What are Your Google Chrome Web Browser Tips and Tricks?
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Now that you can download Google Chrome, are you going to switch? Granted, this is an early version of the browser, based on very solid pieces of technology. Is it enough, in your limited time playing with it? I’ve been trying to dive deeper and discover features that may not seem to be available on the surface for other power users like myself. I think Google has found a perfect balance between “power” users, and “casual” users. There are certain things about Chrome that are intuitive, but there’s also some things that aren’t as smooth as they could be… yet.
I’ve been running Chrome on both Windows XP and Windows Vista for a few hours now. I’m sincerely impressed under both circumstances. The feedback I’m seeing all over the place is very positive. It is fast. The features are excellent. It just works… and works well. So if you’re a power user like me, you’ll like the following tips I’ve come up with for you.
- If you go to the Omni bar (the address bar) and type in about:memory, you’ll get a browser tab that shows a summary of all the processes running in the browser… along with running a comparison with any other browsers you may be running at the same time. This will tell you how well it’s working on your system. There are several different shortcut easter eggs hidden in Chrome.
- about:version
- about:plugins
- about:cache
- about:memory
- about:stats
- about:histograms
- about:dns
- about:network
- about:crash
- about:hang
- about:internets
- about:whenwillthisbeavailableformacosx?!
- If you want to get to the task manager, right click somewhere in the title bar of the window, and go to task manager. (or click Shift+ESC while the browser is open) You’ll see the open tabs you have at the time, as well as if you have any plugins that are running (such as Flash app or ShockWave app). If you have a runaway app, you can select it and end its process. They’ve separated that, to keep you from having to shut down your entire browser.
- You know I like to click on just about everything I see inside a Web browser. Let’s say I’m on FriendFeed, and see that someone has made a FF Room. Maybe I want to surf that room, but I don’t want anything I see or do to be tracked. I can open an “Incognito” window. Then, everything I do in that browser instance is going to be private.
- If you do a search for something (like Chris), you can see recent pages in “History”, containing your word(s). It not only saves text of your history, it also saves thumbnails of each page you’ve visited.
- There are many awesome keyboard shortcuts for Chrome. This includes shortcuts for everything from opening a new tab, to opening a file on your computer from within Chrome.
Needless to say, Chrome is certainly worth downloading. I think that it will be most difficult to convince FireFox users to switch, because they are used to the Plugins and Extensions. Just download Chrome and try it. Go to websites you normally do, and see how much faster they load for you. That will make the decision for you.
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