Change These 13 Hidden Chrome Settings Now!

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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Parallel Downloading
1:08 - Tab Audio Muting Control
1:37 - Camera and Mic Preview
2:08 - One Time Permission
2:42 - An Excellent Thing to Behold
4:05 - Omnibox URL Priority
5:08 - Smooth Scrolling
5:41 - Various Scrollbar Options
7:16 - Chrome Refresh 2023
7:44 - Localhost SSL Warnings
8:47 - Force Color Profile
11:47 - Tab Scrolling
12:17 - Reading Mode Options
13:08 - Chrome Labs
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[@ThisSteveGuy]

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[@SAJe_53]

Being that it's a free subscription, I'd have to say that it's worth well more than the subscription.

[@MilkyGamesOfficial]

It use to be like a how to basic Chanel but people thought the vids were real and he changed to an actual tech channel

[@vanci3449]

Naaah TJ is the GOAT.

[@danmar007]

Thio is awesome.

[@yassinehani]

as an it my self the first flag is so important especially when downloading on a customer pc that dont have a download manager

[@notenoughmonkeys]

It's so weird to me that parallel loading is an experimental feature. Back in the dial up / ISDN / early Cable Modem days, having a separate download manager was pretty much a must, and tools like Getright/Jetcar etc. were essential for me, partly to resume downloads later, but partly for multiple connections per file (as long as the server supported that). Glad to see it making a return.

[@bikeny]

You should have been here back in the days of punchcard downloading. Now those were fun days. 🙂

[@pragadeeshas]

IDM

[@beardalaxy]

Are there bandwidth concerns on the server's side or anything like that maybe? That's all I could think of.

[@vytah]

As you said: "as long as the server supported that". Some servers are restrictive about the number of connections you can make to them and with parallel downloading you might get a 429 and fail to download anything.

[@thefrub]

Tab audio mute button, One time permission, and Tab Scrolling are already default features in Firefox

[@shamanu67]

I can not find it...

[@shamanu67]

found it, sorry, I forgotten UI, thanks

[@samsam21amb]

Yea…

[@taskfailedsuccesfully738]

I think camera and mic preview is there too

[@Vynncent]

I'm impressed that a couple of the flags have been features in Firefox for a while, like the scrolling tabs one

[@OmegaBlack999]

Thanks so much!! I enabled the first four immediately and am now browsing other options. You always show us cool stuff.

[@justice32legends]

I knew about parallel downloads but never checked out the rest. Now I've got the incentive to try it again.

[@randallstewart1224]

This feature was news to me. I have what must be one of the slowest ISP services on the planet, but I've lived with it. I tried this add-on, and it was like switching from dusk to high noon. I was planning to "upgrade" my service, but this may change my plan..

[@windowsxpprofessional]

Wow. That was one of my suggestions and you took it seriously. Nice thenks for listening to your viewers

[@codrutx]

Thank you Thio! I had my monitor for many years, and I never applied a color profile for It since I could not find one that would match my monitor. But with that chrome trick to force a color profile, I found that with DCI P3-D65 applied, I could see the color in that testing site! Now I set It on my monitor as default.

[@robotortoise]

I work in IT and usually know about these type of featuers, but I have to say that I did not know any of these! These were super cool and I enabled a lot of them - parallel downloading makes a huge difference on my Gibabit line, thank you!!!

[@tomerefrat3767]

I went over all chrome flags 6 weeks ago to check every flag on chrome. Thank you for the video :)

[@SwissPGO]

Head of IT speaking here... supporting developers on mac, windows and linux. Always nice to learn something new here on this channel.

[@ekhalilov5543]

Thanks! Just enabled two of them.

[@miro007ist]

The quality of your videos are through the stratosphere!!!

[@mediocreape]

this is actually informative ! thanks Thio!

[@subhamrai8918]

I am learning stuff by Best people, and you are one of them 💙⚡

[@edbp7689]

The force color profile I've found is still good on 'normal' displays, since it shows all those out of gamut images relatively correctly, and it keeps or slighty desaturates the in gamut colors.

[@beardalaxy]

Dude that tab scrolling one is a godsend. Thank you.

[@erzengaming]

Thanks for the Color Profile trick, wow i had a 126% monitor and didn't know it was inactive, the colors look so good!

[@NewNiklas0803]

Wow these flags are really cool. Thank you!

[@fizixx]

Good stuff. I used two of these, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks Joe.

[@lucaspavlas]

Useful tips ! thanks ! make more videos about these in future

[@Sameer.Trivedi]

This is the best tech video I have watched in whole 2024, thanks Joe!

[@Lando_Cannabissian]

Great vid ThioJoe!!

[@harkisingh]

Been following TJ since his fake video days😂 These videos are so interesting !! Keep it up

[@AbhishekMTC]

Fake Videos?

[@user-bi8cl4ev5i]

why sombody is following professionals like thio whomsoever devoted all his time as a teacher teaches with no fake videos.

[@LSterling]

Thank You Joe for Sharing Computer Tutorials.

[@narendrapanse7844]

This was helpful thank you.

[@TechBaffle]

Some pretty cool features I'll have to check out!

[@wisteela]

Very informative and interesting

[@scragar]

RE: the search suggestions thing Thanks for recommending this, chrome was forever putting some microsoft site above the Akatsuki blog(a naruto from the villains perspective fabric I enjoy) when typing "aka" despite the blog being a site I visit a few times a week and the microsoft site being blocked at my router(because I once visited it by mistake and got annoyed with it demanding all the permissions despite the fact I clearly wanted nothing to do with it). Being able to disable that is awesome. No idea why they felt clearly malicious websites are more important than what the user clearly wants.

[@robbinklg9]

Damn these are really nice! Thanks!!

[@hairmandan]

Thanks trying a bunch of them.

[@Zeldon567]

Thank you for informing me about tab scrolling.

[@stevene_]

did you have issues with s? cant even get scroll bars with it enabled on them anymore...

[@Zeldon567]

@@stevene_ Don't know what you mean. Works fine for me with shrinking tabs and fading overflow enabled.

[@halorubberduck]

Thx Joe!!

[@KishkaBluds]

thanks for helping others :D

[@AzimsLives]

The color profile one is really neat!

[@ThioJoe]

Yep very few people know about that one

[@apache937]

and we shouldnt have to. clearly something somewhere is wrong, windows should apply it automatically etc, @@ThioJoe

[@inforniay]

I am ofcourse a kid, but a computer one. I know the most what you are talking about, but there are always some mistakes. After like 2 vids i fix a mistake. Definetly worth the Subscribe😊

[@jarrodnewman0514]

Love the parallel downloading feature. It use to take over ten minutes to download the Windows 11 iso. Now it downloaded in less than five.

[@joebidenVEVO]

1:15 this used to be a default feature until around chrome 74 where "mute tab" was replaced with "mute site" 0% approval rating, everyone hated it and they didnt care but i guess someone on the team did care and keeps the feature in a hidden flag

[@CreachterZ]

The scroll bar thing is called a thumb. It mimics you moving your thumb down a long document as you hold it.

[@jakedean22]

Needed my Thio fix 😂

[@bryantblackwell1339]

So this is sorta related/ not related lol. But I can't do certain things on my pc because it says they're controlled by my organization? It's a personal desktop I game on and I can't veiw diagnostics data and a handful of other things due to this organization? Is it because of a developer thing I made once with my Google account? The online stuff I've seen says I am supposed to delete it out of registry? I thought about a fresh install of windows but I am afraid that as soon as I log in with my email it will just implement all of it again? Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated!@

[@babakfp]

Good stuff 👍👍👍👍

[@varniitprofessional]

You should also talk about MS edge browser flags and esp., of android extensions on mobile with 121 version. Coolest thing for mobile users. Using it as I am saying it.

[@sheepco]

There is also dark mode in the flags. Highly recommend

[@xeon2k8]

yeah this was definitely a missed one

[@D.Wapher]

tab audio muting ui control really is such a good one

[@pcc404]

for chrome labs it has an "enabled" and an "enabled use this!" option

[@ThioJoe]

Yea I found that funny

[@pcc404]

which one works better? i'm using "enabled use this" and it seems to not do anything

[@stevene_]

neither work on chrome release...

[@faissi21]

very useful

[@paulafor7403]

hey joe, i want to change from windows 11 home single language to windows 11 pro, how? ive been lost and do not have some properties of pro which i require. pls help

[@RuinAngel]

The tab audio icon was on by default in some version years ago and it was good. But Google kind of screwed it up and it is somewhat annoying to turn it on now. The thing is, now the audio icon disappears after you mute it for a minute or so, and to it is not as simple as one click to unmute it.

[@kikar92]

do we need to change it after every chrome update or not?

[@SirusStarTV]

Fluent scrollbars is awesome! I always though basic windows scrollbar ui was ancient for modern chrome, i wondered why they didn't change that a long time ago.

[@Witt.]

I don't understand why the parallel download simply will not work for me. ON or OFF my download speed tops out at around 40MB/s but downloading with IDM it goes to 115MB/s, so it is still downloading in single connection i think? But speedtest in multiconnection still says 1 gigabit, so what gives?

[@dominic.h.3363]

Curious. I do have a custom ICC profile, but Chrome's 'default' seems to be sRGB for me. Changing it to P3 D65 revealed the W in the red box on the website, but now I'm curious if Windows itself is respecting my ICC profile. I've been using this monitor for 8 years and had no idea Chrome would have its own setting for color profiles! Thanks!

[@user-fb5mw5lm2m]

In Google chrome When i refresh the webpage a pop-up shown (confirm form resubmission) i want to turn off this pop-up and throughly go to the webpage! Any solution?

[@Ray_Vun]

clicking the speaker to mute the tab's audio used to be enabled by default. at some point, for whatever reason, they decided to make it disabled by default. i never bothered looking into the flags to see if it was there or not, i simply assumed it was a feature they decided to remove. wouldn't surprise me if people were accidentally clicking the speaker and muting tabs without realizing it and then not knowing why the sound was gone

[@HossanMonjorul]

I loved your video

[@TechnoWindows1]

I already knew about these

[@mikaelish]

Watching this on Firefox.🤘

[@nxsmotorsports]

Flag: Enable CVC storage and filling for payments autofill Description: When enabled, we will store CVC for both local and server credit cards. This will also allow the users to autofill their CVCs on checkout pages.

[@_SJ]

Yay!

[@bikeny]

I'm gonna use the tab muting and will try the tab scrolling (I have some pinned tabs, so hopefully the scrolling doesn't put them back to the regular tab size). Also, the parallel downloading looks good too. Question for all: does any one know of any way to have Chrome auto-refresh a page? I used to use an extension but it doesn't work anymore. Thanks.

[@tylergibbs3869]

Thanks Joe, reading the google pages is rather "dry". much better to see a vid. recap.

[@apache937]

you are 12

[@tylergibbs3869]

12 times smarter than you.@@apache937

[@ritz0134]

wow, i didn’t know you could these things

[@kingwesleyXIV]

Tab scrolling sound handy for me.... However it might also slow me down... Since when i start getting too many tabs i just open a new chrome tab separately from all the others.

[@SanderEvers]

Localhost SSL warnings is very useful for developers to disable :)

[@stevene_]

local lan would be nice too, its always a pain getting certs for local domains and using a proper domain, becomes long to type... IP address is easier. setting up your own cert authority is too much of a pain. lets encrypt doesn't work on local domains :(

[@thisisa]

Microsoft Edge already has "Tab Audio Muting Control" by default

[@robiulhaque70]

My favorite is overlay scrollbar, it enables browser wide beautiful scrollbar instead of the ugly windows one. I literally can't live without it

[@Ranblv]

very useful. could you do one for firefox?

[@sera_phim_]

does anyone know how to disable/hide the tab bar? i want vertical tabs but i just HATE that tabs are still visible with extensions. i can use css but chromium doesn't support that anymore

[@ZipplyZane]

1:02 But how did it compare with it set on Default? This option seems like the sorr of thing that might default to being on.

[@AlasbardesX_x]

my chrom allwys show me how much ram ech tap uses is that normal ?

[@opener2869]

Perfect presentation, everything simple and understandable. You just gained a subscriber to your channel, I will recommend it to my friends. We have the following issue. Have you ever noticed at the end of a video on KZbin that some huge boxes appear with suggestions for other videos? I have a premium subscription to youtube, I don't want to activate any ad blocker to solve the problem. Do you know how I can solve this problem in chrome windows 10? That is, how can I make some setting so that these frames do not appear at the end of the videos? Thank you for your help and your time.

[@SpeedUpThatComputer]

Turns out my monitor can display more colors. Thanks for mentioning this. Now i gotta find out how to have my samsung curved monitor have the right profile.

[@famt123]

if im not wrong ive found an option waaay long time ago there for enabling the backspace button as a go back on the webpage like it used to be long time ago

[@abunk8691]

Haven't tried using backspace to go back pages but I do use Alt + Left or Alt + Right to go back and forward on pages on browsers and file managers

[@stras676]

Don't know if it's still the case, but I recall the tab audio control flag used to act weird for me in pinned tabs where it wouldn't toggle. It still being a flag option is probably because they haven't found/decided on a solution for that.

[@Daniel-fi7jp]

I just used the TLS min and max features in Firefox to troubleshoot an Apache HTTP+Tomcat webservice that wasnt behaving properly

[@AyushBakshi]

I used IDM for downloading. 6 Parallel connections

[@wolvenkoning]

for sure didn't know that the ITU-R BT.2020 color profile could make chrome break so badly that its just white or just black haha, took me an hour to fix lmao

[@chhavikantsingh]

Color profile setup is a very less known thing for the mass thanks for sharing it ... Guys subscribe his channel he simplifies awesome things

[@Glizzy_MC]

HI this is great

[@safariknight3239]

I'm a firefox user, and I'm still interested in this video lmfao How are you making me interested? HOW

[@ZipplyZane]

The issue I have with tab scrolling is that you can't ser it where the tabs get as small as possible. You wind up with much fewer tabs visible. I want my tabs to be about the size of the favicon. Yes, I know it has several tab width options, but none of them are small enough.

[@anixcool]

Nice! How about Firefox 🤔😃

[@ZipplyZane]

There's a very good reason not to enable the mute button: when the tabs are small (because you have a lot of them open), it makes it inpossible to click on the tab without muting it. This is a problem I have with Firefox, as it doesn't let you turn this feature off. There's a CSS hack that sorta works, but then it can still be hard to click on a tab. Also, it's not very useful. I can't remember the last time I had to mute a tab. Only videos autoplay, and you can almost always stop them with a single click.

[@user-qk6wq3pg8l]

tab muting is by default in some browsers such as edge and opera

[@claudiomascolo794]

When enabling Chrome Labs you can choose "enabled" or "enabled use this one"! what's the difference???

[@gamingnerdgirlz]

EDGE View Scrolling thingy, it was so frustrating to grab it. thank you. now i can make it not overlay. Don't disappear, STAY.

[@gamingnerdgirlz]

After Disabling it, YESS it stays !

[@cyrilio]

Still rocking FireFox. Aint gonna switch to Chromium

[@goodngoodn7986]

I am about to give up on chrome due to the oddities that come up & unable to find or question the help in removing them. Thanks for pointing out these hidden surprise gems

[@thahrimdon]

Use ungoogled chromium bro, all the benefits of chrome without the google part

[@xanderplayz3446]

I gave up on chrome because of the download functionality and google being google and selling data.

[@thahrimdon]

@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoogled chrome bro

[@thahrimdon]

@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoo.. chrome. Cant put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed

[@thahrimdon]

@@xanderplayz3446 use ung00gl3d chr0m3. Can’t put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed

[@adambarnard562]

Tabe muting is already available on Microsoft Edge

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

09:02 maybe even more important: color picker programs will pick color that is not exactly what is written in css if color profile is not sRGB (at least in linux x11)

[@None17555]

You can mute tabs in Vivaldi by default and have been able to for quite some time. Vivaldi is the FUTURE!

[@xeon2k8]

wow amazing they are making a revolution eh

[@avenged110]

13:30 Isn't that an icon of an Erlenmeyer flask?

[@mrmuffin5046]

Joe what is your default browser? Edge is really good

[@jaggedgem]

Cool video, tho it seemed like the "Parallel downloading" did nothing to my internet speed and even slowed it down radically! Idk it might just be me! :)

[@mg1721]

Can please do a similar one for firefox?

[@tommasodegrandis]

I'm sure I've been using the feature you showed second for years

[@fredbloggs8072]

For some reason, when I enable Overlay Scrollbars, it does as described, but uBlock Origin stops working. Anyone else get this? Weird.

[@visthj]

I tried to run wide gamut test on Android. No matter what profile you choose it doesn't work, but downloading the picture and viewing it in gallery reveals the W