Online shopping is safe and convenient when you use Google Pay with Chrome. When you're ready to make a purchase, sign in with your Google account and access your stored payment methods. Chrome works hard to protect your data and privacy online. With easy-to-use privacy controls, Chrome lets you customize your settings and browsing experience to how you see fit.
From password check, dark mode, and the Google address bar, Chrome helps you get things done and stay safe online. Keep people and data secure with seamless updates and intuitive policy enforcement. Develop websites for the next version of the open web with Chrome for developers. Preview upcoming Chrome features before they are released with Chrome Beta. Get on the bleeding edge of the web and get nightly updates with Chrome Canary.
There may be a community-supported version for your distribution here. Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date. The device you have runs on Chrome OS, which already has Chrome browser built-in. Here is what you have to do from there:. The creation process takes a few minutes to complete. You are now ready to install Chromium on your PC. You can set up your Chrome OS with a Google account and use it only for surfing the internet.
Now that you got Chrome OS running, you can try it out on any device. You will be surprised at how well it works. Not to mention, there is dark mode, dictation, focus mode, and more. Install: iA Writer Free , Offers in-app purchases. It offers a free plan at a slightly reduced speed and in limited regions. I would say instead of relying on dubious Proxy extensions on Chrome, installing a proper VPN is the best way to stop your data leakage.
Apart from that, Proton VPN worked perfectly fine in our testing. You can use this app on your Chromebook for reading eBooks in tablet or tent mode. But that is not all, despite being completely free, the app does not show any ads while reading books or documents.
Simply put, if you are a voracious reader and want to make your Chromebook a Kindle alternative then ReadEra is the stepping stone you were looking for. Extensions are also equally popular in the Chrome ecosystem. So, in this article, I am going to share some of the best Chrome OS extensions that can enhance your experience even better.
Text In case you are wondering about the lack of a Text editor like Notepad on Windows on Chrome OS , well Google has recently developed an extension for that. As the name suggests, Text is a simple text editor where you can write anything you want. The extension for Text files is also TXT which is the same as Notepad so all your Text files can be used on other systems as well.
Surprisingly, Google has baked in dark mode too on this text editor. So, just install Text on your Chromebook and give it a go. Check Out Text Nimbus Screenshot Screenshot feature has almost become a necessity on every system — be it a smartphone or a desktop computer. While Chrome OS does have native support for screenshots , you can get a third-party extension if you are looking for versatile features.
Nimbus is a pretty solid app and offers plenty of options from partial to window screenshots. You can further crop and annotate the images as well. Apart from that, if you want an extension solely for annotation purposes then Awesome Screenshot extensions is another great choice. It offers you to create boxes, blur certain parts of the image, highlight sections, and more.
Screencastify Screencastify is one of the powerful apps for Chrome OS as it allows you to record your screen with your voice and webcam support. This extension can help you record tutorials in case you are an educator.
While the app is quite good, it puts a watermark if you are recording for more than 5 minutes. To remove the watermark, you will have to subscribe to a premium plan. In that case, you can use RecordRTC as an alternative. So, depending on your use-case, you can go for either extension. Kami Kami is a complete package in the form of a Chrome extension. You can import any PDF, image, document; annotate on it and then describe everything using the webcam.
It helps you create videos on the go as the company has partnered with Google Classroom for seamless creation and syncing with Google Drive. Simply put, if you are a student who wants to create detailed notes or a serious educator making videos for the internet, Kami is the best Chrome OS app you can go for. Check Out Kami Caret Caret is a top-notch text editor for computer programmers and software engineers available on Chrome OS.
I would say, if you are a serious programmer or just a beginner, Caret is the best way to do programming on Chrome OS. Check Out Caret Cog While we understand that Google wants to make Chrome OS a minimal and user-friendly operating system, some users want to know the technical details about their machine. For that, you can install the Cog extension on your Chromebook. Cog also showcases a real-time graph of the current state of your Chromebook.
So, if you want to get nerdy about your Chromebook, install the Cog extension. And now Linux has become a viable platform where you can use apps without any performance or stability issues. I personally use a lot of Linux apps on my Chromebook so I can vouch for their reliability. I have already made a separate list of best Linux apps for Chromebook so you can go through that if you want an exhaustive list of apps. Nevertheless, here are some of the best Linux apps for Chrome OS that you must give a try.
In our testing, it installed perfectly fine and ran without any hiccups. However, there was quite a bit of lag while dealing with heavy images. As I said above, the apps are running in a container, and on top, there is no support for hardware acceleration yet so the performance takes a hit. It is an excellent program for creating and editing PDF files and works absolutely fine on Chromebooks. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and install this excellent Linux app on your Chromebook.
How to Install: Download the. After that, run the below command in Terminal. Finally, run the application from the app drawer. Wine Wine is an unusual Linux app that you will find on this list. Wine is a compatibility layer not an emulator that allows you to install Windows apps on Chromebooks. In fact, after the latest Wine 5. Simply put, Wine is an impressive piece of software and you must use it on your Chromebook to take full advantage of Linux on Chrome OS.
You may not be aware but Steam works wonderfully well on Chromebook, thanks to the Linux support. It also features the Proton layer a modified version of Wine which you can use to play Windows games on Chromebook. The look of Chrome has changed remarkably little since its surprise debut in September On Chrome OS, the upper-right corner of the browser hosts a square icon and an X.
The X is to close the browser window. Drag the box down to minimize the browser, drag it to the edges to "snap" it to the side and make it half the width of your screen, or click it to switch from windowed mode to full-screen mode. The window snap is another cue taken from Windows 7, but it's a clever and intuitive one, and works well in Chrome.
The interface's strongest point is also its weakness. What works well in the browser works well here, but the faults of one are reflected in the other, too.
Some controls, such as page zoom, are readily available from the "wrench" options menu. Others, such as the extension manager, are hidden away under a Tools submenu.
Hiding essentials like that remains an odd design choice to make. As is true about every aspect of this operating system, updates are much more likely to tweak the layout and design of the interface. Chrome's extensions are fairly limited in how they can alter the browser's interface. Unlike Firefox, which gives add-on makers a lot of leeway to change the browser's look, Chrome mandates that extensions appear only as icons to the right of the location bar.
The benefit maintains a uniform look in the browser, but it definitely restricts how much the browser can be customized. Even with its limitations, the browser interface design has remained a contemporary exemplar of how to minimize the browser's screen footprint while remaining easy to use and versatile.
The new desktop, on the other hand, finally brings to Chrome OS a sense of familiarity that is essential for any new PC experience. Features Chrome OS isn't quite as reliant on the Internet as it was before, but it's still reasonably crippled without it. This is a vehicle, first and foremost, for leading a Web-based existence. As such, what Chrome OS does is create a space where Web-based applications can function and thrive.
The operating system itself doesn't do much -- it's a browser. However, it's a heavily modded browser, and it achieves its main goal of getting you on the Web as fast as possible.
This comes from both the solid-state drive SSD on your Chromebook or Chromebox, and the various optimizations that Google has been building into Chrome. This is where the second bit of genius in the Chrome OS comes in: because everything is Web-based, you can log in to any installation of the operating system and instantly have all of your apps, settings, and other personalizations at your fingertips. That's still an incredible feat.
It's an important one, too, as Chrome OS improves with each regular iteration of the operating system. In Chrome OS's first year, it updated eight times. Things that were buggy originally, such as touch pad support on the demo hardware Cr, started to work properly.
It's currently on a six-week update cycle. Google has also leveraged its successes in other departments to benefit the Chrome OS. Google's notorious for not always having good integration between its services, so this -- and solid Google Play integration for Books, Movies, and Music -- are welcome improvements.
Also welcome is Google's decision to expand everybody's Google Drive to GB when it detects a Chromebook associated with your account. When you take a screenshot using the Ctrl-Next Window button, for example, you'll find it saved locally via the File Browser. Famously, Google has killed the Caps Lock key and replaced it with a dedicated Search key. Tap it and a new tab will open, with the cursor ready in the location bar. What's less well-known is that you can remap the Search key to Caps Lock, and that Google makes it easy to do through the Settings menu under System, then Modifier keys.
Here you can modify the bindings of the Control and Alt keys as well. But also missing is a dedicated Delete key to remove characters to the right of the cursor.
The default settings for the hot keys are among the best things about the Chrome OS. Hold down Ctrl and Alt with the question mark key to bring up a color-coded map of combinations that you can use. The map and colors change depending on which key -- Shift, Control, or Alt -- you're pressing.
Google is to be commended for building an operating system that goes from sleep to fully functional in what feels like a second. There's simply no lag time, and the updates have fixed previous lagginess in logging in and out.
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