11 Mind Blowing Chrome Settings You Should Change Now!



How's it going everyone I am Arbi and today we're going to take a look at 11 settings in Google Chrome that you should probably change.These may be things you'll want to disable or cool stuff that is disabled by default that you will want to enable.Now Im using version 63 of Chrome which is actually the current beta version so if your watching this video at a later date or you're not using the beta version things may look a bit different so don't be surprised at that.

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So go to settings click advanced then under system look for the option called &quot Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed.&quot I don't know about you but when I close Google chrome I expect it to actually close and not have apps keep running in the background I don't know about.I mean really what browser apps do I want to keep running if I'm not even using the browser?So yea Id disable that if I were you and save some system resources.Ok number two this one is also in the settings page but this time under Privacy and Security.

Look for the setting that says &quot Automatically send some system information and page content to Google to help detect dangerous apps and sites&quot .This one is disabled by default but me personally I think its worth it to actually enable it.If your very privacy conscious you don't have to but there are so many malicious websites out there that if more people enable this setting it'll end up benefiting yourself in the future.Plus it may make it more likely Chrome will detect a new malicious site you go on even if it hasn't scanned it before.Alright now all the rest of the settings were going to go over are actually in a hidden settings menu called the Chrome Flags menu.

Getting there is really simple you just go to the URL bar and type in Chrome://Flags And hit enter.It will warn you these are experimental features so its best to not go randomly enabling and disabling features without knowing what they do.Again this menu might have a different design based on your version of chrome but the functionality is the same.So lets move on.So for number 3 do a search for a setting called &quot Show Saved Copy Button&quot .You can either search for it at the top or hit Control + F and type it in there.What this does is will allow you to load a cached version of a website if that website either fails to load or you are currently offline.So to enable it go to the dropdown and select &quot primary.

That way you can at least look at a previous version of the website even if its not live which might still be helpful.With this enabled on the failed to load page you'll see a button to load the saved copy.If you're wondering what the secondary option means it just changes whether the Load copy button is on the left or right so it doesn't really matter.Next number 4 this one is really great it's called &quot Parallel Downloading & quot .So search for that one and turn it to enabled.This will let chrome use multiple download threads to speed up the downloading of a file.

This means if a website has a limit for how fast you can download a file chrome can basically download multiple parts of that file in parallel so you can cut the download speed to a fraction.There's not really much documentation on this feature so I'm not sure how well it works and if it does it every time but I don't see a reason to not enable it unless you start having issues or something.By the way there are extensions that can do this as well Im not going to get into those because its beyond the scope of this video but you can look those up.

Hopefully this feature will make those obsolete and just work as well without any extensions.Moving on for number 5 look for a setting called &quot Smooth Scrolling & quot  which is on be default.This is a personal preference but I really hate smooth scrolling so I disabled it.It just changes the way it feels to scroll on a page and makes it seem a lot slower and sluggish.You can turn it off and on to compare for yourself but I find when smooth scrolling is disabled scrolling with the mouse wheel just feels so much more responsive and instant where as there seems to be a bit of a delay otherwise.

That's because to smooth out the scroll movement it has to slowly build up speed then slowdown to a halt.Its not something you would really notice until you compare it for yourself so try it out and see.Number 6 this one is really cool look for the setting called &quot New omnibox answers in suggest types&quot  and enable that.This makes it so you can type questions and other queries into the omnibox or URL barand it can offer answers right there.For example if I type in &quot 2nd president of the USA&quot  it will give me the answer John Adams right in the auto-complete dropdown instead of having to do a search for it.The only problem is it actually really sucks at working half the time and you can type something in one time and it will answer and if you type it in again two seconds later it wont.

So its definitely hit or miss but I guess not bad to have enabled anyway and you can always just hit enter to do a google search which will show you the same information.Ok number 7 I really like this one it also has to do with the omnibox.Its a setting called &quot Omnibox UI Show Suggestion Favicons & quot  that you can enable.

What this does is when you type something into the URL bar and it lists the suggestions it will now show the favicon or the site icon next to each result.So this is really great if you're searching for a website you visited previously and the results are from a bunch of different sites you can more quickly identify results from the site you're looking for by the icon.Plus I think it just looks nicer because before it would just show little icons that didn't mean anything and it was sometimes hard to sift through the results.

This is definitely one of my favorites Id say.Number 8 this one is something you may or may not want to enable called &quot Automatic Tab discarding & quot .What this will do is if you have a lot of chrome tabs open and your computer starts to run low on memory it will stop running some tabs you haven't been using.This way those tabs are no longer using up resources in the background.And if you do want to go back to it Chrome will simply reload the page when you click on the tab again.

The only downside I can see is if you have tabs running in the background that are actually doing something I don't know like a game or something you don't want that to close because if you refresh it will mess things up.So you can decide your self whether to enable this based on if your computer runs out of memory a lot or if you use a ton of tabs and what you usually have running in those tabs.

Onto number 9 this is seriously one of my favorite features that as far as I know is not enabled by default for some reason.Its called &quot Tab audio muting UI control & quot  and makes it really easy to mute annoying tabs that are playing sounds.When something is playing sound in a tab chrome by default will tell you which tab is using a little speaker icon.

To mute that tab you can normally right click it and hit &quot mute tab & quot .But if you enable this feature you can mute the tab simply by clicking on the little speaker icon.Sure it only saves you one click but its so simple that its a no brainer.Alright coming near the end number 10 is called &quot Fast tab/window close & quot .

This is another one I like to have enabled.Normally when you go to close a tab Chrome will stop any javascript applets running or anything else and once that's all stopped will close the tab.But sometimes that might take a second which will seem like a delay when your closing tabs and can get annoying if you have to close a bunch of tabs at once.

With this according to the limited documentation Chrome will immediately close the tab visually then shut down anything running from that tab in the background.I like this because if I close a tab I want it to just disappear because it's taking up space I don't care if Chrome has to take an extra second for it to close it in thebackground.So this is nice.And finally number 11 this feature is really amazing to enable called &quot Scroll Anchoring & quot .

Now it does technically work on desktop I guess but if your on Android you can also enable this and that's where it really shines.Basically scroll anchoring can help prevent the page from jumping whenever you go on asite and it keeps loading new stuff.For example how many times have you gone to a site and you start reading it on your phone and the STUPID FREAKIN ads start loading and pushing everything out of the way SO obnoxious.

When scroll anchoring is working you won't actually notice because it simply stops the page from doing that.But over time Im sure youll start to take note that it happens less and less often.And I guess this does happen on desktop every once in a while too just less often but still worth it to keep enabled.