Saturday, April 13, 2019

Get rid of the "Reddit Premium" advert by using Stylus.

A way to get rid of Reddit Premium ad, You have to install Stylus for Chrome and Firefox.

Link: Remove Premium ad in Old Reddit (Note: It works only on the Old Reddit.)

How to Get the Old Reddit (Pre-2018 Design)

There is a way to revert back to the old pre-2018 Reddit design.

Extensions to install:
Tampermonkey (Chrome, Firefox)

Tampermonkey Scripts:
Reddit Favicon Revert
Reddit Old Layout

Note: We can get rid of the Premium Ad by installing this.

How to Get the Old 2014 YouTube Layout Design!

There is a way to get the old mid-2014 YouTube design.

Extensions to install:
Ublock Origin (Chrome, Firefox)
Tampermonkey (Chrome, Firefox)
Stylus (Chrome, Firefox)

Filter these in Ublock Origin:
www.youtube.com###trending-guide-item > .spf-link.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com###unlimited-guide-item > .spf-link.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com##.spf-nolink.yt-valign.yt-uix-sessionlink.guide-item
www.youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element

Tampermonkey Scripts:
YouTube - Restore Classic
YouTube - Autoplay Disabler

Get these styles here:
YouTube Arial Style Font
YouTube Mid-2014 Sidebar
YouTube Revert Mid-2014 Pages
YouTube 2014 Player
Disable autohide in YT player

A fix for the watch page on resolutions:
Fix Watch Sidebar: 639px or 853px
Fix Secondary Actions: 325px or 545px

Screenshots:
Homepage with not logged in
Homepage with logged in
Search results
Watch page
Channel page

Notes:
  • There is a bug with a "Watch later" button not showing the icon.
  • If you are on a watch page, They glitched up the watch sidebar along with secondary actions.
  • Also, the sidebar code inculdes the early-2014 Subscribe button.
UPDATE 2020-Feb-18: YouTube will stop supporting the older version by March this year. So, things didn't work with the new design...

Friday, December 7, 2018

How to Optimize Google Chrome Browser (Updated 2023)

There is a way how to optimize Google Chrome web browser. Also works on both Chrome versions that I tested with tweaked flags (versions 94 and 100).

Privacy and Security > Site settings:
  • Cookies and other site data - Block third-party cookies
  • Location - Don't allow sites to see your location
  • Camera - Don't allow sites to use your camera (if you have a webcam, just leave it default)
  • Microphone - Don't allow sites to use your microphone (if you have a microphone, just leave it default)
  • Notifications - Don't allow sites to send notifications
  • Motion sensors - Don't allow sites to use motion sensors
  • Unsandboxed plugin access - Do not allow any site to use a plugin to access your computer (removed since version 88)
System:
  • Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed - DISABLED
  • Use hardware acceleration when available - ENABLED (If you get issues, disable this)
Flags:
  • Smooth Scrolling - DISABLED (Leave it default if you keep smooth scrolling enabled)
  • Experimental QUIC protocol - ENABLED
  • Parallel downloading - ENABLED
  • Tab Hover Card Images - DISABLED
  • Destroy Profile on browser close - ENABLED
  • Turn off caching of streaming media to disk + while on battery power. - ENABLED
  • Enable LiteVideos + Force LiteVideos decision - ENABLED (Alternate flag to turn off caching)
Launch Parameters:
  • Paste these launch parameters after the quotations: --process-per-site --disable-hang-monitor --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows
Note: If you are using a version of chrome prior to 2022 to disable tab throttling, You can just use this launch parameter here: --disable-features=CalculateNativeWinOcclusion,IntensiveWakeUpThrottling

If you want looking for older version with tweaked flags and launch parameters, links above here.
Extensions:
  • H264ify / Enhanced-H264ify - Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos. This could result in a better playback if on low-end PCs. Also, be sure to disable 60FPS in the options if your system is very low-end
  • uBlock Orgin - A more CPU-friendly version of Adblock
  • FasterWeb - It will speed up the entire browsing by using just-in-time preloading.
Remove Google Docs online or any extensions similar if you do not need it...

Tips:
  • Limit your extensions
  • Turn off other processes in the background
  • Update Chrome to the latest stable builds (sometimes beta builds can help too, but they are not fully tested)
  • If you are using a 64-bit system, be sure to use the 64-bit Chrome, also do the same on a 32-bit system
  • Clear your browsing data often. You do not need extensions to clear it for you. CTRL + H then clear everything.
  • Sometimes, reinstalling Chrome is a good way to achieve max performance

Friday, July 28, 2017

Top List of Worst Chrome Versions EVER!!!

As you might know, Chrome's worst version has some bugs in it, because there are some lists --

Chrome 59: The website Wikia does not support Adblock and Adblock Plus, when you search on Wikia with arrows and it just doesn't respond!

Chrome 55: Omnibox is clicked and you see there is a blue border (fixed on v56+)

Chrome 51: For some reason on Windows, because Adobe Flash lacks anti-aliasing (See crbug.com/615375)

Chrome 47: Some context menus on HTML5 are missing (returned in v48)

Chrome 37: It actually has some performance issues with VirtualBox and scaling was terrible...

Chrome 32/33: The scrollbar has no up and down arrows.

That's all for this!

Saturday, May 20, 2017