Tag: Google Chrome

How to enable 10-bit color depth on Linux (and whether to enable 30-bit color)

Posted by Alex On August 31, 2023

Table of contents 1. Does my monitor (TV) use 10-bit color depth 2. Why enable 10-bit color support on Linux 3. How 10-bit color support is implemented in Windows 4. How 10-bit color support is implemented in Linux 5. How to know if my monitor (TV) supports 10-bit color depth 6. How to determine the number of colors (bits per...

How to watch HDR videos on YouTube on Linux

Posted by Alex On August 31, 2023

To get started, make sure that your monitor supports 10-bit color depth and enable 10-bit (or, as it is usually indicated in the settings, 30-bit) color depth at the level of the Linux operating system. In your web browser's address bar, enter: chrome://flags Use the search to find the “Force color profile” flag. Select “Display P3 D65” color profile. Restart...

Why Google Chrome web browser is gray when 10-bit color is enabled and how to fix it

Posted by Alex On August 31, 2023

After enabling 10-bit color depth on Linux, you may find that some applications turn gray. For some of them, this cannot be fixed, but in Google Chrome you can select the correct color profile, which will make it possible to watch HDR videos on YouTube, while all other websites will have normal brightness. The Google Chrome web browser and Chromium...

Custom Google Chrome settings for each computer user

Posted by Alex On October 14, 2021

Google Chrome on Linux has a number of useful options, for example: launching a web browser in incognito mode you can specify the path to the folder where the profile data and browser cache will be stored you can select the type of password storage proxy settings Like many programs in Linux, Google Chrome supports command line options – all...

All chrome://* pages. Most useful chrome:// pages

Posted by Alex On April 22, 2021

You may have noticed in Google Chrome pages whose URL starts with chrome://, for example, chrome://downloads. What are these pages? How can I find all their addresses? Which ones are really useful? This article will answer all of these questions. What are chrome://* pages for? chrome:// pages perform one or another function for the user when the output is large...

How to fix ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On April 20, 2021

What is the error ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED The ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED error shows the Google Chrome web browser when it was unable to load the site page due to the change in network parameters. More specifically, the web browser initiated the connection and the remote host responded, but before the page was loaded, something changed on the network. Your connection was interrupted A network...

How to clear DNS and other caches in Google Chrome

Posted by Alex On April 19, 2021

Caching is an excellent technology, the essence of which is that once received files (images, scripts, HTML code) or data (DNS answers), can be reused (the user opens the same page, or the entire site uses the same JavaScript library) and no need to request or query and wait for data from the server again. Instead, a local (cached) copy...

How to change the language of Google Chrome and Chromium on Linux

Posted by Alex On April 19, 2021

If you look at the process of changing the language in Google Chrome or Chromium in Windows, then everything is quite simple there: you need to enter chrome://settings/languages in the address bar of the browser, or you can use the menu: Settings → Advanced → Languages. Then expand the “Language” item, select the desired language and click on the three...

How to enable spell checker in Google Chrome. How to add languages for spell checker

Posted by Alex On March 18, 2021

The Google Chrome web browser has a built-in spell checker, which is very convenient when writing messages, comments on websites, communicating in web chats, and so on. You can configure the spell checker: choose offline or online checker (more accurate), as well as enable or disable languages for spell checking. Online and offline spell checker in Google Chrome To control...

Chromium will no longer sync passwords - what should Linux users do?

Posted by Alex On March 4, 2021

Chrome and Chromium on Linux Everyone knows the Google Chrome web browser. Chromium is at its core. That is, Chromium is the open source web browser that Google builds on the Chrome web browser, adding proprietary (i.e. closed) code to it. The Chrome browser is distributed by Google itself as compiled files. The Chromium browser is available as open source....
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