

Select your favorite from the list (or add it at the bottom), and then click Make Default to complete the transformation. Chrome will suggest a list of popular search engines, as well as a list of options based on the sites you visit on the Web. From there, find the subheading labeled Search and then click Manage Search Engines below it.

To change your default engine, click on the three horizontal lines on the far right of Chrome's toolbar to bring up the browser's settings. However, if you find yourself frequently searching somewhere else-be it Bing or the search function of your company's website-you can set that up to be your default search engine instead. Most of us who use Chrome use Google as our default search engine. Reopen TabsĪccidentally close a page you still need? Reopen a tab by pressing Control (Command on a Mac), Shift, and T simultaneously. Things you save in Evernote are available on the Web as well as on your mobile devices, and are searchable so you can find them later on. The app offers a Web clipper that will let you clip and save that recipe you've been eyeing or a Wikipedia page into a virtual notebook. Rather than building a library of a thousand bookmarks, you could try a virtual notebook service such as Evernote. Take the problem of saving things for later. Do Bookmarks BetterĬhrome comes with a litany of helpful shortcuts and time-savers, but some of its best features come by way of add-ons-Chrome extensions by third-party developers that let you get more out of Chrome. A new tab will open up with Google search results for your highlighted selection. Insta-searchĬome across something while reading online that you want to learn more about? Highlight a word or phrase and then drag and drop the highlighted phrase at the top of your browser window to the right of your furthest tab. To open a secret window, click the File menu within Chrome and select New Incognito Window. If you need to do a private search or just a little undercover online shopping, open an Incognito window-it won't save your activity in the browser history. Now and then we all look at a few things online we'd rather not show up in our browser history later on. Type a math problem in the address bar in Chrome and then press the space bar the answer will be displayed below. Need to do some quick math? No need to launch the calculator program. You can use it to block spoilers for your favorite shows, all those Upworthy links on Facebook, or pictures of other people's vacations when you're stuck at home. Tired of seeing a thousand baby pictures in your Facebook feed? Wish all the pictures of cats on the Internet were pictures of dogs instead? Rather is a Chrome extension that lets you replace something you don't want to see on social media with something you do. Want to go back to the page you were looking at 3 hours ago? Press and hold the back button in a particular tab in Chrome to get a drop-down list of every site you've recently viewed within the tab. Your back button can do more than go to the previous page. From there you'll be prompted to enter the pages you'd like to see every time you launch your browser. Go into the Preferences menu within Chrome, and in the menu called On Startup, select Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages. Have a set of websites you always open first thing every morning? Save yourself some time by setting up Chrome to automatically launch your favorite tabs in a single window.
