My Technology Guide

A lot of my readers were asking this question to me. They wanted to know how to completely disable flash in Google Chrome after Google decided to integrate Flash natively in Chrome web browser. So, I went in the quest to find the answer. Today, I found the answer hidden inside Google Chrome's plug-ins manager (not the extension manager).

It is a very simple trick and disables flash completely 100% in Chrome web browser.

Gmail users have always wanted to have rich text signatures, after all they look cool, aren't they? Google has finally heard the users and as of today Gmail users can use a rich text signature. This means that users will no longer be forced to use boring plain text to end their emails. Gmail users can now add links and images to the signature, as well as change the text’s format, font and color and make them more lively!

At the Google Chrome Help Forum, Google employee Blair has posted a list of software identified to crash Google Chrome web browser. In the list users will also find some popular software such as WinMount, NVIDIA NTune, SpeedBit Video Accelerator, etc listed along with others that causes instability in Google Chrome.

Blair suggests to temporarily disable the marked softwares and see if it resolved Chrome crashes. Blair also listed some softwares, for which you can simply disable some of its functions without disabling the software completely to solve crash issues.

Google has recently released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service.

To provide website visitors with more choice about how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.

Mainly websites use Google Analytics service to know their site's traffic pattern and to optimize their website further for their visitors. When a person visits a site, Analytics creates a cookie on the person's computer. Cookies are small data files used to record information about how a person interacts with a website. You can easily remove cookies from any browser.

Google today has released the stable version of Google Chrome for Apple Mac OS and Linux users. This stable versions came after almost 6 months since the beta version of Google Chrome were released for Apple Mac OS and Linux platforms. Google, in their official announcement, has claimed that this stable version of Google Chrome web browser will be the fastest ever browser on Apple Mac OS and Linux platforms.

Today, we're bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it’s available to all Chrome users. We're particularly excited to bring Chrome for Mac and Linux out of beta, and introduce Chrome’s first stable release for Mac and Linux users.

Google recently announced encrypted Google search over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If you want to access the SSL encrypted Google web search page, then point your browsers to https://www.google.com/. SSL encrypts the information that travels between your computer and Google secured search service. This encrypted information cannot be read by third parties who may try to access the connection between a searcher's computer and Google's servers.

The new Google secured service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you're searching using SSL and that you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as always, remember to check the start of the address bar for "https" and your browser lock indicators.

Google Search Engine users must have noticed the new Google home page and search results look. At the official Google Blog, Jon Wiley, Senior User Experience Designer, posted a brief information about the new re-design. He said:

We made hundreds of prototypes and gathered feedback from user studies, Googlers and through experiments — including one of our largest visible experiments ever. In the end, we came up with a design that provides dynamic, relevant search tools on the left, while lightening and updating the aesthetics all around. [...] The logo was the foundation for new icons and hundreds of tiny alterations designed to accommodate and seamlessly integrate the expanded functionality of the left-hand panel.

Personally I like the new look of Google, but many Google users were not very happy with the new look and wanted the old classic Google back. Some discussions are also going on at the official Google web search help forum. Here we are highlighting some of the solutions that will come handy to get back the old classic Google search page and Google search results.