Google Chrome Short Cuts

Yet another addition to the services provided by Google to the internet users. Google launches their new open source web browser "The Google Chrome" . People at Google labs are popular for their user friendly designs and features and im sure that this Google Chrome is not going to be any different.

Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. It builds on components from other open source software, including WebKit and Mozilla, and is aimed at improving stability, speed and security with a simple and efficient user interface. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers.

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Anyway, for those of you guys who are always looking for good stuff to improve your software beyond its limit, here is a list of useful tricks or hacks:

1. Control + Shift + N : Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.)

2. You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window.

3. Alt + Home : Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.

4. Control + T : Opens a new Tab.

5. Control + Shift + T : Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.

6. Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs.

7. Control + Tabs : Lets you open tabs in order.

8. As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab.

9. Control +B : Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar.

10. Control + H : Opens the History page.

11. Control + J : Opens the download page.

12. To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove.

13. Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running.

14. About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.

15. About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.

16. To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands: about:stats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:dns, about:internets.

17. To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…

18. Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.