13 Nov 08 Quick Tip - How to Open Hotmail in Chrome!

Here’s a quick hack although many of you probably know this:

1. Visit Hotmail.com

2. Login

3. The resulting page says that Hotmail cannot identify your browser (Typical MS style, if you think it’s better than your own, pretend it doesn’t exist! Try ignoring Firefox now!). Near the bottom of this page is a link which says “continue anyway” or something on that mood. Click on that and you are good to go. And use the new 0.4beta of Chrome for better performance.

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25 Sep 08 Chrome Hack - How to use Google Chrome in Dual Pane/Split Window Mode!

Here’s a cool Javascript Bookmarklet someone made to enable “dual pane/split window” browsing mode in Google Chrome.

To get Dual pane feature in Google Chrome, drag and drop the Chrome Split Browser bookmarklet to your bookmarks tab. The next time you want to browse in a dual-pane split browser mode, click on the bookmarklet and enter the websites you want to surf. Thanks Chrome Plugins.

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25 Sep 08 CCleaner supports Google Chrome!

If you don’t want to deal with privacy issues on the Google Chrome, you can always use a proxy or the Iron browser.  But if you don’t like the hassle of using those, you can get the latest version of CCleaner, which now supports Google Chrome.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

Download CCLeaner for Google Chrome

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25 Sep 08 Google Chrome without Spyware = Iron

Here’s a German version of Google Chrome without all the features that send people’s surfing info back to Google.  I can see that some of Chrome’s embedded featured that send back personal data back to Google can slow down your browsing slightly, although not that much.

For those of you who want complete privacy, you can try this Iron browser.

The “Iron” browser is based on the “Google Chromium” source code, but “Iron” does not send any user specific data to Google anymore and it does not contain a unique user ID. Iron is a product of “SRWare” - a german software company. In Iron the following Google Chrome features have been deactivated:

• no alternative error messages, when having entered a wrong URL
• no sending of collected data to Google, if Iron has crashed

no unwanted Google updater

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19 Sep 08 Chrome Hack - How to change Bookmarklet Favicon Icons!

Here’s a cool Chrome Hack, it’s how to change your Bookmarklet Favicon Icons using a Windows SQL database browser and switching around some values.  It’s very interesting to note that the Chrome browser uses a local database within the program, thus making it more stable and scalable.  (I am not sure if the same thing is done with Firefox but I believe there’s a bunch of libraries that you need to know.)

This is a rather complex hack involving numbers so I will just wait until the Chrome adds automatic favicon recognition feature like Firefox.

But if you really want it NOW, you can click the via link below and knock yourself out.

I added quite a few bookmarklets to my Bookmarks bar and was unhappy with the same default icon that showed for each one. There are no settings currently available within Chrome to change the icon, but there is a way to fix them that works quite well.

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19 Sep 08 Google Chrome Short Hack - How to Backup History, Bookmarks with Google Chrome Backup!

Here’s a cool Chrome tool that you can use, it’s called Google Chrome Backup and it can basically save your profile (history, bookmarks, etc…) as a file and also restore from it.

Google Chrome (web browser) has just hit the world. Google Chrome backup is a small tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. The profile holds personal data like history, bookmarks, etc. Everything is done with one click. Latest version also supports Chromium, which modified version of Google Chrome, for portable use.

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17 Sep 08 Chrome Tips - Chrome Channel Switcher allows you to switch between Chrome beta and dev versions!

You can now download the Chrome Channel Switcher, which allows you to switch between the “beta” Chrome and “Dev” Chrome.  The Beta Chrome are the stable releases whereas the Dev Chrome is updated as soon as a bug or security flaw is fixed.

This will help you to try out the latest fixes and features using the “Dev” mode.

Here’s how to do it from the Chromium Dev site:

Subscribing to the Dev channel

1. Download and run the Google Chrome Channel Chooser (http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-1.0.exe).
2. Click the circle next to Dev.
3. Click Update to save your choice.
4. Click Close.
5. In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome.
   Note: On Windows Vista, updates from the About box require Service Pack 1. With 0.2.149.29 (the current release), on demand updates do not work in Vista SP1 if User Account Control is disabled.
6. Click Update Now to install the current Dev channel release.
7. Restart Google Chrome.

17 Sep 08 Chrome Hacked - Mac and Linux Google Chrome available!

Although not the official version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux, the CrossOver Chromium is pretty much the Mac and Linux version of Google Chrome since it’s built on Chromium.

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.

Until Google officially releases their Linux/Mac versions, you can resort to downloading the CrossOver Chromium on your Mac and Linux.

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17 Sep 08 Chrome About Hack - How to retrieve DNS Prefetching Times!

If you’ve been running Google Chrome for a while, be sure to try typing “about:dns” into the address bar to see what savings you’ve accrued! Humorously, this prefetching feature often goes unnoticed, as users simply avoid the pain of waiting, and tend to think the network is just fast and smooth. To look at it another way, DNS prefetching removes the variance from surfing latency that is induced by DNS resolutions. (Note: If about:dns doesn’t show any savings, then you probably are using a proxy, which is resolving DNS on the behalf of your browser.)

There are several other benefits that Google Chrome derives from DNS prefetching. During startup, it pre-resolves domain names, such as the home pages, very early in the startup process. This tends to save about 200-500 ms during application startups. Google Chrome also pre-resolves the host names in URLs suggested by the omnibox while the user is typing, but before they press enter. This feature works independently of the broader omnibox logic, and doesn’t utilize any connection to Google. As a result, Google Chrome will generally navigate to a typed URL faster, or reach a user’s search provider faster. Depending on the popularity of the target domain, this can save 100-250ms on average, and much more in the worst case.

If you are running Google Chrome, try typing “about:histograms/DNS.PrefetchFoundName” into the address bar to see details of the resolution times currently being encountered on your machine.

The bottom line to all this DNS prefetching is that Google Chrome works overtime, anticipating a user’s needs, and making sure they have a very smooth surfing experience. Google Chrome doesn’t just render and run Java Script at a remarkable speed, it gets users to their destinations quickly, and generally sidesteps the pitfalls surrounding DNS resolution time.

16 Sep 08 Chrome Hack - How to change User Agent String in Chrome!

Changing User Agent String with any browser is a useful hack that can be used to get free WiFi at Starbucks hotspots.

Here’s a real ghetto hack that involves changing the hex values of chrome.dll using a free hex editor.

Simply open the file and look for something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13.

Then change to something like this or any other user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

The result is shown below where the browser will act like an iPhone Browser.

This might actually be useful for testing applications for the iPhone browser.  Of course, you can do it in Firefox too but Google Chrome browser is probably closer to the iPhone’s Safari browser since it’s based on the WebKit.

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