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You can use the screen brightness keys to adjust screen brightness on a Chromebook. Change Screen Brightness from Taskbar To change screen brightness: Click the time or battery icon on the bottom-right corner to open the notification area. You will now see the screen brightness slider. Click and drag it to the left to lower…
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Google Chrome recently disabled the option to navigate tab history using the backspace key. Most of us welcome this change, but for those who miss this keyboard shortcut, here is the new shortcut: ALT + LEFT ARROW According to Google, out of all the backspace hits on Chrome, 0.04% was for actually going back to the…
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The Chrome web browser is a memory hog. I get it. We all get it. We’ve all seen the memes, and nobody’s denying it. But using a lot of RAM isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s only bad if it’s wasting the RAM by not doing anything important. It’s like a Shelby Mustang GT. Sure,…
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To turn off the touch screen on your Chromebook, enable the Debugging keyboard shortcuts flag and then use the keyboard shortcut SEARCH + SHIFT + T. Disable touch screen on Chromebook Chromebooks with touchscreens are very common these days. It is almost a must-have if your Chromebook supports Play Store and Android apps. However, occasionally…
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It’s finally happened, Google Play Store is here! (for Asus Flip, Pixel 2 and Acer R11 owners on the Dev channel anyways) When Google first announced that the Google Play Store was coming to Chromebooks, we were told that the Asus Flip, Acer R11, and Chromebook Pixel (2015) would receive the update on version 53,…
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Many companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM are working on “quantum computers” which will dramatically increase computing speed and efficiency. This is still a thing from the future but looks like Google is preparing Chrome for challenges in the quantum computing era. Quantum computers can in future decrypt information saved in the current modes of…
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Have you ever wondered how much storage you had left on your Chromebook? Well, you’ve always been able to tell, by opening the Files app and clicking on the options icon. But now, if you’re on the Developer channel, you can enable a flag which will give you a Storage option in your Chrome settings…
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Google stopped supporting Google Chrome on 32-bit Linux in March 2016, which ended up users using Linux 32-bit distribution in a fix. Ubuntu/Debian users are getting an error while using the Chromium browser which goes like this: ‘Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)…
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You are able to cast a video to the TV from your Chrome browser, but not able to hear anything?. Here are some possible causes and solutions to try when there is no sound through Chromecast. Are you using external AVR? See if you are using an external AVR. This may be one of the…
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Want fuller sound when streaming video in Chrome? Here’s how to enable surround sound or spatial audio through Windows sound settings.