A future version of Google Chrome may make it a cinch to clean up messy settings cast into chaos by malware (or your own misguided hands).
Digging deep into the latest build of Chromium—the open source browser that serves as the wellspring of new Chrome additions—evangelist François Beaufort discovered the Chrome team added the ability to return aspects of the browser to their default states.
François Beaufort After you enable the chrome://flags/#enable-reset-profile-settings flag in Chromium, you'll find a bevy of new reset options in the browser's Settings menu, as you can see in the screenshot above. Expect to see the feature pop up in Chrome proper somewhere down the line.
When it does land in Chrome, it'll be lagging behind the times a bit, as Internet Explorer and Firefox both already offer default restoration options of some kind. That said, Chromium's new options already outshine the competition, largely thanks to their granularity.
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