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12 + useful Google Chrome

new-google-chrome-logoEveryone knows that in order to get to Chrome menu, you should click on the wrench in the upper right corner.

However, there are several features that are not available from the menu that you can only see with chrome://commands.

Here are 12 most useful chrome://commands, which everyone should know.

1. chrome://flags

From here you can enable some experimental features that are hidden in Google Chrome browser. Note that they are experimental, they may not work as expected and may cause some problems. You’ll use them at your own risk.

2. chrome://dns

This page displays a list of DNS, which your browser used/.

3. chrome://downloads

This function is also available from Menu-> Downloads, and also by a combination Ctrl + J.

4. chrome://extensions

This function is also available from Menu-> Settings-> Extensions.

5. chrome://bookmarks

This function is also available from Menu-> Bookmarks-> Bookmark manager, as well as combination Ctrl + Shift + O.

6. chrome://history

This is also available from Menu-> History, as well as combination Ctrl + H.

7. chrome://memory

First it will redirect you to «chrome:// memory-redirect/”. This shows the memory that browser Google Chrome uses, as well as all other browsers running on the system (including Firefox). Also, there are shown all the processes associated with the browser with PID, process name and the memory they occupy.

8. chrome://net-internals

It displays all the network information. Use this page to get information about network events generated by the browser. You can also export the data. One of the important functions on this page is «Test». If the page failed to load, you can open «chrome://net-internals” -> »Test” -> address that is not able to load and click on «Start Test», will continue to test and will report on the reason, why can not open the page.

9. chrome://quota-internals

This function displays information about disk space used by your browser.

10. chrome://sessions

This page shows information about sessions.

11. chrome://settings

This function is also available from Menu-> Settings (Windows), and Menu-> Options (Linux). Here you can configure all available browser options.

12. chrome://sync-internals

It displays information and synchronization statistics.

Posted from comments:  chrome://gpu-internals/

What features are supported by the video card you have and what are switched on  chrome://print/

A wonderful opportunity to the owners of Windows to save the page in pdf

And finally, to see all the available chrome: //command, insert chrome://about/ or chrome://chrome-urls/ in your browser.

In addition, all of the above commands can also be invoked by about:

For example, it is the same commands that return the same.

Introducing Voice Actions for Android

Introducing Voice Actions for Android in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain

 

Last year in the US, we introduced Voice Actions, a series of spoken commands that let you control your Android phone or tablet with your voice. You can call businesses and contacts, send texts, browse the web and complete other common tasks, all just by speaking into your phone.

Today, we’re pleased to announce that users in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain can now use Voice Actions in British English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

To use Voice Actions, tap the microphone button on the Google search box on your home screen, open the Voice Search app, or press down for a few seconds on the physical search button on your phone to activate the “Speak Now” screen. You can see how it works in this video.
Speak any of these commands to perform a Voice Action on your phone:

  • send text to [contact] [message]
  • call [business]
  • call [contact]
  • go to [website]
  • navigate to [location/business name]
  • directions to [location/business name]
  • map of [location]

And of course, you can still conduct a Google search using your voice.

Use Voice Actions to get directions, or send a text using just your voice

Voice Actions is available on phones and tablets running Android 2.2 and higher. If you don’t have Voice Search on your phone yet, you can download it from Android Market – if you do have Voice Search, you can just start using Voice Actions.

We think Voice Actions helps you get things done on your phone faster and easier. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!

Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6

Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6

 

we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone’s camera, and Goggles will work in the background to analyze your image. If your photo contains items that Goggles can recognize, the app will notify you.

Let’s say that I’m going on vacation, and I decide to use my Android-powered phone as my primary camera. Goggles would identify landmarks, paintings and other interesting objects in my photos. I can share these facts about my vacation with my friends right from my Goggles search history.

  
(l-r) Goggles has found a search result for this popular landmark; Find out more about this item in your photo within Google Goggles

Photos you take with your phone’s camera will only be seen by Goggles if you enable the Search from Camera feature. Here’s how:

  • launch Google Goggles
  • tap Menu > Settings > Search from Camera

 

Manage your opt-in status from the settings menu

Here’s A Way To Break Google’s Search Page

Here’s A Way To Break Google’s Search Page

There’s an interesting glitch on Google’s search page that’ll misalign the page content when you search for the string “${“. It doesn’t appear to be serious; just surprising to see Google’s mighty coders make a mistake like this.

There are lively discussions on Hacker News and StackOverflow as people try to figure out why this is happening. Google has not responded and it will likely be fixed quickly, so check it out while you can. You can test it using this link. Enjoy!

Google Wants to Help You Avoid Stupid, Annoying Multiple Page Articles

Google Wants to Help You Avoid Stupid, Annoying Multiple Page Articles

Google Wants to Help You Avoid Stupid, Annoying Multiple Page ArticlesOf all the first world problems that rattle our sensitive, effete internet brains each day, having to click between pages in a long article ranks high. It’s eats up time! And Google agrees—so it’s serving up one-page views.

Google gets the tedium of multi-page navigation—which also make good reads harder or impossible to Instapper—so it’s now automatically pointing you to a full view, when available. If not, you’ll be stuck with the regular paginated text. This will probably piss off some publishers, who rely on pages to grind extra clicks and ad views from their stuff, but, hey whatever, bean counters.