It’s amazing how much difference some small enhancements to a single program can make.
That’s especially true when the program in question is the browser you use to access all sorts of sites, apps, and information — as is the case with Google’s Chrome Android app, the de facto default browser for Android.
And after hearing a tremendous response to last week’s Android Intelligence column on how to activate Chrome’s fancy (but out-of-sight!) new Android reading enhancer, I thought it’d be worth diving in deeper to think about even more handy but hidden Chrome treasures.
Here are six such gems you’d be well-advised to remind yourself about and bring back to the surface.
Chrome Android feature #1: Simple sending
Sure, Android’s got a snazzy new Nearby Share system now that lets you send stuff between different devices — including, even, Windows computers — but Chrome has an even easier way to beam pages directly to other places where you’re signed in.
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Anytime you’re viewing a page within Chrome on your phone, just tap the three-dot menu icon in the app’s upper-right corner and select “Share” from the menu that pops up. Then, look for the “Send to devices” option in the panel that appears next.
Tap that goober and tap it good, and you’ll be blessed with a list of other devices — phones, tablets, computers, you name it — where you’re also signed into the same Google account.
JR
Chrome’s cross-device sharing system can be a real time-saver.
One more tap from there, and boom: Whatever page you’re viewing will pop up as a notification on whatever other device you picked.
And take note, too: This same thing is possible for sending a page from Chrome on a computer to Chrome on your phone. Just look for the share icon in the right corner of the address bar at the top of the page to get started.
Chrome Android feature #2: Seamless syncing
While sending a page between devices is delightful, you might not even need to do that to pick up where you left off when shifting between screens.
It’s all too easy to forget, but the Chrome Android app has a simple feature that lets you see the complete list of tabs you have open — or had open recently — on any other phone, tablet, or computer where you were signed in.
Tap the app’s three-dot menu icon once more, and this time, tap “Recent Tabs.” You’ll then see a list of every device where you’ve been using Chrome with the same Google account in recent weeks, and you can tap any of those device names to expand or collapse their complete list of opened tabs.
JR
Access any tab you’ve had open anywhere, anytime, with Chrome’s handy Recent Tabs feature.
As a bonus tip, try pressing and holding the name of any device in that list. That’ll give you an extra option to open all the tabs within it at once for even easier restoring of wherever you…
2023-11-06 10:41:02
Original from www.computerworld.com rnrn