With more information going online these days, it's important that you use a fast and safe browser on your computer. Introducing Google Chrome -- a browser that opens web pages at lightning speed! Its sleek design gives you more room to browse your favorite sites. This guide walks you through the main features of Google Chrome.
When you visit a website, it opens as a tab in Google Chrome. To open a new tab, click . Tabs line up along the tab strip at the top of the browser window, so you can easily switch between different pages that you've opened.
Try the following tricks with your tabs:
Pull a tab out into its own window.
Pop a tab into another window by clicking and dragging the tab out to the top of the new window.
Move a tab by clicking the tab and dragging it to a different location along the tab strip.
If a page unexpectedly stops working, just close that tab. Unlike other browsers, one misbehaving tab won't affect most of your other tabs or the overall responsiveness of Google Chrome.
Click this button to open a new tab. It starts out as a blank page, but, over time, will get populated with the following resources:
Snapshots (also known as thumbnails) of your most visited sites. Just click a thumbnail to open the site. You can easily remove specific thumbnails from the page.
Use these arrows to go to webpages that you've just visited in the tab. Click an arrow and hold it down to see a history of your browsing session in the tab.
Reload the page
To see the latest content for a webpage, click this button to refresh the page.
Open your home page
This button lets you get to your home page in one click. Follow these steps to set your preferred home page:
Click the wrench menu .
Select Options.
Click the Basics tab.
Select 'Open this page,' then enter the web address of the page you want to use.
If you visit the same page every time you browse the Web, consider creating a bookmark for it, by clicking the star icon when you're on the page.
Doing so places a shortcut for the page on your bookmarks bar.The confirmation bubble that pops up lets you edit the specific name, web address, and bookmarks bar folder for the bookmark.
In Google Chrome, you don't need a second search box -- the address bar doubles as your search box. In addition to opening web addresses, here are all the other ways you can use the address bar:
Search the Web.
See matches from your bookmarks and browsing history as you type.
See suggestions of popular sites and search terms as you type.
No need for a separate menu bar. This menu contains your essential tools for working with the webpage you're viewing. Use this menu to do the following:
Cut, copy, or paste text.
Save or print your current page.
Open the find bar to search the text of your current page.
Change the font size of your current page.
Adjust your browser settings via the wrench menu
This menu lets you control your browser settings. Use this menu to do the following:
Open a new tab or window.
Open a new window in incognito mode. Pages you visit in this window won't be stored in your browsing history.
Import settings -- such as bookmarks, search engines, browsing history, and passwords -- from other browsers.
Go full screen, which is convenient when viewing videos on the Web.
The bookmarks bar gives you easy access to the pages you've saved. Like tabs, move bookmarks around by dragging and dropping them into folders or onto the bar directly.
A few helpful tips:
Import your existing bookmarks from other browsers, like Firefox or Internet Explorer. You'll find them in the 'Other bookmarks' folder at the end of the bookmarks bar.
Dock the bar underneath the address bar. Find this option in the wrench menu . Otherwise, find the bar at the top of a new tab.
Use the keyboard shortcutCtrl+B to toggle the bookmark bar on or off.
You can also use the bookmark manager to sort and organize your bookmarks.
. Tabs line up along the tab strip at the top of the browser window, so you can easily switch between different pages that you've opened.
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