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Make a Bookmark to Quickly Restart Google Chrome

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Google Chrome, most would agree, is a memory hog. Open a few website tabs in Chrome and your system slows down to a crawl. The most recommended solution is that you uninstall the non-essential Chrome add-ons  and restart your browser to release some RAM. How do you restart Chrome? Close the browser and double-click the application icon on the desktop to launch it again. That’s the usual way but Chrome also offers a special URL that makes it easy to restart Chrome from the address bar. Go to the browser address bar, type chrome://restart and hit the Enter key. Voila! The browser restarts itself. Make a Chrome Restart Bookmark If you restart Chrome frequently, it may be a good idea to create a bookmark that will help you restart with a click. Here’s how. Press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Cmd+D (Mac) to bookmark this page in your browser. Now click the Edit button on the bookmark screen, put chrome://restart in the URL input field and click save to create the restart bookmark. That’s ...

How to Make Someone Else’s YouTube Playlist Your Own

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Millions of YouTube users are working diligently to organize this ever-growing database of videos into playlists that make the YouTube experience even more enjoyable. Looking for inspiring Steve Jobs speeches on YouTube? Classic nursery rhymes for kids? Popular music videos of Adele? Well, chances are that some YouTube user may have already curated the best videos for a topic into playlists that you can watch on any device with a click. You can even download YouTube playlists on your Android or iPhone for offline viewing. Meet YouTube Copier, a web app that lets you copy YouTube Playlists of another user to your own account. https://t.co/T295US6vJ8 http://pic.twitter.com/a2CEtD7RH1 — Amit Agarwal (@labnol) November 16, 2016 Save Playlists vs Copy Playlists When you open any video playlist on YouTube, you have the option to save that playlist. This is like creating a bookmark that you can revisit later to watch that playlist again. However, it is a read-only playlist and you ha...