Programmer: Lifelong Learning: Awesome Tips about Chrome

Chrome Shortcuts

Use Chrome Vimium for more shortcuts to navigate Chrome like a Pro.
Use Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts) to assgin shortcuts to chrome standard commands if don’t use Chrome Vimium.

Cmd+Shift+?	Open Help menu and navigate
Cmd+shift+J then close it	Close download bar
Option+Cmd+left(right)	go one tab left(right)
(Shift+)spacebar	Page down(up)
Command-Shift-V	Paste without formatting
Cmd+left(right)	go back(forward) in history
⌘ + y	Open chrome://history
⌘ + Shift + w	Closes the current window
⌘ + Shift + j	Open the Downloads page
⌘ + Option + i	Open Developer Tools (not Cmd+shift+i: Email this page)
Cmd+Option+C	Open dev tools in inspect mode

If you REALLY don’t want to use the `trackpad`

How to leave focus from address bar without mouse or trackpad - We can press the trackpad to leave the address bar (when the mouse is at browser area, usually it’s) - I avoid to use trackpad as possible as I can as my fingers hurt when use trackpad. - Luckily, we can add a custom search engine like below at chrome://settings/searchEngines. - Then we can type l then enter to go back to the browser area.

Name	keyword	URL
Leave Address bar	l	javascript:

Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions

Read the Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions
Use The Great Suspender together with Chrome Vimium, the Suspender reduces the memory usage, use Chrome Vimium to find and go to specific tab quickly.

How to Speed up Google Chrome

Read the How to Speed up Google Chrome

Custom Search Engines in Chrome

Read here for more tips about how to Google search like a pro
chrome://settings/searchEngines
Chrome automatically add custom search engine for StackOverflow, Amazon etc; we can change the keyword shorter to make it even easier to use. For example change stackoverflow.com to st, superuser.com to su.

Name	keyword	URL
Site Search	site	javascript:location=‘https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:’+escape(location.hostname)+‘+%s’
Lucky Search With google	gl	https://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=%s
Lucky Search with DuckDuckGo	dl	https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky %s
YouTube Search	y	https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Google maps Search	gm	https://www.google.com/maps?q=%s
Google Maps - Home	gh	https://www.google.com/maps/dir/home/%s
Last Day Search	lds	https://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:d&q=%s
Leave Address bar	l	javascript:

Bookmarks

Add a short and easy to remember Bookmark name to frequently visited websites.
Use chrome vimium to search and go to web sites.
- Chrome search bar show suggestions based on a lot of things: search history, Bookmark, or some AI.
- when you type ma, you would think the first one would be “mail.google.com”, but it may be one of your recent search.
Add custom search engine to search only Bookmark.
To delete multiple Bookmarks,

Chrome Urls

chrome://flags/
chrome://restart/
view-source:the_url

Tips abut Chrome

Drag multiple tabs to new window	hold the Command key
Open a Search in New Tab	Hold down the Command button and hit return
Cmd+click	Open link in new tab

Multiple profile in chrome
- Manage People -> Add People to have multiple profile, we can easily switch between these profiles with shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M
How to Merge Multiple Tabs from Two Windows
- Left-click the first tab in the window you want to merge. While holding the shift key, left-click the right most tab. All of tabs for the current window are now selected, so you can drag and drop them as as group on the other window.
One line browser notepad
```
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
```
Copy tooltip text: search the context in the Sources panel in dev tools
After download a file or an image, we can drag the file from the bottom download bar to a webpage where we can upload it.

Block notification requests

Go to chrome://settings/content/notifications and toggle Ask before sending (recommended) to Blocked

Print only Selection

Select text and right click -> Print to print
Cmd+P then in the print dialog: More Settings -> Check Selection only
- We can also choose to whether include headers and footers, or background graphics

Dark Mode

Dark Reader
Enable Mac’s dark mode at System Preferences -> General

Task Manager

Find memory(CPU) usage by tabs, extensions, and kill them.
Find all tabs opened

Auto Sync

How Do Websites Disable Password Saving?
- autocomplete=off
Chrome sync keeps pausing and asking me to re-sign-in1
- chrome://settings/ and scroll down to the “Privacy and security” section and turn “Allow Chrome sign-in” off
- chrome://flags/#account-consistency: Default
- Alt: Don’t quit Chrome (until you have to), instead use The Great Suspender to Ctrl+Shift+K to Suspend all tabs in all windows

Chrome in Mobile/iPhone

Read it later (only) in iPhone/iPad
Long press the history button(<-, ->) to show history of current tab to quickly go to the specific page

Awesome Tips about Chrome