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Chrome from Google is basically a browser designed for the internet. Google main fiefdom is search engine and it is this regard they have designed Chrome to have more say and hold their fort on search.

Earlier, I have written an article on Google Chrome when it was introduced. Today I will show how to use Chrome in and out. Chrome is quite easy to use as it was mainly designed for the internet user. So it was designed as a light and clean browser. Then lets get started with chrome now.

Most of Chrome’s settings can be changed by using the two options – control the current page and “Customize & control” option located on the right hand side of the address bar. Lets discuss “Control the current page option”.

1. Create application shortcuts: Using this feature you can create shortcut on your desktop, start menu and quick launch bar.

2. You can also use the cut, copy and paste feature from here.

3. Find in page (ctrl+F), save page as(ctrl+S) and print option (ctrl+P)

4. You can use the zoom feature to view larger or smaller fonts.
You can also use the shortcodes for larger (ctrl++), normal (ctrl+0) and smaller (ctrl+-). The encoding option be better left aside as you will not be using it typically.

5. By using the developer option you can view the source (Ctrl+U), javascript console and task manager (shift+escape).

6. Report bug or broken website: You can report a bug or broken website by using this option.

Now lets check “Customize & control Google Chrome” option”

Basic

1. From here you can open a new tab (ctrl+T), new window (ctrl+N) and new incognito window (ctrl+shift+N). In incognito mode pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.

2. Always show bookmark option if selected shows all your bookmarks under the address bar.

3. You can select full screen (F11) from here. To exit you can simply click on exit full screen or press F11.

4. You can check history of visited websites, bookmark manager and downloads. The bookmark manager shows the recently added bookmarks and date wise.

5. Clear browser history: Using this option you can clear your browsing history, cookies, download history, empty the cache, clear password if any by day, week etc option.

6. Import bookmarks & settings: You can import bookmarks & settings from other browsers to Google chrome. From Mozilla firefox, Internet Explorer and Google toolbar.

7. Options: It is the main settings of Chrome which you can customize. The inbuilt home page of Chrome is Google.com, if you would like you can change it here. You can also decide what should Chrome do when started – open the home page, open the last opened pages or select a set of given pages.You can also select which search engine to use under default search option like yahoo, bing, ask, aol etc. By default it is Google. using the default browser option you can make Chrome as your default browser.

Personal Stuffs:

Passwords: Here you can decide whether to save passwords or not when logging to websites. You can view the passwords if saved by clicking on “Show saved passwords”.

Form autofill: It helps by saving text on forms show that you dont have to type again by giving suggestions matching the initial letters.

Browsing date: you can import your bookmarks from other computers.

Themes: Like Gmail, in Chrome too you set themes according to your taste. You can select a theme from a huge collection made available by Google.

About Google Chrome: It also shows if your Chrome browser is upto date.

Help: In this section you can look for support questions. You can also use short code F1.

The last option is exit. Or you can easily use the cross button the top right hand side. Other usages like minimize, maximize remains same with other browsers. You can also bookmark by clicking on “Star” on the left hand side besides the address bar. You can click on the plus button to open a new tab quickly.

Under the hood

Here you can select your proxy settings, privacy settings, download location, default font and language and security settings.

If you have any additions, please do let me know.

Browsers saves the history of the websites you visit for better organization or if you need to check anything site/page back ( i.e history). I am sure you might have noticed that when you put a letter in the address bar of your browser it gives a couple of options. This is because it has saved the history of the sites you have visited and shows as a drop down menu of sites with which the first letter matches. This options will show up if here is some history in the browser or history saving is enabled. Most Popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari does it. Lets check how to delete search engine history in each one of them.

1. Mozilla Firefox: In Firefox just below the title bar on the right hand side, you will find the menu bar. Look for History and click on it. Now select “Show all history” from the drop down menu. The history is shown in the format today, yesterday, last 7 days and months. To delete you can just select them using your mouse click and then press the delete button from the keyboard. Or you can select and right click on the options and then select delete from the menu window.

2. Internet Explorer: Same way in IE under the title bar, you will find the menu bar on the right hand side. Please click on View and select “Explorer bar” and the select history. You can also use the shortcut of Ctrl + H to view the history. In IE history is shown in the format starting from today till the last day of the current week with day name. Followed by last week, 2 weeks ago and 3 weeks ago. To delete the history in IE select the options and press delete button on your keyboard. You can also select and right click on the options and then select delete from the menu window.

3. Opera: Same way in opera you will have to select “Tools” in the menu bar and select “History”. You can also use the shortcut ctrl + Shift + H. In Opera history is shown in the format Today, yesterday, earlier this week, earlier this months and Older. So here you can select you wish and delete.

4.Safari: In safari things are little different. Here, to delete history you will have to click on the round kind of flower with a drop down arrow on the extreme right just below the red x button. Now select the History option. Now like before, you can just select and delete as you wish.

5. Google Chrome: Chrome followed almost the same design architecture of Safari. So in Chrome to you will have to click on the tool symbol with a drop down arrow just below the x symbol (used to closed a window). Now select “History”. Here you will see a link “Delete history for this day” or the like. Click on the link to delete.