Disable print preview in Chrome so that selecting Print opens up the standard Windows print dialog box instead. Print Preview in Chrome lets you see what you’re going to print in advance – whilst some may find it helpful, I find it annoying – and the way it appears as a popup rather than as a new tab makes it look pretty ugly too. Selecting the wrench (spanner) icon then ‘Print’ opens the Print Preview popup which takes up most of the screen – you can also open it via the CTRL + P keyboard shortcut. There is an option at the bottom left to ‘Print using system dialogue’ – this closes the popup and opens the standard Windows dialog box which is used by other browsers and programs for printing.
I prefer to disable Print Preview so that selecting wrench Print opens up the standard Windows dialog box immediately – if I do ever want to view a preview I can just select it from my printer preferences. An example of a standard Windows print dialog box is shown below: Disable Print Preview In Chrome – Warning: if you disable print preview you will no longer be able to ‘Save as PDF’ or ‘Print with Google Cloud Print’ from the Print Preview ‘Destination’ options – do not use this guide if you use either of those options. There are 2 ways to disable it in Chrome: Method 1 – Updated July 2012 – since Chrome 20 was released this method no longer works – use Method 2 instead. Open Chrome and type about:flags into the address bar then press Enter to open the Experimental Features page. Scroll down the list of features to the ‘Disable Print Preview’ feature – by default it is disabled and greyed out. Click the ‘Enable’ link below it – the link changes to ‘Disable’ and the feature is un-greyed.
Print Preview will be disabled when Chrome is next restarted – if you want to restart it now click the ‘Relaunch Now’ button at the bottom of the Features page. In future, choosing ‘Print’ will open the standard Windows print dialog box immediately, not the Print Preview popup. If you ever want to revert back, follow this procedure again but this time choose the ‘Disable’ link and restart This method is easy but the change disables Print Preview in all instances of Chrome whereas the next method allows you to choose to open Chrome with or without it disabled. Method 2 – Via Shortcut Target. Find the program shortcut you use to open Chrome – usually on your desktop or in Start Programs or in Quick Launch.
Right click this shortcut and select ‘Properties’ to open the shortcut’s Properties window. Select the ‘Shortcut’ tab and in the ‘Target’ box, go to the end of the entry and add the following: ” -disable -print -preview” NB without the “” quote marks and note that there is a single space at the start followed immediately by two hyphens. Added new text to end of Target The end result in the Target box should look like this: Vista/Windows 7 – C: Users username AppData Local Google Chrome Application chrome.exe -disable -print -preview XP – “C: Documents and Settings username Local Settings Application Data Google Chrome Application chrome.exe” -disable -print -preview Press OK to apply the change and close the Properties window. Use this amended shortcut to open Chrome as usual – Print will now open the standard Windows dialog box, not Print Preview. If you ever want to revert back, follow this procedure again but this time delete the extra text and space you added at the end of the Target box Note: if it doesn’t work you have likely not typed in the extra text correctly or you have missed out the space in between or used a single hyphen instead of the first double hyphen – check again, it still works in Chrome 18 at the time of writing. Using Different Shortcuts The text you added to the end of the Target is what is called a command line switch – unlike Method 1 it does not change the experimental features within Chrome itself.
May 1, 2018 - Print the current page you see with one single click. Or PDF or to open the Options page Print button works for Windows, Mac and Linux. If the printer icon is not in the Command toolbar, right-click on the Command toolbar and choose 'Customize.' Select 'Add or Remove Commands' to open the Customize Toolbar window.
Therefore it is possible to have 2 versions of the shortcut if you want – one to open Chrome with print preview enabled as standard, and a second to open with it disabled. If you want to do this, copy and paste the revised ‘no preview’ Chrome shortcut to elsewhere on the desktop and, in that copy, delete the extra text and space from the end of the Target box – this shortcut will now open Chrome with Print Preview as standard.
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Conclusion The special flag in method 1 has been discontinued in July 2012. However, for the moment, method 2 still work wells – it’s a little trickier and needs care when typing but it allows the use of different shortcuts if required. Hopefully one day Google will provide a simple menu option to disable print preview more easily. Hi, I’ve just retested on a couple of W7 home premium 64 bit computers running chrome (21.0.1180.83) and it works fine on both All I can think of is you may be opening Chrome via a Chrome shortcut that is pinned to taskbar/start menu? If you have Chrome pinned to the taskbar or start menu, remove it then copy the standard chrome shortcut (from Programs) to desktop then append the code to the Target line – leave a space after chrome.exe then add 2 hyphens disable hyphen print hyphen preview That modified shortcut on the desktop should now work – you can right-click on it if you wish to re-pin it again If that doesn’t apply to you, there must be something really weird about your Chrome, sorry. Since there isn’t a lot of coherent information about this topic now that Chrome removed the setting to disable the custom print dialog in v20, I wrote a blog post detailing how to workaround the issue under OS X: “Fortunately, OS X comes with a relatively simple way to override keyboard shortcuts in specific Applications.
Go to System Preferences - Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts. Once there, select Application Shortcuts and add a new shortcut for Google Chrome.” “Make sure the Menu Title reads `Print Using System Dialog` exactly, and give it the standard print shortcut (`?P`).” Enjoy! Happy Printing!
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Advertisement Chrome is, for many people, the first thing installed on a new MacBook. It makes sense: in its early days Chrome gained a reputation for being lightweight and fast. It was better than Safari and Firefox, people said. And it was true, at the time. It’s not the case anymore. In fact, I’d argue that you shouldn’t use Chrome on a MacBook if you can avoid it. Over the years Chrome became a bloated program that doesn’t integrate well with OS X, and it happened so slowly most Chrome users haven’t noticed.
Here are ten reasons every Mac-loving Chrome user should consider switching. Chrome Drains Your MacBook Battery Battery life has been a huge feature for Apple in recent releases of OS X. Mavericks brought energy impact measuring tools to the operating system, which you can find by clicking your battery icon right now. If you’ve got Chrome running, Chrome will show up here.
It’s been said a thousand times, but it’s worth saying again: if battery life is important to you, avoid using Chrome. Even on 4-year-old MacBooks, replacing Chrome with Safari can give you an extra hour of battery life in some cases. Google is reportedly working on the issue, and has made progress, but the job is far from finished.
And you don’t have to take my word for it: open up the Activity Monitor on your Mac, then head to the “Energy” section. Open some tabs in Chrome and the same ones in another browser – Chrome will almost always use more energy for the same job. It’s particularly true for Netflix, if you want a test case. Your Fans Will Occasionally Sound Like Jet Engines Watching an HD video in Chrome will spin up the fans on this Macbook something crazy.
Nice and cool. — Chris Ashby (2pix)??
(@2pixelwide) The low battery life isn’t for no reason: it’s because Chrome uses more CPU power to accomplish the same thing as Safari. Partially this is because of inefficiency, and partially its because Chrome’s priority is speed. Either way, I’ve personally heard way more of my fan while using Chrome than while not. And I’m not alone. It’s kind of nuts that Chrome sets off the fans in my 2015 Macbook Pro when like Final Cut and Adobe Premier don’t — Larry Madill (@larrymadill) 3. Chrome Does Things Its Own Way, Not the Mac Way I ranted about this extensively when I talked about the reasons I hate Chrome, but it’s worth stating again: ChromeOS is the worst thing that ever happened to Chrome on other platforms.
Don’t get me wrong, ChromeOS is a great operating system, but the volume of stuff Chrome takes along with it to other platforms makes it a worse browser on the Mac. It simply doesn’t integrate with the OS well. Case in point: notifications. Apple introduced a system-wide notifications system with Mountain Lion way back in 2012. This means notifications all look the same, never overlap each other, and can be browsed all in one archive if you miss something.
Chrome could use this system, but doesn’t: it uses a completely separate notification system. These don’t play nicely with other notifications, meaning they’ll cover up those ones. They also don’t show up in the system-wide notification system, so you can’t reference them later there.
There are plenty of other differences. Most Mac apps close instantly when you hit CMD-Q; Chrome makes you hold the combo for a while.
Most Mac apps have their own preferences window; Chrome uses a website in a tab for that. Whether you like these changes or not, you’ve got to admit Chrome just doesn’t work the way Mac apps do. And if you’re using a Mac, it must at least be in part because you like the way Mac apps work. Chrome Can Slow Down Your Entire Mac I can’t remember the last time a non-technical person asked me why their Mac was slow and it wasn’t a result of dozens of open Chrome tabs.
— Anoop Ranganath (@anoopr). It’s a related point, I realize, but it’s worth stating: Chrome uses a lot of CPU power. Part of this is the priority on speed, part of it is inefficient programming, but shut down Chrome on many Macs and everything feels faster. Not just browsing: everything. The Confusing Extension/App/Whatever Ecosystem There’s a folder Chrome put on my computer that looks like this: You might like this feature, but it seems out of place to me. I have some questions for Google:.
Why?. No seriously: why? When I click these, they only open in Chrome. How is this different from bookmarks? Why do they need their own folder?.
Does this make more sense if you use “actual” Chrome apps? Why are the default “apps” offered just bookmarks to Google products? Which insist on showing up when I use Spotlight?.
Why is there three of the same app so many times? Did I accidentally create some user profiles?
Why don’t user profiles have their own folders?. Seriously, I just checked, I don’t have any other profiles, what gives?. I tried deleting the folder; it came back. Umm It’s related to the point above, sure, but it’s just another way in which Chrome seems to do its own thing regardless of what’s normal on the Mac ecosystem. Why not populate a folder with “Apps” that are mostly bookmarks, all of which require Chrome to open?
It’s the kind of thing you expect from Windows crapware, not a leading Mac browser. Google Doesn’t Need Help Watching You You might not know it while reading this article, but I’m actually a longtime Google fan.
Getting access to Gmail during the invite-only beta was a college triumph of mine, and I’m pretty sure I had a Google sign on my dorm room wall back in 2004. I’ve worked extensively for companies that do little more than set up Google Apps for Business, and I think that Chromebooks are an excellent device for the education market. Having said that, over the years I’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable with how much information Google has about me.
My Gmail account is an archive of my communications, for example, and search is basically an extension of my conciousness. It’s part of why I DuckDuckGo might be the privacy-focused search engine you've been looking for. But do its features hold up? We look at DuckDuckGo vs. Google to find out. and haven’t looked back. I was just tired of feeling like my internal monologue was being watched (and monetized).
Using Chrome to search with DuckDuckGo feels weird, though. Are the auto-suggestions still coming from Google? Is Google still using my Chrome account to track me in some way?
It sounds paranoid, post-Snowden being paranoid isn’t necessarily being irrational. I feel more comfortable just not using Chrome. Mac Support Feels Like an Afterthought I’ve written more than once how I feel like It took someone outside Google hacking away at CSS to finally offer a decent Hangouts experience on desktops and laptops – and you can give it a shot right now if you're a Chrome user., and to me the lack of a dedicated app is the reason for that. Put simply: if you don’t use Chrome, there isn’t a dedicated app. If you do use Chrome, it doesn’t fit in. Here’s the Hangouts extension covering my dock, something no other app on the Mac does: The app version behaves weirdly too: it shows up on every desktop by default, something no other app does. The fact that there is both an extension and an app called “Hangouts” that serve the same function but behave completely differently is bad enough, but the way neither behaves like a proper Mac app makes it so much worse.
Oh, and the notifications for Hangouts: they don’t integrate with the OS X notification center. Why would they? No Support For Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion Mountain Lion came out in 2012, not that long ago, but if you’re still using that operating system Chrome updates are being cut off. Google announced the change back in November. Sure, you can update your OS free of charge, but many people don’t want to for a variety of reasons, including older computers that don’t support the latest version of OS X.
Safari Has Gotten Really Good For a long time, the collective response to the above points was “Sure, but nothing is better”. Which was fair back in 2012, but Chrome or Safari? It's not a clear-cut answer. Truth is, brand loyalty is counter-productive. You should revisit your options regularly to see if maybe something better exists.
And none of the above criticisms apply to Apple’s browser, which is well-integrated on the Mac. Seriously, if you haven’t tried this browser out for a while you don’t know what you’re missing. Even the extension ecosystem has come a long way: the most common tools are already waiting for you. It’ll be an adjustment, but you’ll never look back. Safari Integrates Better With Apple Products If you’re all-in with the Apple platform, Safari is the better choice. All the little things just integrate better: your passwords, for example, are managed by Apple’s system-wide tool and synced using iCloud.
Same goes for your Bookmarks. Continuity only works with Safari. I could go on, but you get the idea: Apple’s browser is better integrated with Apple’s ecosystem.
If you care about that, Safari is the clear choice. Reasonable People Can Disagree Whatever your take, I’d love to have a chat with you about all this. Let me know what browser you use on your Mac, and why. Or get into your own Chrome complaints, if you like. Maybe you absolutely love Chrome on your Macbook – fair enough. If you use Android, for example, or a Chromebook, the full browser syncing might be a killer app for you.
If you dislike both Safari and Chrome, you can always look to our list of It is not that Safari is a bad browser or that it has a limited feature set - you may just want a different focus, or major updates more than once a year. And note that it’s entirely possible to Is it possible to run the flagship Microsoft browser on an OSX machine? Read on to find out if you absolutely need to.
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