CHROME32 16 - 29 October 2019
Group tabs together using
Chrome 77
The Chrome 77 update has new feat ures
for customising colours and grouping
tabs together. Open a new tab and click
the Customise button in the bottom-
right corner, then select ‘Colour and
theme’ to choose your palette.
Right-click any tab for the option
‘Add to new group’. This se ts the tab
apar t from the others and gives it a new
colour. If you’re not keen on how it
looks, click the dot to the left of th e tab
group to switch to a new shade. You’re
also given the option to name your new
tab group.
See our worksh op on page57 for
more about the new tools in Chrome 77.
Speedupback and forward
web navigation
For a whil e now, Google has hinted at
introducing back and forward cachin g
- a feat ure included in Firefox and
Safari. By ‘r emembering’ the pageand
pulling it from the cache, ‘back-forward
cache’ promises to speed up browsing
by 19% when you click the Back or
It happens so quickly: you spend a few minutes on the
web, diving down into a Wikipedia rabbit-hole or
pondering the ideal venue for your anniversa ry dinner
and, before you know it, your browser is loaded with an
overwhelmin g numberof open tabs. And for every tab
you clos e, you tab-out another thre e.
Sortify(bit.ly/sortify486) can’t stopyou clut tering your
browser with dozens of tabs but it can help you organise
them, so they’r e more manageable. This new browser
tool, which is simplici ty itself, lets you rearrange all your
open tabs injust two clicks: the first click is for the
extension’s toolba r button, to open a short menuof
options; the second click lets you orde r your open tabs
by website or time, and access the tool’s Undo andRedo
options.
Design your own email
signatures
If you run a club, website or a
business, or you just want to include
more information than your name at
the bottom of your emails, then it’s
worth creating an eye-catchin g
email signature with a logo, image,
link andyour details.
Most signature designers charge
a pretty penny for these basics but
Free Email Signature Generator
(bit.ly/emailsi g486) costs nothing.
Simply si gn into your email, grant
the required permiss ions and you’re
greeted with a form. Fill in your
contact details, job titleand your
website address, and andupload
a photo or logo,
Once you’ve sorted the basics,
it’s easy to add links to social-media
profiles or customise the font to
your liking. Dip into the extension’s
settings to create extras such as
banner images , customHTML and
disclaimers.Forward button.
The new feat ure is now available
in Google’s experimental browser,
Chrome Canary (bit.ly/canary486).
Acti vate it by visi tingchrome://
flags/#back-forward-cache
or search the Experiments page for
‘forward’. Click the drop -down menu
and switch the option from Default to
Enabled. Restart the browser to finish.
A word of warnin g, though: this is a
highly experimental feat ure, even for
Canary. According to Google, using the
back-forwardcache “will
lead to various
breakages , up to and
including user dataloss”.
It also means Chrome
useseven more memory
than it normally does –
something that will
hopefully be fixed by the
time the feat ure reaches
the stable browser.Best New Browser ToolsSort your Chrome tabs with two clicks