How to Update Google Chrome in Desktop/Android

Chrome is an amazingly fast and free browser, from Google. I personally prefer using Chrome over Safari and Firefox, because of availability of thousands of plugins to choose from, easy to use developer options and the main plus point of using Chrome is that I get extra security from the search giant Google. Google automatically warns me when I try opening spam or infected websites. I rarely get this sort of security in other browsers, until I manually make use of antivirus plugins.

Well, All I want to say is that I love surfing web with Google Chrome, and I recommend you too to start using it, if you still haven’t. I bet you’ll not regret.

I was just playing around. If you weren’t using Google chrome as your browser, why would you have bothered reading this post. Okay, let’s get to the point here. This quick guide shows how you can update Google Chrome in your desktop or Android device.

UPDATE GOOGLE CHROME IN DESKTOP

While you’re in Windows or Mac, simply click on the stack icon (that says, Customize and control Google Chrome) besides URL bar, and visit Help and About > About Google Chrome.

In next windows, Chrome will automatically check for updates.

You can also directly visit this settings page by entering chrome://chrome/ in the URL bar.

Mac users can also update google chrome by visiting Chrome (from the menu bar) > About Google Chrome. This takes you to the same page where Chrome checks for updates availability.

UPDATE GOOGLE CHROME ON ANDROID DEVICES

If you’ve installed Google Chrome on your Android device and want to update it to the latest version, you can do that using the play store.

Open Play Store app and make sure you’re logged in with your Gmail account. Tap on the menu (stack icon) to bring a list of options and select My apps. You can also slide your finger from left corner of the screen to bring this menu.

Now find Google Chrome from the updates available apps list. In the next window tap on UPDATE button and confirm your update decision.

Update will be automatically downloaded and installed on your Android device.

How to Run Any Chrome App as a Desktop Apps in Windows 10

Previously on my Windows8.1 Machine, I installed Google Keep from Chrome Application Store. Chrome automatically set the app as my Desktop Application. After I installed Windows 10, it didn't happened automatically. I didn't  see Google Keep installed on my machine. So I did a small tweak from which I will now onward use my Chrome browser to run an instance of my desired chrome app from Desktop only. I wont need to open Chrome and type the url time and again.

Following are the steps to Create Shortcuts of the Chrome Apps, which lets us browse standalone apps as our new desktop Apps.

• Right Click your Desktop
• Add New Shortcut
  Add this path to the interface shown below:
  "C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="https://keep.google.com"
  

  What this does is, it uses the Chrome Application installed on your local machine and provides an instance to launch Google Keep.
• Next name the application as Google Keep or simply Keep as your wish.
• Save it.
• You will now see a new shortcut icon of chrome on your desktop like shown below:
  

  

This icon is little confusing. It would be better if you could get the Google Keep Icon for Keep. Otherwise you will be confused when you will try to open chromium browser next time. So this is quite simple. All you need to do is:

• Right Click your Shortcut that you recently made.
• Click to the properties.
• There you can see Change Icon
• Download the Google Keep Icon and locate that icon.
• Save it

And here we are with separate icon for separate app. This small tweak is valid for every chrome apps.All you need to do is change the url of the app in this particular section: "C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=keep.google.com. Instead of keep.google.com you can replace it with pictures.google.com or contacts.google.com as you wish.

Here you can see I created five new Desktop Apps i.e. linked Chrome Apps as shortcuts which are now browsable as desktop apps on my Windows 10 Machine.

Regarding Memory usage:  I find out that all apps ran independently are threaded inside chrome app in Task Manager and consume memories which is managed by Chrome itself.

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How to Remove Plug-ins from your browser

Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google chrome each allow for the use of plug-ins and add-ons which are scripts that augment the functionality of the browser. In this we are going to see how to disable or remove such plug-in or add-ons from these three main browsers.

Firefox 

• In the menu bar select Tools > Add- ons.
• Then click on plug- ins icon on your left side.
• Find the plug-in from the list of installed plug-ins that you want to remove
• Select it and click on the Disable button (or click on always activate and select Never Activate) on the right side.

Google Chrome

NOTE: In Google Chrome, Add-ons are called Extensions.

• At the top of the browser, click on the “menu” icon and navigate to Tools > Extensions
• In the Extensions tab, find the list of installed extensions that you want to remove.
• Click the Disable link or uninstall link under the name of the extension.

Internet Explorer

• In the menu bar, select Tools > Manage add or click on the “gear” icon and select Mange add-ons.
• In the manage Add-ons window, we can find the add on from list of currently loaded add-ons on the right.
• Select it and click on the Disable bottom.

Reference:

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Flareget Video Downloading solution for Chromium Browser

There are many extensions for in Firefox to download videos, but I was stuck so long in Chromuim Web Browser while I needed to download videos. So with my some internet surfing Flareget is my best alternative for video downloading. Let's say it is the alternative software of IDM in Ubuntu in the sense of speed. Flareget provides high speed for video downloading.

Follow the following steps: 

1)  Go to the link and select the download dile for debian package 

http://flareget.com/download 

or

In Terminal type   sudo wget -c"www.flareget.com/files/flareget/debs/amd64/flareget_2.4-27_amd64(stable)_deb.tar.gz

 This downloads  .deb file for installing Flareget. 

2) Double click the downloaded file and you will get forwarded to the Software centre and you will need to install from there. It won't take time to install because it is already downloaded .

FACEBOOK Photo Album Download

I don't use Facebook anymore. Its not about the privacy issue but I won't be using it any more. But there are my 50 photo albums that are very precious to me. In order to download it one image after another it takes months. After a few research I found this Firefox Add-on facepaste which fulfills my objective.

If you want to download all the photos of your facebook photo album at a single click then,   you have this Firefox addon "facepaste" developed by  Delan Azabani. This add on is free to download. Once you install this addon you can easily download all your album in a single click. You can also download multiple album at once.

After the installation:

#1 Right Click + Download Facebook Album(s)

Then you can see the screen similar as below

facepaste User Interface

Enjoy facepaste.

But things like Add-on and extention don't necessarily exist in the browser in case facepaste doesnot exist any more please Search " Facebook Album Download " in firefox add-on search bar.

Also there exists an Application of Chrome Browser titled " Facebook Photo & Album Manager" This is more user friendly than facepaste. Choose whichever you like.
Thank You!!!