Improving Google Chrome Performance

Greetings I hope this article will be useful to someone.

Many people know about the capabilities of the Chrome address bar, which remembers the search engines of various sites. However, to use it effectively, I think, not everybody can.
I surf the Internet exclusively through this browser (a matter of taste and habit, of course) and I use customized search in Chrome several dozen times a day. A large number of actions performed daily through a browser can be optimized by adding certain search engines to the list.

So, I finish the dregs, turn to the "technical" and practical side of things.

Change used search engines

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In the "Search engines" window, there are pre-installed search engines (Yandex, Google or something else depending on the build) and a search system for various sites that you have visited. There are three columns in the table: the name of the search engine (the default is the title of the main page of the site), the keyword and the actual address of the search engine with the parameter% s (search query).



The default keyword is the address of the site that is being searched. First of all, it is precisely this that should be optimized, because the search query in the address bar is typed as <keyword> <space or Tab> <request>.

Tips

• Use Ctrl + T (equivalent to Ctrl + L + <query> + Alt + Enter) to enter the address bar. Hotkeys are useful, especially in the browser.
• Analyze your activity on various sites: if you use search somewhere, it may be more efficient to search directly in the address bar.
• Take a closer look at my recommendations below. I tried to highlight the largest possible range of search engines, for sure something will come in handy.

Setting up search engines

General recommendations

• Feel free to use single letter keywords (for example, y or t for Youtube, g for Google, and so on). When I set up the browser for myself, I was scared that instead of the usual search, a customized search would come out all the time, but in practice this did not happen to me at all.
• Record two different search options for keywords in Russian and in English, for example, “wiki” and “wiki”. In this case, it is even possible to divide them functionally with convenience: let the “wiki” search by the Russian-language Wikipedia, and the “wiki”, respectively, by the English-language section. The purpose of this recommendation is to reduce the number of switch layouts at the request.
  

Categories, options and search engines themselves (as an example of settings)

I offer my subjective view on how it all looks:

• Content
  For me, this is one of the most extensive search categories. A couple of offhand examples (music search). In brackets - possible keywords.
  
  
  • Music VKontakte: (music, music, m, m, vkm, vkm).
    

      http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=audio 

  • Yandex.Music: (music, music, m, m, yam, yam)
    

      http://music.yandex.ru/#!/search?text=%s 

  • Music on Rutracker.org: (music, music - it will be convenient if you download and listen to music exclusively from the rutreker; otherwise, rm, rm, rtmusic, or other options close to your heart)
    

      http://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?f=<ID of the music section> & nm =% s 

  Similarly, you can quickly search for videos (Youtube, social networks), books (online stores, torrent trackers) and the like.
  
• Additional search engine features
  If you use Google search (or not them, other search engines have similar capabilities), you can set up quick access to advanced search.
  Examples:
  
  • Google search in the last 24 hours:
    

      <Google Search Address> & tbs = qdr: d 

    The base search address is quite long, and I did not publish it fully; It is available in Chrome by default.
    
  • Search by pictures:

      http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%s&stype=image&lr=213
     & noreask = 1 & source = wiz 

  • Another example: if the request contains only the address of the site, then in order to find information about the site, and not go to it, I make a request of the form g <address>; g is the default search keyword.
• Search in social networks
  
  • According to the people:
    

      http://vk.com/search?c%5Bname%5D=1&c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=people 

      http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s&type=users 

  • By community:
    

      http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=communities 

      http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s&type=groups 

  • Generalized search:
    

      http://vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=%s&c%5Bsection%5D=auto 

      http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=%s 

• Transfer
  Convenient and fast way to translate an unfamiliar word or phrase.
  Example (Google translate, direction from English to Russian):
  

    http://translate.google.com/#en/ru/%s 

• Other search categories
  Search for information not included in previous categories. It:
  
  • Analysis of the function, plotting on WolframAlpha:
    

      http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s 

    
    
    
    
  • Search for a place on the map:
    

      http://maps.yandex.ru/?text=%s 

    
    
    
  • Search for goods in the catalog of online stores:

      http://market.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=%s&from=os 

    
    
    
  • Search for articles in the online encyclopedia:
    

      http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s 

    
    
    
  • Search for a Japanese character by its catalog number:
    

      http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/%s 

    
    
    
  • Search posts on Habré:
    

      http://habrahabr.ru/search/?q=%s 

    
    
    
• Execution of code in the browser
  Another possible field of application is “quick search”.
  
  • HTML:
    

      data: text / html,% s 

    
  • Javascript:
    

      javascript:% s 

    
  
  

PS
- Sorry for a somewhat confused statement of thought, I have no previous experience of writing articles.
- The list of search engines does not pretend to be useful and is intended solely to describe the possibilities of quick search using the address bar.