Google Chrome Browser Tips/Tricks

Here is a round up of our favourite Google Chrome browser tips and tricks… oh and just to be clear some listed here were farmed from other “top X” lists but these are the ones that we at WhichChrome.com really love and find useful. Oh, just for irony I typed this up in Firefox.. tsk!

• New Incognito Window – with a simple combination keypress of Ctrl+Shift+N you can get a new incognito window opened up… don’t ask us why this is our #1

• View History Page – Chrome includes an in browser history page. Quick access to this can be achieved with Ctrl+H
• Advanced Forward/Back – Clicking on the forward or back button with the right mouse button (or long clicking… thanks to Gina Trapani) will give you an extended history to allow for quick navigation throughout your browsing history.

• Tab to Window – You can easily detach a tab into it’s own window by simply dragging the tab off the tab bar.

• Undo Close Tab – if you want to reinstate a tab you’ve just closed (which you can do with Ctrl+W) then this can be done with Ctrl+Shift+T
• Web App Shortcuts – If you want to have any web application have their own shortcuts (can be on the desktop, in the startmenu or in the quick launch bar (only tried this in windows) the you can create a web app shortcut by clicking on the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a folded corner (like a “new” icon) and then Create Application Shortcuts…. This has the advantage for web apps that they don’t have any of the other browser furniture (address bar etc).  This is really something that we see has led to the idea of the Google Chrome OS.
• Chrome’s Task Manager – Can be used to monitor and manage the tasks associated with Chrome (since each Chrome tab has it’s own process). This can quickly be viewed with Shift+ESC

We hope to add further tips and tricks as we discover them so keep this page in mind for futire ref.