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3 annoying Chrome features that should go away

Before adding new functions, Google implements them through the flags, a section of the browser where we can modify the operation of the browser functions. Over time, these features are often integrated into the browser with no option to disable them while others disappear without a trace. If you want to know some of the most annoying and useless functions of Chrome, we invite you to continue reading.

Group and update tabs

The Chrome function, which is also available in other browsers, allows us to create tab groups, a function that is ideal for grouping the tabs that we have open in the browser into folders and if we need to access them for a long time. This feature would be great if it allowed preserve the grouping once we close the browserespecially among users who always visit the same web pages, whether for work, studies, leisure or any other reason.

If we always want to access the same pages every time we access Chrome, the Pin tabs function is more than enough. Pinned tabs load automatically every time we start Chrome and we can arrange them in any order we like. Also, if we close the browser, these do not disappear as it happens with the Group tabs function. Unfortunately, this feature cannot be disabled.

Google introduced a function in Chrome that allowed us to deactivate the automatic updating of tabs every time we access it through the flags. This function is ideal for reducing the number of unnecessary resources that Chrome consumes, one of the most negative points of this browser. Unfortunately, and as I mentioned above, Google decided that it was not a good option and removed it from the flags, so today, we cannot disable this operation from the Chrome configuration options. The only thing we can do is manually disable update of the tabs that we have open through chrome://discard.

Disable background tab refresh Chrome

cleaner interface

Chrome’s top bar includes buttons to functions that many users do not use from the desktop version, such as the sharing function. Sharing a web page from a PC is not as simple as doing it through the sharing panel of a mobile device where all the available options are displayed in the form of applications. On a PC, it is necessary to be logged in to the platforms that allow us to share Chrome natively and the process. Another icon that Google could remove from the interface is that of user accounts.

Mix different user accounts in one browser, they don’t make any sense. In addition, we have a function that helps improve privacy, since there is no impediment for other people logged in to the same browser to access our content, use passwords and so on.

Developer Features

Other functions that for 99% of users are useless and in the end all they do is confuse the user is the option that allows access to developer functions. Chrome developer tools, and that we can also find other browsers, allows us access the web code to learn how it works, download content that otherwise we can not and others. But, to be able to deal with the HTML code of the websites, you must have a series of basic programming knowledge. Ideally, this feature would only be available in a developer version, a version that we would have to download separately.

Chrome HTML code

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