Google Chrome (Chromium) Web Browser

Google Chrome (Chromium) Web Browser

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Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete Passwords
Browser Security
Changing the home page
Viewing the Source Code of a file
Favorite pages/ Bookmarks
A select few other options/features



    

Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete Passwords

     From the Wrench Icon, Choose Clear browsing data


     From here you can choose what to delete and from how long ago

Browser Security

     You can hide your tracks if you share a computer by using Incognito
This system does not keep browser history or cookies
To launch it, from the Wrench Icon, Choose New Incognito Window


     From the Wrench Icon, Choose Options


     Click the tab Minor Tweaks
Any passwords you tell the system to save, can be easily view in plain text format here
Click on Show saved passwords


     You can view your password for a specific site or remove the password


     Click the tab Under the Hood
You can enable protection and change your preferences for cookies


     Change your pop up preferences here

Changing the home page

     From the Wrench Icon, Choose Options


     If you have to open the same pages everyday, you can list all of the pages here
Chrome will open all listed pages when you start the browser.
Tell the system if you want a blank page or a specific page for your home page.
You can also change what system is used as your search engine and set your default browser

Viewing the Source Code of a file

     From the Page icon,
Choose Developer, then choose View Source
The system will autolaunch your default text viewing program with the source code for the website

Favorite pages/ Bookmarks

     From the Wrench Icon, Choose Bookmark Manager


     Import and Export bookmarks from other systems.
In Organize you can rename, remove bookmarks

A few options and Features

     To search for a particular word or phrase on a web page, use the find feature
Either [Control] + [F] or launch the feature from the page icon. Choose Find in Page.
The Find feature will give you a count of how many times that specific word/phrase appears


     1 page bogging everything down?
Not sure which page it is?
Now you don't have to close out the entire browser.
From the page icon, choose Developer, then choose Task Manager



     Google can list all the individual tabs. To end a single unresponsive tab
Select the tab in the Google task manager and choose End Process
To get more detailed statistics, choose Stats for Nerds


     This will break down the process of all open browsers and tabs


     Interested in JavaScript?
From the page icon, choose developer
You can now use debugging or the Javascript console