Mac: Google Chrome Tips & Tricks

February 24th, 2010
Mac: Google Chrome Tips & Tricks

Google Chrome is one browser that I think was an epic success venture from Google unlike the Buzz or the Wave. While I use only the Windows Operating system, I have occasionally stumbled on the Mac when I felt like it. Well, then why don’t we give trips on this awesome browser on the Mac OS? Well, here goes.

Mac: Google Chrome Tips & Tricks

Google Chrome Tips & Tricks for the Mac:

Synchronizing Bookmarks With iPhone – Many people use Apple Safari because its the only way you can synchronize your iPhone to the browser. The Xmarks extension fortunately synchronizes your bookmarks in Safari and Chrome with the cloud. So any changes in the Chrome will automatically reflect on the Safari which in turn in the iPhone.

Don’t Get Lost in The Tabs – If your on your browser 24×7, there is a 90 percent chance that your browser is full of tabs and also you don’t want to close any of them. Well it gets really frustrating when you have to navigate to the particular tab immediately. Therefore, its better you manage your tabs with some excellant extensions like VerticaTabs.

Custom Search Engines – This is one of the best features of Google Chrome. Right click the Address bar in Google Chrome and click Edit Search Engines, you will notice that there already a number of Search Engines added. This is done automatically by Google Chrome. You can always access these search engines by using the keywords or double clicking on them and entering some keyword that will be easy to remember. So that you can access that search engine by typing the keyword first and then your inquiry.

Closing Stubborn Tabs – Google Chrome’s engine is such that each tab runs on a parallel resource engine. The built-in Task manager helps you get rid of this tabs. Navigate to View > Developer > Task Manager and select the tab that unresponsive. And then Click End Process.

Developer Version of Chrome – This is for the people who want to be a step ahead when it comes to receiving Goodies but with a little bit of risk involved. This will let you receive all the updates before hand but there is no guarantee there won’t be crashes. Get the Developer version here.

Pushkar




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