15 things you can do without the Chrome extensions
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Google Browser over the last five years, broke far ahead in the number of users in comparison with competitors. Chrome developers have always laid emphasis on speed and not on the functionality that can be extended indefinitely due to the expansion. And yet, having exchanged fourth ten versions, the browser has learned to do many things without any extensions. Below we offer you a list of the 15 most useful tips and tricks for Google Chrome, which can help you get more from your favorite browser, without using any extensions.
1. Save web pages to PDF
Google Chrome has a built-in PDF-printer. Open any page, press Ctrl + P in Windows (or Cmd + P on OS X) and select "Save as PDF» from the list of available printers to load the page in a PDF document.
2. Set custom keyboard shortcuts
Google Chrome supports a variety of keyboard shortcuts, but you can not just change them, but also to create their own "hot keys" to launch Chrome apps.
3. Selectively clean history of visited websites
The history of Google Chrome (chrome: // history) does not have the item "Select All", and to delete, for example, 20 visited pages, you need to check all 20 ticks. However, if you check the first item, then hold down Shift, click on the last desired checkbox to mark all items in the list between them.
4. Not install extensions from the Chrome store
The latest versions of browsers do not allow to install third-party extensions that were not scanned in the Chrome store. A workaround is to include in developer mode browser menu, and dragging the file c extension CRX in the browser window.
5. Accelerate braking Chrome
Google Chrome can start to slow down after a few hours of surfing. The simplest solution - to restart the browser, but often it is not in the browser, and in one of the extensions or one particular tab. Learn more accurately culprit help menu item "Tools" ⇒ "Task Manager." Sort the list by field "Memory", you can easily find a "brake" and nail it.
6. Replace your current location
Some sites may ask for your geographical location. Not only can you refuse to give your location-based data, and even to falsify them. To do this, open the menu "Tools" ⇒ "Developer Tools", then press the Esc key, to open the console. Select Emulation tab -> Sensors and enter any latitude and longitude values.
7. Read your passwords hidden by asterisks
Google Chrome can store data for auto-login forms on Web sites, but the default passwords closed asterisks. However, they can be "declassified", open the "Developer Tools", select the password field on the page and changing the field type in the Password Text. An alternative way - to find the password tab on the chrome: // settings / passwords.
8. Write letters directly in the address bar
Team mailto indicating the destination (for example, mailto: [email protected]) will open a window for creating a new message in Gmail and automatically fills in the address in the "To".
9. Take notes in Chrome
Of course, Chrome extensions good enough to help turn the browser into a kind of notebook, but the next small hack on JavaScript instantly turn your Chrome in a text editor. Open a new tab, paste the following into the address bar:
data: text / html,
Move the cursor inside the tab and start typing.
Tip: For added convenience, this command can bookmark and browser-based text editor will have at your fingertips.
10. Use Chrome as a media player
Simply drag and drop audio and video files, images, text files, PDF documents from your local disk in Google Chrome window, and it will serve you an excellent file viewer without having to launch other applications.
11. Accommodate more in the bookmarks bar
Known enough hack. To accommodate as many elements in the browser's bookmarks toolbar, edit them, removing the names of sites. After you save the edited cell in the panel will only site icon, which itself identifies him well.
12. Increase stability when loading Flash only when necessary
HTML5 has long and successfully constricts Adobe Flash Player. Open the advanced browser options at chrome: // settings / content, select "Click to play" in the "plug-in". The Flash Player will remain off as long as you do not run it at the next site that requires it.
13. Pretend mobile device with a slow Internet connection
If you find yourself with a weak Internet or in hard conditions, traffic restrictions, the browser can impersonate mobile device, and most sites will give you their mobile version, which is usually less demanding resources. In the "Developer Tools", click the Emulation tab and select the Android or iOS in the User Agent. In this case, the screen emulation device and leave it off.
14. Remove embarrassing links from the address lines
Type a few characters in the address bar, and you will see a list of tips, among which are links from your browsing history. If some of these links you want to remove, it is not necessary to remove them in the browser history. Simply highlight (not) the appropriate link in the drop down list and press Shift + Delete, to delete it forever.
15. View a page from Google's cache
Google caches becomes indispensable when the site you went into offline and unavailable. Enter in the address bar the appropriate link, adding it to the "cache:" and press enter. You will discover a version of the page from the cache search engine, if one exists.
P. S. A full list of Google Chrome official links, visit chrome: // chrome-urls /.