5 Useful Google Chrome Features You Should Know About

Over there years, Google Chrome has turned out to be the best web browser that people prefers to use asides other web browsers, although people simply use it to checkout web pages, Browse through social media networks but they have neglected the fact that there are other perfect Features on the browser they Might Not be Using.

 

 

In today's guide, we will show you the six cool features am certain none of you knows nothing about ever since your experience with the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome is one of the most feature-rich browsers (even if not the most feature rich), this browser gives you full control over your browsing experience. People might be put away by its minimalist design, but behind these design are hundreds of features hidden which will make your browsing easier.

Listed below are some handy Chrome features that you might not know about.

5 Useful Google Chrome Features You Should Know About

Chrome Task Manager: We will start with Chrome task manager which is a built-in feature similar to the one we see in Windows operating system. With these feature, you can see the amount of resources each tab or extension is using like Memory, CPU, Network, GPU memory, and even script memory e.g JavaScript Memory. Similar to the windows OS, you can also end the tasks from there. To access the Google Chrome Task Manager, press “Shift + Esc” on any Chrome window.

Pin Tabs: Some people are used to opening a lot of tabs on their Chrome browser, with the pin tabs feature, you can pin tabs on the left side of the browser window so it appears as tiny tabs that only shows a favicon of the website which saves the space tabs take on a Chrome window immensely. With this feature, you can pin tabs that you always keep open and focus on other tabs that you are currently browsing. To pin a tab, simply right-click on the tab you would like to pin and select “Pin tab” from the menu. It's as simple as that.

Specify Keyboard Shortcuts to Extensions: You can also specify dedicated keyboard shortcut to easily use any extension’s main function without the need to press the button directly from the address bar. This feature leads to faster access and also avoids leaving extension buttons in the address bar. To use this feature, go to “Main menu -> More Tools -> Extensions,” and then scroll to the bottom of the page. From this page, locate “Keyboard shortcuts;” and click on it then specify the keyboard shortcut to your desired extensions.

Enable Chrome Offline Mode: Ever feel the need of browsing without internet access, well with chromes' offline mode you can enjoy a feature similar to saving a web page, but in this you simply browse the pages you've previously visited without internet connection. To use this, type chrome://flags in the address bar and hit Enter. Now on the next page, enable the feature Show Saved Copy Button and restart Chrome. After restart, you've enabled Chrome offline mode and whenever you revisit a website without an Internet connection, you will see a button to load the webpage from the cache.

Continue Where You Left Off: Do you access the web through a desktop computer without UPS, whenever there's interruption in power supply, there's tendency that you will lose all what you've done, but with Google Chrome, you can now continue where you left off with all tabs still perfectly in place, to enable this feature, go to Chrome “Settings” from the main menu and select “Continue where you left off” under the “On startup” heading. 

 

To you, the above listed features may not be worth it but to regular web surfers, they will find these features as very helpful as it makes their experience with web browsers easier. Personally speaking of the five, the three I used mostly are the first second and fifth features as I find them really helpful and easy to use, do you use any of the above listed features? Or you know of other Google Chrome features not listed in this article, kindly inform us in the comments section below.