YouTube’s grand and all, but there’s definitely a few things that could be improved about it. Until Google decides to implement automatic playback, or the ability to resize videos while watching them, we’ll have to turn to outside sources. Notably…Chrome extensions. Here’s 5 extensions for Google Chrome designed to make your...

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make our digital lives a whole lot easier, and the Mailto: extension for Google Chrome is definitely one of them. Situation: You go to a web site where there’s a clickable email address. You click it, and what happens is that a mail program (Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.)...

Believe it or not, there are more games on the Chrome Web Store than just Angry Birds. I know, I found it shocking too. Know what’s even more surprising? Some of them are actually good. As in…really, really good. I suppose it’s not surprise, really. I’ve compiled a list of games you should take a look at, if ever you’re bored and...

I know there are more than a few of you out there running blockers of some type. Ad blockers, Flash blockers, NoScript, maybe even Ghostery. Some of you might even be using a custom HOSTS file just to block stuff. If that’s the way you roll, fine by me because I’m not the boss of you. People block stuff to either avoid ads, enhance security (e.g....

Google Chrome like other browsers offers the ability to save passwords so you don’t have to type them in again, however there are certain instances where Chrome will not save a password; this happens either for legitimate reasons or because the web site "confuses" Chrome. A legitimate reason is that the site specifically instructs the browser not...

I’ve used a fair share of screen capture utilities over the years, but Screen Capture (by Google) is definitely one of the best, if not the best screenshot utility I’ve used in a long time. It’s only for the Google Chrome/Chromium browser, and definitely what I consider to be a killer app. See video below for...

One of the latest features of the Chromium 13 nightly build is a feature called “Compact Navigation”. What this does is add in a context menu menu called “Hide the toolbar”, which does exactly what you think it does. Before showing exactly how this works, the way to enable this feature is to download the latest build of Chromium, then...

I sincerely believe the reason people don’t configure their browsers to use keyword searches more is simply because they’re not aware you can do it. Well, you can (except in IE). The video below shows how to manually enter in keyword searches for the Gooogle Chrome and Chromium web...

H.264 is a video compression standard that’s been around since 2003; many have championed the idea of having that codec as the specific standard for all web video. Well, that won’t be happening in Google Chrome as they’re championing the open format WebM these days, and as such dropping H.264 support from Chrome altogether. Personally I agree...

Here is the direct link to download Chromium trunk builds: http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/ I can confirm that yes, using a trunk build is stable and to my knowledge works with all current Chrome extensions.

Most people find a browser’s “inspect”, traditionally known as a “DOM Inspector”, fairly useless because it doesn’t provide any information one could use. Google Chrome’s “Inspect Element” however does provide useful info, specifically statistical data with nice charts that answers the simple questions of:...

In both the Chrome and Firefox browsers there are plenty of ‘about’ pages. These are addresses that start with about: and followed by a word, such as about:blank which is a default blank web page. Did I miss any? If I did, post a comment below.

One of the hotter issues concerning user privacy right now is browser cookies served by specific web sites like Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and so on. Specifically, it’s the issue of these days ‘tracking your movements’ so to speak by use of cookie data. There are several browser plugins that allow you to take better command of cookie data, and...

I recently had an auto-push which upgrade my Chrome browser to version 8, and decided to check out the "flags" area, which is the experimental area of the browser. Flags is accessed by typing about:flags in the address bar. When you load it, you get a big ol’ warning that all this stuff may be unstable:…and from there can enable or...

Unfortunately there is no menu option anywhere in the Google Chrome browser to set a cache size limit. Over time this can result in the browser storing several gigabytes of useless data on your computer. The data in the cache store is useless because it’s just images, SWF files and other stuff you have no literal need for. Maybe a cache size limit option...

You may have heard a while back that Google was creating its own operating system called Chrome OS. It was supposed to be released in fourth quarter of this year. That’s not going to happen, and you’ll see it at some point in 2011. As for when in 2011 exactly, nobody knows that just yet. This is Google’s description of what Chrome OS...

It’s nice to have an auto-reload/refresh feature in your browser, particularly for sites that have their content change often (or even your webmail if it has issues auto-updating itself). Here are 3 ways to do it: Mozilla Firefox Add-on: ReloadEveryAfter installation of this add-on, right-click any loaded web page, choose Reload Every from the context...

In Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome you can use keywords to activate any web site that supports custom input (like google.com for example). Mapping sites are easy to set up for keyword shortcut searches as long as you know how to configure them. The way to use the keyword search once configured is to go to your address bar, type the word MAP followed by...

Chrome is a browser that doesn’t have a lot of market share at the moment (it’s nowhere near IE’s or even Firefox’s share), but is slowly and steadily gaining more usage as more people find out about it. The current version of Chrome is 5. How to use Chrome is fairly easy. Watch the video below to learn some basics. Below are some...

One of Google Chrome‘s best selling points is speed, and beta 5 of the browser is the fastest yet (for JavaScript anyway) according to Google’s benchmark tests. I’ve never been one to pay attention to benchmarks when it comes to web browsers because it does not take into account ISP connection speed or any extensions/add-ons you have...