Use the secret options of the Google Chrome browser

The functionality of the Google Chrome browser is wider than you can imagine. But many features are not available through the standard settings. You can find them on a special service page called Chrome Flags. To get to it, copy and paste the text into the address bar of your browser chrome://flags

On the page you will see several dozen options marked as Default (default value), Enabled (enabled) and Disabled (disabled). Most of the options presented here are experimental features, or features required for official use only. But there are some features that will be useful to any user. Let’s talk about the most interesting secret features of Chrome.

Picture in Picture

Today, many browser developers are experimenting with picture-in-picture functionality. Chrome also has this option. To activate it, find the option #enable-picture-in-picture and switch it to Enabled. Then restart your browser.

Now while watching a YouTube video, you can twice click on it right click and select the Picture-in-Picture option from the context menu. A small video window will appear, which will be located on top of all windows, even on top of the desktop. Thus, you can minimize the browser, but continue watching the video. With the left mouse button, the window can be freely dragged around the screen. All in all, a very useful and handy feature.

Autocomplete Forms

If you want Chrome to automatically fill out commonly used forms on websites, like an email field, look for the option #show-autofill-type-predictions and switch it to Enabled. Then restart your browser. To disable autocomplete, visit the Chrome Flags page again and toggle the same setting to Disabled.

Autoload pages as soon as possible

Parameter #enable-offline-auto-reload allows the browser to automatically download pages that did not load due to lack of Internet, as soon as the connection to the network is restored.

Parameter #enable-offline-auto-reload-visible-only does the same, but only with active tabs.

Restoring a page from the cache

You must have come across such a situation. You went to a page, after a while you needed to get to it again, but you find that the site is no longer available. In this case, you can try to load a saved version of the page from the browser’s cache. To do this, you need to enable the option #show-saved-copy

Lazy loading of images

This setting can be useful if your internet traffic is limited. If you enable the option #enable-lazy-image-loading , images on sites will only load when you scroll directly to them. Of course, loading may be slower in this case, but traffic is saved due to pictures that will remain out of your field of vision.

Automatic password generation

The browser can automatically generate passwords for you if it detects that you are on the account registration page. To do this, you need to enable the option #automatic-password-generation . The main thing — do not forget to write down passwords generated in this way somewhere.