Add Home Button to Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome.

2. Open Options menu in the upper-right corner of the toolbar.

3. On the Basics tab, go down to the Home page section and check the Show Home button on the toolbar checkbox.

4. Click the Close button.

Now your Home button is where it should be.

Chrome Tips: Resizing TextBox Area

Another interesting new feature in Google Chrome is the abilty to resize any multiline text box area.
It is very easy to use this feature. Whenever you find a Multi-line Text Box in a web form while browsing through Google Chrome, you would find a small grey dotted right-angled triangle on the lower right hand corner of the Text Box. The screen shot is shown below..

Just click on this triangle & drag your mouse according to your needs to resize the Text Box. (Note: The Mouse Pointer does not change when the Mouse is kept over this triangle)

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.

 
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.

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.

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.

  
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.

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 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.

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

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!

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


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