http://www.chrome-theme.com Themes, Plugins, Tips, Hacks for Google Chrome Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:04:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Livehacker has discovered lots of built-in keyboard shortcuts at Google Chrome. Here are a few of our favorites: * (Chrome only) Ctrl+B toggles the bookmarks bar on and off. * (Chrome only) Shift+Escape opens Google Chrome's Task Manager. * Ctrl+L to ... http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chromes-keyboard-shortcuts/ Here are some easter eggs from Google Chrome discovered so far * about:memory * about:stats * about:network * about:internets * about:histograms * about:dns * about:cache * ... http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chrome-easter-eggs/ Visit "about:internets" in your Chrome browser and here is what you'll get Any other hacks you wanna share? Email us hacks (at) chrome-theme.com Enjoy ;) http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chrome-hacks-aboutinternets/ Some new nice themes are available at chrome themes factory as of today! Be the first to dress your Chrome up! http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/new-themes-for-chrome-download/ Now a nice tool available that allows you to switch Google Chrome themes. Don't forget that you can download Chrome themes from this location. http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/google-chrome-theme-switcher/ With Firefox having gained approximately 20% percent market share over the past 4 years, we believe Google Chrome could gain 15-20% share within 2 years. Does Google’s new Chrome browser matter? Some people think it does. One of them is Lehman Brothers analyst Douglas Anmuth. He is sure that the future ... http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chrome-can-get-dust-firefox/ Google Inc is going to use Chrome as main browser in the Google Android Platform. Sergey Brin commented that these 2 products where developed separately however after getting a stable releases of them Chrome will be introduced as embedded browser for Android. http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chrome-expected-on-google-android/ Google's new Web browser (Chrome) allows files (e.g., executables) to be automatically downloaded to the user's computer without any user prompt. This was tested on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 with Google Chrome (BETA) Here is the code that demonstrates this issue: document.write(''); http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/chrome-vulnerable-automatic-file-download/ Many Wine users are wonder why can't they install and run Chrome browser under Wine environment... Here is a simple manual on how to run Chrome under Wine: /tested under Ubuntu 8.04.1 distribution/ 1) # wget www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks # sudo cp winetricks /usr/sbin # sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/winetricks actually, flash is optional but i guess you'll ... http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/running-google-chrome-under-wine/ As we mentioned earlier, Chrome has no plugins support implemented so a new question raised in the heads of Chrome-community "is it possible to block ads in Chrome browser?". Well.. the answer is "yes" ;) So here are some instructions that can help you in blocking unwanted ads in your tiny Chrome ... http://www.chrome-theme.com/2008/09/blocking-ads-in-google-chrome/