USE GOOGLE CHROME LIKE A HACKER.

by Tejen Dave 22:18 0 comments windows hacking

(30 tricks and shortcuts to make your life easier)

1. Create desktop and Start menu

shortcuts to web apps such as Gmail -

go to Gmail.com and then select Create

application shortcuts... from the Page

Control menu (in the top-right corner

of your browser - it looks like a page

with the corner folded over). Now

choose where you want to place your

shortcut. This works for other Google

apps such as Calendar and

Documents, and other services such as

Windows Live Hotmail.

2. Control + Shift + N opens an

'incognito' window - sites you view in

this window won't appear in your

history and cookies served by sites in

this window will be deleted when the

window is closed.

3. You can open a link in an incognito

window by right-clicking the link and

selecting Open link in incognito

window.

4. Alt + Home loads your Google

Chrome home page, with thumbnails

of your most visited sites shown in the

active tabbed window.

5. Control + T opens a new tab. You

can drag tabs around to change their

order or drag a tab out of the window

into its own window.

6. Control + Shift + T opens your most

recently closed tab. Press the key

combination again to open the tab

closed before that one. Google

Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs

you've closed.

7. Jump to different open tabs using

Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3,

etc. Control + 9 takes you to the last

tab.

8. Control + Tab lets you cycle through

your open tabs in order.

9. Control + Shift + Tab cycles through

your tabs in the opposite order.

10. As with Firefox 3, you can drag a

link onto a tab to open it in that tab, or

drop it between two tabs to open a

new tab in that position.

11. To bookmark a site click the star on

the left of the address bar and then

select a folder to add it to.

12. Control +B hides the Google

Chrome bookmarks bar. Press Control

+ B to bring it back again.

13. Right-click or hold down the back

button and you'll get a drop-down list

of sites to go back through. Show Full

History, at the bottom of the list, opens

a new tab with your full browser

history.

14. Control + H is a faster way to bring

up the History page.

15. You can delete history for chosen

days by scrolling to the day you want

to delete and clicking Delete history for

this day on the right-hand side of the

window.

16. Control + J brings up your

Downloads page.

17. To clear an item from your

Downloads page, right-click an entry

and select Remove.

18. Press Control + K or Control + E to

search from the address bar. Once

pressed, you'll see a ? symbol appear

in the address bar and you can simply

enter your search query and hit

Return.

19. Right-click the top of the browser

window and select Task manager to

see how much memory different tabs

and plug-ins are using. Highlight one

and click End process to stop it

running.

20. Shift + Escape is a quicker way to

bring up the Google Chrome Task

manager.

21. To see what plug-ins are installed,

type about:plugins into the address

window.

22. You can also type the following

commands into the Google Chrome

address window: about:stats,

about:network, about:histograms,

about:memory, about:cache,

about:dns.

23. Type about:crash to see what a

crashed tab looks like.

24. A three-second diversion: type

about:internets. (Only works in

Windows XP.)

25. Edit any web page - right-click a

page and select Inspect element. Now

edit the HTML source code and hit

Return to view the changes.

26. To make Google Chrome your

default browser, click the Tools button

(in the right-hand corner of the

browser window - a spanner icon).

Select Options, click the Basics tab and

then click the Make Google Chrome my

default browser button.

27. To delete cookies, go to Tools >

Options > Under the Hood. Scroll

down to the Security section, and click

Show cookies. Now you can click

Remove all or remove individual

cookies.

28. To clear more data such as the

Google Chrome browsing history and

cache, click the Tools icon and select

Clear browsing data...

29. To clear the most visited web sites

that appear on your Google Chrome

start page, you must clear your

browsing history using the method

above.

30. Clearing your Google Chrome

browser history will also stop matches

from previously browsed sites

appearing as suggestions in your

address bar.