Chapter 7

Setting Preferences
In this topic you will learn:
• Setting the home page
• How long an item stays in the history list
 Setting Preferences
• Preferences are pieces of information that you
store persistently and use to configure your app.
• Apps often expose preferences to users so that
they can customize the appearance and behaviour
of the app.
• Most preferences are stored locally using the
Cocoa preferences system, known as the user
defaults system.
Set your homepage and startup page
You can customize Google Chrome to open any page for the homepage or startup page. These
two pages aren’t the same unless you set them to be.

• Your startup page is the one that shows when you first launch Chrome on your computer.
• Your homepage is the one you go to when you click Home

If your startup page, homepage, or search engine has suddenly changed, then you may have
unwanted software
1. Click and hold the Google

2. Drag the to the symbol of

Setting Preferences for Chrome
 Set your start-up page:
1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More .
3. Click Settings.
4. Under "On start-up," select Open the New
Tab page.
Google Chrome: Clear History and
Delete Your Browsing Data
How long an item stays in the
history list?
Google claims that 10 weeks of browsing
history is kept available in Chrome for
viewing in the history tab, and supposedly
this is the exact same data that is available
to a developer using the chrome.
History API when developing an extension.
 Clean Chrome of unwanted ads, pop-ups, & malware
If you're seeing some of the problems listed below in Google
Chrome, you might have unwanted software or malware installed
on your computer:
1. Pop-up ads won't go away.
2. Your Chrome homepage or search engine keeps changing or
is not set to Google anymore.
3. Unwanted Chrome extensions or toolbars keep coming back.
4. You keep getting redirected to unfamiliar webpages.
Here are some steps you can take to get rid of unwanted software.