Cool Google Chrome Tricks You Must Know

I introduced some of the coolest Google Chrome tricks that you should know:

1. Add home button to Toolbar

Click the Wrench icon -> Go to Options/Preferences -> Check the checkbox that says ‘Show Home Button’ and you’re done. Alternatively you can open your default homepage using the combination Alt+Home.

2. Mastering the Omnibar

Google has revolutionized web browsing by unite the address bar and the search box into a feature called the Omnibar. This Omnibar can be used in two ways: Typing in the address bar say www.galaxyexperts.blogspot.com which will take you to our site and second typing in TechSource that will perform a query on Google for the same term. So to avoid confusion between searches and addresses, we use a question mark before the term to perform a plain search. This is useful if you are performing unreadable queries like ‘example.com’ on Google. If you’re a keyboard person, then Pressing Ctrl+L anywhere on the page will put focus on the Omnibar allowing you to type the address/query. Similarly, by pressing Ctrl+K anywhere on the page will help you to perform a search query through the Omnibar. Note that, searches are made through the Omnibar will depend on which search engine you select as your default one.

Google Chrome Tips and Shortcuts

1. Create desktop and Start menu shortcuts to web apps such as Gmail - go to Gmail.com and then select Create application shortcuts... from the Page Control menu (in the top-right corner of your browser - it looks like a page with the corner folded over). Now choose where you want to place your shortcut. This works for other Google apps such as Calendar and Documents, and other services such as Windows Live Hotmail.

2. Control + Shift + N opens an 'incognito' window - sites you view in this window won't appear in your history and cookies served by sites in this window will be deleted when the window is closed.

3. You can open a link in an incognito window by right-clicking the link and selecting Open link in incognito window.

4. Alt + Home loads your Google Chrome home page, with thumbnails of your most visited sites shown in the active tabbed window.

5. Control + T opens a new tab. You can drag tabs around to change their order or drag a tab out of the window into its own window.