Sep
9
Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Google Chrome
Chrome is just like everything else google — pretty to look at and freaking fast. Some things are still awkward, bookmarking for one, and there has been complaining about its javascript limitations; still for an out of the gate browser, it’s more than impressive. But by now you’ve probably tested it out for yourself. And if you liked it enough to keep it up, here are a few fun things to try out and some good stuff to remember.
1. Chrome’s task manager: Chrome has its own task manager: press Shift+Escape to display a list of all the websites currently open. Useful to show you which tabs are slowing everything down.
2. Adding shortcuts to the Desktop, Start menu, or Quick launch bar: This has never been so easy. In any open site, just select ‘”create application shortcut” from the file menu.
3. Undo close!: Ctrl+shift+T: Opens your most recently closed tab. Basically works as an “undo close” for those of us who are constantly closing tabs by mistake.
4. Browsing History: Ctrl+H
5. Link in new tab: Press Ctrl and click a link to open the link in a new tab.
6. Link in new window: Press Shirt and click a link to open the link in a new window.
7. Quick browsing through tabs: Holding down Ctrl and pusing 1 through 9, will select the tab with the corresponding position in the tab strip. You’ll be surprised at how much faster this will make browsing.
8. Some stuff to type into the the address bar
- First type “about:internets” into your address bar. See what happens.
- Type “about:network” – gives you a list of images, scripts and objects, on a page. Helpful when something doesn’t load right.
- Type “about:stats”: because looking at statistics is always fun, right?
- Type: “about: memory” – If you are like most of us, using different browsers for different things, you can compare IE, Mozilla, Chrome, or Safari here.
