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hey guys this is Austin and today amuse the video showing you how to enable hidden features in Google Chrome so ordinarily you have the normal settings page so you can go through change your homepage your search engine that kind of thing however if you know you're looking for there's some really powerful tools that you can unlock using Google Chrome so the first is about flags and now this goes for any of the things I'm about to show you to get at them all you need to do is type in about : flags or D whatever the name is I'll have all of them show up as I showed you the different pages so the first one like I said is about flags and what this is is a whole range of different kind of experimental features that have not been announced or released for your general Chrome users however if you know what you're looking for you can enable them and give them a shot a little early so as you guys can see here there are an absolute ton of these that do come in Google Chrome now some of them are really not helpful some of them are kind of you know niche and stuff but some of them are actually really cool so take for example this you can enable syncing open tabs so of course ordinarily with your Google account you can sync through all your different computers and chrome installations you know what you know your bookmarks are password is that kind of thing over with this enabled you can enable your sync your open tabs so you know if you have they'll say one of my videos up on your computer right now and you have another computer running Chrome somewhere else you can have the tabs synced so you don't have to go reopen a bunch of tabs whatever you're looking at so that's really some cool stuff something goes this is my personal favorite is click to play so ordinarily you either have to run all plugins so flash Java Silverlight you name it or you can just have to have none of them running but with this you can on any website you choose you can have them not automatically load so if you want to look at something you can click to play but otherwise it doesn't automatically load you know take-up bandwidth and you know slow your computer down all that kind of stuff so there's some really cool stuff here you guys are interested definitely recommend taking a look however I do want to say that it is experimental for reason so expect you may have some crashes and whatnot if you do have any problems you should just be able to disable whatever add-on you did and be good to go now the next one is going to be about memory now this is a little bit more geeky but if you guys bear with me here I'll tell you a little bit about it what this is is it's kind of like a task manager showing you what is taking up RAM where how all that kind of good stuff so as you guys can see overall Google Chrome is taking up about 250 megabytes are ran right now which isn't too bad but let's say your computer is really slowing down or you having some problems or you know something's not quite right and if you think it's something to do with Chrome or whatever you can just open up about memory and you'll be able to take a look and see what's the problem so you can see here that all these different processes so for example these tabs these pages extensions whatnot if you can see maybe like one extensions taken up like a gigabyte of RAM or you know some things really add the ordinary you can kind of give you a good idea of how to diagnose it and close the program or whatever the offender is you can take care of it the next thing is about plugins now this is another one that is not always helpful but in certain circumstances this can really be a lifesaver so what this does is it gives you a little list of all the plugins that are installed in running Google Chrome so for one this can take a look if you see there's anything like a program whatever has installed something that you don't want so I've actually found on a couple of occasions that they were plugin that I did not even know existed and you know had wanted to have no part of so if you want you see something you don't like you can disable it or if you're having problems with something you can take a look so if you come over here and click details it give you a little bit more information and one good eye you know kind of demo of this would be flash so ordinarily you have actually two versions of flash running on your computer with Google Chrome so you have the normal one which is automatically installed if you have any other browsers so Safari Firefox you name it that's what all of the other browsers use but Google Chrome has its own version of Flash which comes pre-installed and sometimes if you're having flash problems disabling one of these can actually help because there some kind of conflict and whatnot so you know you can easily disable that or just so you know what version you're on all that kind of stuff so about plugins another really helpful little thing now moving on here we have the task manager so it's going to be about tasks and this one it's very similar to about memory what you can do is you can see how much memory each little you know tab and plug-in and whatnot see how much CPU Network something I find kind of funny is it shows that with frames per second on the page so about flags is running about 25 frames per second right now which is you know very very intense stuff button let's say you wanna get rid of something so we want to get rid of this tab and click in process if you come over to that tab they'll say up crashed and you can get rid of it that way not really all that useful but sometimes it might be a little helpful now coming over here we also do have about about so as the name implies this is just a list of all the different about pages and now I hope pretty much went over most of the major ones however there are definitely some others you guys might want to check out for yourselves and if you want the full list and you can take a look at whatever you like feel free to head up about about in chrome anyway guys it's going to be about it from my list of you know kind of hidden features in google chrome now of course there are definitely other you know hidden features and other browsers and I will be taking a look at Firefox and perhaps some other browsers later but hopefully you guys found this kind of helpful learn some new features about google chrome anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe