How to Turn off Hardware Acceleration in Chrome

Hardware acceleration enhances your Google Chrome browsing experience by allowing the graphics-processing unit (or GPU) to handle graphics-intensive tasks. However, this feature can sometimes lead to issues like graphical glitches, slowdowns, or—in the worst case—browser crashes. Because of that, stopping Chrome from using hardware acceleration is a routine troubleshooting step if the browser behaves erratically….

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Chrome for Android Gets “Listen to this page” Mode (with Background Playback)

Months ago, Google introduced “Listen to this page” mode in Chrome (for Android) as an experimental flag. The accessibility feature reads texts from websites in over 25 languages, allowing users to customize playback speed and voice. “Listen to this page” is now rolling out globally with even newer functionalities. Minimizing the browser to use other…

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