to talk about getting more out of our web browser. Now I have to admit that I’ve been

a little bit of a philandering web browser user. Back in the day, of course, I used Internet

Explorer and then once Firefox came along I was madly in love with Firefox. We had a

torrid relationship that lasted for quite some time but Firefox kind of got slow and

didn’t seem to quite do it for me anymore and I found a new browser. I found Chrome

and Chrome and I formed a bit of a bond. Now I’ve moved over to Chrome and I spend most

of my time with Chrome, although I do spend some time in Safari and a little bit of time

in Firefox occasionally. I feel a little bit guilty about jumping from browser to browser

but that’s the nature of me. I suppose I’m just not cut out to be a one-browser kind

of guy. Having said that, I really like what Chrome

brings to the table currently and I’m using it an awful lot and I thought I’d share

with you like eight awesome features that are within Chrome that will make your web

browsing experience that much better because we spend so much of our time now in our browser.

So without any further ado, I’m going to lightning-ly quickly go through eight features

within Chrome that you might want to incorporate. The first is one that I know you’re going

to want to use. It’s called pinning tabs and what you do when you pin a tab is you

take all of these large tabs that we have across the top of the window here and you

make them small. This is for the tabs that you always have open. If there are certain

pages that you are always at, regardless of what’s going on in your life—I use email

in the browser so I always have my email open—well, instead of taking up all the physical space

here that it takes up, right-click your mouse on it, say “Pin tab” and it reduces it

down to about a quarter or less of the space. I’ve still got the tab there. It’s still

using up resources and all that. It’s not like it’s going to make the computer faster

but it’s going to take less real estate here at the top. So by pinning a few tabs,

the tabs that you always have open, that is a great way for you to reclaim some real estate

at the top of the screen. Now don’t go crazy doing this. Don’t decide

that you can have all of your bookmarks open because these tabs can take up a small amount

of space because every window you have open takes up some resources on your computer.

You lose a little bit of memory and the computer is going to perform a little less faster as

a result. But for the ones that you want to always have open, this is a great way to set

them up and to always have them open. While we’re talking about open tabs, a lot

of times, depending on what services you sign up for, you can lose your presets. When you

first install Chrome, it’s going to open to the YouTube or the Google page but then

if you install different services, sometimes you’ll notice that all of a sudden your

Search preferences change or something changes within your settings and when you open a new

window it opens to a different page, or when you start a browser sessions it opens to a

different set of pages. Well, you can set that up and you can regain

control over that by going into your settings under Chrome Preferences, go into your Settings

are and then on startup, you can ask it to open a new page, open a specific page, or

a set of pages. So if you want to have four or five pages that you always open to when

you start a session, you can set this here in Set pages. Now be warned that typically

when you install a file downloading service or some other types of apps or some other

type of services that you might sign up for, it’ll sometimes change these preferences.

It’s kind of one of the deals that these guys do in order to make money. So they might

change your settings so you might have to go in here from time to time and reset it.

Along with that reset is sometimes the need to reset where you go automatically for search,

when you type in this bar at the top which interestingly is called the Omnibar because

it’s not a search bar or a URL bar anymore. No, no, no. This bar along the top does far

more than just bringing us to websites, which I’ll talk about in a moment. We call it

the Omnibar in Chrome. But when I’m typing in a search here, by choosing which search

engine from this pop-up menu here within my Settings, I will determine the search engine

I’m going to use as my primary search engine. Sometimes people will change that to Yahoo

or to Bing if you install a service. So if they automatically make some changes to your

preferences, you go back in here to rechange that.

Now while I’m talking about the Omnibar, let’s stay on that and let me show you one

of the coolest things. This is an intelligent bar. You notice now that it’s always making

suggestions as you’re typing and as you start to type in a search, it’s bringing

up the most relevant searches that have been asked for by other people in that same area.

But it does more than that. It also does math for you. So instead of having to open your

calculator if you have to do some simple calculations and if you just want to figure out 48 times

6, watch what happens. When I put in 48 times 6, it gives me the answer here and this works

for lots of different types of equations. So you don’t have to go to the calculator

app when you have simple calculations to do. You can do it right in the Omnibar. Isn’t

that cool? I knew you’d like that one. Let’s talk about something called incognito

mode next. Now incognito mode, when we’ve signed in we know that using cookies and different

things like that in the Preferences when we return to websites, quite often they recognize

that we’ve been there before and a history of our visit to those websites is built up

within our web browser. That is something that we don’t necessarily always want to

have happening, some people because they’re going to websites that they don’t want other

people to know about, don’t necessarily want to have a history recorded of them visiting

a website. But a little more legitimately, we want to

be able to sign in to say a different Google account without having to quit and sign out

of our existing account. I’ve got multiple Google accounts for different purposes I have

so rather than start a new browser session in a different session, what I can do is I

go and I right-click on the Chrome icon here on my taskbar, in my Menu bar in the bottom,

and I create a new incognito window. It’s got this little spy here happening here.

So what happens here is it’s not going to be recording any of the history and it doesn’t

have any cookies or it doesn’t create any internet trail of my journey here online.

I’m in incognito mode. I’m in stealth mode so if I want to sign in to a different

Gmail account, I can do so in incognito mode. That way, I can have multiple instances of

my different Google accounts running at the same time. That’s a pretty cool service

as well. Next up, I want to show you how to detach

a tab. Sometimes as we’re working, we might want to have multiple windows open and we

might not want to have to go jump back and forth within the tabs here. What we can is

we can actually, by grabbing a tab, we can either rearrange where it is in the list in

a sequence of tabs along the tap. You can just drag it or if you drag it out into the

window, you could turn it into an entirely separate window just by dragging.

That works really well and you’re cutting and pasting in documents or if you have one

document you want to have open the whole time while you’re researching other documents

or while you’re doing some other sorts of writing. So I quite lack that ability to occasionally

grab a tab, drag it out and hey, guess what? You can also drag right back in. if you grab

on the tab there, you can drag it back in and you can reincorporate it into your main

window. Pretty click, eh? The next feature is one of my absolute favorite

features that’s built into Chrome and that’s the ability for me to use my Google account

to sync my instances of Chrome across multiple devices. In other words, all of my bookmarks,

all of my passwords, all of my different settings and preferences that I set up here on my main

desktop computer, I can mirror those settings on my notebook or on my tablet, any other

place that I use Chrome. I do that once again by going into the preferences.

By the way, I’m going into the Preferences here from the Chrome Menu. You see these little

bars over here at the side of the browser? I can also go to my preferences and my settings

here by clicking here in that menu. When I do, either one of those two menu settings,

I’m brought into this sign area that allows me to connect it to my Google account. So

I’m connecting this instance of Chrome to my Google account, my Gmail account basically.

If I do that, then I can set it up so that the preferences sync across.

If I click here on the Google dashboard, it will tell me all of the different types of

settings and all of the different data that’s being synced into the different platforms,

into my notebook and in this case into my tablet because I’ve got it set up for all.

So I’ve got 9 apps, 22 extensions, 69 settings, history, autofill so that it automatically

fills in things like addresses, passwords are saved there, all of that and all of my

bookmarks are all saved in multiple instances using the Chrome sync feature, which is just

awesome. Now the last thing that I want to show you

is something that a lot of people don’t use. A lot of people will search, they’ll

do a Google search for something, they’ll open a page once they’ve searched for it

and found it and then they scroll through, looking for why that page was recommended

to them, especially if they’re searching for a term. A lot of times we forget that

you can just hit the command key F or Apple key F to find within a document. You type

in a word and it will highlight that word. It will find that word within a document.

So just like in a word processor, you can do a search within any web page or any website

that you’re on or the page that you landed on right within Chrome.

So those are eight, I think, awesome, simple tools, once that I use almost every day and

have become second nature for me to make your web browsing experience that much more efficient.

Now I shouldn’t disparage any of the other browsers. Most of them will do a lot of this.

Things like the Chrome sync is kind of unique and there are workarounds that you can do

in other areas with that. Other browsers have some other features that are cool and maybe

even cooler than some of the ones we looked at but for me right now, Chrome is the leader

of the pack and in a large part due to a lot of these different interface things that they’ve

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