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10 Chrome tricks to improve your browsing experience

A small extension to topic 2 "Use browser shortcuts for faster access to features" use chrome://chrome-urls/ to see all available URL's inside the chome browser.

For those used to the IE "Close all tabs" / "Close current tab" saviour when hitting the X in the top right hand red box by mistake there are numerous extension such as "Window Close Protector" that warn if you hit the Chrome X in the top right hand red box with "Leave this page" / "Stay on this page".

If you drag the icon to the left of the URL up into the tab bar, it will open a second tab on the same URL (but without the back history). I find this useful for example when I'm scanning for good google hits. Click a search result; if it's good, drag it up, go back to the first tab and hit back; else just hit back; ...aaand repeat. This allows you to collect the set of useful hits very quickly.

You can also "group" tabs for tearing them off to a new window. Just use Shift or Ctrl to select a number of tabs; if you drag the tabs then they will come off as a single unit. Quite handy!

Very nice article...chrome is my favorite browser...after reading this it seems i cant browse without it...thanks for this nice post...:D

You can bookmark the new tab page and reopen it on an existing tab.
My other most used feature is F12.

I was thinking this article was about something extraordinary....

"But there are several useful keyboard shortcuts without an easy corresponding mouse action ...Saves an existing page as a bookmark...Reopens a closed tab"

The activities described above are ones I engage in daily.

I've never liked memorizing things; that's what I have a computer for. One reason I like Firefox is the ability to customize the toolbar with mouse-clickable icons for most features, and the ability to position them where I want. I don't have to memorize any keystrokes when there are icons right in front of me.

Maybe I'm the only guy left on the planet willing to sacrifice a bit of vertical screen space for a toolbar. But if I am, am I going to be unhappy trying to use Chrome?

You can click the star in the URL bar to favorite it/bookmark it. The new tab page has a nice "Recently Closed tabs" menu to let you open recently closed tab(s).

I learned most of those keyboard shortcuts several years ago because using them is so-o-o-o much easier than diddling a touchpad.

I use them every day...in Firefox!

most of these "tricks" have been standard use in Opera for years.

Can I navigate it effectively with a mouse as I am accustomed to, without having to learn a bunch of keyboard shortcuts?

You shouldn't have any problems.

I tried it, I didn't like it. I like my tabs immediately above the page display and I couldn't find a way to make Chrome do that for me.

At the bottom? I'm also a 'tabs on top' kinda guy; that's where every other browser and app I use puts them.

At the top of the window. It's the same location as the Firefox default for a new install: just below the window controls, but above all menu bars and tool bars. Later versions of FF have the same default location.

and was completely put off by the bookmarks / favorites management. I couldn't figure out a way to pin the bookmark menu on the left side. I quickly got tired of scrolling the top menu bar, and couldn't figure out a quick way to access my favorites.

Back to FF for me.

and select "Add Page" to put a favorite on there. I've been using Chrome a while though - I remember tearing my hair out several years ago trying to keep up with the changes. I can't drag myself away from Dragon(Comodo's Chrome), because it is so crazy fast. Now that Chrome is soon going to be supporting Trusteer's Rapport, I may never go back to the other two browsers at all.

Chrome is Forceware, as in it has only spread due to the Google deal with Adobe to spam users pc with Chrome when they upgrade acrobat/flash.
supporting couple hundred pc's and have had to remove Chrome off of their pc since it messes up the default browser of choice IE. When you remove Chrome it doesn't uninstall correctly and then links in emails or our software no longer work to open a web page. You need to edit the registry to fix the issues Chrome causes. This software was not asked for but installed because Goggle and Adobe knows not a sole reads the update notice and clicks to install a new flash vers then they a stuck with Chrome. If it was not for this cheaters delivery system no one would use Chrome.
I remove it from every system I touch. It's only an evil tracker to give them more info on how you use the internet.

I was a loyal Chrome user until sometime late last year, when for some inexplicable reasons Google / Chrome Team chose to tinker with the font rendering, making reading extremely difficult and stressful for the eyes. Despite several posts on their forum and feedback to Google, there has been no resolution to this issue. Besides, Chrome remains the memory hog it always was. Certain website compatibility issues persist, forcing one to switch to IE / FF which handle webpage rendering easy. So, I had promptly switched to FF & IE9 as Google has become the new Microsoft. Unless Google gets the basics right, which made it a super success in its early days of Chrome, it is bound to lose eyeballs to competitors. Hope someone from Google is reading this, or at least reads feedback / comments posted on their forum. So, IMO, the points discussed in the articles are irrelevant if Google can't set right its Chrome usability.

AddThis is a great add-on. Customize the list to get your favorite sites for sharing. Since I added this plugin, I find it totally intuitive to share stuff on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ or by email... whereas before if I was busy I often wouldn't bother even if I felt it was something I should share.

Chrome is the top of the line browser as regards speed, getup and reliability and for a long time it was my default browser, till I needed to deal with Video downloads. Chrome has no integrated Video downloader like IE and Firefox. Therfore, I am using chrome for the limited use of Search.Please ddo something about this shortcoming of Chrome.
Ramesh Pradhan

I have been trying to rectify a problem I have been having for months and thus far my efforts have been fruitless. I have 2 IMAC computers at home circa 2009, 2011. They are both operating Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.2. Regardless of the webpage (I originally thought there was a conflict with Office Outlook Web Access where I deploy my company e-mail), periodically a large arrow in a grey circle appears on the left side of the page, and will pull the page I am working on closed. Periodically can be as often as every few minutes, highly frustrating. Once the page is closed I can't go back and recover the page, thus any form I am filling out online, online backing activity, online commerce, e-mail, is terminated before completion and has to be re-entered.
If anyone has a solution, I'd be very grateful to hear from you.
Thanks

Preferably someone who dropped FF to go to Chrome.

Been a committed Firefox user for years. But Google has been getting sh**ty with them lately so some features were becoming problems.

Started using Chrome, becoming comfortable and started trusting it features. One of the things I always liked about Firefox was the "Email Link" from the file menu that was included in the broweser. I needed to load an app for Chrome to have that feature. Found an app and started the download. That's when my night mare began.

It was a casual download, just like Firefox. And then I noticed more crap ware coming along with the download. Tried to hit cancel and close the download window. Inaccessible! Opened Task Manager fast as possible and killed the process, which killed all open applications on my system.

Did the restart of Firefox and Chrome only to find a new search browser U Search.net. Started Malawarebytes search, which did not find any threads. . Started Microsoft Security Essentials deep drive and left for the day for it to run through the night. Returned the next morning and MSE was locked about 1/4 way through the search. Killed the search.

Clicked on Start in Win 7 to search programs. It opened an at home legal program I had on the HD. Clicking on law program to close it brings up start menu. Click on start menu it brings up program. Now I know I'm hacked big time.

Immediately shut down system and reboot into Safe Mode. More night mares. The laptop has a biometric fingerprint reader. Safe Mode loads and opens to Administrator login screen. No biometric reader available, the code was written in the boot log to start after the text code. One problem! No text password! Only one user account with no password. Completely locked out of machine. Insert CD to boot bios from CD drive. Win 7 Safe Mode says unable to change bios setting while in Safe Mode.

CD drive boot inoperable so can't use HP Recovery Disc or Hiren's CD Boot Disk, or reinstall WIN 7 OEM from CD drive.

Try F8 repair settings, Command Prompt, System Restore etc, all reboot back to Admin Log On Screen, which requires Admin text password on machine that only has biometric password.

Finally pressing and restarting all the F keys I find in F11 I HP help reset/restore screen opens. Out of several choices I select Command Prompt which opens DOS screen. Open Regedit. Start searching for registry changes that will delete passwords, safe mode, allow boot sequences changes and what ever else I need to get back to the desktop so I can start removing the malware. Call HP and MS help desks for their help. I ultimately realized that the Level 1 support in both of these organizations is useless. But none of them will relinquish the case file and send it to a higher level. After I got into Command Prompt and Regedit I had to walk the "kid" at MS through how to enter command code. WTF, I'm suppose to be paying for that?

So now I'm working on my own doing more searches for help. It's better than arguing with undereducated tech help. And I haven't even covered the call quality of the international connections.

All I can say is a big thank you to everyone from Google Chrome developers who leave the gigantic holes in their code, the app creator who allowed the tag along code to install, and the f**king hackers who ingeniously and maliciously have been my constant companions for the last three and one half business days. And MS for changing their login feature in Win 7 so there's no bypassing the login like in XP. In addition, I want to thank the Corporate Thieves at Microsoft and HP for their hijacking attemps at my finances to help me with this problem. Their extortion is no different than the hackers demanding ransom ware purchase. But then they're corporations and exempt from that comparison.

I have had to cancel appointments, turn down walk in business, process credit cards on paper charge slips and simultaneously manage three computers doing fixes and searches.

My last resort is pull the hard drive, install in a HD caddy, save some of my program files and blow up the HD, if I can't eliminate the malware.

I have tried Chrome on several machines but Its not for me unfortunately. I can not stand the thought of all my browsing being monitored, and the memory hog is alarming, as a browser it is very swift and I can fully appreciate its attraction to the infantile. But I think that it is limited in quite a few applications which is the trade off for the speed, but as they say there is no such thing as a free meal.

I use and like Chrome.
So there.

This memory hog feature, can that be switched off?