Feb 9, 2011

Optimizing Google Chrome

Optimizing Google Chrome - Tips and Tweaks

Clearing history

Click on Customize and control Google Chrome (it is at the top right corner of your browser window) and select Clear browsing data to clean the history according to your own wish.







Bringing up history page

To bring the history page quickly, use Ctrl + H. Here, you can easily view the group-wise history. You may also erase the history also.

Jumping the Downloads page
By pressing Ctrl + J, you can jump to the Download page.



Flexibility of downloading and saving 
By using Google Chrome, you can easily download files and you can easily copy that to the desktop or to any other specific folder by using drag and drop directly.


Bookmarks enabling and hiding
By using Ctrl+B, you can easily enable Chrome's bookmarks bar. If you press Ctrl+B again, the bookmark bar will be automatically disabled.


Easy bookmarking
You can easily bookmark a site by clicking the star icon at the left of the address bar. Now, select a folder to add it to or arrange and save your bookmark according to your own wish.

Loading Chrome's home page and most visited pages
You can load Google Chrome's home page, including the thumbnails of mostly visited sites by pressing Alt + Home.



Viewing installed plug-ins
Different purposes, you download and install several types of plugins. To see what plugins are installed on your computer, just type about:plugins into the address window.Now you will see all the installed plugins in shortly.


Creating application shortcuts
At the top right corner, there is an option named as Control the current page. Click on it and there is an option named as Create application shortcuts... Now, decide where you want to place the desired shortcut. This option works for Google apps, Google Calendar, Documents, Windows live hotmail etc.




Web page editing
To edit any web page just right-click a page and select inspect element. Then you can edit HTML source code and hit Enter key to view the changes.

Math calculations and unit conversions
You can use Google calculator by typing the expressions in the Google Chrome's omnibox or address bar. Moreover, you can convert one unit to other unit easily by following the above ways.

Link dragging & dropping to open a new tab


You can drag a link onto a tab to open it in that tab. Or drop the link in between the two tabs to open a new tab in that position.


Switching different opened tabs
For jumping or switching to different open tabs, use Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. Control + 9 takes you to the last tab.


Cycling through opened tabs
This is a great option of Chrome. By using Control + Tab, lets you cycle through your open tabs in order. Really, it's a handy way to switch different tabs in cycle order.

To cycle through your tabs in the opposite order, use Control + Shift + Tab.


Cleaning an item form the downloading page


To clear an item from  Downloads page, just right-click an entry or the entry you want to remove and select Remove. That's al to clean an item from the downloading page.


Deleting cookies
You can easily cookies form the browser. To delete cookies, go to Tools > Options > Under the Hood. Now, scroll down to the Security section, and click Show cookies.Later you can click Remove all or remove individual cookies.


Default browsing page settings
For making Google Chrome as default browser, click the Tools button. Then select Options, click the Basics tab and then click the Make Google Chrome my default browser button.


Google Chrome Task manager

Shift + Esc is a quicker way to bring up the Google Chrome Task manager. So, use Shift + Esc to access there.

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