These suggestions make navigation and searching faster and easier, and are turned on by default. Google Chrome uses a combined web address and search bar (we call it the “omnibox”) at the top of the browser window.Īs you use the omnibox, your default search engine can suggest addresses and search queries that may be of interest to you. For issues that include confidential information, please use this link. If you want to report a privacy issue, you can file it in our public bug tracker. If you have a question about Google Chrome and Privacy that this document doesn’t answer, please feel free to ask it in the Community Forum.

This document does not cover features that are still under development, such as features in the beta, dev and canary channel and active field trials, or Android apps on ChromeOS if Play Apps are enabled.

Here we’re focusing on the desktop version of Chrome we touch only tangentially on ChromeOS and Chrome for Mobile. This document also describes the controls available to you regarding how your data is used by Chrome. This document describes the features in Chrome that communicate with Google, as well as with third-party services (for example, if you've changed your default search engine). Feel free to leave a comment if you have any question or suggestion.Last modified: Febru(Current as of Chrome. Now, it will be opened in a background tab and will not steal focus. a tab which Firefox previously switched to immediately upon clicking. Now click some link which opened for you previously in a foreground tab i.e. Find and set the following value to true:.Open a new tab in Firefox and enter the following text in the address bar: about:configĬonfirm that you will be careful if a warning message appears for you.This is possible thanks to a special option available in about:config. We can force the Firefox browser to open all links which usually open in a new foreground tab to be opened instead in the background, without using addons. This trick also works in all mainstream browsers. Voila, the link will be opened in the backgroud again. laptop users with touchpads: press and hold the CTRL key and click the link with the LEFT mouse button. The third option is for those who have no mouse wheel, e.g. The link will be opened in the background! To open a link in a new tab, just middle click it with the mouse wheel instead of the left mouse button. The second option is not so obvious, but works in ALL modern browsers. The first option is obvious: you can right click the link and select 'Open Link in New Tab' from its context menu:

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