How to stop syncing history and get rid of history on Google Server so it stops syncing between computers even though you change your settings to say not to sync history.

1) Go into each Google Chrome Settings an change your sync settings to stop syncing History. You can also choose not to sync passwords, open tabs, and credit card information.
2) Below the sync settings, click ‘Personalize Google Services’. Uncheck the checkbox next to ‘Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services’. In the popup, click the ‘PAUSE’ link.
3) Below the checkbox on the syncing page, click ‘Manage Activity’. Click ‘Delete Activity by’ on the left. Click the drop-down below ‘Delete by Date’ and choose ‘All time’ then click Delete, and then click ‘DELETE’ again.
4) Back to the Chrome sync page, below ‘Personalize Google Services’, click ‘Manage synced data on Google Dashboard’. Scroll down and click the button, “RESET SYNC’.
5) In Chrome, go to your settings/History and clear all browsing data.
6) Close Chrome on each computer and exit out of the chrome icon in the system tray if it is there to stop the server.
​7​​​) ​Search for the following folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default for a file called Web Data on each computer and delete it.
8) Run CCleaner on each computer to clean up Google Chrome.
9) Restart Google Chrome on each computer and log back in to start syncing again.

The Web Data should be gone or at least a new one will begin that does not contain your entire history.

Repeat these steps above whenever you feel it necessary.

Lately, for me, Chrome freezes immediately after opening the ‘Open Dialog Box’ when attempting to attach a file to an email or during the process of attaching the file to an email. This can happen in any web application using Chrome when using the ‘Open Dialog Box’ (And possibly the ‘Save Dialog Box’.

I have found (for me) that turning off Hardware Acceleration in Chrome fixes the problem.

Add missing protocol mail handler in chrome settings manually in order to for a gmail compose window to appear when clicking a mailto:xxxxxxx@xxxxx.com link on a web site.

1) Open the PDF in Google Chrome.
2) Select Print.
3) Click the Change button in Destination and choose Choose ‘Save as PDF’.
4) Click the radio button to choose your print range.
5) Click ‘Save’.
6) Follow the ‘Save As’ dialog box prompts.

Okay, so I got this plugin for Google Chrome.

After a year of using the plugin, the Notifier for Twitter plugin stopped working.

Instead of a notification for a tweet, I got this instead:

I should have gotten this:

Clicking the tweets in the plugin worked okay.

I tried everything under the sun.

Within the plugin options, I clicked the Logout button, and then reauthorized the app. NOTHING!
I uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled the plugin. NOTHING!
I cleared my chrome cache. NOTHING!
I uinstalled and reinstalled Chrome. NOTHING!
I rebooted my computer. NOTHING!

And worst of all? It works on my other computer that has the same operating system.

I won’t bore you with everything else I tried.

After 3 days, I decided to use the Chrome TweetDeck. I liked it except for the fact that I always had to have it up and running in Chrome to get my notifications, and I couldn’t lengthen the notification timeout to more than 2 seconds. Very annoying! I mean, I read fast, just not that fast.

1 week later, I decided to reinstall the plugin again thinking that maybe Twitter fixed something at their end. Sure enough, it DIDN’T work. After 30 minutes of trying other things, I FINALLY figured out the problem. The problem always existed (on my end), so it had something to do with a change to Twitter’s website that introduced the error. I remembered that the problem started happening when Twitter announced changes on February 7th, 2017.

https://blog.twitter.com/2017/an-update-on-safety

Here is what I did that helped determined my problem:

1) I right-clicked the plugin and clicked Manage extensions. I then clicked the background.html link.

2) This brought up the Chrome Developer Tools Window. It was defaulted already to Console and was monitoring the extension. Low and behold….. a 401 Authorization Error???? Wait! What?

3) I then started Googling the issue, and upon my second website visit, I found the issue.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/user-streams-401-unauthorized-error/8376/11

The following (yellow highlighted part of the) sentence stood out like a sore thumb.

401: Authentication credentials (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth) were missing or incorrect. Ensure that you have set valid consumer key/secret, access token/secret, and the system clock is in sync.

Could it be that simple? I do have an issue with the time on this computer that is connected to a network. The network time is 5 minutes fast, and every so many hours, the network does a sync refresh causing my computer to be off 5 minutes again. Nothing, and I mean nothing has ever prevented me from doing anything because my computer time was 5 minutes off. I have heard things not working because of the clock being more than an hour or day or year off, but not 5 minutes.

I changed my computer time by decreasing the minutes by 5 to sync with the real time and wouldn’t you know it!

BAM!

Fixed.

Hope this helps someone else!

 

This article shows how to turn off Auto-Updates on Windows.

To turn off auto-updates of Google Chrome on Windows, you need to instruct Google Update to not update it.

1) Bring up Regedit
2) Set the value of AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes to the REG_DWORD value of “0”
in the location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleUpdate

Note: If the registry entry doesn’t exist, create it manually.

The latest version of Google Chrome does not all for you redirect to your home page when clicking a new tab. You can get this feature by adding the old extension for making the new tab redirect to a URL of your choice.

Install the extension by clicking the link below:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp

After installing, modify the extension to point to your URL. For example: www.google.com.