Google Chrome, the most versatile and advanced browser comes with tons of features that makes your life more easy. Following are most useful and tested features that will help you to get most out of Google Chrome.
1. Open Multiple Pages On Startup
Rather just open a single default home page every time you can set multiple pages to open on startup in Chrome. You just need to follow few simple steps to set the multiple startup pages.
Open Settings from wrench menu, locate On Startup section there under or just open this url chrome://chrome/settings/startup from Chrome address bar. Add the multiple urls that you wanted to open at startup.
2. Pinned Tabs
Pinning tabs will shrink the window down to the size of favicon. It will prevent tabs to be closed accidentally. Right click the tab you wanted to be pinned and click Pin tab. To unpin the pinned tab, right click that pinned tab and click Unpin tab.
3. Create "Desktop App" Of Your Favorite Websites
You can turn your favorite website into desktop like app. It will create a Desktop Shortcut for you to enable fast access in a desktop like application. Optionally you can also add the app in the Start Menu and Quick Launch bar.
To do this, open the site for which you wish to create desktop shortcut. Click the Wrench menu, select Tools and then click Create application shortcuts. This will prompt you to select the options to create the shortcuts for desktop, start menu and quick launch bar. Choose the options and click Create button.
To do this, open the site for which you wish to create desktop shortcut. Click the Wrench menu, select Tools and then click Create application shortcuts. This will prompt you to select the options to create the shortcuts for desktop, start menu and quick launch bar. Choose the options and click Create button.
4. Sync Your Chrome Settings & Bookmarks
Chrome allows to access your all bookmarks and Chrome settings from any computer. All you need to do is to enable Sync option in the settings. Syncing all your bookmarks and settings will store your all bookmarks and settings in your Google account.
To enable this, open this chrome://chrome/settings/syncSetup in chrome's address bar. Select the options you wanted to be synced with Google account and click OK. That's all!
5. Favicon Only Bookmarks
Bookmarks bar keeps your most accessed website accessible directly from the bar. If the bar is not visible in your browser click ctrl + shift + b (cmd + shift + b on Mac) to make it visible.
This bar comes with limited space and to accommodate more bookmarks in the bar remove the site's name from the bookmark. This will now just display only site's favicon in the bar.
If you wanted to convert the existing bookmark into the Favicon only bookmark then right click on the bookmark click edit and remove all text from the name field and click Done. Else if you wanted to create a new favicon only bookmark make sure to remove the text from the name field before saving the same.