Chrome does not have a search bar like Firefox. To perform search in Chrome, simply type search phrase in URL bar and hit Enter. Chrome will perform a Google research for your phrase.

Change omnibox suggestion count

By default Chrome shows 5 URL suggestions when you type a URL.

In Windows right click on Chrome shortcut icon and select properties. In the Target field, add this command line switch to the end of command.
–omnibox-popup-count=your_desirable_suggestions_count

Change Chrome Theme

If you want to change the Chrome default theme to personalize it more, here are easy steps to change Chrome theme

Download a Chrome theme
Extract the default.dll file
Navigate to Chrome installation directory and go to /Application/Chrome/Version/Theme 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 that you extracted.
This will change Chrome theme.

Download Youtube video in Chrome

This tip will allow you to download a youtube video in Chrome without using any additional software or file. In the Chrome press “Ctrl+B” which will load the bookmark bar. Right click on bar and click “Add Page”. In the name bar type Youtube Videos or whatever you want to name it. In the URL field copy and paste following code.

javascript:window.location.href=’http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=’ + swfArgs['video_id'] + “&l=” + swfArgs['l'] + “&sk=” + swfArgs['sk'] + ‘&fmt_map’ + swfArgs['fmt_map'] + ‘&t=’ + swfArgs['t'];

Now go to Youtube and watch any video, click the Youtube Videos bookmarklet and it will save the video on your computer (remember to add .flv extension to video).

Zoom in/out
If you find the font of text is too big or too small to read, you can adjust it to your liking in Chrome by pressing “Ctrl+Mousewheel”.

Drag and drop a tab to load in a new window
If you have more than one tab, you can drag and drop the tab on menu bar to open it in a new window.

Chrome’s easter egg
The easter egg appears if you type about:internets in the address bar but this only works in XP and not in Vista.

Special “about:” URLs
Chrome has some special about: URLs. Try writing these in address bar.

about:
about: cache
about: crash
about: dns
about: hang
about: histograms
about: network
about: plugins
about: memory
about: stats
about:version

Edit any web page

Right click an html page and select “inspect element”. Edit the hetml code and hit return, it will show you the changes you made.

Delete cookies in Chrome

Go to Tools > Options > under the hood. Scroll down to the security section and click show cookies. Now you can click on remove all or remove individual cookies.

You would like to read my post How to install themes in Google Chrome if you don’t know how to install them.
IMPORTANT: Do make the backup of the original theme file before replacing it with these new ones.

1 – Go Green

A mix of green colors in a truly “Green” environment. This is a theme for all of you who care about our planet. Go Green!
Download | Theme Author

2 – No Icons

A stab at a Google Chrome theme without the icons on the bar. I could only fit 4 characters per button so…
Download | Theme Author

3 – Mac V1.0 Theme

The theme has been inspired by Mac Osx
Download | Theme Author

4 – BlurkMAC – Mac OS X Theme

Download | Theme Author (not Available)

5 – BlurkDev DeviantART Theme

Download | Theme Author

6 – Black Window Live

Download | Theme Author

7 – IE7 Google Chrome Theme with Vista/Aero look

Download | Theme Author (Not Available)

8 – Google Chrome Firefox Vista Theme

Download | Theme Author (Not Available)

9 – Google Chrome Milk Theme

This is a theme was made to blend with the Milk 2.0 msstyle for OS X.
Download | Theme Author

10 – Safarish Theme

Anyone likes Safari here ? No ? okk.. anyone likes graphics/colors of Safari here.. For them we present Safarish.. The Safari like Theme for Google Chrome
Download | Theme Author (not available)

Official Video from Google about 10 features about using Google Chrome. You can find further videos and other tips on http://www.google.com/chrome.