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⭐ Vertical tabs have finally arrived in Google Chrome! 👀 I've been using the Arc and Zen browsers for a while now and I found the vertical tabs feature really cool. Whilst Google Chrome isn't my main brownser, it's great to see it now available as an option in Google Chrome, especially for those times when I have to use it! 🥳 To enable this feature straight away: 1️⃣ Make sure your version of Google Chrome is up to date 2️⃣ Browse to chrome://flags 3️⃣ Search for Vertical Tabs 4️⃣ Set to Enabled 5️⃣ Relaunch Google Chrome 6️⃣ Right click on the tab bar 7️⃣ Select "Move tabs to the side" ⬅️ You can also collapse the tab bar for a minimal look and view more of the webpage.

Hey all! Hope you're keeping well. I’m interested to know what other schools using ChromeOS do for their classroom setup, specifically for teachers. Currently, each teacher desktop has two monitors and an interactive display at the front of the room. The primary monitor is duplicated to the interactive display (touch is used occasionally), and the second monitor is extended. We’re moving more and more towards ChromeOS, but I’m not convinced it will work as well as our current setup. From what I understand, ChromeOS display arrangements are a bit “all or nothing”. I’d be really interested to hear how other schools are handling this. Thanks 🙂

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Having an odd one here, one of our staff members has created a Google sheet and initially shared it with a few other members but now wants to restrict the permissions, but, when they go into the shared list, it shows the other members as editors and are greyed out and cannot be changed, it also doesn't list the original staff member as the owner in the list or even show up, also 2 of the members aren't greyed out and can be changed from editor. The Google sheet is located within the shared drives section, would this have any affect on the documents share options?

We have automatic sing in enabled on Edge but how do you enabled it on Chrome Browser, searched only couldn't find any usefull info about it, also here there is topic and people say there is automatic sing in thing, but can't find it???

Hi A member of staff has reported as of yesterday, Chrome and Notepad++ are suspended in task manager. No green leaf icon being displayed like when services are suspended by the UWP process group. No new software has been installed and nothing else has changed. The member of staff says that it takes a long time during a lesson, for Chrome and Notepad ++ to start responding. He is having to reboot which takes a while. Just wondered if anyone else has experienced this?

Hi all, We have been told that we need to have Chromebooks in the school due to their multitude of benefits. I have embarked on the uphill battle of getting them perfect in our school for use with the students. A little background information on what we have done already We have signed up to Admin.Google.com so we can remotely manage our Chrome devices which is perfect for the most part. I have ventured two options in regards to creating a 'client' for the students to use to log into the virtual system, I will explain below. Kiosk Mode Via the console online I can assign a kiosk app to start upon boot, since I dont have the time nor the patience to create my own Kiosk app, I have decided to go with the top rated kiosk app so colourfully named 'Kiosk'. This app works very well, it allows users to boot straight into a predefined URL and gives them no access to any other parts of the Chromebook, with a nifty 'Admin' feature which you secure with a password to allow a 'way out'. The problem with this Kiosk app (and later I find other kiosk apps) is that the Citrix virtual sessions never actually launches, it just hangs. I have tried this through the internal portal and external CAG, all with the same result, I have concluded that the Kiosk apps do not work with virtual environments. Chrome Public Sessions This seems to be Googles answer to Kiosks, or something similar. Via the online console I can configure a multitude of options, forcing users to use google safe search for instance, blocking the installations of apps e.t.c e.t.c It also allows me to auto launch the web browser and point it to a URL as default, and logging into the virtual system works!. So what's the problem Ryan? Public Sessions can be configured in many ways, as described above. However, you cannot lock down the bar at the bottom of Chrome OS, allowing users to use the search function, to click network settings, Bluetooth settings, volume. Users can navigate to the devices main settings and adjust the display, touchpad ... the list goes on and on. I can just imagine how much fun a handful of 12 to 18 year olds will have with that much power... Hopefully you can see my headache, so my question to you guys is ... Do you run Chromebooks in your school, if so, how the hell do you lock them down ? If you don't run virtual, but you have managed to lock them down without an auto launched kiosk app, tell me how oh guru! Thanks Ryan TL/DR 1. Kiosk App applied via the admin console don't seem to work with a Citrix Virtual Environment. 2. Public Sessions is too wide open, kids will change all the settings and we'll have a bad time! 3. I'm pulling my hair out finding a way to get these to work in our school. 4. TELL ME HOW!

I currently have chrome being installed via a GPO and I'm using the chrome administrative template to configure chrome and force the installation of some extensions. I would also like to force install the Chrome App Launcher but I am unable to find a way to do this. Here is a link to the Chrome Apps Launcher. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/launcher

Hi, So we've been having this problem where if a staff member is logged onto their classroom machine and has chrome open, they then cannot open chrome on their laptop or another machine. We have to close the first session so they can continue. Has any one else experienced this? I've brought it up with support but they say its a chrome issue. We are running CC4 over windows server 2012r2. Thanks.

Hi, We are a GAFE school and recently moved away from RM to Vanilla, but one of the things I am unable to get my head around at the moment is getting Staff and Students to automatically sign into their Google accounts. The Google password sync is working ok, so password changes in AD apply to google email password. I had a brief foray into researching this but, from what I can see, the hoops I would have to jump through would only work on Chrome devices and not Windows 10 desktops etc anyway. As Staff and Students here have their homepages set to our internal sites.google.com/*user*-internal pages, they are being asked (rightly) to login (which is causing issues when they choose not to). Previously on the RM system, both staff and students just got their respective homepage without having to manually sign in, so there must be a way or a plugin I am not aware of. Would anyone have any clues, pointers or, even better, - a guide on how to achieve this? As we went Vanilla to save on support costs with RM, we are loathe to have to pay for a third party tool to do this... Many thanks in advance

Hello, I'm trying to find a current MSI file for chrome so that I can create a package and push it out over CC4. There's got to be an easier way surely? the last time chrome was pushed out through MSI was version 75.0.3770.100.0 - is there a way of creating a package that auto-updates or is that wishful thinking? Worst case scenario where can I find an MSI file now for Chrome as it seems to push to an application file or to Chrome enterprise, which I am also curious as to how that would work with cc4? Any help would be appreciated greatly as I fear I am going insane lol.

Has anyone had this issue? I'm trying to bring some laptops back to life and although installing CloudReady works perfectly, some models of laptops end up with the trackpad disabled. My mind is exploding with trying to fix it.

I may be forced to go chrome in the future How to chrome: how do you deploy, auto update (every week) without admin, group policy, FILTERING using SSL interception with RM filtering if you can't spoof google certs.

Hello, all.. This is probably something REALLY simple, and my coffee deficiency is showing. Up until now, we've used GPO to remove the option to allow folk to sign into Chrome. Now, however - as is the way with things - we need to look at enabling it to allow Staff to use an extension which is registered to our central email domain account. It only works if you're logged into Chrome with a valid email domain. Anyhoo.. Onto the actual problem As a test, I've removed the GPO that prohibits the sign in. I login into Chrome with my relevant credentials (it takes me to the main login page). I select "Link". And then I can't browse the WWW. If I look at Chrome settings, proxy, it's still all good - using the System proxy settings. As soon as I go into Settings and logout, WWW works again. We're behind authenticated proxy (WebSense/ForcePoint). Our proxy Infrastructure person isn't in this week (yay), so I'm kind of guessing here that the proxy is either being fed bobbins details, or that it isn't actually using the System proxy settings... Does Chrome not send the user credentials of the logged on user when using a linked/sync'd account? Cheers, Gerard

Hi Installed Chrome ADMX and ADML files tonight on our Windows 2008R2 server in c:\windows\policy definitions folder When I open up Policy Manager and try to edit a policy I get various parsing errors. Am using Chrom 14.3 and latest files from Google - is anyone else having problems?

Hi everyone, We are using Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) on our PCs. The majority of these machines are currently domain-joined, although going forward, there is no requirement for them to be. Local profiles are created when users sign in via GCPW. We want to ensure the following happens automatically when a user logs in using GCPW: Automatic sign-in to Google Chrome. Automatic sign-in to Google Drive for Desktop. Google Chrome is set as the default browser. We have Google Workspace for Education Standard. Has anyone successfully configured these settings for users logging in via GCPW? Any advice on how to enforce this would be hugely appreciated!