谷歌浏览器Chrome的100个技巧（英文）

100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 1 100 Tips For Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook Users Do you know that you can middle click to close a tab in Chrome ? Or that you can put your tabs on the left hand side, vertically ? Heard of the Google Dictionary extension that will show meaning of a word on double clicking ? Yes, there are so many Google Chrome tips that you are yet to discover. Some will change the way you browse the web and some will make things more easy and useful. And hey, I have 100 of such tips to share with you !! This FREE E-Book is a my attempt to make you a power user, like many others who read chromestory . com regularly. note : this e-book is written with Chromebo ok ( amazon affiliate link ) and windows PC users in mind. Mac users can have their share of fun too. However, don’t worry, if you are an opensourcer ! chromestory . com covers Linux tips too, regularly. Oh, almost forgot to tell you, this is my first e-book attempt. So, I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on this ! Visit my blog, drop me a comment ! email me at hello @ offlineblog . net - Tweets ? that’s @1dinu … And don’t forget to share with your friends if you like this ! 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 2 Keyboard Shortcuts That Will Transform Your Browsing Style Let’s start with Keyboard Shortcuts. They are easiest among these tips, you can start using them right now. Let’s get started !! 1. Press Shift and click a link - Opens the link in a new window. 2. Ctrl+9 - Switches to the last tab. 3. Ctrl+Shift+V - Paste copied content from the clipboard without formatting (ie, pastes as plain text if you copied some content from a webpage) 4. Ctrl+Shift+B - Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off. 5. Ctrl+Shift+T - Reopens the last tab you closed. Google Chrome remembers up to 10 tabs you closed recently. 6. Alt+F or Alt+E - Opens your settings menu for Chrome. 7. Shift+Esc - Opens the Task Manager of Chrome, which will let you monitor system usage by each tab and kill tabs you wish. 8. Type a URL, then press Alt+Enter. - Opens the URL in a new tab. 9. Press Alt and click a link. - Downloads the target of the link. 10. Ctrl+Shift+D - Saves all open pages as bookmarks in a new folder. That’s just 10 of my favorites. Learn a lot more like this here at Chromestory . com 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 3 Do A Lot More With Your Mouse ! Still with me ? Good ! it’s time for us to play with your mouse and do some cool stuff on Chrome. 1. Middle Click a tab to close it. Easy and fast way of closing tabs ! You will like this new way of closing tabs, I am sure ! I remember playing with this when I first learned about it. Thanks Mr.P for sharing this with me ! 2. You can drag any tab and change it’s position on the current window. Click and move them left or right ! This is really useful for people who keep tabs in some order always. Over the time, I have developed a habit of keeping gmail as my first tab on any PC I use. So every time a tab takes that place, I move my gmail tab back to front ! 3. Drag any tab out of the current window to make it an independent window. You can restore it by dragging it back to the main window. 4. Select text on any web page and right click to get a “Search Google for” option, which will let you perform a Google Search for that term, in a new tab. No need of copying the text, and pasting it on another tab to perform the search. Saves a lot of time ! 5. Right Click for “Go To” : On any web page, if the text you selected is a web page, you will get “Go to … “ option on right click. Saves time you usually spend for copying the URL, opening the new tab to go to that website. 6. Paste and Search : This is a simple tip that saves you one mouse click, each time you do this. If you want to run a search query using copied text, right click and use “Paste and Search” No need of pasting it first and then hitting enter or clicking “Go” to run the query. 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 4 7. Paste and Go : If the text you copied is a web page, open a new tab and right click on the address bar to get “Paste and Go”, saves you one keystroke / mouse click each time ! 8. For those who find fonts on websites too big/small for your viewing, zoom in/out the page by pressing Ctrl and scrolling the Mouse wheel. Scrolling forward zooms in, while scrolling backward zooms out. CTRL + 0 ( zero ) takes the page back to the actual size. 9. Any text area ( like a comment form on a blog ) if you need more space, click and drag on the bottom-right corner to re-size the box to your choice. However, website owners have the ability to disable this feature, and some may do so. Don’t worry if you find a website where this feature doesn’t work ! 10. After downloading a file, you can copy it to the desktop or to any other folder by just dragging them directly from Google Chrome’s downloads bar ( yes, that small bar at the bottom of the page with download progress, when you are downloading a file ) 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 5 Use Omnibox (addressbar) To Make Life Interesting & Easier The Address Bar of Google Chrome is named Omnibar or Omnibox because you can use it for a lot of things, and not just for typing in a website’s address. My favourite ? I can type things there and hit enter, and it will search Google and find me answers. I can change my search engine to Bing or Yahoo! if I want. With Instant Search, Google will load search results while I am typing my keywords in. So, as soon as I finish typing things, I have my results ready for me ! Cool isn’t it ? We regularly discuss these kind of Omnibox tips on Chromestory . com . Recently they announced that developers can make extensions to make things more exciting on the Omnibox. Here, I have collected 10 most useful tips for using this Omnibox. You will start using your addressbar for more than typing addresses when you finish reading these tips ! 1. Use Omnibox as your basic calculator : Google Chrome’s address bar or the omnibox is also a basic calculator. You can type in simple calculations and get results just like search suggestions. Go ahead, try calculating something now! 2. Type in chrome :// plugins to your Omnibox to view all the plugins ( not extensions ) Google Chrome has. You can enable or disable any of these from here. For example, if you want to disable the inbuilt flash player of Chrome, look for “Flash” on this page. 3. Visit about:flags to find out about more exciting features coming soon to Chrome. This page lets you enable experimental feature on Chrome. One of the most interesting experiment you might want to try is Side Tabs which helps you display your Chrome tabs on vertically. 4. Use a custom search engine to get more things done from Omnibox : Google is your default search engine on the addressbar. However, you can add another one of your choice, a custom search engine, which can do more than search. 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 6 For example, you can find driving directions from Google maps more easily with custom search engine on Chrome. Here is how to do it . Now if you want to search the Chrome Web Store using omnibox, here is how to do that . 5. Use Google Secure Search on Omnibox : Google has an SSL search which send your search queries encrypted to Google servers. If you want to add one more layer of security to your search keywords, you can enable this SSL search as default search on Google Chrome Omnibox. (note : this may disable some features of Chrome Omnibox, like auto suggest ) Right click on the omnibar and select “Edit Search Engines” Now you are on the “Add Search Engine” screen. Now hit “Add” You can choose the Name and the Keyword, and then enter the url as ‘https://www.google.com/search?hl=all&sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s‘ 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 7 Now click “Add” again and you are good to go. Select this as the default search engine from the “Add Search Engine” menu. 6. Use chrome :// history to view your browsing history 7. Type in chrome :// bookmarks to view and manage all your bookmarks. 8. Do you want to know how a crashed page looks like ? type in about:crash or about:kill 9. Easily access your chrome options/settings using chrome :// settings Bonus Tip: 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. 10. Change Omnibox suggestions count : By default, Chrome only shows 5 URL suggestions when you type in the URL bar. To increase/decrease the suggestion count, simply add the command line switch ( right click on your chrome desktop icon, paste this in “Target” at the very end. --omnibox-popup-count=your_desirable_suggestions_count 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 8 Click “Apply” and then “OK” . Now, open Chrome again and test. I hope you got to learn something new here about the omnibox. There are many others for you to discover, and they are adding more to it ! Tabs and Bookmarks Bar Tricks For You 1. Right click on any tab to make a “Pinned Tab ” . Keep your most used tabs in this manner and you will have them ready whenever you open Chrome. I keep my reader and gmail tabs pinned so that I have them open whenever I am online, and also opens up whenever I open Chrome. 2. Show home button on Chrome Toolbar: Its simple, go to options, ( easy way, type : chrome :// settings and then look for “Toolbar” Check the “Show Home Button” option. 3. Easily bookmark a page clicking the “star” icon on the right end of the addressbar. You can do this with the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + D” too. 4. Tabs on Left : What about putting all your browser tabs vertically ? The first thing you need to do is, visit about:flags and enable “Side Tabs” from the list of experiments available here. Now, restart your browser, and then right click on any tab to select “Use Side Tabs” 5. More Keyboard shortcuts for managing tabs Move active tab left – ctrl-shift-pgup Move active tab right – ctrl-shift-pgdn Move active tab to first position – ctrl-shift-1 Move active tab to last position – ctrl-shift-9 Move active tab to nth position – ctrl-shift-<2..8> 6. Drag any tab to make it separate window. You can drag it back to the original window too ! 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 9 7. Make a favicon only bookmarks bar : There are some websites you identify with their favicon ( the tiny icon you see next to their name on the addressbar - mostly their logos ). You do not need their name to identify them. Say, you have gmail bookmarked on the bookmarks bar, you don’t really need that name “Gmail” along with the icon. So, lets get rid of it, and save some space ! This is how my bookmarks bar looks like ! When you press Ctrl+D or click on the bookmarks “star” icon to add a new link to the bookmarks bar, remove the name and leave that field empty to make it favicon only. For existing bookmarks, right click, and select “edit”. 8. Another use for Pinned Tab : You already know about pinned tab on Chrome. I use it for two more things. When I pin a tab, the close button goes off, and I will not accidentally close it. Also, it will no longer show the title of the page I am on, in case I am reading something and I do not want to show the title to people around me. 9. Right click on any extension’s icon to hide it or disable it ! 10. Right click on the “Back” icon and you will a list of visited pages from that tab. 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 10 Drag and Drop Tricks - Do Things in Style ! Keyboard Shortcuts or Mouse Gestures, ( right, forget the touchscreen for now ) we have our own ways of getting things done while we are using computers. Some of us use more of keyboard shortcuts and less mouse gestures, and some use the opposite mix. Some of us use ctrl c and ctrl v to move things around on our computer, but some use mouse to drag and drop files and folders. If you are in the second category, this post is going to be REALLY useful for you. 1. Drag Files to Attach and Upload While you are on a website and trying attach a file from your computer, instead of selecting the file, browsing through your computer, just drag the file from your computer and drop it to the upload box on the website. 2. Drag Downloaded Files to Desktop You have seen the download bar that appears on the bottom of Chrome while you are downloading something right ? Once the download is complete, you can drag the file from that bar and drop it on the location on your computer, where you want it to be. So next time, after the download is done, try drag and drop ! 3. Drag Text To Omnibox To Search If you are used to copying text and then pasting it on the omnibox ( addressbar ) of Google Chrome, here is a quicker way to do that search, simply drag your piece of text to the Omnibox bar ! 4. Drag Text To Tab Bar To Search In New Tab Similar to last tip, but one difference. Instead of dragging the text to the addressbar, try it on the tab bar, and you will get the search results on a new tab. 5. Drag Links To Omnibar To Open Them 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 11 This works well with links from your bookmarks bar. Drag the URL to the addressbar to open it. 6. Drag Links to Tab Bar To Open In New Tab This is something that I find really useful. When I am on a page, say, a wikipedia article, there will be lot of links on that page to related articles which I would love to read, but without closing or leaving the current page. I can drag that link to the tab bar to have them open in a new tab. 7. Drag Images to Open in New Tab Just like you drag URLs or Text to the addressbar, you can drag images to the addressbar and open them. 8. Drag Images To Tab Bar To Open In A New Tab Yes, similar to the last tip, but dragging images to the tab bar, will open them in a new tab. Pretty simple uh ? 9. Drag Links to Bookmarks Bar to Add Them To Bookmark Forget keyboard shortcuts to bookmark URLs on to your bookmarks bar, start dragging them to there, do things in a different style !! 10. Open Files Saved On Your Computer Using Chrome- Drag and Drop You can drag and drop files to chrome from your local computer to open them in the browser. Will work well with HTML files and images etc. But, my personal favorite ? PDF Files. Remember I told you about making Chrome your default PDF viewer ? Yes, this is another cool way to get PDF files open on Chrome, which will be way faster and easier than the traditional adobe reader ( I feel good calling it sooo traditional ) 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 12 My Top 10 Extensions Extensions bring a lot of functionality to your chrome browser. I share a lot of extensions on my blog, but here, I have collected 10 ten from them, without which my Chrome browsing experience is incomplete. Each title is a link to the official install page. 1. Feedly. My all time favorite, on my computer and my android phone. It made my content consumption so much interesting and colorful. I started thinking how boring Google Reader used to look, after I started dating feedly. Feedly redesigns your Google Reader contents and presents it in a magazine like format, and with some additional capabilities for sharing and discovering more stuff you may want to read. They also have a “Popular” content page which curates some awesome articles from the web. If you are someone who read a lot on the web, follow some cool blogs around here, this will definitely be an awesome choice for you. 2. Google Dictionary I find new words every day while browsing. Copy pasting them to a dictionary page to find out meaning is soo time consuming but Google Dictionary makes things easy for me. Double click on any word, and you get the meaning of that word there itself, within a second. 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 13 Facebook Photozoom We spend a lot of time on Facebook everyday, find dozens of images on our news feed and friends' uploads. Yes, there are so many of the being shared on facebook every day !! I used to open them on different tabs to view them all. But after installing Facebook Photozoom extension, I can just keep my mouse on that image to see the image, no need to open the photo in a different tab ! 4. Twitter Refresh I like to use twitter on the web browser, whenever possible. However, the only problem I had was refreshing the page each time there is a new tweet on my timeline. I fixed this with the twitter refresh extension. This cool one refreshes my twitter page whenever there are some new tweets on my timeline. This doesn’t reload the entire page, only the timeline. 5. Firebug Lite This one is for developers. Especially those who moved from firefox and missing firebug here. Firebug Lite is not a substitute for Firebug, or Chrome Developer Tools. It is a tool to be used in conjunction with these tools, says the developer. 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 14 6.Chrome To Phone Here is something cool for Android Phone owners. Send links, maps and phone numbers from Chrome to your android phone. Check out the video here from Google. 7. Screen Capture Easy way to capture screenshots and edit them, straight from Chrome. Really useful for Chrome OS users. 8. Thin Scollbars Install this one to make your scroll bar more thing, and beautiful ! You will love this. 9. Google Tasks I always need someone to remind me of stuff to do. When I am online, Google Tasks extension for Chrome does the job. It has some cool features like, select words from websites to add to task with one click, and also adding tasks from the Omnibox. 10. Classic Facebook Album - Get Rid of the New Annoying UI Facebook recently introduced a new interface for viewing albums. This is kinda annoying if you ask me. I know many who felt that way. For us, this extension was a life saver ! 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 15 10 Cool Chrome Themes ! How can we ignore themes when we talk about making best out of Google Chrome ! Here are my favorites. Do checkout the theme category here at chromestory . com for more ! 1. New Blue 2. Rain Drops 3. Honeycomb Chrome Theme 4. Twitter Faces Logo 5. Twitter Faces Bird 6. Avril Lavigne Theme 7. Mickey Mouse Theme 8. “ Lost ” Theme 9. Glow Ribbons 10. Taxi Theme 100 Tips for Chrome, Chrome OS and ChromeBook - From Chromestory . com – Page - 16 Know These 10 Things, Go Pro ! 1. Change Position of Notification Bubbles : Like those cute notification bubbles you get on Chrome and Chrom