Chrome socks5 command line switch

In Windows the Chrome browser uses your system wide proxy settings. This can be a problem if you have a need to run different browsers and/or applications. An example would be running a Secure Shell proxy to get through a content filtering firewall. To get around the Chrome system wide proxy settings, use a command line switch. Open or create a shortcut to Chrome/Chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:8080" Replace 127.0.0.1 with your proxy address and 8080 with your proxy port.
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Google Chrome PDF reader

With this effort, we will accomplish the following: PDF files will render as seamlessly as HTML web pages, and basic interactions will be no different than the same interactions with web pages (for example, zooming and searching will work as users expect). PDF rendering quality is still a work in progress, and we will improve it substantially before releasing it to the beta and stable channels. To further protect users, PDF functionality will be contained within the security sandbox Chrome uses for web page rendering.
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Improve Google Reader readability with userstyles.org and stylish

As with most Google products Reader is utilitarian. Install the Stylish Google Chrome extension. Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager. Stylish lets you easily install themes and skins for Google, Facebook,… User styles are themes for web sites. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you customize web sites. Take out irrelevant content, change colors, or completely redesign the entire site. Stylish lets you easily manage user styles.
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