Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘chrome extensions’

Why is Google Chrome’s Startup So Painfully Slow?

I’ve been a Chrome devotee since nearly day one.  It’s a stable, reliable, lightning fast browser that handles today’s javascript-heavy pages with ease.  It’s so fast, in fact, that I used to show off how I could use Chrome to look something up before Firefox would even start up – that’s right, I could click [...]

Fixing the Chrome Error: “Could not create directory for unzipping”

I went to install a new extension in Google Chrome / Chromium and I was getting the error message “Could not create directory for unzipping.”
This doesn’t seem to be a permissions issue, as I have full rights on the PC I’m working on.
I found this thread in which some others report the same error.
The funny [...]

  

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