If you go into Chrome’s settings, you’ll see a “Manage search engines…” button under the “Search” section. Click that, and you’ll see a list of sites you can search directly from the omnibar. Chrome will add most of these naturally.
So if you enter the URL for, say, Wikipedia, you can then hit Tab, and enter whatever Wiki article you want to find. This saves you the minor-yet-extra step of going to a site’s homepage before finding what you what to find.
Head back into that “Manage search engines…” window, scroll to the bottom to add a new search engine, and enter the following URL: “https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#apps/%s”. (Gmail’s search function, in other words.) Then make the keyword “gmail.com,” or “mail.google.com”. Now, you can search your email as you would Wikipedia above.
You can do a similar trick with Google Drive through the URL “https://drive.google.com/#search/%s”. Again, it’s not a massive time saver, but efficiency is efficiency.
There you can see how many cookies it's deploying, and what permissions you’ve given it. It’s a handy way to allow the page to show popups or notifications, for instance.
Just click the hamburger icon (the one with the three lines) and highlight “Bookmarks” to find it. You can then save all your, uh, open pages in a new folder. This is handy if you’re researching a particular topic — an apartment search, perhaps — and don’t want to be forced to remember exactly what helpful info you’ve already found.
Alternatively, you can download an extension like OneTab, which works in much the same way.
You can also go into Chrome’s settings and select “Continue where you left off” under the “On startup” section. That’ll do exactly as its name suggests whenever you relaunch the browser.
Chances are you already know what site you’re about to visit when you see a little blue bird.
Because sometimes your YouTube and Wikipedia binges can take you into strange territory.
Related to this, you can also keep your browsing history private with Incognito windows. Just right click on the Chrome icon on your desktop, or a link on a given webpage, to open it in one of those.
Hit the hamburger icon, and hover over “More tools” to find it.
In this case, each number corresponds to its place in the tab bar above. So on a Windows machine, Ctrl + 3 will open your third tab.
As far as those other shortcuts go, there are lots, but here are some worth noting:
We’ve told you about it before, but here you can play with a variety of still-in-testing features that may never make it to a full Chrome release. Stuff like an automatic password generator is neat, but these things are very much made for developers, so don’t go too crazy.
This is much more useful if you’re a developer or some other type of professional — personally, I often use it to grab high-res photos for articles — but being able to, say, see what a webpage’s mobile version looks like (by clicking the phone icon in the top left corner) can be fun.
As someone who tests laptops for a living, this is immensely useful.
To do this, go to settings > “Show advanced settings…” > “Manage Autofill settings” under “Passwords and forms.”
Just enter "data:text/html, " into the omnibar.
This won’t replace Evernote anytime soon, but if you just want to jot something down real quick, it could be useful. HTML is your friend.
Why would you do this? I’ll leave that up to you, but it sure is a thing you can do.
I’m very bad at it, for the record.
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