[Tip] Enable Hidden Secret “Focus Mode” Feature in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
UPDATE: This tutorial to enable Focus Mode feature works in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers.
The new versions of Google Chrome web browser come with a hidden secret feature called “Focus Mode“. This new feature is not enabled by default and interested users need to activate and enable it manually.
Focus Mode feature allows users to launch a tab to a new Chrome window which doesn’t show any toolbar, address bar, tab bar, etc. It only contains the titlebar obviously as shown in following screenshot:
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As you can see it allows users to focus only on the web page, that’s why it’s called Focus Mode.
When you launch a tab in Focus Mode, the Taskbar shows website’s favicon in place of Google Chrome icon for the focused window.
In Focus Mode, the titlebar allows to perform some operations on the tab by clicking on the 3-dots menu. You can copy the URL, zoom webpage, print, find, cast, etc. If you want to exit from the Focus Mode and restore the tab in main Chrome window, just click on “Open in Chrome” option present in 3-dots menu and it’ll attach the tab to Chrome window again.
We told you about this feature in UPDATE 110 in our exclusive Chrome Canary Updates topic when this feature was under development and testing.
If you also want to enable and test Focus Mode feature in Google Chrome, following steps will help you:
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1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.
2. Now type focus mode in the “Search flags” box.
It’ll directly go to following option:
Focus Mode
If enabled, allows the user to switch to Focus Mode – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
#focus-mode
3. To enable Focus Mode feature, select Enabled from the drop-down box.
4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.
That’s it. You have successfully activated and enabled Focus Mode feature in Google Chrome.
Now you can right-click on any tab and select “Focus this tab” option from context menu to launch the tab in Focus Mode.
PS: If you want to disable Focus Mode in future, select “Default” option from the drop-down box and restart the browser.
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Hello sir, I request to post some new and updated information about Windows 10 May Update 2019, I recently installed Home edition and I see many new changes, here are some new changes
1. Windows updates advanced options changed(but old method to disable automatic update still works).
2. In Notepad, when I click “save as” button, then 2 old options and 3 new options of text encoding appearing, ANSI(which only support English) and popular UTF-8(support multiple typing languages) are old, but new is “UTF-8 with BOM, UTF-16 LE and UTF-16 with BE”
3. Improved startup.
4. Windows Sandbox(not available in Home Edition).
^^ Yeah. As soon as I get some time, I’ll start posting about new Windows 10 features.
@frank
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