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Awesome Top 10 Hacks For Google Chrome

AZ — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:06:13 +0000

Google Chrome has become an unavoidable word as well as browser for netizens. Here we have given some essential tips, tricks and hacks for you.

01-If you want to resize the text area, you can do it by dragging it to the lower right corner, therefore if you need to write a little big comment in a blog, you can easily expand the text area.

02-If you want search for keywords, you can do it by pressing just Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E, at the same it is possible by typing “?keyword”

03-If you want to reopen recently closed tab, it is possible by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T, and at the same time, it is possible to check “Recently Closed Tabs” option while opening a new tab.

04-If you are not satisfied with Chrome, you can easily switch to other search engines by choosing “Edit Search Engine”, after right clicking on the address bar.

05-The other major feature of this Chrome is, we can type about:memory in the address bar and we will get a report about running browsers in the machine. Moreover, it will be able to display the details of memory usage by different Google Chrome’s process. Like wise, you we can get many other about pages like about:stats, about:version, about:network, about:dns, about:crash, about:histograms, about:cache, about:plugins, about:hang etc.

06-It is possible to drag a window wherever we want, we can create a new window right from browser tab and we can add it back to the original window.

07-We can surf in Private Browsing Mode and we can try the “Incognito Mode”. It is possible entering Incognito Mode by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N and it is possible by right clicking “Open link in incognito window.”

08-We can directly drag and drop a downloaded file directly from Google Chrome to the desktop or a particular folder.

09-We can monitor the resources being used by a web page just by right clicking inside the page to choose “Inspect element”.

10-At last, you can have an Easter egg in Google Chrome. If you will type about:internets you will be prompted a series of tubes taken from the tubes screensaver.

Google Chrome Tips, Tricks, Hacks, Shortcuts and Easter Egg

AZ — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:08:53 +0000

1. You can easily resize the text area by dragging it on the lower right corner. So if you need to write a BIG comment in a Blog you can easily extend the text area.

2. You can reopen the recently closed tab by pressing “Ctrl+Shift+T”. Alternatively you can check the “Recently closed tabs” section when you are opening a new tab.

3. You can easily search for keywords by pressing either Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E. You can also do this even simpler by typing “?keyword”.

4. You can also use other search engine if you are not interested in Google. You can do this by right clicking on the Omnibar(Address bar) and choose “Edit search engine“. But I personally prefer Google.

5. There are many about pages in Google Chrome. You can type about:memory in the address bar and you will get a report showing browsers running in your machine. It will also display the Details of memory usage by different Google Chrome’s processes. There are many other about pages like about:stats, about:version, about:network, about:dns, about:crash, about:histograms, about:cache, about:plugins, about:hang etc.

6. You can easily drag a window anywhere you like. You can create a new window from your browser tab and you can also add it back to the original window.

7. If you are looking to browse in private mode then you can try the “Incognito Mode”. You can enter the Incognito Mode by keying Ctrl+Shift+N. You can also right click a link and say “Open link in incognito window.”

8. You can directly drag and drop a downloaded file directly from Google Chrome on to the desktop or a particular folder.

9. You can Monitor the resources used by a web page just by right click inside the page and selecting “Inspect element”. You can also switch to “Resources” tab to view the objects load time.

10. There is an easter Egg in Google Chrome. If you type about:internets it will show a series of tubes taken from the tubes screensaver. It works with Windows XP.

How to extract saved Passwords in Google Chrome

AZ — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:54:06 +0000

It is a common routine that we select “Remember my Password” option whenever we surf around the internet. It is Quite Dangerous especially when you are using public computer. Whenever you select “Remember my Password” option, then your Passwords are Automatically saved into your Computer, for further use. And The saved Passwords can be retrieved quite easily. Anyone can easily extract your password and misuse it.

Here is the Tip on how to Extract Saved Passwords:

ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time. You can also save them in Text and Xml Files. Download ChromePass here.