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Feel free to edit any page and add resources, links, tips, tutorials, themes, plugins, mods, add-ons, extensions for Google's browser: Chrome.

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How it began

  • The story behind Google Chrome - A video from the development team on the thinking and features behind Google Chrome:
  • Chrome Comic Book - A peek under the hood of Google Chrome in this comics interpretation of key engineering decisions, by Scott McCloud

Features

  • Did you know?
    • Files from your disk can be dragged onto form upload fields.
    • Pressing F3 brings up a search box at top right so you can search within the page. Note that this doesn't search inside text areas yet.
    • Pressing and holding left mouse under Back/Forward buttons in the toolbar brings up a menu of history items (if present) similar to how it would when right clicked on the buttons.
    • Alt+Home loads your Google Chrome homepage having thumbnails of your most visited sites.

FAQ

  • How to fix Google Chrome’s "Aw Snap" problem
  • Google Chrome Help Center
  • How to block ads in Chrome
    • Install Privoxy
    • Click on the Wrench icon in Chrome in the upper right corner
    • Choose options>Under The Hood>Change proxy settings
    • A windows box pops up, choose LAN settings (at least this is what it's called in Vista)
    • Check off "Proxy settings" and in the address setting add127.0.0.1 and in the port 8118
    • If you have the option, you can also check off "Bypass proxy for local settings"
    • Click "Ok", close chrome and restart it.
Image from Lifehacker
Image from Lifehacker

Lifehacker article on the same

Tools

  • Greasemetal - an Userscript Runtime for Google Chrome - Greasemetal is a userscript runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts userscripts (tiny javascript files that modify the webpages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome Backup - A free portable software to backup and restore Google Chrome profile. The profile holds personal data like history, bookmarks, etc. Everything is done with one click.

  • XChrome - A theme manager for Googles Chrome browser, it allows users to install a skin in seconds without having to move default.dll around and allows you to view the author and various other details before installing.


  • TabsLock for Google Chrome - TabsLock lets you use your Caps Lock key to launch and focus a new Google Chrome tab from anywhere, even if Chrome isn't running. This allows low-thought, global keyboard access to web search and navigation.

  • How to Change Icons on the Bookmarks bar - "I added quite a few bookmarklets to my Bookmarks bar and was unhappy with the same default icon that showed for each one. There are no settings currently available within Chrome to change the icon, but there is a way to fix them that works quite well."

  • UnChrome - Replaces your Chrome installation's unique ID (which allows your identification to Google) with null values thereby anonymizing your Chrome installation.



Productivity Tips For Power Users


Win+V: Paste and go in same tab, Win+Alt+V: Paste and go in a new tab.

The AutoHotKey code for all the above can be found here.

Articles, Reviews, Blogs and Forums

  • Google Chrome Help Discussion Group! - In this group, Google Chrome users share questions and information with one another. Any individual with a question or comment about Google Chrome is welcome to post here. Google employees, known as "Google Chrome Guides," will be popping in from time to time to post announcements, share tips, and answer questions.
  • Chrome FANS - Google Chrome technology news, tutorial, tips, free themes and plugins download.
  • Google Chrome Fans - Google Chrome news, tips, downloads, tutorials, and discussion.

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