A Collection of Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks
October 11, 2008 – 3:54 pmI’m back! It is quite a long time since I have updated this blog but I am not sorry! There are so many non-Internet-related things to complete these previous two months that I barely connected to the Internet long enough to continue to post some new contents. Alas, I will try my best to post some cool things every once in a while.
I also want to say thank you for all the loyal readers that still comes to my blog once in a while to check out if I am still alive! Lol!
By the way, I found out that there are an amazing bunch of buzz surrounding Google Chrome , the giant company attempt to test the web browser’s market or maybe some other plans for world domination.
I was pretty impressed on how fast it is and the way it handles processes separately is pretty convincing, because I’ve never experience crashes whatsoever (sorry Firefox 3!).
Here are some of 21 cool Google chrome tips that I’ve found from all over the Internet:
1. To search for keywords quickly using Google Chrome’s Omnibar (pimped up version of address bar), start typing with the ? sign or just press Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E keyboard shortcuts.
2. Use Google specific search capability from within the Omnibar, for example: 1USD in MYR for currency conversion or define:words for quick meaning of words.
3- You can resize the comment text box inside any blog with Google Chrome.
4- Use “Inspect Elements” to view computer resources used by a particular web page, in any tab that you wish for.
5- Use other search engine other than Google by right clicking on the Omnibar and choose “Edit search engine“.
6- Drag and drop Google Chrome’s tab to create a separate browser window.
7- Easter Egg! Typing about:internets inside Chrome’s Omnibar will display a cool, moving tube screen saver.
8- Press Ctrl+Shift+N to get into “Incognito Mode” to browse privately without the browser saving any previously typed data.
9- By default, Google Chrome will send your search data back to Google. Turn this off by right-clicking on the Address Bar and un-checking “Use a suggestion service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar“.
10- If you found an interesting link but would like to open it without Chrome’s saving any kind of data about it, right click on the link and choose “Open link in Incognito Mode“.
11- Copy a keyword from anywhere, right-click on Address Bar and choose “Paste and Search” for quick keyword search.
12- Create quick shortcuts of your favorite web-page on your desktop using “Create application shortcuts“.
13- You can import bookmarks and settings from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
14- “Stats for nerds” – check and compare other web browser’s memory usage from within Google Chrome’s interface by typing about:memory inside the Omnibar.
15- Opening a new tab will result in a “speed-dial” page that shows your most visited website.
16- Cool looking web “History” screen with the exact timestamp when you surfed it. Available via the Ctrl+H shortcut.
17- “Open the following pages” option allows you to open multiple tabs as your homepage.
18- Press Ctrl+B to show or hide Chrome’s bookmark toolbar.
19- Run and login to two email / IM etc. accounts at the same time with Google Chrome’s normal and Incognito Mode run side by side.
20- There is already a portable version of Google Chrome for those who want to show off.
21- Use the middle mouse button and click on a link to open it in a new tab (a copy cat of Firefox’s cool trick!)
Know more cool Google chrome tips and tricks? Leave a comment then! Thanks in advance!
Tags: google chrome, tips, tricks
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17 Responses to “A Collection of Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks”
It’s great to see the blog updated again.This is one of my favorite tech blogs.
By Shontou on Oct 12, 2008
Thanks for the ‘Ctrl+Shift+N to get into “Incognito Mode”’ shortcut. I need that.
By spBlogger on Oct 12, 2008
@Shontou: Thanks for the support man.
By Syahid A. on Oct 13, 2008
thanks for sharing these tips with us .
but i don’t use google chrome because it is stil in beta and firefox is able fulfill my all requirements
By Ajay on Oct 16, 2008
Welcome back Syahid, it is nice to hear from you again.
I am still not convinced by Google chrome, I am happy with Firefox, not sure if I would ever use google.
Time will tell I suppose.
Regards
Jeff.
By infoaddicts@sent.com on Oct 20, 2008
@Jeff: Thanks man. Yeah, only time will tell.
By Syahid A. on Oct 22, 2008
I’am very happy to see this interesting blog online again! Regards from Italy
By Massimiliano Puccio on Oct 29, 2008
great set of chrome tips and tricks i am not into chrome yet but i am thinking of it thanks a lot
By MOin on Oct 31, 2008
Interesting list of tips! Many of them are new to me.
By Haris on Nov 1, 2008
I normally Firefox, but have recently been trying out Google Chrome. I think it’s really cool and fast. I might stay with it.
By Cas on Nov 2, 2008
@Haris + @ MOin: Thanks guys!
By Syahid A. on Nov 4, 2008
Yeah, I also found that it’s really fast compared to Firefox browser. Perhaps, it’s because Firefox has too many add-ons and also it seems to check the updates for the add-ons all the time. Thanks for sharing the tips!
By Yanto on Nov 9, 2008
Actually, I am pretty sure that IE7 has the middle-mouse-scroll-wheel-click-thingy trick, too. You can also use that to close tabs (as in IE7).
By Adam on Nov 18, 2008
Dang, the 7th is a nice one!
By Abdulrehman on Feb 4, 2009
good
By rahi on Mar 20, 2009
very nice, it’s good to know about chrome
By thushy on Jul 12, 2010