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Load AMP articles in Google Chrome on the desktop - harlan4096 - 14 January 19
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Quote:Google is pushing Accelerated Mobile Pages, AMP, heavily in an effort to improve performance and other metrics no mobile devices.Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/09/load-amp-articles-in-google-chrome-on-the-desktop/
The main goal of AMP is to speed up the mobile web and this is achieved, at least partially, by restricting AMP pages.
AMP is only available in supporting mobile browsers; Chrome for desktop systems does not display or load AMP pages by default but the regular pages on sites even if those sites support AMP.
Tip: find out how to disable AMP on mobile browsers.
AMP Browser Extension is an extension for Google Chrome, and likely other Chromium-based browsers, to load these AMP pages on the desktop.
All that it takes is to install the browser extension in Chrome to enable AMP support in the browser. The extension requests permissions to access data on all sites open in the browser.
It adds an icon to the Chrome toolbar that acts as a toggle to enable or disable AMP functionality.