A quick guide on how to enable the new Google AI Mode and set it as the default search in Chrome. Now, queries from the address bar open directly in “AI Mode”.
I constantly have multiple Chrome windows open, each with a pile of tabs. One window has a dozen slow analytics queries that I'll check "any minute now." Another has my research on $lookup and $unwind in MongoDB. The third one — with the most tabs — has local school enrollment rules, because life.
Tab-saving extensions have existed for ages, but reviews regularly complain about data loss — so why not build my own, designed specifically for backup? Every Chrome user already has a Google account, usually with sync enabled.
Here's how I used it to make Tab Saver extension that backs up to your Google Account without any signups and with zero configuration needed. It's pretty straightforward - you can easily use it as well.
I was so tired of being the worst at emojis on Google Meet that I reverse engineered its WebRTC messages to create a Google Chrome extension that shows the most popular emojis in the team and allows you to search by meaning and with typos.
I got my Highlighter Extension a Featured badge by doing something surprisingly simple: I just asked for it.
The result? My daily installs roughly doubled. It took about 2–3 days (people report anything from a few days to a month).
Global corporations became a part of our everyday life for a long time ago, their products often don’t leave an alternative option for users. Either is it exist? This article touches an issue of dominating big companies in certain areas, but also contains a row of useful tips. Spoiler of one of them: if you’re a user of Android then the tips will help you increase time between charging your phone and improve your privacy.
We are often asked whether we send bug reports to developers of open-source projects. The answer is yes. More than that— we sometimes track the progress. This article is about one of the cases when this habit prevented a sloppy bug fix.
We dust off the irregular series of articles about the Chromium project check. Let's look at the code quality in the latest Chromium release and check the new features of the PVS-Studio analyzer.
