facing arrow in the upper-left corner of the screen to get back to the main bookmark menu. You can enable the Reading List setting in Chrome on the desktop, too, by the way — no matter what kind of computer or operating system you're using — and all of your saved stuff will then always stay synced between your devices and available wherever you need it.
You can find the instructions for that part of the process in this excerpt from a recent newsletter of mine. All righty — last but not least in this hefty Chrome settings collection is a handy way to schedule a download within the Chrome Android browser. Maybe you've come across a file you want to save but would rather not burn through your mobile data allotment to download immediately, for instance.
This feature makes it easy as can be to grab the file while it's still front of mind but then put off the actual transfer until sometime later. You can either pick a specific date and time — or, perhaps more sensibly, just specify to have the download begin as soon as you're back on Wi-Fi:.
And that, my fellow efficiency-seeker, is it: The next time you tap on a file to download within Chrome, you'll see that shiny new scheduling option. Want even more Googley knowledge? Sign up for my weekly newsletter to get next-level tips and insight delivered directly to your inbox.
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