How to use "RARELY KNOWN" features of Google Chrome Browser

Using your favorite Google Chrome web browser? So, let’s make it a bit more interesting and have a look at some of the unique features that are available only in this Google’s web browser and are often overlooked.

• Viewing Browser History

To open browser history just click on Chrome menu on browser toolbar and select History. Use this History page to see a list of websites you have ever visited in last 10 weeks. The pages visited in incognito mode, pages from secure website or deleted browsing history are not stored in history page.

• Paste and Go / Paste and Search

If have a URL in your clipboard and intend to visit that site on Chrome, then instead of doing Ctrl+v you can just right-click and click Paste and go to automatically visit that site.

Same for text i.e. if you have anything other than URL in your clipboard and you want to search using Chrome’s address bar, then just right-click and click Paste and Search. This saves the step to paste and then hit Enter.

•          Check Memory Used by Different Browsers

If you want to see detailed statistics of your browser’s open processes, i.e. how memory is being consumed by different processes in the browser, then use about:memory feature of Chrome. This interface can be accessed by entering about:memory in Chrome’s address bar.

•           Switch to iPad Interface

You can see how your favorite site will look in an iPad by changing the user agent string of your browser to that of iPad. To change user string in Chrome follow below steps:

•           Right-click Chrome shortcut icon and select Properties,
•      Now go to shortcut tab
•      In Target field replace the entire text with the following text: "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10"

              (Note: username represents your windows username)

•      Now Press OK.
•      Now open Chrome browser and open sites that have released their iPad version and see how the site will look in iPad.

•                 Application Shortcuts

Chrome gives you the feature to create standalone apps from your favorite websites and place them on the desktop, start menu or the task bar. These webpages are opened in standalone windows without any menus, tabs or other standard browser components.

Just click on Tools  and then click Create application shortcuts, shortcut will be created based on the options selected.