Google Chrome is by far the most used web browser in the world. In this article I give 7 tips that everyone should know if Google Chrome is your default web browser.
In various tests, Google Chrome emerges as the best performing web browser. In addition to Google Chrome being one of the better web browsers, Google Chrome also has a wide range of functionality.
This article contains the 7 most useful tips that every user should know to get all the useful functionality out of Google Chrome.
7 useful tips for Google Chrome that everyone should know!
Surf anonymously with Google Chrome
If you visit websites on the internet using Google Chrome, Google Chrome stores a lot of user and website data on your device.
Data such as cookies, completed web forms, and of course the web pages visited are kept in the history.
Google Chrome has the incognito mode in which this data is kept on the computer. However, only after closing the incognito mode will this data be automatically deleted from Google Chrome.
Click on the menu icon at the top right of Google Chrome, and select “New Incognito Window” from the menu or press the CTRL+SHIFT+N keys on your keyboard.
The Google Chrome theme is now dark, and a spy icon appears next to the Google Chrome menu.
Manage passwords in Google Chrome with Google Smart Lock
Google Smart Lock is a service from Google to view, edit and delete your passwords stored via Google Chrome.
Google's Smart Lock is used to automatically fill in information such as a username and password in Google Chrome when you want to log in to a website.
Open this link to Manage passwords in Google Chrome. You will be redirected to passwords.google.com to log in with your Google account.
After logging in to Google Smart Lock, you can view and edit the passwords. To view a password, click on the eye icon and to delete a password, click on the trash can icon.
Browser extensions for Google Chrome
Google Chrome has functionality called browser extensions that allow tools to work with Google Chrome.
This allows you to add extra functionality to Google Chrome. You will find these free browser extensions in the Google Chrome Webstore.
To install browser extensions, go to the Chrome Web Store and install the browser extensions from there.
If you want to manage browser extensions, such as disabling an extension or removing it completely, you can do so in Google Chrome.
Open Google Chrome, in the top right corner open the Chrome menu, click on More tools and Extensions.
You will now see which extensions are installed in Google Chrome. Click Details to view more information about the extension such as permissions in Google Chrome, description and version number.
To remove an extension in Google Chrome, click Remove at the bottom of the extension. The browser extension has now been removed from Google Chrome.
Experiments in Google Chrome and Chrome Beta
It is possible to adjust advanced functionality in Google Chrome. This functionality is called Experiments.
To consult these functions, type in the address bar of Google Chrome: chrome://flags/. A window will now open with advanced Chrome functionality that you can manage.
If you would like to have new - still in beta - functionality, you can also install Google Chrome beta. You can download this on the Google Chrome Beta website. Google Chrome beta is available for the following operating systems; Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Create a shortcut in Google Chrome
If you regularly visit the same website, you can create a shortcut on the desktop via Google Chrome.
This way, you just have to click on the shortcut on the desktop and the website will open in Google Chrome.
This way you can create a shortcut of the page you are currently visiting. Open Google Chrome, click on the menu (three vertical dots at the top right corner) and open More Tools, now click on Create Quick Link.
The shortcut is now automatically saved to the desktop.
Set or change homepage in Google Chrome
By default, a New Tab opens in Google Chrome. This is a collection of a Google search box and your most visited web pages.
If you want to set one or more websites to open automatically when you start Google Chrome, you can do this as follows.
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu, go to Settings. Navigate down to On Startup and click Open a specific page or set of pages.
You can continue by clicking on the text; add a page clicking add a new website that opens when Google Chrome is started.
By clicking on the three vertical dots next to a URL you can change or delete the website.
Google Chrome Sync
Synchronization in Google Chrome gives you the ability to sync bookmarks, browsing history, usernames and passwords across multiple devices with Google Chrome installed and linked to your Google account.
This way you can access different data on different devices, for example a laptop, tablet and telephone. You can manage in Google Chrome which type of data is synchronized.
Open the Google Chrome menu, click Settings, go to People and click the Enable Sync button. Now log in with your Google account.
You can now enable or disable the various settings and data that are synced between the different devices.
I hope this article helped you. If you have any questions, please ask them at the bottom of these instructions.
Hi Stephen
I have a question: if we want to log in somewhere with a password (banking), there was an eye icon so that we could check whether we had entered it correctly.
But now this eye icon has disappeared.
Is this something you can set again or is it not in the browser?
I like to hear it
Hi Christa, I have not been able to find anything that says this can be adjusted in Google Chrome. Sometimes an eye icon is also displayed by password manager, a third-party browser extension. It is also possible that the eye has disappeared due to a recent Google Chrome update or due to an adjustment to the login field of the website itself. You can try pressing ALT + F8 to display the password. Greetings, Stefan
Thank you for your response, I will try it and investigate further
Via the shortcut to Google Chrome, you will find icons of visited websites under the search box, which you can remove, but an icon will remain, "Add quick link".
How do you get that away now? Settings does not provide a solution and the “Tools” tool is missing in the top right corner. And yes, I have the latest version of Google Chrome.
Hello, just removed from the “Add Quick Link” button in Chrome's new tab.
Open Chrome. Click on “Customize Chrome” at the bottom right. Then click on “Shortcuts” in the menu and then enable the “Hide shortcuts” option. The new tab in Chrome is now empty with just a search bar.
Greetings, Stefan
When I start my PC (HP), it automatically goes to Google Chrome instead of my desktop. I always want to start up in the desktop with icons because if I need the internet when I click on the icon.
Create a shortcut in Google Chrome;
Hello all,
Very nice, but I miss one important point and that is how can I delete that shortcut again? Adding is almost like kicking in an open door. But the draft is now so bad that I want to close the door again by removing the shortcut. Strange that the developers hid it like that!
Hello Hendrik, you mean the shortcut created on the Windows Desktop? Right-click on it and select delete.