Needless to say, it comes with a Web Store of its own, with a number of extensions, themes, apps and games. Angry Birds fans rejoice! You now have a new variant of the popular game for Chrome. Another nifty add-on is the Chrome instant, which like Google Instant, auto-completes text on the Omnibar and gives you a live preview of the result. Chrome too allows for privacy browsing with its Incognito Window that can be opened from the settings menu.

Much like an OS, it comes with a task manager which displays the amount of resources, but when a large number of tabs are opened, the memory usage deigns shooting up. Though the user interface didn’t slow down, it stuttered with the loading of two tabs, refusing to load them until they were refreshed. It scores well in the benchmarks, second in Peacemaker only to Opera. Chrome bagged the highest points in the HTML5 test at the end of the day, Google Chrome was just as quick and user Friendly as its quirky viral videos claimed it to be.

Chrome is the first browser to introduce a consistent separation of individual tabs at the process level. You can check that when you start the task manager with many tabs open in the browser. Press the key combination [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Esc} and switch to the ‘Processes’ tab. For instance, if there are four tabs open, you will see the ‘chrome.exe’ process displayed at least five times. You can end the processes here itself but you cant see which process entry belongs to which tab.

It is this information that the internal task manager of Chrome provides. You can call it up from the Chrome program window either by pressing the key combination [Shift] + [Esc] or by right clicking a free spot above the address bar and selecting the context command ‘Task Manager’. The following dialog shows the tab or plug-in to which the process is correlated. Select the desired entry and click ‘End processes.

You can call up detailed information about memory usage of individual processes via the link ‘Statistics for nerds’ and thus identify which websites are low on memory. Moreover, the overview also shows the memory requirements of all other currently open browsers. You can thus end a hanging Flash Player without problems or close a tab with defective websites without affecting the remaining browsers. The closed page displays a message in the, thus enabling immediate reloading of the page.

This isn’t intuitive at all, and can be rather annoying as you can imaging. You may come across web sites that don’t even offer a direct URL for their feeds. and instead choose to have them embedded in the page’s code, making detecting feeds even harder.

The good news is that this can be easily remedied using an extension by Google. The RSS Subscription Extension by Google shows a small indicator in the address bar when the current page has an associated RSS feed. Click on this icon for a preview of the feed and allows you to easily subscribe to it . It includes a few subscription services by default. however you can configure your own.

To see a list of your installed plug-ins, you only need to enter about:plugins in the browser address bar. You will be taken to a page with a list of plug-ins installed for your browser.

Each plug-in will have a link below it that will let you disable the plug-in.

To make it easier to ensure that you have the latest version of your browser plug-ins installed, you can make use of the Secbrowsing>plugin Version Checker extension for Google Chrome. This handy extension will check if you are running the latest version of the plug-ins you have installed and notify you if that is not the case.

This can be incredibly useful for web applications such a Gmail, or Aviary. If one application crashes, it will not bring down the other applications or the tabs opened in Google Chrome. Additionally, each such application will appear as a separate icon in the task bar instead of grouping with your other Google Chrome.

Creating such a web application shortcut is simple, click on the wrench-menu, and under the “Tools” sub menu, you will find ” Create application shortcuts..” Clicking on this will pop up a dialog that will give you the option to create shortcuts on your desktop, start menu, and the task bar.

If you want, you can simply create a new profile for this purpose, however a simpler way  to  use the “incognito” feature in Google Chrome. Unlike in Firefox, Google Chrome Can open a new “Incognito window” along with your usual browsing session, whereas in Firefox, your normal browsing session would be suspended.

Whatever you do in tabs opened in this incognito window is not recorded, it is as if you are working on  is a read only copy of your browser. Read-only means that your browsing history and bookmarks are still available (unlike with the separate profile approach). however they are not a affected by your activities while private browsing is engaged.

Google Chrome disables extension in Incognito mode since they might inadvertently leak or store some information about your private browsing activities, so unlike with Firefox, this is something you need not worry about with Chrome, Instead you can choose to enable certain extension in this mode.

Opening and Incognito window is simple enough, as an option for the same is accessible from the wrench-menu. You can also use the shortcut  [ctrl]+[shift]+[N].

These scripts run on web pages and can often add features that are not available by default. For example, you will find Greasemonkey scripts that add a download button to YouTube, preview audio files stored in Google Docs, or show prices in your local currency on Amazon. Since these scripts run the context of the web site itself, many of these can be run on any browser, and there have always been ways of doing so. The great thing is that Greansemonkey scripts are natively supported on Google Chrome, without installing and add-on.

To install Greansemonkey scripts, visit http://userscripts.org and search away for the scripts, just click the Install button, and Google Chrome will show the usual Google Chrome extension installation dialog. You will be able to manage your installed Greasemonkey scripts along with the rest of your extensions.

Over the past few versions of Google Chrome, the browser has gained support for syncing an increasing amount of data. It started from simply synchroniziong bokmarks in Google Chrome 4 and today, in the latest Google Chrome 8 it supports synchronising preference, Autofill data, Themes, Extensions, and apps in addition to bookmarks.

Google Chrome Sync require’s a Google Chrome Account, and stores your data in your Google Docs account. It is easy to enables, as an option is available for it under the “Personal Stuff” tab of your Preferences page. There you can enable or disable sync and Choose What all you’d like to keep synced.

In Chrome 9 (currently in the dev channel) it is possible to synchronise passwords as well, and adding and additional sync key for encrypting your data.

Google Chrome has a command line parameter –user-data-dir that can be used for this purpose.

To create a new profile with Google Chrome, first of all, create a new directory to hold this profile data. Let us assume you wish to store the data for your new profile in D:Chrome.

In this case create a shortcut to Google Chrome –you could copy your existing desktop shortcut and edit it and add the following parameters:

–user-data-dir=D:Chrome

Your full path should look something like:

“C:Documents and SettingsusernameLocal SettingApplicaionDataGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe” –user-data-dir=D:Chrome

Whenever you want to launch Google Chrome with this profile, simply use this shortcut. You can create multiple folders and multiple shortcuts for each profile.

If you’d prefer to use a ready-made tool for this job instead of mucking about with command-line parameter and shortcuts, you can take a look at Chrome Deck, Which is an open source project for managing Google Chrome profiles.

After you have enabled the “Side Tabs” experiment in about:flags simply right click on a tab click “Use side tabs” to switch between tabs -on -top and tabs-on-the- side.

Some of the limitations with Google’s side tabs are :

If you open too many tabs, and the number of tabs is move than waht can be displayed in th vertical space available, the list of thabs will not scroll, and some tabs will be inaccessible.

You cannot  resize the horizontal space available for tabs.

The right-click menu while working with side-tabs is not very clear, it still contains “Close tabs to the Right” which no longer makes sense.

Some of the Tips we will use will require setting flags here. After doing so, all you need to do is restart the browser, and the new setting will come in effect. In many cases this will not be enough to activate a feature.

Chrome is customized to support new application standards like web-based games, videos, convention messengers and web searching options. Chrome’s developers promoted it as a speedier, safer and more reliable way to navigate the Web that will give consumers more and better options like address bar with auto-completion features.

Google Chrome will use special tabs and to fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites. Chrome users can set Google as their default search engine, looking up terms by typing them directly into the browser’s address box.

Privacy settings can be added to any window so that none of the info on that screen is logged on the computer and all cookies are erased after the session. The look is very simple and it can import all other open source browsers web history, saved password and bookmarks.

Simple Steps to Install Chrome:

1.  Browse to http://www.google.com/chrome/

2.  Click on the Get Google Chrome (BETA) button at the page.

3.  The page redirected to another page after doing so,Read the Google Chrome Terms of Service

4.  Click on the Accept and Install button at the bottom of the page.

5.  The page redirected to another page after doing so, just be enduring; the download should start shortly. If you don’t see a window? Click here. Link.

6.  Save file in the window that appears; then save the file to your desktop.

7.  Double-click on the file you just downloaded to start the Chrome (beta) installation wizard.

8.  Click “Next” on each step of the wizard until Chrome beta is installation Finish.

9.  Start up Google Chrome , and browse Smiling.

Is your installation stuck in a rut? Google Chrome support should be able to help you out