02 Nov 08 Google Chrome – Instant Bookmarks

Chances are you visit some websites on a regular basis. If you’re on a website, you can tell that it’s bookmarked if the star icon on the address bar is highlighted. You can create bookmarks in several ways. Click a link below to learn more about each method:

Click the star

If you come across an interesting webpage that you’d like to access again in the future, click the star icon on the Google Chrome toolbar to create a bookmark. A bubble confirming the addition of the bookmark appears.

To tweak the bookmark’s name, edit the text in the ‘Name’ field.
By default, the bookmark is filed in the bookmark folder that was most recently used. Use the ‘Folder’ drop-down menu to choose where you want to store the bookmark.
To tweak the bookmark’s URL, click the Edit button.

If you accidentally clicked the star icon, you can quickly revert by clicking the Remove link in the bubble.

undo bookmark

If you’re on the History page (Ctrl+H), you can also click the star icons that appear next to the links of websites you’ve previously visited to create bookmarks for them.

Manually add the web address

If you know the web address that you want to bookmark, you can right-click the bookmarks bar (Ctrl+B) and select Add page. Provide the following information in the ‘Edit Bookmark’ dialog box, then click the OK button.

Name: Type a label for the webpage you’d like to bookmark.
URL: Type the specific web address for the webpage.

Select the appropriate location for the new bookmark from the folder list. Click the OK button when you’re done.

Drag a link to the bookmarks bar

You can quickly create a bookmark for any link on the webpage you’re on by clicking and dragging it to the bookmarks bar.

Import bookmarks from other browsers

Learn how to import bookmarks from Internet Explorer or Firefox. After importing, folders and bookmarks on your Firefox bookmarks toolbar or Internet Explorer links bar are placed on the Google Chrome bookmarks bar directly (Ctrl+B). All other items are filed in the ‘Other bookmarks’ folder at the end of the bookmarks bar.

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02 Nov 08 Explore Google Chrome Features: Incognito mod

For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode. Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won’t be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window. You can browse normally and in incognito mode at the same time by using separate windows.

Browsing in incognito mode only keeps Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you’ve visited. The websites you visit may still have records of your visit. Any files saved to your computer will still remain on your computer.Example: If you sign into your Google Account on http://www.google.com while in incognito mode, your subsequent web searches are recorded in your Google Web History. In this case, if you want to make sure your searches are not stored in your Google Account, you’ll need to pause your Google Web History tracking.

Changes made to your Google Chrome bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved.

To turn on the incognito mode, follow these steps:

Click the Tools menu .
Select New incognito window.

A new window now opens with the incognito icon in the top left corner. You can continue browsing as normal in the other window.

You can also right-click any link and select Open link in incognito window.
If you’re familiar with command lines, you can append an –incognito switch to the end of your command to launch Google Chrome in incognito mode.

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02 Nov 08 Google CHrome – Crash Control feature

Use the Task Manager to get details about a specific process running in Google Chrome, or to force a misbehaving tab or application to close. To open the Task Manager, follow these steps:

Click the Page menu .
Select Developer.
Select Task manager.

You can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Esc to quickly open the Task Manager.

For each active item in Google Chrome, you can monitor the amount of memory taken up, the amount of CPU used, and the network activity (bytes sent and received).

To force a misbehaving webpage or application to close in Google Chrome, select the webpage, then click the End process button. Try reloading the tab to see if the error persists.

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02 Nov 08 Google Chrome – Dynamic Browsing

Browse: Tabbed browsing

Google Chrome tabs gives you the greatest flexibility to manage the websites you’re browsing. You can take advantage of many keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome windows and tabs. Click one of the links below to learn how to browse the Internet with tabs.

Open a new tab

Click the + icon next to the last tab. Or do the following:

Click the Tools menu .
Select New tab. To open a new window instead, select New window.

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02 Nov 08 Google Chrome : Web Applications: Application shortcuts

Many websites, such as email services, operate like actual programs, similar to those on your computer desktop.

Open these websites just like any other programs on your computer. Create an application shortcut for the website you’re on:

Click the Page menu .
Select Create application shortcuts.
In the ‘Google Gears’ dialog box, select the checkboxes where you want shortcuts to be placed on your computer.
- Desktop
- Start menu
- Quick launch bar
Click the OK button.