Monday, August 23, 2010

Some Important Tricks And Tips For Google Chrome.

Hi,


  • Zoom IN/OUT:

For those who find that the font is too big/small for your viewing, you can zoom in/out the page by pressing Ctrl + Mousewheel.



  • DRaG and droP tab to load in a new window:


When you have more than one tabs, you can easily drag any tab and drop it on the menu bar to load a new window.



  • Change Chrome theme:


If you don’t like the default theme, you can easily change it with the following steps:
  • Download a Chrome theme of your liking
  • Extract the default.dll file.
  • Navigate to your Chrome installation directory and go to /Application/Chrome version/Themes folder. The Chrome version will be in the form of 0.2.129.27. Replace the default.dll file in the folder with the default.dll file that you have just extracted.
  • Voila! Your Chrome is now dressed with the new theme.



  • Important shortkey tricks :

  1. Control + Shift + N : Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.)
  2. You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window.
  3. Alt + Home : Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.
  4. Control + T : Opens a new Tab.
  5. Control + Shift + T : Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.
  6. Control 1Control 2Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs.
  7. Control + Tabs : Lets you open tabs in order.
  8. As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab.
  9. Control +B : Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar.
  10. Control + H : Opens the History page.
  11. Control + J : Opens the download page.
  12. To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove.
  13. Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running.
  14. About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.
  15. About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.
  16. To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands: about:statsabout:networkabout:histograms,about:memoryabout:cacheabout:dnsabout:internets.
  17. To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…
  18. Shift Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.


No comments:

Post a Comment

Recent Popular Posts