Spring Cleaning
❱ To delete cookies, click on the menu button and go to Settings.
Scroll down to the Privacy section, and click Content Settings.
Now you can click Remove All or Remove Individual Cookies. To
clear more data such as the Google Chrome browsing history
and cache, click the Tools icon and select Clear Browsing Data.
To clear the most visited websites that appear on your Google
Chrome Start page, you must clear your browsing history using
the method already described. Clearing your Google Chrome
browser history will also stop matches from previously browsed
sites appearing as suggestions in your address bar.
Start-up Preferences
❱ By default, when launching a new window in Chrome, the
browser displays the New Tab page, which is a blank tab with
links to your most visited websites. It is possible to customise this.
Click the Settings icon and select Settings. Under the On start-up
section, choose the ‘Open a specific page or set of pages’ radio
button and click the Set pages link next to it. Then, either click ‘Use
current pages’ or type an address to set an alternative home page.Syncing Chrome
❱ With Chrome’s sign in feature, you no longer need to fret
about your bookmarks or apps being stuck on one computer.
When you sign in to the Chrome browser or a Chrome device,
your bookmarks, extensions, apps, theme and other browser
preferences are saved and synced to your Google Account. You
can then load these settings any time you use Chrome on other
computers and devices. Signing into Chrome also makes using
Google services, like Gmail, YouTube and Maps easier since you
generally only need to sign in once from your browser.Adjust Text Size
❱ Having trouble reading small text on a page in Chrome? No
problem! Chrome lets you easily zoom both in and out, increasing
or decreasing the size of both text and images. You can do this a
couple of ways. The first is to click the Settings menu button and
use the Zoom controls you find there. An easier way to do it is to
hold Ctrl and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and
out; as you do this, a small window will pop out of the address bar
to show you the level of zoom.
Rearrange Tabs
❱ If you have several tabs open in Chrome, you can rearrange
them easily by simply clicking on a tab and dragging it along
the row to the position you want. If you want to open one of the
tabs as a separate window, click on it and drag it to the desktop.
Release the mouse button and a new window will open. Right-
click on any tab to see the tab options menu. Here you can reload
tabs, close all tabs to the right of the selected one and even
reopen closed tabs (Chrome remembers the last ten closed tabs).
Pinning Tabs
❱ Another useful thing you
can do with tabs is pin them.
Pinning tabs means that
whatever is shown on the
tab when it is pinned will
automatically be loaded
when you next open a new
Chrome browser window. To
pin a tab, right-click on it and
select Pin Tab from the menu.
Pinned tabs appear smaller in
the row than unpinned tabs.
To unpin a tab, simply repeat
the process and select Unpin
Tab from the menu.Chrome Tips and Tricks