Every person needs to become an expert in surfing the Internet, and be able to browse it in a professional way, so the report provides him with a number of smart tricks that will achieve his goal.
Popular Science published a report on a number of clever tricks in Google Chrome, one of the most popular internet browsers in the world.
Separation of work from private life
When you do work on your home computer, you rely on a specific set of logins, bookmarks, and other browsing information.
But when you log out for the day and decide to cool off by scrolling through social media or maybe watching some “Netflix”, you are using another set of websites entirely.
Google Chrome allows you to isolate these two (or more) browsing personalities, by setting multiple profiles.
These work like user accounts on a Windows or Mac OS computer.
And if multiple people share the same computer, personal files also allow you to separate bookmarks and login information from those in your colleague’s browser.
Google Chrome keeps all the information it stores – including web applications, bookmarks, history, passwords, and login information – separately between personal files.
Implementation steps
Head to the upper-right corner of the browser window
Click on your avatar (the circle that has a picture or letter inside it).
Then click Add at the bottom of the popup menu
Although Google Chrome lists this option under a heading that says “Other people,” that person is still you – just in a different position.
However, you will need to provide the alternate account with a name and photo.
Once you set up a list of personal files, you can customize each of them using bookmarks and web applications.
To switch between accounts, simply click on your avatar and find the desired profile at the bottom of the popup.
This allows you to run two profiles side by side in separate browser windows.
2- Get experience with the Canary Edition
Google Chrome already offers 4 different versions, and most people use the stable version, which contains extensively tested features.
But you can also get a version called the “Canary” mode, which features the latest new beta options.
The Canary version also includes beta and developer channels.
If you’re willing to forgo a measure of stability in exchange for testing Chrome’s latest features before anyone else, you can easily switch to a different channel. If you are interested in firmware, beta, or developer, you can only choose one of these three options available on your system at any time. However, you can run the Canary version alongside any other version of Chrome.
Google recommends backing up the user’s data, before going official to the “Canary” version.
3- Increase the address bar
The address bar, also known as the omnibox, is located at the top of the Google Chrome interface, and although you can type URLs in this bar, you can do a lot more with it than that.
In fact, the address bar has all the superpowers of Google search engine.
If you want to do a basic web search, just enter your keywords and hit Enter.
And you can also get answers to math problems and unit conversions – just write them in the box. You can even flip a coin using the omnibox by searching for “flip a coin”. For more detailed searches, enter your keywords and then type “site: popsci.com”.
The address bar improves on the Google search website, because it can interact with the text on the page you are currently browsing. If you do not want to type a search term, for example, you can highlight a word or phrase on a web page, then drag it to the address bar to search for it. .
You can convert the search engine from Google so that searches are done on “Amazon” or “Wikipedia”, for example, by following the following steps:
Right-click in the address bar
Choose Manage Search Engines from the list of search engines
Click on the three vertical dots next to Which one Add a short keyword.
For example, try linking “bin” to Bing.
Next, you can type “bin”, followed by your search terms, to search Bing instead of Google.
You can also make the address bar browse your computer files, instead of browsing the Internet, by following the steps below
For Windows: Type “C:”
Press Enter
On a Mac OS device, type “file: /// Users /”
You will have to grant Google Chrome access to your computer.
4- Search for forgotten passwords
The login page pops up, your mind goes blank, you have no idea your username, let alone your password.
And Google Chrome can come to the rescue and automatically fill in these details for you.
In fact, the browser also maintains a cache of these login credentials, ready whenever you need them.
This store allows “Chrome” to automatically enter your information when using the browser.
It’s also useful when you’re trying to log in somewhere other than Chrome – if you’re using a different browser, or need to provide a password inside an app.
In this case, you can open the list of usernames and passwords in Chrome, find the code you are looking for, and then enter it manually.
To implement this, the following steps can be followed
Open the Chrome menu via the three dots in the upper right corner, and choose Settings
Click Passwords. There, you’ll see a list of everything Chrome has saved, in alphabetical order.
Scroll down the list, or use the search box at the top of the page, to find the specific credentials you need.
In order to display the relevant password, click on the three dots next to any entry, then press Details – although you will first have to enter your Windows or Mac OS password, as an extra layer of security.
You can also choose to sync your browser details with a specific Google account (for use across multiple devices), and to do that, you can head over to passwords.google.com and find your usernames and passwords there as well.
So the next time you forget your login details for a specific site or app, check if Google knows this.
5- Open other files on Chrome
Google Chrome is more than just a web browser, we already mentioned that you can use it as a basic file explorer, and it can also open a bunch of different file types.
This ability saves computer bandwidth, because it means you won’t have to open separate programs on the desktop.
Chrome supports most popular music and video formats, for example, you can play tunes or movies while browsing the web in another tab.
Images, text files, and PDFs work as well, saving you the hassle of searching for another app. For visuals, Chrome gives you basic on-screen display options, like zoom controls and the Print button when you look at PDF files.