Here are some of the tips for newly launched browser of Google known as Google Chrome. These tips will shorten your time to perform certain tasks on Chrome.

Recently visited pages : Show the list of recently visited pages from the current tab: right-click on the “Back” button. This also works for the “Forward” button.

Undo closing a tab : Press Ctrl+Shift+T or open a new tab to check the “Recently closed tabs”.

Search : To search anything in Chrome just type ? before entering your query and press enter.

Perform simple calculations and unit conversions using Google Calculator : Simply type the expression in Google Chrome’s address bar (or “omnibox”). To copy the answer, select the suggestion.

Resize Textarea : If you need more space in a textarea, resize it by dragging the lower right corner.

Detach a tab and open it in a new window : Just drag the tab outside the active window. You can also add it back to the original window using drag and drop.

Download and Drag : After downloading a file, you can copy it to the desktop or to any other folder by using drag and drop directly from Google Chrome.

Add new Search Engine to list : If the search engine of a site supports OpenSearch, you can add it to Google Chrome’s search box by simply visiting the site and performing a search. The domain name automatically becomes a keyword and you should only type the first letters from the URL until you see “press Tab to search example.com”. Then press Tab and type your query.

You can also manually add search engines, by right-clicking on the address bar and selecting “Edit search engines”. Here’s one example, where you can see that you need to find the URL for the search results page and replace the query with %s:

Name – Wikipedia
Keyword – wiki (that’s what you need to type in the address bar)
URL – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

You can also use the keywords for other kinds of services: for translating web pages, for bookmarking pages online or simply as aliases for web pages (omit “%s” from the URL).

Name – Google Translate (English)
Keyword – trans
URL – http://translate.google.com/translate?u=%s

Credits : Google Operating System

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