I’m making the switch to Chrome as my default browser. A few Chrome tips:
To add “search this site” functionality to Chrome…
- Right-click in the location window
- Select “edit search engines”
- Click “Add” and then fill in the fields thusly…
Name: Site
Keyword: site
URL: javascript:void(location.href=’http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&domains=’+location.hostname+’&sitesearch=’+location.hostname) - Now use it: Type “site” in the location window, then hit the Tab key, and then type your search terms. After you type “Site” and hit Tab, you should see something at the begging of the location window that says “Search Site.”
- Note: This is just an example. You can specify a different search engine name and/or keyword, and a different URL if you’d rather not use Google to perform the search.
To add a “Home” button to Chrome…
- Open up the Options (under the wrench icon in the upper right)
- In the Basics tab, check the box for “Show Home button on the toolbar”
Developers who worry that they will miss Firefox’s firebug plugin should note that there is similar functionality built into Chrome. Right click on the page and choose Inspect Element.
Why did I switch? Firefox takes a little to long to start up and way too long to close out on my machine. The firefox.exe process doesn’t die, so I have to use task manager to shut down my computer. This could be the fault of a plugin or the fault of Windows, for all I know, but in any case it wasn’t working and I didn’t want to wait for a fix.
