24 October 2014

How to enable Offline mode in Google Chrome

Whenever you open any webpage in Google Chrome, it associate with the Internet, gets the most recent form of the webpage from the server and presentations it on your screen. In case that your machine is disconnected from the internet, Chrome will show a lapse message with a dinosaur picture saying it is not able to connect with the Internet.

Internet Explorer and Firefox gives you offline mode that automatically saves a copy of website pages as you surf in the Internet and shows this local copy when you are disconnected from the Internet. Therefore, in case that you are disconnected from the internet in a flight, you can even now open and read websites that you got to while your machine was on the internet.

Setting offline browsing in Google Chrome

The latest version of Google Chrome additionally included features like offline browsing however the option to enable the cache variant of any site page is concealed hidden inside the settings.

Enable the offline mode in Google Chrome.

  1. Open Google Chrome.
  2. On the address and search bar type chrome://flags/ it will show a warning message " Careful, these experiments may bite".
  3. Now search for “Enable Offline Load Stale Button” option. Hit the "Default" option and change to "Enable".
  4. The browser asks to click on "Relaunch Now". Now the browser will restart.

Presently in case that you are disconnected from the internet, your Chrome browser will provide for you an alternative to load the "stale copy" if the page you are attempting to get to is accessible in the local cache reserve (see screenshot).


Google Chrome stores the HTML contents, pictures, JavaScript and the CSS templates connected with a page so your offline copy ought not look altogether different from the original. Anyhow, if there are assets that require a dynamic Internet connection, in the same way as JavaScript widgets or videos, they'll not be loaded instead shows a placeholder pictures.

To test the feature, open your favorite webpage inside Chrome, turn off your Wi-Fi or disconnect the Ethernet link, and reload the website in the browser. In case that the offline mode is enabled, the reserved cache variant would appear on your screen.

Note:
  • The offline mode option is only available from the Chrome v36. If you are using older version then update it to the latest version.
  • Dinosaur image (Tyrannosaurus rex or T-rex) appears when the JavaScript or videos doesn't load or cached. The image probably says that the little arms could not reach the internet.
Enjoy! Valga Valamudan

1 comments:

  1. Anonymous8.2.16

    if you click on the dinosaur and press space you can play a game.

    ReplyDelete

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