Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts

Friday, October 29, 2010

How to speed up Google Chrome

Disables usage statistics of Google Chrome

This option is used to help in Development of Google chrome, It send your usage data to Google so that based on that they can further improve Chrome. But if you are worried about system performance you should disable it . To disable this go to tools menu > Options > Advanced and uncheck the check box which says Send usage data to Google….

Disable DNS Preload in Google Chrome

This will prevent Google chrome to keep DNS info in their cache. Most of time it is unnecessary if you have a good connection of at least 256kbps or more. It is recommended only for slow dial up connection or Mobile users who actually spend a lot f time in DNS query during browsing. to disable this select tools menu of Google Chrome and select “Options.” In the next window, go to the “Advanced” tab and uncheck the “Use DNS preload ….”


Disable anti-phishing filter

If you are advanced web user and you know how a phishing site look like or you know how to prevent from them you can disable this option. But if you are not at all comfortable working without phishing filters or don;t want to take risk you should keep it as it is . Disabling this not only saves your CPU time but also save your Internet bandwidth. This option can also be disabled from Tools Menu > Options > Advanced.

Removes navigational data regularly

All of the browsers cache the Navigation data and other info for faster access to web pages you frequently visit. But if your cache size is big or it contains very old pages which you hardly visit once or twice in a month it will start performing negative for you, as web pages will load faster but they Browsers perform worse when navigation data is saved. So it is important to remove navigational data frequently. To delete this in Chrome, go to Tools menu and choose the option “Remove navigation data” and choose “Delete data for this period” and not the option “All”. So it will remove old data and will keep recent data do this once in a week at least.

Disable Useless function which we don’t use normally –


To options that are mentioned below you need to edit the properties of Chrome shortcut which you are using to start the browser. To Change it, right click on the Chrome icon and choose “Properties.” this will open a windows with the “Shortcut” tab, in this tab there is a box called “Destination”. You have to change things in this box itself.

E.g. To disable Java box,

if you are using Windows Vista it should go like this — : “C:Users\AppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe -disable-java”
and if you are using Windows XP: “C:Documents and Settings%username% Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChrome.exe”
The options which we are adding after the full path of chrome can be used one after the other leaving a space between. You don’t need to write the entire path every time you are using a new options. Here are the option which can be used -

Disable-dev-tools – This will disable Developers tool which is not used by a normal user for sure.

Disable-logging – This will disable looging of browser activity, This log files are useful only in case of Crash or Other error which prevent you from using browsers. if you are experiencing any such problem and need to know the reason you can enable this option. but in general you don’t need these log files. By disabling this you will certainly save CPU RAM and Hard disk space.

Disable-metrics-system – This option will disable gathering of Usage Statistics data. This is used by Google and we don’t need it any how so you can safely disable this option.

Disable-metrics-reporting – If you disabled Metrics system there is no point in keeping Metrics reporting On, as there won’t be any data to send across. Disable it for sure.

Disable-java – Java on the web is rarely used these days and it greatly slow downs your browsers performance. If you not running any online application which uses Java or Java Applets you can safely disable this feature. This will prevent you from playing number of Online Java Games though. (like Yahoo Games)

Disable-java script – This will disable all kinds of JavaScript from being run on the web pages you visit. This is not recommended at all as most of the sites these days are using some kind of JavaScript, to display pages. By Disabling JavaScript you will not be able to see these site properly and they will behave improprly. This is why disabling JavaScript is not recommended.

Disable-plugins – This will disable all plugins including Flash player and other media player. After applying this modification you won’t be able to see a lot of media sites properly including YouTube. If you understand impact of disabling this go ahead and do it otherwise don;t use this option.

Disable-images – This will disable all images on all Webpages you browse, if you are using low bandwidth conection like GPRS or Dial Up it will be very useful for you as it will save a lot of bandwidth for you. This will make your browser an text only browser. So be sure you need it that way before making these changes.

http://www.pchijack.com/internet/tips-to-speed-up-google-chrome/

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Google Chrome is now STABLE! Release 1.0.154.36

Google Chrome is now officially out of Beta

After 100 days of development and performance tuning Google Chrome can now leave the BETA tag and become official release.

All the user will get automatic updated to the latest release over the next few days, or download it here.

 

Note to Dev channel users: The Dev channel release will stay at 0.4.154.33. The current stable release is the same as the current Dev channel release without the Hotmail fix (which hasn't been tested enough to release to all users). An update is coming next week.

Bugs Fixed

  • [r6418] Allows Google Desktop links to launch Google Chrome as the default browser
  • [r6421] Fixes a crash when opening the Options dialog on 64-bit Windows (issue 49)
  • [r6464] Changes the accelerator keys for the Javascript debugger (Ctrl+Shift+L) and Javascript console (Ctrl+Shift+J). (Issues 3696, 5087)
  • [r6467] Fixes an issue with displaying unicode characters in some fonts. (Issue 5139)
  • [r6482] Fixes issues with composing mail and switching folders in Hotmail. Hotmail still does not properly recognize Google Chrome, so to use the site, you have to add the following to the shortcut you use to launch Google Chrome: (not in this release)
  • [r6492] Fixes the problem with 'Text zoom' being untranslated in non-English locales. (Issue 4591)
  • [r5556] Fix issue 343, Chinese Sogou input method loses first letter.
  • [r5927] Fix the crash in issue 4582
  • [r5931] Fix the crash in issue 3899
  • [r5938] Fix the crash in issue 4731
  • [r5943] Fix the crash in issue 4740
  • [r5950] Fix the crash in issue 4684
  • [r5996] Fix issue 4750, Position the Bookmark manager context menu properly in right-to-left languages.
  • [r6002, r6027] Fix crashes in focus manager, issues 3895, 4633, and 4714
  • [r6016] Attempt to fix scrolling for mice/trackpads with older drivers.
  • [r6029] Fix issue 4691, Ensure context menus appear on Silverlight plugin frames.
  • [r6128] Fix a black background flash when resizing Street View windows with Flash 10.
  • [r6228] Update V8 to 0.3.9.3 to fix a slowdown in Date() functions on Windows XP SP3.
  • Attempt to fix the crash in issue 4832

Monday, September 29, 2008

Change Google Chrome Theme Easily

Is changing Google Chrome Theme too hard operation for you ?

NO MORE!!

With XChrome Theme Manager you can easily and quick managing & Installing Google Chrome Themes.


Xchrome Theme Manager is still in beta is, but it has pretty good features.
List of features of Xchrome Google Theme Manager

- Automates the Installation of Google Chrome themes

- One place to download and install Google Chrome themes

- Lets you to Edit and build Google Chrome Themes

- List all Google Chrome installed Theme with preview and theme author details

- Theme Installer makes Chrome theme installation one single step process

- Theme Maker to create your own custom Google Chrome Themes


Install Instructions:
1) Download the .zip file.
2) Extract the files to a folder
3) Run Xchrome.exe (it adds some entries to the registry for Paths to Xchrome files)
4) Execute any theme.exe built within Xchromes theme builder (Xchrome doesn’t need to be running)


Friday, September 19, 2008

Google Chrome version 0.2.149.30 Released!

The biggest change in this release is that we no longer save data from secure sites in your local history database:
Google Chrome keeps a searchable history of pages you visit. This history is only stored locally on your computer. Previously, this searchable history included the text from secure sites, such as your online bank (any sites using SSL for security).
As Google Chrome won't be saving this text from secure pages in its local history, the address bar and local history will no longer find data from secure sites you've visited

Major Changes:

  1. Improve update more reliable
  2. Improved Flash performance
  3. Fixed compatibility with other plugins
  4. Made fixes to how Google Chrome handles JavaScript


Change Log

Google Chrome version 0.2.149.30 was released on 17 September 2008. Users will get automatic updates over the next few days.

Security Updates

  • [r2042] Fix a potential denial of service with very long title attributes on tags. The title attribute sets the tooltip text when you hover the mouse over an element.
    Security Rating: Low risk. This can lead to 100% CPU usage or a tab crash.
    More information:
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30975

Other Changes

  • [r1927] Stop adding content from HTTPS sites to the searchable index.
    Google Chrome keeps a searchable history of pages you visit. This history is only stored locally on your computer. Previously, this searchable history included the text from secure sites, such as your online bank (any sites using SSL for security). Google Chrome no longer saves text from secure pages in its local history. The address bar and local history search page will no longer find data from secure sites you have visited.

    If you are concerned about data that might have been indexed for searching before this release, you can follow the Google Chrome Help Center instructions for
    clearing your browsing history.
  • [r1978] Don't send sensitive URLs to search suggest services. Google Chrome stops sending data to a suggest service if the typed URL:
    • contains a username:password field (http://username:password@example.com/)
    • has query parameters (the trailing ?param=data following the URL)
    • is an https URL with any path component (any part following the hostname, such as /path in https://www.example.com/path)

  • [r1848, r1943, r2003] Fixes to the Google Chrome updater to make updates more reliable.
  • [r1859] Fix problems with Flash not playing video if too many connections are opened. For example, using the slider to advance video on YouTube could cause video to stop playing.

  • [r2059] Allow JavaScript to communicate with Java applets. Fixes bug 580.

  • [r1299] JavaScript: Dispatch contextmenu events after mouseup events. This fixes the right-click menu not working on Google Spreadsheets. Fixes bug 745.

  • [r1692] Fix crashes with some plugins --3dvia was the most widely reported-- when they return an error for NPN_GetValue. Fixes bug 493.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How To: Change Google Chrome User Agent

You can do lot of interesting things on the web if you know how to modify the user-agent string of a web browser. For instance, change the Chrome user-agent string to that of iPhone Safari and you’ll be to read popular magazines for free.

Or change the user-agent to Googlebot and you get to read Wall St. Journal stories without subscribing. Or use the user-agent of Opera Mini phone browser and see mobile versions of web pages even on the desktop.

While it is relatively easy to edit the User-Agent string of Firefox, IE, Flock or Apple Safari through add-ons and registry hacks but you don’t have that luxury in Chrome since Google’s browser doesn’t support external add-ons yet.

google-chrome-magazines 
iPhone version of Zinio Magazines in Google Chrome

It is however possible to change the user-agent of Google Chrome via the following hack - open Chrome.dll file inside a Hex viewer, search for the Chrome User Agent string and overwrite (not insert) that with the user-agent of another browser.  Thanks Ramzalot.

chrome-agent

Here are the full steps involved:

0. Make a backup of chrome.dll file - the file is available in the 0.2.xx folder of your Chrome installation folder (refer to #2).

1. Open chrome.dll inside Xvi32 and search for a patten that matches the default user agent string for Google Chrome :

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13.

chrome-user-agent

2. Point the cursor to the letter M and choose Edit -> Overwrite String. Paste the user-agent of any other browser here. For instance, the strings for iPhone and Google spiders are:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

3. Close Google Chrome (if running) and then save the chrome.dll file inside the hex editor. Restart chrome.exe and type about: in the address bar to confirm if the user agent has changed. If you have trouble opening chrome after making the above changes, just delete the modified chrome.dll file and replace it with the old backup.

 google-iphone-version 
iPhone mobile version of Google Reader in Google Chrome

As an example, I change the user agent of Google Chrome to iPhone and that is the reason why Google opening the iPhone optimized version of Google Reader even inside Chrome.

If you plan to use this trick more frequently, a better option is that you create multiple copies of chrome.dll - one per user agent. Now if you want Chrome to emulate IE or Firefox, just make rename the chrome-firefox.dll or chrome-iphone.dll to chrome.dll.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Google Chrome Trick: Calculate from Omnibox!

Google Chrome Trick: Calculate from Omnibox!

Google Chrome is a pretty fascinating browser. With the power of Google Search available from the address bar itself, you can actually conduct searches from the Omnibox itself.

Just type in a calculation. You do not even need to press enter. As the answer would just arrive in the drop down section!

google chrome math trick

How To Backup Google Chrome Browser

Here is a simple way to backup the preference and settings of Google chrome browser.This is a manual way in which you don’t need to download any freeware software.

Doing a backup of Google Chrome settings

 

This will let you backup the whole Google chrome web browser settings which means you cannot backup the passwords,cache,saved option or bookmarks.

Just go to run (windows+r) and type the following

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

google_backup_chromeMake sure you change the  to your system account name and change the drive depending on the OS installed.Now a window pops out showing cache,plugins,web history and many more files.Copy the file named Preference and save it anywhere in your hard disk.Next time when your chrome crashes then download and re install Google chrome and paste the “Preference” file back to the same folder to retrieve the preference and settings!

 

This is another way to do a full backup of Chrome browser by downloading a freeware software.

Using Google chrome backup software

 

Download a free software called “Google chrome backup” which will not only backup Google chrome data but also restore it easily! Chrome data includes all settings/preference including password backup,bookmark backup,cache and also other saved option which are both backed up and restored (whole profile) using Google chrome backup freeware.

Google Chrome Trick - Changing The Default Search Engine

Google web browser has very minimum option for customization as it is already built to suit the Internet users,if you have Google chrome browser downloaded on your PC then you will know that the browser has a smart address bar which also acts as search engine,this means you can type the website address with automatic url suggestion as well as search in search engine using the same bar.

 

When you are done with installation of Chrome,you will have a option to change the search engine and also to import the password,history and bookmarks from other browser (backup and restore the chrome profile).If you have skipped changing the search engine then Google chrome will have a default search engine set which is “Google.com”.Also chrome can be empowered with firefox chrome addon/extension. If you are a user who uses other search engine like yahoo,MSN live search then here is a simple trick to change the default search engine.

Open your Chrome browser and using your mouse,right click on the address bar,this shows up various things like paste,paste and go and Edit search engine.

google_chrome_search_engine_trick

Click on Edit search engine and a dialog box will appear with information about the various default and other search engine available.

change_chrome_browser_search

Click on Add or choose from the existing search engine and click on Make default.Alternately you can choose Yahoo,MSN live search engine and make is as default, also you can remove any search engine or add local search engine easily!

Mouse Around Chrome

Despite its marketing as a minimalistic browser that forgoes all the extras, Chrome's interface actually sports quite a few useful features. Here are a few that will speed up your browsing with the mouse even more:
  • Click and hold (or right-click) the Back or Forward button to go directly to a page far behind or forward in your browsing history.

  • When you've got a URL on your clipboard, right-click Chrome's address bar to Paste and go to your destination (and save yourself an extra tap on the Enter key).

  • Click and drag any textarea corner to resize it to your liking; great for blog comments, web email, or forums with textareas that aren't big enough to accommodate your masterpiece.

  • Ctrl+Mousewheel to zoom in or out of pages in Chrome.

  • Drag and drop downloads out of Chrome's status bar and onto your desktop to save them there, or into any Explorer window to save them there. (You already know you can drag and drop a Chrome tab out into a new window, or back into an existing Chrome window to dock it there.)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Trouble installing Google Chrome?

Are you having trouble installing Google Chrome? These instructions 
will show you how to create a log file and send them to the Google 
Chrome team for investigation. 

Please note: It may contain your Windows username, as these are part 
of many Windows file paths. No other personally identifiable 
information will be included, just data around your system and Google 
Chrome's ability to install. 

For Chrome Installer Log: 
------------------------------------ 
These instructions involve editing your registry.  If you're 
uncomfortable 
or unfamiliar with editing your registry, you may want to consult 
someone before 
following these instructions. 

1. Create a new registry entry under 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update of type REG_SZ with the name 
"ChromeInstallerCleanup" and value "0". 

2. Run ChromeSetup again. 

3. Check under C:\Document and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp (on 
Windows XP) or C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp (on Vista) for a 
folder with the name CR_* 

4. Go into that folder. There should be two files - setup.exe and a 
chrome.7z file. Compress chrome.7z file using 7zip compression utility 
and name it as chrome.packed.7z. For more information about 7zip, see 
http://www.7-zip.org/ 

5. Open the command prompt (Start > Run > "cmd"), then navigate to the 
folder listed above. Once in that folder in the command prompt, 
execute this command: 

setup.exe --verbose-logging --install-archive=7z> 

6. Look under C:\Document and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp (on 
XP) or C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp (on Vista) for a file a 
called chrome_installer.log. 

7. Open this file, select and copy the text, and paste it into your 
Help Group post. 

Including this data will help the Google Chrome team understand 
exactly where the installer is running into trouble. We can then 
speedily work with you on a fix. 


Thursday, September 11, 2008

Speed Up your Google Chrome Browser


If you are not fully satisfied about Google Chrome speed you have to know there are some interesting tricks that can speed up your preffered Browser (Chrome).

There are a lot Startup Switches that can be activeted when launching  Google Chrome, some examples:


-disable-dev-tools
-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-images
-disable-java
-disable-javascript
-disable-logging
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-disable-plugins
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-prompt-on-repost

To launch Google Chrome with this option you have to

use a startup switch: create a new Chrome shortcut on your desktop (or elsewhere). Right-click it and choose Properties. In the Target field, add the switch in question immediately following the path to chrome.exe

For a complete list of Startup switches see here
and here

Google Chrome: Features Overview

I would like suggest to you this great video about Google Chrome new Features and GUI Overview.

If you don't have installed Google Chrome yet or if u think don't know all its features, try to take a view this presentation



Monday, September 8, 2008

Version 149.29 released! Google Chrom Update and Bug Fix

Google Chrome has realease an update that fixes many of the 
issues reported here, including: 

- the ":%" error 
- Javascript trouble on Facebook 
- confirmed security vulnerabilities 

You should be automatically updated soon, but if you'd like these 
important fixes now, follow the instructions here: 

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95414 


Friday, September 5, 2008

Can't run or uninstall Google Chrome

If you are unable to run Google Chrome, then when you try to uninstall it the folks in this thread have come across a great workaround:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help-troubleshooting/browse_thread/thread/317b6eca857e9e00/5c037404c394b562

You'll want to read the details in that thread, but in short: removing ctfmon.exe will resolve this issue. You can learn more about ctfmon.exe here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282599

Please note that this workaround may cause trouble for some users who type in non-English languages, and we're definitely working hard on a fix for everyone.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Test Google Chrome speed

If u want to test your Google Chrome speed again another browser take
a look here.

A Google Benchmark suite, comprensive of 5 test, to show the potential of Chrome


Google Chrome Tricks

There are a lot of tricks in Google Chrome. I report here a list of all I've found

In address bar type:

about:network show stats for network usage
about:stats show general statistics about Google Chrome usage
about:cache chache usage
about:histograms show Chrome performances
about:plugins All plugins installed, fantastic!
about:dns Show Prefetched DNS
about:version Google Chrome Version
about:memory Browsers and Browser's process memory usage
about:crash crash the active tab
about:hang ??? help me :)
about:internets this is an Easter egg, show 3D savescreen

if you type ":%" (without quotes) Google Chrome Crash immediatly.


Shortcut List

1) F3 & CTRL+F Search on Page
2) F5 Reload
3) CTRL+D bookmark
4) CTRL+W close Google Chrome Window
5) CTRL+E enter search query at address bar
6) CTRL+R Refresh
7) CTRL+T New Tab
8) CTRL+U view source
9) CTRL+O Open Web Page
10) CTRL+H History
11) CTRL+J Download File History
12) CTRL+B Show/Hide Bookmark Toolbar
13) CTRL+N new Google Chrome window
14) CTRL +/- increase decrease Fonts
15) CTRL+P Print
16) ALT+D Select Address bar
17) ALT+leftArrow/RightArrow Go Backword/Forword
18) ALT+` Java Debugger
19) CTRL+TAB or CTRL+PGUP/PGDW switch between Tabs
20) CTRL+SHIFT+N Private Browsing (New incognito window)
21) SHIFT+ECS Chrome Task Manager


Have a Good Navigation

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Chrome Download error. The downloaded file failed verification. Error code = 0x80040508

PROBLEM:

I get the following error when I execute ChromeSetup.exe (which I previously saved to my local drive):
Download error. The downloaded file failed verification. Error code = 0x80040508


SOLUTION:

Download and install Google Chrome from here http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

Chrome Install fails - error code 0x80072ee2 Options

Try download the whole installer from here: http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

See complete discussione about this issue here

Error 0xc0000005 in Chrome

Try to removed (deinstalled) Symantec EP from my Computer

See complete discussion about this issue here

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ora è possibile scaricare Google Chrome

A questo link è ora possibile scaricare il nuovo Browser di Google, Chrome.

Oltre al download è possibile consulare una lista di nuove funzionalità del browser qui
in Italiano.


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