You can access Chrome flags in the browser across all the supported platforms—Chrome for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, and Chrome OS. To view available flags in Chrome on any of these platforms, type chrome://flags in the address field. The section for Available displays all the flags supported by your current platform; Unavailable shows the flags not supported by your system.

Scroll through the list of available flags or you can look for a specific flag by name or description. In the Search flags field at the top, type the words you want to find in the name or description. Results will populate in real time, allowing you to quickly find a flag.

You will notice that most of the flags are disabled, which means they are not active. Sometimes a flag may be enabled if Google deems it sufficiently stable. Some flags may be set to default, which means it may be enabled or disabled.

To manually change a flag's status, click the button and set it to Enabled or Disabled. If you manually change a flag's status, the Enabled/Disabled button turns blue, and a blue circle appears in front of the flag's name. You're then prompted to restart Chrome for the change to take effect.

Before enabling anything, proceed with caution. Flags are experimental, and though some will improve Chrome, others could do more harm than good. That's why you never want to enable a bunch of flags in one shot. The best strategy is to read the description of a flag that intrigues you and research it to find out how it works.

If you want to try one, enable that single flag. Restart Chrome and make sure the browser is behaving itself. If you bump into any problems, go back to the flags page and disable the troublesome feature you enabled, which you'll now find at the top of the list. If you need to reset all the ones you may have changed, click the button at the top to Reset all to default.

Now, let's check out 10 top flags for Chrome users. You can find these by browsing the list of flags or more easily by searching the flag's full name.

Here's another common problem on the web. You're at a certain page on a website and click the Back button in the browser expecting to return to the previous page. Instead, you remain stuck at the same page and have to click Back several times to get to the prior page.

This happens because some websites sneakily put dummy entries into Chrome's History list to keep you on the same page. Enabling a flag named New History Entries Require a User Gesture will prevent sites from inserting these dummy pages without your approval.