Some very useful hidden shortcuts
1. Want to open a new tab in the background without leaving the existing one, so that it won't interrupt your current work? Hold down the Ctrl key or Cmd and click it. If you want to open a link in a completely new window, press Shift. (This will work most of the time you're using Chrome, including the history page and the back button drop-down history list, which we'll cover in more detail.)
2. Maybe you know that you can scroll down a full page length by pressing the space bar, but this shortcut has another function: if you hold down the Shift key and the space bar, Chrome will do the opposite - Scroll up one full page length.
3. If you accidentally close a tab, press Ctrl or Cmd+Shift+T and Chrome will reopen your most recently closed tab as if nothing happened. (You can also repeat if you want to restore more than one tab.)
4. When you have a bunch of tabs open and want to save them all for later use, press Ctrl+Shift+D. This saves all open tabs into a folder for easy access later. To restore them, all you have to do is right-click on the folder within your bookmarks and select "Open All New Window".
5. You can get information about any keyword in the page by selecting the word, then right-clicking and selecting the "Search Google" option. You can also select a word or phrase and drag it into Chrome's address bar to achieve the same effect - or drag it directly to the right of your rightmost tab to create a new option Start a search in the card. (Additional tip: this drag-and-drop behavior can also be used to open new links)
6. One-click save link: You just need to hold down the left mouse button, click the link you want and drag the link to Chrome's bookmarks bar. Put it where you want it and it will be there next time you need it.
7. If you downloaded a file and then want to move it to a specific place, you just click on its module in the download bar at the bottom of the browser, then you can drag and drop the downloaded file directly into your computer desktop or any folder.
8. You can also drag and drop files directly from Chrome's download bar to websites - such as instant uploads in Google Drive, or insert files as attachments into Gmail messages.
9. If you find Chrome becomes very strange, remember this command: Chrome://restart. Type it into Chrome's address bar and your browser will restart and restore all tabs and windows in an instant. You never know when this feature will come in handy.
Teach your browser some amazing new features
10. It only takes 60 seconds to set up and you can configure your Chrome browser with a quick access tool that allows you to jot down your thoughts in the browser - without installing an extension. All you have to do is paste the following snippet into Chrome's address bar.
data:text/html;charset=utf-8, <title>Scratchpad</title><style>body {padding: 5%; font-size: 1.5em; font-family: Arial; }"></style><link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/documents/images/kix-favicon6.ico"/><body OnLoad='document.body.focus ();' contenteditable spellcheck="true" >
Then save the page to your bookmarks bar for easy access. The editor supports formatting of text (Ctrl or Cmd+B for bold, Ctrl or Cmd+I for italics, Ctrl or Cmd+U for underline) and even comes with a built-in spell checker. Open it and you can start typing right away - if you want to save your thoughts for later retrieval, press Ctrl or Cmd+S.
11. Chrome's Custom Search Engine feature has a lot of underused potential. First, you can use it to create simple shortcuts that allow you to browse the web pages you visit often—from your favorite sites to Chrome's built-in pages, or even the text editor described in the previous tip. Just open Chrome's settings, click the "Manage Search Engines" tab, then click the "Add" command next to the "Other Search Engines" heading. Type the name of the page in the "Search Engine" field, the desired shortcut in the "Keyword" field, and the full URL of the page in the "URL" field.
For example, if you want to implement Chrome settings by typing "cs" in your address bar, you can use "Chrome settings" as the search engine name, "cs" as the keyword, and set chrome://settings as the URL . To quickly enter the text editor mentioned in the previous tip, you can use "scratchpad" as the search engine name, "s" as the keyword, and set the above code as the URL.
12. You can also use Chrome's Custom Search Engine feature to create a quick search engine for searching any website you want. The way to do this is to first find the full URL of the site's own search system, so if you want to set up a quick search for a fastcompany site, open fastcompany.com, click the search icon in the upper right corner of the screen, and search for terms like "test". The website will take you to https://www.fastcompany.com/search/test.
Once you know the fastcompany search page address, you go back to the "Manage Search Engines" section of Chrome and click the "Add" command. This time, type "Fast Company" as the name of the search engine, "fastcompany.com" as the keyword, "https://www.fastcompany.com/search/%s" - replace the actual query with "%s" Location - as a URL.
A custom search engine takes just a minute to set up and can save you a ton of time.
The next time you start typing "fastcompany.com" into Chrome's address bar, you'll see instructions telling you to press Tab to search the site. Build similar shopping sites, Wikipedias, dictionaries and websites, travel sites, or anything else you search for often, and you can save your precious time by skipping tons of tedious steps and getting straight to the information you need.
13. Want to search your mail directly from Chrome's address bar? Create a new custom search engine called Gmail, whatever keywords you want (can be "gmail.com" or other abbreviations), and add "https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/ u/0/#search/%s" is set to the URL.
14. Search Google Drive from the address bar by creating a custom search engine with "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/search?". q=%s" URL.
15. Speaking of Google Drive, if you switch between multiple devices throughout the day (who doesn't?), your life can change
by
having Chrome save everything you download to a cloud folder Simple. This way, you can find the files you need from your desktop, laptop,
smartphone
, or any other device, no matter what device your download was done on.
First, you must install a desktop sync program that serves your cloud storage. Most cloud services, including
Google
Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive, provide such utilities for all common
operating systems .
Once you install the program, you will have a folder on your local hard drive that is always in sync with the folder in your cloud storage.
Now, go into Chrome's settings, click the "Advanced" menu, and scroll down to the section labeled "Downloads." Click the "Change" command to find or create a subfolder in your Cloud Sync folder. Once you've gone through these setup steps on any computer you want to connect to, everything you download will be available on whatever platform you're working on -- and you'll also be able to access it through the cloud service's mobile app.
Take advantage of hidden powerful tools
16. By right-clicking on the link label (where the title is displayed) and selecting "Mute On", those annoying sites with background sounds will be silenced. This recently added option will prevent websites from playing any audio when you visit it.
17. Do you want to avoid leaving traces when browsing the web? Open Chrome's settings, click "Advanced", and then set "Send Do Not Track Requests with Browsing Traffic" in the "Privacy and Security" section.
18. To better protect your privacy, take advantage of Chrome's options to create multiple users and allow guest users to access your browser. This way, others can use Chrome on your computer without visiting all of your personal data (and without
logging
any websites they visit in your browsing history). In Chrome's settings, look for the "Manage other users" tab.
19. You can open your browsing history by pressing Ctrl or Cmd+H or typing Chrome://history in the address bar, it has a powerful but easily overlooked feature: open in Chrome browser on other devices Open tab. When you want to see what you've seen on your phone, tablet, or other computer, you can open a web page with this feature.
20. The back button in the upper left corner of Chrome is more powerful than you might think. Click on it and long-press the mouse, and you'll see a pop-up history bar to view recent history in your current tab.
21. Chrome can strip all formatting from the text you copy, such as removing hyperlinks, fonts, colors, and other things you might not want to keep. After you have copied the desired text, press Ctrl or Cmd+Shift+V to make changes.
22. Want to know what a web page looked like before? Try prefixing the page you want to view with "cache:" and you can view a snapshot of the site's history.
23. Make Chrome your file browser: Drag and drop any image, video or audio file into the browser and you can open it on the browser. If you're using Windows, you can also try typing C:\ into Chrome's address bar to browse the contents of your hard drive.
Improve configuration and eliminate troubles
24. Tired of those push alerts that keep asking if a site can send notifications through your browser? You can turn off website notifications completely. Open Chrome's settings, click Advanced, and then click Content Settings. Next, find and click the row for "Notifications" and you can say goodbye to annoying reminders.
25. Next time you see a text box on a website, try this: look for the intersection of two diagonal lines in the lower right corner of the text box, click and drag down, and you can Easily resize windows too.
26. Chrome extensions can be very useful, but their icons can pile up on the top right corner of the browser and cause you a lot of trouble. You can right-click on the icon and select "Hide in Chrome Menu" from the options that appear. You can also hide the extension by hovering over the far right of the address bar until you see an arrow, then stretching the address bar to the right.
If you need to open a hidden program, just click the three-dot icon on the far right of the address bar. You will be able to see all the programs.
27. While we were talking about extensions, did you know that you can create shortcuts to open specific extensions? Some extensions even allow creating shortcuts for a specific command. Enter chrome://extensions/shortcuts in the browser's address bar to set it up.