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LEARN SOME HANDY HIDDEN SHORTCUTS

1. Want to open a link into a new tab in the background, so it won’t interrupt what you’re doing? Hold down Ctrl- or Cmd- and click it. To open a link in a whole new window, mean- while, use Shift instead. (This’ll work within most areas of Chrome, by the way—includ- ing the History page and the dropdown history list within the Back button, which we’ll get to in a bit.)

2. You probably know you can press the space bar to scroll down a full page-length, but there’s another side to that shortcut: If you press Shift and the space bar together, Chrome will do the opposite and scroll up by a full page-length at a time.

3. If you ever close a tab by mistake, hit Ctrl- or Cmd-Shift-T. Chrome will reopen your most recently closed tab as if nothing had ever happened. (And you can do it multiple times, too, if there’s more than one tab you’d like to recover.)

4. When you have a bunch of tabs open and want to hang onto the entire session for later, hit Ctrl-Shift-D. That’ll let you save all your open tabs into a folder for easy future access. To restore them, right-click the folder within your bookmarks and select “Open all” or “Open all in new window.”

5. Skip a step and get info about any word or phrase in a page by highlighting it and then right-clicking and selecting the “Search Google” option. You can also highlight a word or phrase and drag it into Chrome’s address bar to achieve the same result—or drag it into the area directly to the right of your final tab to launch the search in a new tab instead of your current one. (Bonus tip: Those same dragging behaviors can also be used to open links.)

6. Save a link with a single click: Just click, hold down your mouse button, and drag the link up into Chrome’s bookmarks bar. Drop it wherever you want, and it’ll be there the next time you need it .

7. If you a file and then want to move it somewhere specific, click on its tile in the bar that appears at the bottom of the browser. You can then drag and drop whatever you ed directly onto your desktop or into any folder.

8. You can also drag and drop files from Chrome’s bar directly into an online service—like Google Drive, for instant ing, or Gmail, for inserting the file as an attachment in a new message.

9. Should you ever find Chrome mysteriously misbehaving, this command: chrome://restart. Type it into Chrome’s address bar, and your browser will restart itself and restore all your tabs and windows in a jiffy. You never know when it might come in handy.

Educative thread.
Lalastic.lala u won't help ignorant people on Nairaland and move this to FP, but if it's snake thread...i don talk finish.


Okay Lala has done the needful. All hail the Snake man.
Meanwhile, hunger has made the young man under me realise he has a talent.

For sirens pls him he offers discounts to Nairalanders.

Wow wow wow wow

This post is front page worthy

Nice one Op....Lala move this to FP

seanwilliam:
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seanwilliam:
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Alau Akbar in Olamide's voice

Geedy:
Alau Akbar in Olamide's voice

Gbogbo awon tan underrate me now they all bow...

mytime24:
U b ambulance

Lwkmd

mytime24:
U b ambulance

You didn't mention the fact that you could play the "jumping dinosaur" game while you wait for your network to come up ...... AMAZING

Xarouk:
LEARN SOME HANDY HIDDEN SHORTCUTS
1. Want to open a link into a new tab in the background, so it won’t interrupt what you’re doing? Hold down Ctrl- or Cmd- and click it. To open a link in a whole new window, mean- while, use Shift instead. (This’ll work within most areas of Chrome, by the way—includ- ing the History page and the dropdown history list within the Back button, which we’ll get to in a bit.)
2. You probably know you can press the space bar to scroll down a full page-length, but there’s another side to that shortcut: If you press Shift and the space bar together, Chrome will do the opposite and scroll up by a full page-length at a time.
3. If you ever close a tab by mistake, hit Ctrl- or Cmd-Shift-T. Chrome will reopen your most recently closed tab as if nothing had ever happened. (And you can do it multiple times, too, if there’s more than one tab you’d like to recover.)
4. When you have a bunch of tabs open and want to hang onto the entire session for later, hit Ctrl-Shift-D. That’ll let you save all your open tabs into a folder for easy future access. To restore them, right-click the folder within your bookmarks and select “Open all” or “Open all in new window.”
5. Skip a step and get info about any word or phrase in a page by highlighting it and then right-clicking and selecting the “Search Google” option. You can also highlight a word or phrase and drag it into Chrome’s address bar to achieve the same result—or drag it into the area directly to the right of your final tab to launch the search in a new tab instead of your current one. (Bonus tip: Those same dragging behaviors can also be used to open links.)
6. Save a link with a single click: Just click, hold down your mouse button, and drag the link up into Chrome’s bookmarks bar. Drop it wherever you want, and it’ll be there the next time you need it .
7. If you a file and then want to move it somewhere specific, click on its tile in the bar that appears at the bottom of the browser. You can then drag and drop whatever you ed directly onto your desktop or into any folder.
8. You can also drag and drop files from Chrome’s bar directly into an online service—like Google Drive, for instant ing, or Gmail, for inserting the file as an attachment in a new message.
9. Should you ever find Chrome mysteriously misbehaving, this command: chrome://restart. Type it into Chrome’s address bar, and your browser will restart itself and restore all your tabs and windows in a jiffy. You never know when it might come in handy.

I already knew some, but not many of the ones you've listed.

Good work...op

Nairaland to the front page asap.

Opera, Firefox, Yandex, Edge going down like Young Joc as...

Internet Explorer continue to rot in limbo

NB
the only thing I miss ancient version of Opera for is it ability to save a webpage as a .mht file which is far more better, quicker and compressed than saving as .html files.

Op and one more thing....

The best feature of Google Chrome which you fail to mention (or never knew of) is its ability to resume on any computer anywhere in the world provided your Gmail is signed in, is Chrome Sync, which allows you to have all your bookmarks, s, pinned tabs, themes as well as all the installed add-ons and 3rd party plug-ins available on a different computer just as they were on the original computer they were all set up on.

People need to know that too.

Like for Chrome, Share for Mozila Firefox.

yen yen yen


If you ain't talking about how canChrome fetch you $$$$$$$, I'm not interested in the story yoooo!!!!

Dee

Really?

punisha:
Educative thread.
Lalastic.lala u won't help ignorant people on Nairaland and move this to FP, but if it's snake thread...i don talk finish.

Be humble

: I'm I suppose to all these?

Nice but it drains RAM quicker than any other browsers

Educative

Good one

i know because I can't do without chrome

both on pc and mobile
it makes browsing easy and smooth
and makes work easier and documented

i wonder how people cope with other browsers

I knew all before

Nothing new here to learn

dake40:
Nice but it drains RAM quicker than any other browsers

yes because it offers you the best experience

i use SD845 6gb ram and chrome is as smooth as fork on it.

Nice

Hmmm

nice one there

punisha:
Educative thread.
Lalastic.lala u won't help ignorant people on Nairaland and move this to FP, but if it's snake thread...i don talk finish.

Why should Lala move it to FP
Did you see or read snake on it
Lala no mind am joor