Posts Tagged by Google Chrome
How to Easily Backup and Restore Web Browser Bookmarks (and other data too)
| 27 January 2011 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If you are a frequent web surfer, your bookmarks will be one of your important piece of data. Usually for most of us, when we are planning to reinstall the operating system that we use, we tend to forget to backup the web browser bookmarks and other data such as saved passwords, extensions, etc. (at least for me, and most of my friends). Unless you are using web browser synchronizing services such as Opera Link or XMarks, backing up and restoring your bookmarks manually is pretty much not a user friendly step.
FavBackup is a free simple program that allows you to easily backup and restore your web browser bookmarks. FavBackup supports backup and restore the bookmarks for major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Flock).
Other than bookmarks, FavBackup is also able to backup full web browser profile and data such as cookies, saved passwords, site preferences, search engines and many more. This will ease the backup, restore or migration process of your web browser profile to another system.
By default, FavBackup will automatically list the profiles of the web browser that installed on your system. If you want to backup a portable web browser, FavBackup has the ability to select custom web browser profile location.
Google Chrome: How to Save/Capture Entire Web Page as Image
| 23 July 2010 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Quick tip. Sometimes, you might want to capture and save entire web page as an image file. Normally, if you take a screenshot using the ‘Print Screen’ key, you can only capture what is displayed on your screen. If you are a Google Chrome user, you are lucky because there is a helpful extension available to help you to save entire web page as an image.
Webpage Screenshot, an extension for Google Chrome, will let you save a web page as image. The extension will save a long web page as a single image. Because the extension ran on the browser itself, you can actually save a web page that requires you to log on.
Google Chrome: Unable to Import Bookmarks & Settings from Mozilla Firefox
| 28 September 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
If your Google Chrome do not show Mozilla Firefox in the ‘Import Bookmarks and Settings’ browser list, don’t panic. Here is a simple trick to show back Mozilla Firefox in the browser bookmarks & settings import list.
Open notepad, and paste the following registry script.
Google Chrome Offline Installer?
| 3 September 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Google Chrome installer will download the browser component during the install process, which prevent you from installing it on a PC without internet connection.
Welcome Google Chrome! First Look…
| 3 September 2008 | Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized |
Google Chrome is the latest open source web browser, built with WebKit and Mozilla technology, developed by Google. When I first run Google Chrome, I noticed the simple GUI of Google Chrome. You will get the basic GUI such as tabs, address bar, back, forward and home buttons. Even bookmarks is actually hidden by default (you have the option to show it somehow).
Some Google Chrome features:
- Phishing and malware sites blacklist will be periodically downloaded by Google Chrome.
- Each tabs in Google Chrome are sandboxed, meaning that each tab is isolated and cannot affect other tabs, and have the similar ‘Protected Mode’ used by Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.
- The new Javascript virtual machine, V8, used in Google Chrome will significantly improve Javascript executions.
- Multiprocessing
- Google Chrome comes with its own task manager, so you can see which tab or plugin that hogs your system resources.
Importing bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox is pretty easy. There is a menu that enables you to import bookmark and settings from Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, Google Chrome did not came with a decent bookmark manager. You can only do simple task to manage your bookmarks.
As for web browsing, Google Chrome is extremely fast, light and stable. Since the machine I used to test Google Chrome is not very fast, Google Chrome became unresponsive when I open all my 63 bookmarked ‘quick start’ page. Mozilla Firefox and Opera somehow can handle this. Maybe this is caused by the fact that each tab in Google Chrome are launched as separate processes. Other than that, Google Chrome works very fine. You will need a high end system to enjoy Google Chrome if you are a heavy surfer.
Some shortcuts are quite same with other browser. CTRL+T opens a new tab, CTRL+W closes the current tab, CTRL+Tab and CTRL+Shift+Tab navigates cycles to the right and left of the tabs list.
Google Chrome lacks of the option to customize how it works. Features such as gestures, ability to customize the keyboard and mouse shortcut for the browser would be very handy. Google Chrome is… just too simple. So far, it still a good browser when considering it is the first public version.
Some screenshots of Google Chrome:
Version information
The simple GUI of Google Chrome
Download status is displayed at the bottom
Or you can view the full download status
Google Chrome will notify you if there are unresponsive tabs
You will be notified too if the plugins crashed
Incognito mode: lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn’t record any of your activity and discards cookies
Each tabs in Google Chrome are launched as separate processes
Google Chrome task manager
Advanced memory usage details. Google Chrome will also displayed other browser memory details if you have them running
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