If the background of the inactive chrome tabs is dark, their titles are not readily visible. To work around this, change the “theme color” to “Warm grey”.

chrome://settings/manageProfile -> Pick a theme color -> choose "Warm grey" option.

Before:

After:

tags | can't see chrome tabs in dark mode

chrome://settings/onStartup -> check "Continue where you left off"

or

Settings -> On startup -> check "Continue where you left off"

or

Settings -> On startup -> Manage on startup pages -> Pages to open on startup -> check "Continue where you left off"

or

chrome://settings/startupUrls -> Manage on startup pages -> Pages to open on startup -> check "Continue where you left off"

• Disable automatic playing of videos on facebook.com using this extension. Once the extension is installed, hide the icon in the toolbar by right clicking on it → select “Hide in Chrome menu”.

Right click in the address bar -> Edit search engines
or
preferences button -> Settings -> Settings -> Search -> Manage search engines

To access the search engines, enter the keyword in the address bar and press tab.

Another easy way to add a custom search engine is to go to the website, right click on the search bar → select “Add as search engine…” → edit the fields if necessary → ok

• uBlock Origin
  • It was mentioned in http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2016/i-chipped-in/

M-[1–9]

Ref:- https://gwern.net/search → “Web Browser Hotkeys” section

• Select the first word or letter or a part of the word where you want to start copying.
• Scroll down till the place you have to copy.
• Hold down the Shift key, and click on the ending of the text.

Ref:- https://superuser.com/a/1309293/679081

• https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179 - chrome keyboard shortcuts

Ref:- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/dist#build-instructions-for-developers

cd $software/build
mkdir ublock_origin_parent; cd ublock_origin_parent

git clone https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock.git
# 2023-10-08: uAssets is not needed to build uBlock
# git clone https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets.git
cd uBlock
git checkout master

conda activate py311
make chromium

The package is created in dist/build/uBlock0.chromium

chrome -> chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer mode
-> Load unpacked
select /uBlock/dist/build/uBlock0.chromium/

Useful links:

• https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues - This is the issue tracker as per https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/3726

Ref:- https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

cd $software/zipped
mkdir -p bypass_paywalls_clean
cd bypass_paywalls_clean

Download the zip file

curl -L -O https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean/-/archive/master/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-master.zip

Unzip the latest version

cd ../../unZipped
unzip ../zipped/bypass_paywalls_clean/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-master.zip

This will unzip everything into $software/unZipped/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-master

chrome -> chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer mode
-> Load unpacked
select $software/unZipped/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-master

Note: on 2023-10-19, I decided to use https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean instead of https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome for reasons listed in https://www.kamaraju.xyz/dk/diary/2023-10-19 . But I am keeping these instructions for reference.

Ref:- https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

cd $software/zipped
mkdir -p bypass_paywalls
cd bypass_paywalls

Create a backup of the existing zip file

conda activate py311
make_bkup.py master.zip

Download the zip file

curl -L -O https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/archive/master.zip

Create a backup of previously unzipped version.

cd ../../unZipped
make_bkup.py bypass-paywalls-chrome-master
rm -rf bypass-paywalls-chrome-master

Unzip the latest version

unzip ../zipped/bypass_paywalls/master.zip

This will unzip everything into $software/unZipped/bypass-paywalls-chrome-master

chrome -> chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer mode
-> Load unpacked
select $software/unZipped/bypass-paywalls-chrome-master

related:

• https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/archive/v1.7.5.zip - link to download a specific version.
• https://github.com/KamarajuKusumanchi/rutils/blob/master/python3/make_bkup.py - script to backup a directory or a file.

Needed it for millionshort.com which does not focus the cursor in the search bar.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/input-cursor-focus/hnhplmcglkomfmoapojflionoibodhla/related?hl=en

Using it to set set the new tab url to millionshort.com

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna

• autoscroll
  • Install this extension to scroll using the middle mouse button in chrome on Debian.
  • It supports two ways of scrolling:
    1. Press (or hold) the middle mouse button and then move the mouse
    2. Hold Ctrl and press the left mouse button
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoscroll/occjjkgifpmdgodlplnacmkejpdionan?hl=en

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks

three dots button → Bookmarks and lists → Import bookmarks and settings… → In the drop down choose “Bookmarks HTML file”

Issue:

Bad Request - Header Field Too Long
HTTP Error 400. A request header field is too long.

I cleared the cache for the last 7 days. It started working after that.