Some tips for Chrome (or Iron)

1. Task Manager: Shift + Escape (or right click the title bar)

Shows a Task Manager with the web sites that are open in the Browser. You can directly end any tab from the Task Manager.

2. Visual Browser History: Ctrl+H

3. Search your favourite web sites frome the address Bar : Once you visit a site which has its search engine, the next time you want to search the same site, just type in the site address followed by tab, to search the site.

4. Memory used by different browsers and also in tabs of Chrome open a new tab and type about:Memory in the address bar.

5.Reopen tabs closed by mistake: Press Ctrl+T, which will show an option Recently Closed Tabs in the tab so opened. Select the closed tab link to open it.

6. Desktop shortcuts: Open any site and choose "Create Application Shortcut" from the File Menu.

7. Open Chrome by default in incognito:

Make a new shortcut for chrome. Open the properties of the shortcut and modify the target by adding " -incognito" without the quotes at the end of the program path.

8. Drag & Drop downloads: After any download is finished you can just drag and drop the download directly from Chrome's bottom window to any folder.

9. Add a new search engine with an alias: You can add any search engine as default or with an alias. Open options feom tools menu. In Basics tab click on Default search: 'Manage' Button. In the dialog box which opens add the new search engine you need. In the url enter the url for any search you have done with the new search engine. Replace the search entry with %s. You can give an alias name for this search in the keyword entry. Like g for google search for example. Click OK and you are done. In this case next time you want to search with google just type g "your search term" in the url bar and the default search will be replaced with google as you needed and results of the google search will appear.

10. Add languages that you need chrome to be able to display:

1. Click the Tools menu .
2. Select Options.
3. Click the Minor Tweaks tab.
4. Click the Change fonts and language settings button.

Click the Languages tab.

• If your preferred language isn't listed, click the Add button, then select your language from the 'Languages' drop-down menu. Click the OK button to add it to the list.
• To change the priority of a language within your list of languages, select the language and use the Move up and Move down buttons. For example, if a website is available in both French and English, and you prefer to see the French content, move French above English in the list.
• To remove a language from the list, select the language and click theRemove button.

11. Split Chrome's tab into split pane: You can split the Chrome tab into two right down the middle. Just drag the bookmarklet from here to your bookmark toolbar. http://www.chromeplugins.org/plugins/google-chrome-dual-view/

12. How to create Profiles in Google Chrome Browser:

(http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/ )

Unlike Firefox that ships with a Profile Manager, the only way to create multiple profiles in Google Chrome browser is manually. Here’s how:

Step 1: Load Chrome and choose "Clear Browsing History" from the Tools menu. This will clear all your private data.

Step 2. Open your Google Chrome installation folder that is available at:

For Windows Vista - C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome 

For Windows XP - 

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome

Step 3: Open Windows Explorer and switch to the "User Data" folder available inside Chrome installation folder.

Then select the subfolder called "default" and make a copy of it in the "User Data" folder itself. Give that copy a name, say, Your_Name. (See screenshot).

Step 4 (Optional): We will now initialize this new "Your_Name" profile to the factory default settings.

Open "Command Prompt", switch to the Chrome Application folder and run the following command:

chrome.exe --user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name" -first-run

Step 5: So our new user profile is ready. To run Google Chrome using this profile instead of the default profile, just create a shortcut on your desktop, Quick launch bar or your Windows Start Menu.

Right click anywhere on the desktop, choose New -> Shortcut and type the location:

For Windows Vista: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name"

For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –user-data-dir="..\User Data\Your_Name"

13. How to move your cache folder location:

1) Right-click the Google Chrome program shortcut and select Properties from the menu.

2) Append the chrome.exe command line option switch at the end of program path in Target text-box with the following:

--user-data-dir="type the full path of the cache folder here

14. Bothered about privacy use Iron instead:

If you like Chrome and is bothered about privacy and Google making use of your browsing data, then Iron is a good browser to try.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

If you are using Iron instead of Chrome all these workarounds should work.

15. Foxit plugin for Chrome:

After installing Foxit, copy the "npFoxitReaderplugin.dll" found in "...\Foxit Reader\Plugin" folder and copy it in "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins" folder. For iron it will be something like "C:\Program Files\Iron portable\Iron\plugins" folder.