chrometricks.net » theme http://chrometricks.net Chrome Tips & Tricks Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 10 Useful Google Chrome Tips And Tricks http://chrometricks.net/10-useful-google-chrome-tips-and-tricks/ http://chrometricks.net/10-useful-google-chrome-tips-and-tricks/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:32:30 +0000 AZ http://chrometricks.net/?p=169 Search from URL bar

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.

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Step 1) First you will need to download the google chrome theme switcher application which can be downloaded from this website here. Once you are on the website in the middle of the page you will be met by a download box. Enter the security code then click download file now.



Step 2) Once you have downloaded the theme switcher, you will need to extract it using winrar. You can download winrar from here, Once you have downloaded winrar you will need to install it. Just follow the installation process. Now move on the step 3.

Step 3) Once you have installed winrar you will need to extract the theme switcher files, first you will need to locate the theme switcher folder then right click on the folder and click extract files.

Step 4) Once you click on extract files another window will pop-up and you will need to set the extraction path. I just extract the files to my desktop but you have a choice. Once you have selected where you want the extracted files to go to click on OK. Now the extraction program will extract the files.

Step 5) Now you have extracted the files we can now use the application, First of you will need to open the theme switcher folder which should be named ‘ReleaseV2.1′ Once you open that folder you should have a ‘Google Theme Switcher.exe’ Application. Right click and open that.

Step 6) Now the Theme switcher application is open you can select your new theme. First make sure that google chrome isn’t running then chose your theme from the selection of themes on the left hand side then click ‘set theme’.

Step 7) Now your new google chrome theme has been enabled! Launch google chrome and your new theme should be there. If you found this guide useful or helpful then feel free to subscribe to my blog so you don’t miss any more of our google chrome guides. If you need any help then please feel free to comment below.

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