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Manage installed plug-ins:
Browser plug-ins can enhance your browsing experience. However, they can also be a source of bugs and instability if you do not keep them updated. Often applications you install will add browser plug-ins to tap into your web experience. Unless you are using the functionality provided by the application it might be wise to disable the plug-ins they install.
To see a list of your installed plug-ins, you only need to enter about:plugins on the browser address bar. You will be taken to page with a list of plug-ins installed for your browser. Each plug-in will have a link below it that will let you disable the plug-in.
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To make it easier to ensure that you have the latest version of your browser plug-ins installed, you can make use of the Secbrowsing > plugin version checker extension for Google Chrome. This handy extension will check if you are running the latest version of the plug-ins you have installed and notify you if that is not the case.
Add RSS support:
Quite unfortunately, Google Chrome by default does not support even detecting RSS feeds. If you have a use a web site’s feed while using Google Chrome, you have to copy the URL for your RSS feed or web site, and paste it in the RSS feed reader of your choice.
This isn’t intuitive at all, and can be rather annoying as you can imagine. You may come across web sites that don’t even offer a direct URL for their feeds, and instead choose to have them imbedded in the page’s code, making detecting feeds even harder.
The good news is that this can be easily remedied using an extension by Google. The RSS Subscription Extension by Google shows a small indicator in the address bar when the current page has an associated RSS feed. Click on this icon for a preview of the feed and allows you to easily subscribe to it. It includes a few subscription services by default, however you can configure your own.