How to Make Chrome Your Default Web Browser in Windows 10

Make Chrome Your Default Browser in Windows 10

Default apps > Web browser

Symptom:

1. Make Chrome your default browser option when launching Chrome doesn't work anymore for Windows 10.

2. Even you click OK, Microsoft Edge will still be the default browser.

Solution:

1. Click Windows Start button on bottom left of screen.

2. Click "Settings".

3. Click "System, Display, notifications, apps, power".

4. Click "Default apps".

5. Click "Web browser".

6. In Choose an app, select your desired web browser.

This works fine for FireFox and other web browsers too.

Facebook Videos Green Picture in Chrome

All Facebook Videos Showing Green Picture in Chrome

Green picture Facebook video

Symptom:

1. After upgrading to Windows 10, all Facebook videos are showing green picture.
2. There's audio playing in the background, but just no picture being displayed.

Resolution:

1. This steps only work for Chrome browser.

2. Enter "chrome://flags/" in Address box.

3. Scroll down to "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode". You can use CTRL + F (Find option) and enter keyword "hardware" to jump there quicker.

4. Click "Disable".

5. A new pop up button "Relaunch Now" appears on bottom of screen, click on that.

6. Chrome browser will restart.

7. Try playing the Facebook video now, it should work fine.

For FireFox browser solution, click HERE.

chrome://flags/ in Address box

Disable hardware-accelerated video decode

Facebook video plays fine now

How to Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration on Google Chrome

Unable to Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration on Google Chrome

Unable to click anything in flash settings

Use chrome://flags/ as workaround

Symptom: 

1. When you right click on any flash video to get settings menu up, the checkbox for hardware acceleration and any other flash menu tab cannot be clicked.
2. You have already tried my steps to disable Flash Hardware Acceleration at HERE but it still doesn't work.

Solution:

1. Open a new tab in Google Chrome.

2. Type in "chrome://flags/" on the URL address box.

3. Scroll down and look for "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode".

4. Click once to "Disable".

5. Click "Relaunch Now".

6. Once you've relaunched Google Chrome, all flash videos will start playing normally again.

Note:

I've previously disabled flash hardware acceleration on Google Chrome by right clicking flash settings. But somehow after Windows update and resetting Google Chrome browser, the flash checkbox menu no longer is clickable. This is the workaround that I could find to play all my flash videos normally once again on Google Chrome.