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Ten Tips and Tricks for Google Chrome

December 10, 2008 by Jason

Now that you have enjoyed the speed of Google Chrome, it’s time to dig deeper and get more out of it. Here are 10 tips/tricks to supercharge your chroming experience.

1) Install flash player in Google Chrome

After you have installed Chrome, some of you will find that you are not able to view Youtube video. This is especially true if you are installing Chrome under Ubuntu (or other Linux distro).

Here is what you can do to fix the problem:

  • Download the flash player for windows xpi file.
  • Change the xpi extension to zip
  • Extract the content of the zip file into a folder
  • Copy the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to the directory /home/USERNAME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/USERNAME/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/Plugins.
  • For Vista, copy to the directory: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins
  • For XP,copy to the directory C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins
  • Create the Plugins folder if it does not exist.

Restart your Chrome. Your flash player should be working now. Read More»

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