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I'm an older IT guy and I used to think this channel was just basic stuff that was kinda beneath me, but nope. Turns out, even if I already know a ton about a given topic, I always end up learning something new here. Definitely worth the subscription.
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.
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.
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!!!
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..
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.
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.
Oh my thx so much, because of you i figured out how bad my monitor is and how much people who created my model cared for it (they dont). Had to go for an entire adventure and learn 40 different color space terms and differences between them. Visit 1000 websites trying to find dci-p3 color profile specifically for my monitor. But in the end, I just downloaded some generic dci-p3 d65 color profile and im satisfied. Thx a lot
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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.
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
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
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😊
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.
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.
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
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 :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 2023 in Google Chrome in the share button option There were two Screenshot choices (Screenshot and Long Screenshot) The First one gave you the Ability to Crop Edit and Draw over a Captured Portion of a Screenshot Sometime around that year That whole Option along with all those Features Disappeared Do you know why?
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)
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.
ok going to get shot or maybe disliked, but , folks who are on the macOS platform, theres better alternatives for chrome, that works for the flags mostly, notably Arc and Thorium [ yes, the hoha is over , its still one of the faster web browser without the bloat like brave is going or opera these days ] particularly , flags settings like [ WebGL MSAA Sample Count ] / [ Native GPU Rasterization MSAA Sample Count ] / [Set GPU Available Memory ] makes it just blazingly faster, in comparison, when flags are all default settings P.s theres another good web browser , floorp from a japanese company, might be a ideal alternative for anyone looking out there for non chromium @ThioJoe, could you do a video next, on the fastest [ customized, with flags and about:config for firefox base ] ? and are there flags which actually do increase the persived performance of the web browser ?
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
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!
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 UA-cam 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.
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?
The problem is that in updates they often take away the flags that undo whatever horrid UI feature they've changed, thereby eroding the user experience more and more as the years go on. Useful video tho. I enabled the first 3 and disabled Chrome Refresh 2023 (tho I'm sure they'll soon take that one away). And I already had Smooth Scrolling disabled.
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
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
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?
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!@
that tab scroll thing doesn't seem to work. also the scroll bar one doesn't work well with IFrames... had lots of trouble with not getting any scroll bars. im sure there's windows 11 options to make those bars bigger... win10 didn't make them so damn small. most others where good. (tested chrome release).
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.
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
If Force Color Profile makes your chrome unusable you can open chrome flags in another browser (e.g., Edge) and set it back to SRGB then reopen Chrome.
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Ok I’m here to stop kids from saying first
More like grniinn news + ert eidiseis is better
Overlay Scrollbars and Smooth Scrolling are no longer available. please advise
I'm an older IT guy and I used to think this channel was just basic stuff that was kinda beneath me, but nope. Turns out, even if I already know a ton about a given topic, I always end up learning something new here. Definitely worth the subscription.
Being that it's a free subscription, I'd have to say that it's worth well more than the subscription.
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
Naaah TJ is the GOAT.
Thio is awesome.
as an it my self the first flag is so important especially when downloading on a customer pc that dont have a download manager
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.
You should have been here back in the days of punchcard downloading. Now those were fun days. 🙂
IDM
Are there bandwidth concerns on the server's side or anything like that maybe? That's all I could think of.
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.
Tab audio mute button, One time permission, and Tab Scrolling are already default features in Firefox
I can not find it...
found it, sorry, I forgotten UI, thanks
Yea…
I think camera and mic preview is there too
yes same for brave also
Thanks so much!!
I enabled the first four immediately and am now browsing other options.
You always show us cool stuff.
I'm impressed that a couple of the flags have been features in Firefox for a while, like the scrolling tabs one
Head of IT speaking here... supporting developers on mac, windows and linux. Always nice to learn something new here on this channel.
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!!!
The quality of your videos are through the stratosphere!!!
I went over all chrome flags 6 weeks ago to check every flag on chrome. Thank you for the video :)
I knew about parallel downloads but never checked out the rest. Now I've got the incentive to try it again.
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..
Wow. That was one of my suggestions and you took it seriously. Nice thenks for listening to your viewers
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.
1:31 Because many people will end up accidentally clicking it
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.
Thanks! Just enabled two of them.
Oh my thx so much, because of you i figured out how bad my monitor is and how much people who created my model cared for it (they dont). Had to go for an entire adventure and learn 40 different color space terms and differences between them. Visit 1000 websites trying to find dci-p3 color profile specifically for my monitor. But in the end, I just downloaded some generic dci-p3 d65 color profile and im satisfied. Thx a lot
I am learning stuff by Best people, and you are one of them 💙⚡
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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.
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.
Dude that tab scrolling one is a godsend. Thank you.
The scroll bar thing is called a thumb. It mimics you moving your thumb down a long document as you hold it.
Thanks for the Color Profile trick, wow i had a 126% monitor and didn't know it was inactive, the colors look so good!
do we need to change it after every chrome update or not?
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
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
The color profile one is really neat!
Yep very few people know about that one
and we shouldnt have to. clearly something somewhere is wrong, windows should apply it automatically etc, @@ThioJoe
0:40 Finally I can overclock my download speed so those huge files will take less time!
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😊
This is the best tech video I have watched in whole 2024, thanks Joe!
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.
Thanks Joe, reading the google pages is rather "dry". much better to see a vid. recap.
you are 12
12 times smarter than you.@@apache937
for chrome labs it has an "enabled" and an "enabled use this!" option
Yea I found that funny
which one works better? i'm using "enabled use this" and it seems to not do anything
neither work on chrome release...
Wow these flags are really cool. Thank you!
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.
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
Use ungoogled chromium bro, all the benefits of chrome without the google part
I gave up on chrome because of the download functionality and google being google and selling data.
@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoogled chrome bro
@@xanderplayz3446 use ungoo.. chrome. Cant put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed
@@xanderplayz3446 use ung00gl3d chr0m3. Can’t put the full name as my comment keeps getting removed
Omnibox URL Priority not showing up for me in the flags. Weird and I don't like the autocompletion either.
You need to search Omnibox Google Drive Document suggestions I was confused by that too.
Thank you for informing me about tab scrolling.
did you have issues with s? cant even get scroll bars with it enabled on them anymore...
@@stevene_ Don't know what you mean. Works fine for me with shrinking tabs and fading overflow enabled.
There is also dark mode in the flags. Highly recommend
yeah this was definitely a missed one
13:30 Isn't that an icon of an Erlenmeyer flask?
Localhost SSL warnings is very useful for developers to disable :)
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 :(
Useful tips ! thanks ! make more videos about these in future
You can mute tabs in Vivaldi by default and have been able to for quite some time. Vivaldi is the FUTURE!
wow amazing they are making a revolution eh
Good stuff. I used two of these, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks Joe.
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.
Thank You Joe for Sharing Computer Tutorials.
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.
Parallel downloading can get you banned from certain servers.
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.
Some pretty cool features I'll have to check out!
do you know why the smooth scrolling is still there, eventhough i have disabled smooth scrolling?
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.
tab audio muting ui control really is such a good one
Been following TJ since his fake video days😂
These videos are so interesting !! Keep it up
Fake Videos?
why sombody is following professionals like thio whomsoever devoted all his time as a teacher teaches with no fake videos.
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.
In 2023 in Google Chrome in the share button option There were two Screenshot choices (Screenshot and Long Screenshot) The First one gave you the Ability to Crop Edit and Draw over a Captured Portion of a Screenshot Sometime around that year That whole Option along with all those Features Disappeared Do you know why?
This was helpful thank you.
Damn these are really nice! Thanks!!
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)
Microsoft Edge already has "Tab Audio Muting Control" by default
My favorite is overlay scrollbar, it enables browser wide beautiful scrollbar instead of the ugly windows one. I literally can't live without it
Thanks trying a bunch of them.
I'm a firefox user, and I'm still interested in this video lmfao
How are you making me interested? HOW
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.
ok going to get shot or maybe disliked,
but , folks who are on the macOS platform, theres better alternatives for chrome, that works for the flags mostly,
notably Arc and Thorium [ yes, the hoha is over , its still one of the faster web browser without the bloat like brave is going or opera these days ]
particularly , flags settings like [ WebGL MSAA Sample Count ] / [ Native GPU Rasterization MSAA Sample Count ] / [Set GPU Available Memory ] makes it just blazingly faster, in comparison, when flags are all default settings
P.s theres another good web browser , floorp from a japanese company, might be a ideal alternative for anyone looking out there for non chromium
@ThioJoe, could you do a video next, on the fastest [ customized, with flags and about:config for firefox base ] ?
and are there flags which actually do increase the persived performance of the web browser ?
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
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
Watching this on Firefox.🤘
Needed my Thio fix 😂
Joe what is your default browser? Edge is really good
Every Flag you have mentioned in this video is available in Microsoft Edge right?
Only spying is available in Edge.
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!
very useful. could you do one for firefox?
my chrom allwys show me how much ram ech tap uses is that normal ?
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 UA-cam 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.
The color profile is a must have when you have OLED screen, otherwise the pages look extremely washed out
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?
The problem is that in updates they often take away the flags that undo whatever horrid UI feature they've changed, thereby eroding the user experience more and more as the years go on.
Useful video tho. I enabled the first 3 and disabled Chrome Refresh 2023 (tho I'm sure they'll soon take that one away). And I already had Smooth Scrolling disabled.
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
ditto. still figuring out how to fix it.
@@hanssolo8100 if I remember correctly, I could still select the text, it just wasn't rendered. With that, you can (kinda) find the settings again
13:30 Nice video, but as a science teacher, that's an Erlenmeyer (flask) and not a beaker 😉😂
thanks for helping others :D
Very informative and interesting
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
The tab audio muting control is enabled in Edge by default
Good to know 🧐
Firefox also has this feature and it's enabled by default
I have noticed a lot id website that have not updated to the lasted HTTPS certificate and wonder why as they are free
The mute icon was already a default feature but then they made the icon not clickable for some reason.
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?
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!@
that tab scroll thing doesn't seem to work. also the scroll bar one doesn't work well with IFrames... had lots of trouble with not getting any scroll bars. im sure there's windows 11 options to make those bars bigger... win10 didn't make them so damn small.
most others where good. (tested chrome release).
Good stuff 👍👍👍👍
Thx Joe!!
Give us the full list pls.
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.
I used IDM for downloading. 6 Parallel connections
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
Can please do a similar one for firefox?
I just used the TLS min and max features in Firefox to troubleshoot an Apache HTTP+Tomcat webservice that wasnt behaving properly
can you make video for Arc browser ?
@1:08 I thought that this was the default for almost a decade now.
If Force Color Profile makes your chrome unusable you can open chrome flags in another browser (e.g., Edge) and set it back to SRGB then reopen Chrome.