7 Chrome features which are useful to know

The Chrome browser soon after its introduction in 2008, has attracted attention of users. For two years it has done a great job and now this browser is worthy of competing with veterans face in IE, Firefox and Opera.

Distinctive features of this browser is a high speed and easy minimalistic interface. By default, Google Chrome interface contains only a few buttons and the address bar, combined with the search. However, this simple facade hides a powerful program, which has a large variety of functions. Some of them are not always visible at first sight, today we'll talk. Many of you surely already know, but something that, hopefully, will find useful for themselves.

Pin tab

If you are constantly opened many tabs, then this feature will help you save space on the panel. Simply right-click on the tab and select Pin tab. When this tab is positioned at the far left position and reduced to the size of the icons of the site.

It is also very useful in the event that some of the tabs you have open all the time.

Make an application shortcut

You can make the standalone application from any web page. To do this, open the menu Tools - Create application shortcuts.

After the launch of this application selected page opens in a separate browser window. In the latest beta version of IE a similar function is widely touted as a novelty, but here it has long been present.

Tools for developers

If you press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + IIt will open a toolbar for developers, which contains a huge amount of useful information. For example, the tab Resources we can estimate the speed of download of different page elements.

Even this panel you can call if you right-click on the page and on the shortcut menu, choose Inspect Element.

Task Manager

Chrome has a built-in task manager that allows you to check the memory consumption and CPU usage each tab. You can call it by Tools - Task Manager or press Shift + Esc.

Calculator in the address bar

Yes, we all remember that the address bar in Google Chrome performs a search functions. But other than that it can not be used for complex mathematical calculations. Just enter your desired expression and get the result instantly.

Search in the address bar

By default the search in the address bar by using the Google search service. But we can use any other search engine. Here, for example, you can add search Yandex.

Go to the page of Yandex and enter any search term. Then open your browser, Options - Bots and we see the bottom of the list of all the searches that you have ever used.

Yandex Select and press the button Make Default. All are now searching in the address bar will be done using Yandex. But you can use other search engines if search query to enter the appropriate keywords that are specified in the search settings.

drag and drop download

When you are downloading anything from the web, downloaded items are displayed as icons at the bottom of the window. You can easily save the downloaded files by simply dragging and dropping to the desktop or any other folder.

Tell about it to your grandmother, she will call you back with the words "... and I downloaded from the Internet, but where it is on the computer can not find."

The more so because Google Chrome, I think you put it long ago. :)