Use Chrome More Efficiently

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These days we can see hard competition between different browsers. Each browser is upgrading their version with new features. So in the end it is quite good for the users. I mean users are getting good features quickly.  Now Google Chrome is also having many good features which can make our surfing experience better. Let’s see how we can use Chrome more efficiently.

Adding Folders on Bookmark Bar

First of all, if you haven’t added bookmark bar then you are missing a good bookmarking feature. So I will suggest you to add that first. You can add it from Bookmarks option from settings, just click on show bookmarks bar.

This will give you bar below address bar where you can keep all your bookmarks. Now good thing is that you can create different folders on that bookmark bar. You can create folder by right click on bookmark bar and selecting Add folder option from the popup menu. Now you can create different folders for different sites. I mean you can categorize your sites and your links, so that you can found them more easily and fast. This way you can manage your sites more efficiently, you can reach to your all sites more quickly. You can manage many sites quite easily. To get more idea on it, check out below image.

Bookmark Folders

Just Drag Links to bookmark them

Another benefit of having bookmark bar is, you can just bookmark your sites and links by dragging them into those folders or directly on bookmark bar. Yes, no need to go to menu and selecting bookmark to bookmark a site. Just click a link on mouse and drag it on to bookmark bar, this will do your work. Like this way you can bookmark your link more easily and speedily.  This is really cool way of bookmarking our sites.

Bookmarking multiple sites

Suppose you have opened few good sites together on different tabs on Chrome. Now Google Chrome having the option to bookmark all those tabs together. Just right click on any tab and click on bookmark all tabs; this will bookmark all opened tabs for you.

Pinning Tabs

Google Chrome has one more unique feature of pinning the tab. You can pin your important tabs during your surfing session. Like this way you can easily recognize your important tabs and workout on them more easily and speedily. To pin any tab, just right click on any tab and select on Pin Tab from the popup menu. This will pin your selected tab like below image.

Pinning Tabs

Reopen closed tab or Duplicate Tab

On Chrome you can also reopen the closed tab. I mean suppose you have closed any tab by mistakenly, but not to worries you can easily reopen that tab without knowing about its name. Just right click on any tab and using the Reopen closed tab option from popup menu you can open last closed tab easily. Just like that you can also copy your current tab. I mean opening same site on another tab. Just right click on the tab your want to copy, and click on Duplicate from the popup menu. This will open the same site on another site.

Have more home pages

Unlike other browsers, Google chrome having good feature, by which you can add more than one home page on Google chrome. Just go to settings, and search for On Statup option in it. In that section you need to select on Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages. This way you will get a small window like below image to add sites. You can add multiple sites in it and all those sites will be set as your home page. Whenever you start Google Chrome next time, it will open with the sites you have added.

Start Up Pages

Changing Download location on Chrome

Many users don’t know how to change the location of downloading in the Google Chrome. Because of this users force to download the items in default folder selected by Chrome. But there is a way to change the default folder or you can also set the option that Chrome will ask you about download location on downloading any file. Just go to settings.  At the bottom of page, you will see Advanced Settings option, by clicking on it you will get few extra option in the settings. At the below, you will see the Downloads section, where you can set the downloading location. You can also select Ask where to save each file before downloading , by selecting this option Chrome will ask you for saving location before each downloads. Check out below image.

Downloading Location

So this is it. Using these features you can use Google Chrome more efficiently. Hope this will help you too. Have fun.