- Navigating with Chrome
- Using Bookmarks, Recent Tabs, and History
- Browsing with Multiple Tabs
- Browsing in Secret with Incognito Tabs
- Customizing Browser Settings
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Customizing Browser Settings
You can customize Chrome to make it behave the way you want. Chrome has a wide range of settings, which it breaks up into the categories Basics and Advanced. Chrome also enables you to choose settings for syncing your data among the computers and devices that log in to your Google account.
Choose Sync Settings
- Tap the Menu button.
Tap Settings to display the Settings screen.
Tap your Google account name.
- Move the Accounts switch to On if you want to sign in to your account or to Off if you don’t want to sign in.
Tap your Google account’s email address to display the Sync screen.
- Move the Sync switch to On or Off, as needed. To get the most out of Chrome, set the switch to On, as in this example, and then choose which items to sync.
- Check the Sync Everything box if you want to sync all the available items. Otherwise, check the Autofill box, the Bookmarks box, the History box, the Passwords box, and the Open Tabs box as needed.
Tap Encryption to display the Encryption dialog.
Tap the Encrypt All with Passphrase radio button and then enter the passphrase when prompted. Make sure your password is strong enough by using at least eight characters (preferably 12 to 20), combining uppercase and lowercase letters with numbers and symbols (such as $ or %), and avoiding any word or misspelling of a word in any language.
Tap Sync or the Back button to return to the account screen.
Tap your name or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
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Choose Basic Settings
Chrome’s basic settings include choosing your search engine and home page, deciding whether to use the Autofill Forms feature, and managing your saved passwords.
From the Settings screen, tap Search Engine to display the Search Engine screen.
- Tap the search engine you want to use.
Tap Search Engine or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
Tap Autofill Forms to display the Autofill Forms screen.
- Set the Autofill Forms switch to On to enable the use of Autofill Forms.
- Tap Add Profile to display the Add Profile screen, where you enter the name and address details you want Autofill Forms to use.
- Tap Add Credit Card to display the Add Credit Card screen, where you enter the details of the credit cards you want to use.
Tap Autofill Forms or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
- Tap Save Passwords to display the Save Passwords screen. Here, you can move the Save Passwords switch to On or Off to enable or disable Chrome’s ability to save your passwords so it can enter them for you. You can also manage the passwords on the Saved Passwords list and the Never Saved List.
Tap Home Page to display the Home Page screen.
- Set the Home Page switch to On if you want to use a home page. If you don’t want a home page, set this switch to Off; this makes Chrome remove the Home Page icon from the area to the left of the omnibox.
- Type or paste the address of the page you want to use as your home page.
- Check the Default box if you want to use the default home page instead of a page you specify. The default home page is usually a page set by your Galaxy Note 4’s carrier.
Tap Home Page or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
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Choose Advanced Settings
In the Advanced section of the Settings screen in Chrome, you can choose settings in three categories: Privacy, Accessibility, and Content Settings. You can also turn on or off the Reduce Data Usage feature and view the About Chrome information, which may be useful for troubleshooting problems.
On the Settings screen, tap Privacy to display the Privacy screen.
- Tap Navigation Error Suggestions to enable or disable showing suggestions for web addresses that you enter incorrectly or that Chrome cannot locate.
- Tap Search and URL Suggestions to enable or disable showing related queries and popular websites similar to those you type in the omnibox.
Tap Network Action Predictions to display the Network Action Predictions dialog.
Tap the Always radio button, the Only on Wi-Fi radio button, or the Never radio button, as needed. See the “What Are Network Action Predictions?” sidebar for details.
Tap Usage and Crash Reports to display the Usage and Crash Reports dialog.
Tap the Always Send radio button, the Only Send on Wi-Fi radio button, or the Never Send radio button. If you are happy to provide usage and crash data, choosing Only Send on Wi-Fi is usually the best choice because it prevents the reports from consuming your cellular data allowance.
- Tap ‘Do Not Track’ to display the Do Not Track screen, where you can choose whether to turn on the Do Not Track feature. This feature requests that the websites you visit not track you, but websites are not bound to honor the request.
Tap Clear Browsing Data to display the Clear Browsing Data screen.
- Tap Clear Browsing History to enable or disable clearing your browsing history. This clears the history of websites you have visited using the Chrome app on your Galaxy Note 4.
- Tap Clear the Cache to enable or disable clearing the cache (data that Chrome stores so that it can redisplay web pages more quickly when you visit them again).
- Tap Clear Cookies, Site Data to enable or disable clearing your cookies and website data. Browser cookies are used by websites to personalize your visit by storing information specific to you in the cookies.
- Tap Clear Saved Passwords to enable or disable clearing your saved passwords.
- Tap Clear Autofill Data to enable or disable clearing your Autofill data.
Tap Clear to clear the items whose boxes you checked in the Clear Browsing Data dialog.
Tap Privacy or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
Tap Accessibility to display the Accessibility screen.
Drag the Text Scaling slider to make the text in the Preview box appear at a comfortable size for reading. This is the minimum size to which the Chrome app zooms the text when you double-tap a paragraph.
- Tap Force Enable Zoom to turn on or off Chrome’s ability to zoom in on a website that prevents zooming. Some websites turn off zooming because their creators consider design to be more important than readability.
Tap Accessibility or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
Tap Content Settings to display the Content Settings screen.
- Tap Accept Cookies to enable or disable accepting cookies. Browser cookies are used by websites to personalize your visit by storing information specific to you in the cookies.
- Tap Enable JavaScript to enable or disable JavaScript. JavaScript is used on many web pages for formatting and other functions, so you might want to leave this enabled.
- Tap Block Pop-Ups to enable or disable blocking pop-up windows. Pop-up windows are almost always advertisements, so keeping this enabled is a good idea; however, some websites might not work correctly if pop-up blocking is on.
- Tap Protected Content to display the Protected Content screen, where you can set the Protected Content switch to On to allow websites to authenticate your Galaxy Note 4 to verify it is authorized to play premium videos.
- Tap Google Translate to display the Google Translate page, where you can enable or disable the Google Translate service for translating web pages.
Tap Location Settings to allow or disallow websites access to your GPS information. Providing your location to websites is helpful when you need information related to where you are, but at other times, you might prefer to keep your location private.
- Tap Website Settings to view the list of websites that are storing data on your Galaxy Note 4. You can then clear the data for a specific website if necessary.
Tap Content Settings or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
Tap Reduce Data Usage to display the Reduce Data Usage screen.
- Set the Reduce Data Usage switch to On if you want Chrome to use Google’s servers to compress web pages other than pages you load via secure HTTP or in Incognito tabs.
- After turning on Reduce Data Usage and doing some browsing, you can look at the Data Savings histogram to see how much data the compression has saved you.
Tap Reduce Data Usage or the Back button to return to the Settings screen.
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