Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Google Chrome offers some tips on keyboard shortcut for easy navigation and operation. The following keyboard hotkeys or accelerators are the lists of common and useful shortcuts which built into Google Chrome browser.

Google Chrome Shortcut

CTRL + SHIFT + N : automatically opens up a Chrome ‘incognito’ window which allows you to surf on a PC without leaving behind any digital footprints.

SHIFT + Escape: allows for fast access to Chrome’s task Manager utility that allows you to nix browser processes that have gone awry.

CTRL + SHIFT + T: will open recently closed browser tabs.

Window And Tab Shortcuts:

Ctrl+N - Open a new window

Ctrl+Shift+N - Open a new window in incognito mode

Press Ctrl,and click a link - Open link in a new tab

Press Shift, and click a link - Open link in a new window

Alt+F4 - Close current window

Ctrl+T - Open a new tab

Ctrl+Shift+T - Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.

Drag link to tab - Open link in specified tab

Drag link to space between tabs - Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip

Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 - Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.

Ctrl+9 - Switch to the last tab

Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown - Switch to the next tab

Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp - Switch to the previous tab

Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 - Close current tab or pop-up

Alt+Home - Open your homepage

Ctrl+O, then select file - Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome

Shortcuts To Open Google Chrome Features:

Ctrl+B - Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H - View the History page
Ctrl+J - View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape - View the Task manager

Webpage Shortcuts:

Ctrl+P - Print your current page
F5 - Reload current page
Esc - Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 - Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt, and click a link - Download link
Ctrl+F - Open find-in-page box
Ctrl+G or F3 - Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3 - Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+U - View source
Drag link to bookmarks bar - Bookmark the link
Ctrl+D - Bookmark your current webpage
Ctrl++ - Make text larger
Ctrl+- - Make text smaller
Ctrl+0 - Return to normal text size

Text shortcuts:

Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C - Copy content to the clipboard

Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert - Paste current content from the clipboard

Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V - Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting

Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete - Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard

Source: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95743

Backup Google Chrome Browser Settings

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

Make 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.

Downlaod Google Chrome: Click Here

Source: http://blogote.com/2008/ideas/browser-ideas/how-to-backup-google-chrome-browser.html

Google updates Gmail IE6users

Google updates Gmail for IE6 users

Many internet users are still getting by with IE6, despite the mass of recent activity in the browser market including Google's launch of Chrome, Firefox 3.1 due in months, Apple hoping Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft touting its second beta of IE8.

The update means IE6 users will get access to coloured labels for messages, Gmail Labs features, integration with AOL Instant Messenger, and invisible mode for IM, Google engineer Jon Perlow said on Google's Gmail blog on Friday. The upgrade catches IE6 users up to features available to users of Firefox 3, IE7 and Safari 3.

Google said it worked with Microsoft's IE engineers on some of other issues, including memory-related performance issue when running JavaScript programs in the browser, and Google pared back some user interface features that had been causing trouble for IE6 users.

Source: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39485519,00.htm

Google browser Chrome BETA september2008

Google browser Chrome BETA september2008

Now google launched it's own browser : Google browser Chrome BETA.

Now there is another browser from the biggest giant of search to it's user's.

I have been downlaod and test it's functionality evrything is similar to other browser the only different and in on tab i found is Devloper section.

That seems to be made for developers and same columns are there with some new columns :



Google added the facility of IE ( Interenet Explorer and Mozilla fire Fox a Single place named Crome ) and for developers providing the faility

Here a question arising in my mind is that what's going to happen with add-ons . Either google going to lauch his own add-ons or developmer's need to genrate some add-ons for Google browser Chrome.

Let's See the feed back of user and here i am waitinf for your suggestins and comments.

If you wish to Downlaod Crome : Click Here

Google says:

“Google says that an early test version for Windows will be released tomorrow, and support for Linux and Mac OS X will arrive in future releases. “

Review of Google browser Chrome BETA


Not enough options to change behavour.
No obvious route to / control of browsing history. (eg. 'washers' won't work)
Lost a lot of functionality.
A Javascript 'link' only allows 'inspection' with right-click
Doesn't support 'Title' on mouseovers.

And Below Is that Statement From Google:

A fresh take on the browser

9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready.

Update @ 3:30 PM: We've added a link to our comic book explaining Google Chrome.

Statement Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

Google Analytics Update

Google Analytics Update

Google Analytics has been updated with bug fixes and new feature improvements. Check out the official Google Analytics Blog for up-to-the-minute updates (in English only). Here are some of the biggest updates:

April 2008

In addition to viewing your Google Analytics data by day, you can now choose weekly and monthly graphing views as well, making it easier to see patterns in your data. For more information, see our blog post on this feature (in English only).

Some smaller fixes we've made:

• For GA.js users, e-commerce transactions no longer show a discrepancy between the revenue reports and transaction details report.
• You can now opt in to data sharing from your Benchmarking report.
• Account Name changes are now reflected on the View Reports page

Source: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69588

GOOGLE update Meta tags

Google has updated to maintain accurate meta tags to understand more accurately crawl, index and return sites in search results.

META TAGS : description can be shown in Search results
Here's how Google would interpret meta tags of this sample HTML page:

Title utilized by Google, can be shown in our search results

description content : utilized by Google, can be shown in our search results

revisit-after content=14 days not utilized by Google or other major search engines

verify-v1 content optional, for Google webmaster tools

While the use of a description meta tag is optional and will have no effect on your rankings, a good description can result in a better snippet, which in turn can help to improve the quality and quantity of visitors from our search results.

Google Directory Update PR Scores

Google Directory Update Showing "Real" PR Scores

Google PageRank Directory Clanger by Andy Beard informs us that Google recently pushed out an update to the Google Directory on the 8th of January. What that means is that Google pulled the most recent ODP RDF dump file and updated the Google Directory with that file. But more importantly, Andy also notes that the little PageRank scores found on the left side of each listing in the Google directly have also been updated -- and may be showing the "unpenalized" PR scores for sites.

What does this tell us? Well, like Andy and I noted over here, it appears that the data for that PageRank does not match up even remotely for the sites that saw their PageRank drop due to selling links. Andy highlights three examples of sites that match these criteria.

If you look at the Google Directory PageRank scores for those sites, you will notice that for those examples, Google Directory scores are much higher than those shown on the Google Toolbar.

Yes, the Google Toolbar and the Google Directory have different methods of displaying PageRank scores. Yes, Google's Toolbar is not an exact, nor recent value of the true Google PageRank score for a particular page (true meaning the score Google uses internally as part of its ranking algorithm). Yes, it is possible that the Google Directory is using either a more recent or a version that is much older than what the toolbar is showing. But honestly, there is no way for us to know the dates of those PageRank scores in the Google Directory.

Even with all these questions, it has people thinking that the Google Toolbar penalty for selling links is just a visible one displayed only on the Google Toolbar and is not used internally by Google. In fact, this was my original theory when Google went ahead and penalized sites for selling links.

As a matter of note, the last Google Directory update I am aware of took place on September 25, 2007 and we just had a Google Toolbar PageRank update on January 9-10th of this month.