Chrome: One of the best features in the search engine DuckDuckGo is the instant answers shown at the top of the results page. If you find yourself more attached to Google for web searches, but want the instant answer feature, DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info is a Chrome extension that stuffs those results right in your Google searches.
Gmail is amazing. It’s chock full of more shortcuts, settings, and features than you could shake a stick at. Even if you consider yourself a Gmail ninja, though, there are quite a few tricks you might not know about (and some that Google didn’t even intend). Here are our top 10 clever tricks built right into Gmail.
This extension adds favicons — those little icons you see in your address bar when you visit a page — to Google’s search results so you can more easily see what site each link is coming from.
Kill Evil is a simple extension that disables annoying scrips all across the web, like sites that won’t let you right-click, sites that won’t let you copy images, or sites that paste in citation links whenever you copy their text.
Google recently released a new tool that lets you create your own custom themes for Chrome, and it’s pretty awesome. Here are six of our favourites.
I’m so used to Control-C for copy, Control-X for cut and Control-V for paste that it never occurred to me that other options (such as the Edit menu or right-clicking) don’t always work in web-based applications like Google Docs. Google Operating System points out this flaw, which is almost unavoidable because of browser security requirements.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Once upon a time, you visited a website that you’re not exactly proud of. Let’s say the content of said website rhymes with “corn”. And oops! You forgot to go incongnito beforehand. You’ve frantically deleted the site from your history once you realised your mistake, but from this point forward, every time you type in “po…”, Chrome helpfully autocompletes the entire URL. THANKS CHROME! If you have heard this story before (from a friend, right?), you may want to familiarise yourself with the handy Shift+Delete shortcut.
One of the less-trumpeted features of the recent major Chrome update: it now syncs your search engines and keyword bookmarks, meaning that you can take full advantage of keyword bookmarks on all your machines using Chrome.
If you have an Android device running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), you can now download the beta version of Google’s Chrome browser from the Android Market. The mobile version brings many of the things we love about Chrome, like bookmark syncing and Incognito mode, direct to your phone or tablet.
After killing Gears, Google reintroduced offline support last September with a Chrome extension, but that wasn’t particularly well received either. Will the latest update finally make offline Gmail a realistic prospect?