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Why sometimes the whole system crashes?

Sometimes when I work with Google Chrome, the whole system suddenly locks and the mouse and keyboard stop working. This usually happens when I'm working with Wampserver. Even once the local database ...
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Exporting data from Chrome not signed in

When using Chrome without being signed in how can I export the saved sites credentials/passwords along with the most visited sites that popup on address bar or as a default short cut in the homescreen ...
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Can this CORS error be avoided on Windows 7?(I tried both Chrome and Firefox)

Access to fetch at 'https://ip-51-105-104-76.dditscdn.com/api/8/envelope/? sentry_key=...&sentry_version=7&sentry_client=sentry.javascript.browser%2F7.51.2' from origin 'https://www....
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How to recover passwords from Google Chrome login data file

I have removed a standard user password on a windows machine with administrator user from console management; after removing the password of standard user when i open google chrome i don't see the ...
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How to disable "Failed to update" sticky notification for Chrome on Windows 7?

As you've probably all heard, Google is finally ending support for Chrome for Windows 7 - makes sense, with the slow phasing out of the system. As for now however, I'm still fine using it with the ...
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Clicking on Chrome-generated pop-ups doesn't work most of the time. Why?

Clicking on Chrome-generated pop-ups such as the one shown in the screenshot below doesn't work most of the time: the mouse click is ignored. Why? If I hit ENTER it works fine. I use Chrome on ...
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How can I recover the contents of a preserved Chrome Login Data database following a Windows password change?

So I have a machine here whose owner recently changed their Windows login password - and I learned all at once that the passwords in Chrome's password store are encrypted using the OS login ...
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Please help. Chrome 104 ruined everything; 105 changed nothing

Ever since Chrome updated itself to 104 on my Win7 laptop, the UAC box always pops-up: "Do you want to allow Chrome to make changes to this computer?" If I click "Yes" and there's ...
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Two issues both related to certificates on Win 7

I have two issues both related to certificates and perhaps both have common reason(s) I need to find out. The first and less important issue is when I try to open any website via https in Chrome ...
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Dragon Error Code: HOOKERR_NONOTIFYWINDOW with Chrome

I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 with Chrome. From time to time, I have a Error Code: HOOKERR_NONOTIFYWINDOW when trying to write text by speech with Dragon in Google Chrome: Chrome Incognito mode,...
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Windows 7 Application using Internet Explorer to render web page

An application running on Windows 7 is breaking when it tries to render Google Maps. When I load the URL into Internet Explorer it fails, when I load it via Chrome it works. I have tried to turn off ...
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chrome : your connection to site not secure

Recently, I encountered an error in chrome that the site is not secure and security certificate is not valid. then i found answer here. it solved this error which was occurring on every site but ...
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Chrome giving error https://superuser.com/ not secure

wherever I try to access https://superuser.com/ chrome gives me an error that Your connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from superuser.com (for example, ...
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How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 so that the contextual menu is dark and not white?

How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate so that the contextual menu is dark and not white? I'd like to mark dark such as: I unsuccessfully tried: chrome://flags/ : #enable-...
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How to get the average download speed of a file in Windows 7?

I want to get the download speed of a online file. In Linux, I can use the following command: wget https://www.sample.com/myfile.exe which will report the average download speed after the download is ...
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Why is Chrome using 1.5 CPU cores even though I just started my computer and only opened Chrome (didn't go on any website yet)?

I just started my computer. I opened Chrome but didn't go on any website yet. However, Chrome is continuously using 1.5 CPU cores, even after I waited >10 minutes after the Chrome launch. Why? ...
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Chrome, Discord and Visual Studio 2019 instability with low pagefile size

So this is an interesting scenario. I have 16GB of RAM and found out windows had somehow created a 64GB page file. I thought that was excessive and limited it to 16GB manually. It all seemed to be ...
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SSL certificate error on all browsers, for all HTTPS sites, only one one profile (Windows 7)

Wondering if any of you guys might have some advice; I'm trying to help fix my mom's computer over the phone, and looking for ideas. Context: my mom bought a laptop second-hand. The laptop is running ...
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Chrome version 89 on Windows 7 32-bit running out of memory

Previous version was working just fine. This version gobbling memory around 1Gb and snapping. Is there a setting that can be changed or must I downgrade?
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How can I switch the player Chrome is using to play flash games?

there are several flash players installed on my system (old version of adobe flash player, adobe flash debugger, new grounds flash player). When I go on a flash game site Chrome player chooses the ...
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how can I play flash content in Chrome browser with new grounds flash player on Windows 7?

I have downloaded and installed the new grounds flash player. I can play a flash game with it. Now I would like to play the flash game in Chrome browser using new grounds flash player. As far as I ...
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How can I select which monitor to view on Google Remote Desktop?

I use Google Remote Desktop (Windows 7 client, Windows 10 server). The host has 2 monitors. When I connect to it, I see the 2 monitors: how can I select which monitor to view? Viewing 2 monitors at ...
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Can't get full content of the site on windows 7 due to NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID error

I try to access the site ( https://dnevnik.ru/ ) on windows 7 32 bit. On windows 10 everything is ok. It looks like as it should be But when I try to open it on windows 7 it shows me that the site is ...
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Windows 7 walmart.com NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

I have an interesting issue...when I type in walmart.com I get an error in Google Chrome that says: Your connection is not private, which is not unusual, except it's for walmart.com The machine is ...
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How can I save many PDF files as PDF files via Google Chrome?

From time to the times I need to save a PDF file (that is already present on my local disk) as a PDF file via Google Chrome (this changes some properties of the PDF). Example: How can I do so with ...
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How to move windows panels of browser on Windows 10 [duplicate]

Please see I often open Chrome and the incognito windows together (Chrome on left and incognito on right). But sometimes due to my fast speed of clicking, the window shifts from right to left. I can'...
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Chromium based browsers load pages so slow

All chromium based browsers such as chrome edge … on my windows 7 PC load pages so slow I should wait one minute for every single page, my system spec is Pentium 4,ram 768.
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How can I copy to the clipboard the content of an alert message in Google Chrome?

How can I copy to the clipboard the content of an alert message in Google Chrome? https://code2care.org/2015/how-to-copy-chrome-alert-popup-text-to-clipboard/ (mirror) says one could select the text ...
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How to Change window frame border width in Google Chrome on Win 7

I find the window height and width handles, i.e. the window frame border, too thin to easily capture them with my mouse. Google Chrome v 81 as best I can tell is unaffected by the settings from ...
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Does disabling a Google Chrome extension prevent any code of the extension from being executed?

I disabled a Google Chrome extension: However, based on some recent experience, I am starting to wonder whether disabling a Google Chrome extension is a guarantee that no code from the extension is ...
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How can I detect what causes Chrome to open a tab for "http://eaes.2track.info/" each time I search something in the address bar?

How can I detect what causes Chrome to open a tab for "http://eaes.2track.info/" each time I search something in the address bar? Interestingly this only happens for the first few searches I do after ...
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Where can I see Chrome Remote Desktop's connection log?

Where can I see Chrome Remote Desktop's connection log (i.e., given a Chrome Remote Desktop host computer, see the list of connections that accessed the host computer)?
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Where can I see the list of custom URL shortcuts and the URLs each shortcut maps to in Google Chrome?

I have noticed that my Google Chrome, if I type li in the address bar, it'll display http://li.mit.edu/'s content minus the images: li: http://li.mit.edu/: Where can I see the list of custom URL ...
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How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 so that a webpage being loaded is dark and not white?

How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate so that a webpage being loaded is dark and not white? I unsuccessfully tried: chrome://flags/ : #enable-force-dark Dark Reader ...
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Where can I access the Keyboard Controls menu on Google Remote Desktop (Windows 7 guest, Windows 10 host)?

This answer from sunil shakya says: On the right side of Chrome Remote Desktop, the small blue arrow has Keyboard controls and its submenu has the option to enable the clipboard. Where can I ...
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Your connection is not private google chrome

I am using Windows 7. In chrome, a lot of websites are not opening. An error shows when I start browsing a website, Screenshot. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from idioms....
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How to set Chrome as default browser via cmd/script on Windows 7

In my work laptop, there are few restrictions imposed organisation wide and one of them is to disallow setting a default browser. I'm tired of all my links opening in stupid IE. I just want every link ...
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How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate so that the setting page has a dark mode?

How can I enable dark mode on Chrome on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate so that the setting page (chrome://settings/) has a dark mode?
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Bitdefender Antivirus Free: how to disable the web protection part in Google Chrome?

I have the free version of Bitdefender. How can I disable only the web protection part? I use Google Chrome under Windows 7. Bitdefender isn't among the Google Chrome extensions. In the free ...
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Transferring book marks from saved user folder

My staff is getting new machines, running Windows 10, that are replacing their old machines, which ran Windows 7. I have copied their old user files onto the new machines. These old files include ...
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How can I see the network up/down speed for each tab in Google Chrome?

Where can I see the network up/down speed for each tab in Google Chrome on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate? The Resource Monitor doesn't distinguish between tabs: The Google Chrome's Task Manager doesn't ...
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Is it possible to scale the UI and text of Chrome browser without scaling the images and videos?

My Windows DPI scaling is set to 125% and Chrome obeys this rule. No issues whatsoever in that regard. On Windows 7, the photo viewer app does exactly what I'm looking for - It scales its interphase (...
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Jupyter Notebook stuck at localhost:8xxx/tree

[Moved from Data Science Stack Exchange to here, 10/17/2019] I have seen something like this question asked 4 times before. But no one has provided an answer, so far. See: Stack Overflow - Can't see ...
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Launch Chrome from cmd, group icons

I can launch 2 Chrome windows as apps as follows: start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir="C:/app1" --app="http://yahoo.com" start "" "C:\Program Files (...
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After updating to chromedriver 76 I'm getting the exception "disconnected: received Inspector.detached event" in selenium

OS: Windows 7 Chrome Version: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) I've updated chromedrive to support chrome version 76. Later on i'm getting "disconnected: received Inspector.detached event" ...
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Google Chrome showing some YouTube videos as restricted

I started to face this issue lately version 76.0.3809.100, when I'm browsing YouTube on Windows 7 Chrome, some videos won't open because they are restricted. Video is blacked-out saying Video ...
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Create shortcut to close current browser tab?

With Ctrl-W I can close the current tab. Can I create another key shortcut that closes the current tab?
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How to reset windows and Chrome settings when user finishes using computer?

At the school I work for we have a small computer lab, recently we have been having some problems with users who install chrome extensions, change chrome settings and install programs on the computer. ...
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Browsers don't get compressed pages at Windows 7 64-bit OS

I have a weird issue in my Windows 7 64-bit PC at work. I administer a few Linux web servers that serve gzipped content (js, css, html). The weird behaviour is that when all browsers in my system (...
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Can't click anything but chrome windows sometimes

I'm running multiple windows of chrome and other programs on windows 7. Randomly chrome is the only thing I can click on that responds and there is no feedback on mouseover. Clicking on irc chat ...
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