God-mode Chrome Walkthrough

Lifehacker today prepared The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome, I just offer you a loving translation of this material. Much of what has been written will not reveal the magic til for anyone, but it will be useful for beginners or for testing their knowledge and skills.

You are enjoying the excellent features of Google Chrome and its high speed for almost a week and now is the time to dig deeper into less obvious functionality and features that you didn’t know about. Become a master of keyboard binds, take speed under the roof and adjust the behavior and appearance of the browser as you want.

Mouse over Lame

Despite the fact that the minimalist browser from Google has forgotten, when released, to take along all the buns and bells and whistles to which we are so accustomed, the interface of Lame still has several useful features. Here are tips to help increase browsing speed with a mouse:
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• Click and hold (or right-click) the “Forward” or “Back” button in the browser in order to get straight to the first or last page in the current tab.
• If you have a link in the clipboard , right-click in the address field and select “Paste from memory buffer and go” in order to get to the page (this way you skip another press on Enter or left-click).
• Click and zoom in on any text field — a great opportunity for webmail, comments, or input fields in forums where the space is too small to fit your skill.

Keyboard Shortcuts of the Lame

If you don’t really like the mouse, it’s considered lucky. In Google Chrome, a huge number of built-in keyboard bindings (most of which are exactly the same in Firefox), so we stretched our fingers, stretched from E to B and drove:

• (Chrome only) Ctrl + B shows and hides the bookmarks bar.
• (Chrome only) Shift + Escape includes Task Manager built into Chrome.
• Ctrl + L selects the field with the page address.
• Ctrl + L selects the field for the address and the entered query goes immediately to Google search.
• Ctrl + T opens a new tab.
• Ctrl + N opens a new window.
• Ctrl + Shift + T opens the last closed tab.
• (Chrome only) Ctrl + Shift + N opens a new window in Incognito mode.
• Ctrl + Tab allows you to view open tabs; Ctrl + Shift + Tab does the same thing, only in reverse.
• Ctrl + J opens the tab “Downloads.
• Ctrl + W closes the current tab.
• Ctrl + R reloads the current tab.
• Ctrl + H opens the “History” tab.
• Alt + Home loads your home page.
• Ctrl + 1 to 9 switches to the number of the tab that you selected.
• Ctrl ++, Ctrl + -, Ctrl + 0 respectively increases, decreases or returns to the original size of the text on the page.

Improving your settings

Open the parameters window (click on the wrench and select “Parameters”) to customize Lame completely.

• Set several tabs as your homepage . Despite the fact that the Google Chrome start page, which shows the most popular sites, is very good, many of us want to skip this step and configure the browser to display specific pages every time we launch it. Like Firefox, Lame can open several “home” tabs. In the "Parameters" window, select "Basic", put a circle in "Open the following tabs" and enter the necessary URLs.

• Open tabs from the last session automatically . Just like Firefox, Lame can automatically restore tabs from the last session of browsers. In the same place, in the settings, simply select “Restore recently opened pages”.
• Add the "Home Page" button to the toolbar . The Tulbar of the Lame is affectionately deprived of design and functionality, but if you set a home (or several) page, you would like to get to it in one click. In the same place, in the “Basic settings” click on the “Show the button“ Home Page ”on the toolbar".
• Set the default download destination . Lame constantly strives to save files to where the archaeological expedition 3008 finds them, and this is not only desirable, but necessary to be corrected. In the same place, in the parameters, but now the “Basic” tab just select the folder in which you want to see all your porn photos and videos.

The Guru of Lame Startup Settings

As with any good open source software, Google Chrome has a long list (below) of the “starting switches”. These are the parameters that can be used when loading Lame in order to control and customize its behavior.

Quick example : In order to use the “start-up setting”, create a new Chrome shortcut on your desktop (or whatever you have). Right-click, "Properties" and there, in the "Object" field, the address is registered on the local computer where chrome.exe is located. For example, your address using -disable-java (I hope it does not need translation) will look like:

"C: \ Users \ Shapelez \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe" -disable-java

With these small additions you can:

• Change the number of "assumptions" that the address field offers. Increase or decrease the number of assumptions using "-omnibox-popup-count". Thus, in order to increase the number of options to 10, you need to add -omnibox-popup-count = 10.
• Create and maintain multiple user profiles. Since Lame knows so much and makes good use of template settings, you might want to create more than one virtual person based on the nature of the task being performed. For example: you can create profiles "Lame Work" and "Lame Surfing" with different settings for viewing pages. But since Chrome does not have this in a convenient form (like Firefox), you’ll have to do it with handles, since all is elementary. Simply create a new directory (for your user), and then using the initial setting - user-data-dir enter the name of the desired user and the newly created folder. Woo-la!
• Accelerate your browser by limiting functionality. If you want to browse without annoying and heavy Flash, or Java, or even Javascript (although the developers at Google would not understand you, and the creators of the V8 are offended) - this can be done. There is a rather large list of “disconnections” that can be entered into the starting setting and surfed as you like.

-disable-dev-tools
-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-images
-disable-java
-disable-javascript
-disable-logging
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-disable-plugins
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-prompt-on-repost

• Always launch Lame in a maximized window. Take advantage of all the free space that Chrome gives you. Using the default setting -start-maximized, the browser will always open full screen.

Topics for Lame

Changing Google Chrome clothes is also very easy: you just need to download a new theme and save its .dll to the Themes folder of your browser directory.
For Windows XP users, this is most likely:

C: \ Documents and Settings \ User \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ Google \ Chrome \ Application.2.149.29 \ Themes \

For Windows Vista users:

C: \ Users \ UserName \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ 0.2.149.29 \ Themes \

Learn more about changing Google Chrome theme and Xchrome program here .

Discover the secret diagnostic information of Lame

And let the Lame not have a super-convenient about: config, like Firefox, it has several about: pages that show all sorts of interesting information about what is happening behind the scenes while you are reading this material.
A complete list - see for yourself, you will like:

about: memory
about: stats
about: network
about: internets
about: histograms
about: dns
about: cache
about: crash
about: plugins
about: version

In addition, you can go to two special pages from each site, this: view-cache: [URL] shows you some cache details and view-source: [URL], which shows the page markup.

Extra buns

While Lame still does not support extensions, some macros, bookmarklets, and so on, which is so lacking in it, this can be partially fixed.

• Chrome ad blocking with Privoxy. Using a free web proxy and ad blocking application, you can stop worrying about it. Detailed instructions are already on Habré and it is here .
• Browse RSS feeds of pages or print a page with one click using bookmarklet. For lack of extensions, good old bookmarklets. Here is a bookmarklet for autodetecting and viewing the site's RSS feed, and here is the one that will print the page with one click (or you can just use Ctrl + P).
• Open pages from Firefox in Chrome . If you surf in both Firefox and Chrome (like me, for example), but prefer Lame for specific pages, the quick guys have already done everything. You just need to download open-in-google-chrome.xpi to your desktop, drag the file to Firefox and install the extension.

• Launch Lame from a flash drive. When you are traveling or running from office to office, a portable, installation - free version of Chrome is very useful.
• Be anonymous if required. Chrome Anonymizer encrypts your unique ID and makes it impossible to track what you do there.

Take off the Google brand and go to Open Source

Switch to the frequently updated and free version of Chrome, which is called Chromium . You can install the latest versions for Windows or download the source code and make your own version for Mac and Linux.

And in order to always stay in the wake of the latest update for Chromium, you can use the Chrome Nightly Builds Updater utility.

A look into the future

Rumor has it that soon Chrome will be released for Mac and Linux, along with extensions and addons, without which the life of Lame is not sweet. Plus - it will be the main browser in the upcoming Android mobile platform.

And the promised "long list" of the starting settings:

-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-assert-test
-renderer-assert-test
-crash-test
-renderer-crash-test
-renderer-startup-dialog
-plugin-startup-dialog
-testshell-startup-dialog
-plugin-launcher
-channeltesting-channel
-homepagestart-renderers-manuallyrenderer
-renderer-pathplugin
-single-process
-process-per-tab
-process-per-site
-in-process-plugins
-no-sandbox
-safe-plugins
-trusted-plugins
-test-sandbox
-user-data-dir
-appupload-file
-dom-automation
-plugin-pathjs-flags
-geoidlangdebug-children
-wait-for-debugger-children
-log-filter-prefix
-enable-logging
-dump-histograms-on-exit
-disable-logging
-remote-shell-port
-uninstallomnibox-popup-count
-automation-channel
-restore-last-session
-record-mode
-playback-mode
-no-events
-hide-icons
-show-icons
-make-default-browser
-proxy-server
-dns-log-details
-dns-prefetch-disable
-debug-print
-allow-all-activex
-disable-dev-tools
-always-enable-dev-tools
-memory-model
-tab-count-to-load-on-session-restore
-memory-profile
-enable-file-cookies
-start-maximized
-enable-watchdogfirst-run
-message-loop-strategy
-message-loop-histogrammer
-importsilent-dump-on-dcheck
-disable-prompt-on-repost
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-javascript
-disable-java
-disable-plugins
-disable-images
-use-lf-heap
-new-http