Google Chrome is the most used web browser Android. Like its desktop version, it is based on Chromium, so you also have a section chrome://flags/ modify or enable features in the app to change the experience or behavior of things like notifications and hardware acceleration.

Since Google Chrome for Android is also based on Chromium, the user can modify a large number of aspects of the application. Probably the main value of what we will reveal in this article is that at least a percentage of the content is usable in any Chromium-based web browser, both mobile and desktop.

Chromium-based alternatives like Opera, Vivaldi, Brave and Edge all have Android versions. The section chrome://flags/ just changed into opera://flags/, vivaldi://flags/, brave://flags/ Y edge://flags/ respectively, although it is very likely that the introduction chrome://flags/ the redirect ends successfully.

To improve the experience of Google Chrome for Android and other Chromium-based web browsers, we mention five things from the section chrome://flags/ which can be manually enabled to improve the app experience. When something changes flag you will see a button that says “Restart” in Chromiumwhich must be clicked to restart the application and apply the changes.

Enable screenshots in incognito mode

It has not been strange for a long time to see that the incognito mode of web browsers prevents taking screenshots. There are even apps like Tor Browser that will outright disable this feature in all circumstances.

If blocking screenshots doesn’t work against some remote attacker, the reality is that this feature is more of a scam than anything else, because there’s nothing to prevent taking a screenshot of a smartphone or tablet using another device.

Second, enabling screenshots from incognito mode can be useful for implementing tutorials and other similar content, so it doesn’t hurt to allow in those cases flag An anonymous screenshot that can be accessed directly using the following URL:

chrome://flags/#incognito-screenshot

Of course, given the possible protection that blocking screenshots can provide against possible remote attacks (and we emphasize that this is only a possibility), it would not be necessary to return to the default configuration after the task is completed.

parallel download

It is one of flags the most popular of those available for Chromium-based web browsers. She basically cares splitting the file into smaller parts that download at the same time to speed up the download process itself. This behavior is similar to applications designed to accelerate direct downloads.

chrome://flags/#enable-parallel-downloading

Ease of zooming for pages

Site Accessibility Zoom lets you set the zoom for each site in just a few steps. This can be useful when saving specific settings for a site that is not easy to read, either because the fonts appear too large or too small for comfortable reading.

The first thing you need to do after accessing chrome://flags is to enable “Enlargement page accessibility” and then press “Relaunch” to apply the changes by restarting the app. then you have to go to Accessibility in Settings and enable “Show Zoom”. After completing the above steps, Zoom should appear in the main menu of the application.

chrome://flags/#enable-accessibility-page-zoom

Read mode activator

There are websites that are not easy to read on mobile, either because of the size and type of the font, the presence of elements that get in the way, or their excessive number, which ultimately hinders navigation.

with flag “Reader Mode Launcher”, the user will be able to see a notification when accessing the web page for the first time to enable display a simplified version of the page itself, which is easier to read.

chrome://flags/#reader-mode-heuristics

Force dark mode on websites

With “Automatic Dark Mode for Web Content” the user tries to do this force the use of dark mode on websites. This can bring benefits like keeping everything consistent if you use a dark theme at the system level or in the browser, making it easier to read by projecting less light onto the screen, and even helping to increase autonomy a bit.

Since the use of dark themes has become very popular in recent years on both mobile devices and computers, it allows flag is something to consider.

chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Other Chrome (and Chromium) sections worth checking out

In addition chrome://flags/, are other browser sections worth checking out. One of the most prominent is chrome://gpu/which shows the support status for hardware acceleration and other topics.

You can change the settings or default behavior of some of the things you see chrome://gpu/. To do this, you need to go to the section on flagslocate the ones you want to modify (generally by specifying some properties chrome://gpu/ should narrow your search and make it easier to find) and select Enabled or another option that is most convenient for you.

The “Override software rendering list” permission is classic among Chromium users on Linux (yes, it is possible to test this on desktop Chromium browsers), but it is important to note that modifying the rendering-related parts is somewhat risky and can either result in performance degradation and loss of stability to noticeable improvement to not noticing anything. These are flags Edited by this server in case anyone wants to try it.

chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist

chrome://flags/#enable-gpu-rasterization

chrome://flags/#enable-zero-copy

chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan

chrome://flags/#canvas-oop-rasterization

When a user starts watching a video or playing some multimedia content using Chrome for Android or the Chromium-based web browser they are using, they have a section chrome://media-internals/ check playback status and whether it is using GPU or CPU to play.

Finally, it is worth mentioning chrome://version/ for information on the full version and chrome://accessibility/which provides access to some accessibility-related options and features.

conclusion

As we can see, Chrome and many Chromium-based browsers (this is not the case with Vivaldi) may have a simple appearance, but deep down it contains a large number of options that the user can customize. Knowing what is useful and what is not depends on each person and their experience.