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How to solve Google Chrome Flickering on Ubuntu 16.04

Just do the following two steps: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop Scroll down to the “Exec” line Add two additional parameters, so that it looks like this: Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable –disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds –enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers %U That’s it, now restart Chrome and it shall work perfectly! I … Continue reading

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 3

Well, this is the article number 200 in this blog, I’m so proud of this 🙂 Copy Without Formatting: Enables you to copy text from any website without its formatting, very useful in some situations where you just need to extract … Continue reading

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 2

SmoothScroll: As the name indicates, it allows smooth scrolling of the web page, makes chrome more elegant 🙂 MiddleButtonScroll: A feature that I really wanted and couldn’t find at first on Chrome is the ability to click the middle mouse button and … Continue reading

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Some useful Google Chrome extensions that I use – Part 1

AdThwart: Blocks ads based on Firefox Adblock plus filter engine. I prefer this one to the others as it works exactly the same as Adblock plus on Firefox, and other seem buggy, up till now. Google Mail Checker Plus: Checks your Gmail, … Continue reading

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Stop YouTube from autoplaying a video when opened

A very nice plugin for Google Chrome (or Chromium) that allows you to open as much videos as you want without them playing automatically where you must open each video and pause it yourself. The surprise is: It’s pre-buffering 🙂 … Continue reading

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