Google Chrome: A Complete Overview

Google Chrome a Web browser developed by Google Inc. In Computer, dictionary google chrome means including related links, information, and terms. Essentially, Google Chrome and chrome Extension make the things you do on the Internet faster.

Chrome is a 10th-year birthday celebration, with the celebration of birthday and google chrome bringing numerous changes for their users.

Have you ever thought from which year you have started the use of google chrome?

So here I am telling you when Google introduced chrome. Google introduces chrome in 11 December 2008 for Microsoft windows later Google updated Chrome for Linux, IOS, and Android.

Tip: Google Chrome can be downloaded for free at www.google.com/chrome

The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer preview were announced on June 4, 2009, with a blog post saying they were missing many features and were intended for early feedback rather than general use.

In December 2009, Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0, announced on May 25, 2010, was the first stable release to support all three platforms.

Chrome was one of the twelve browsers offered to European Economic Area users of Microsoft Windows in 2010.

Chrome now powers Chrome OS, Google’s lightweight operating system for laptops and now tablets. Google has been bringing Android apps over to Chrome OS to make its Chromebooks and tablets more useful. 

Chrome works quite well with Google sites and services such as YouTube and Gmail. It also manages its system resources differently than other browsers. Its V8 JavaScript engine was developed from scratch at Google, and may improve your experience on heavily scripted websites and applications. 

Google Chrome Overview

Incognito mode

Chrome offers a private browsing option called Incognito Mode. This mode allows you to browse in an isolated sandbox web session. It gives you temporary control over your browsing footprint and session identity, but does not offer guaranteed anonymity. To launch a new incognito browser, press Ctrl+Shift+N (Windows, Linux) or Command+Shift+N (macOS X). Essentially, when you’re in Incognito Mode, the browser doesn’t log what you’ve been doing during your last Internet session.

• How do I set my browser to Incognito or private mode?

Configuring privacy settings

To fine-tune your privacy settings in Chrome, click the icon in the upper-right corner of the browser, and select Settings.

The settings interface opens in a new browser tab. Scroll to the bottom and click Show Advanced Settings.

The first advanced settings listed are your privacy settings, which make be changed to you’re liking.

Chrome Developer Tools

If you’re developing a website, Chrome Developer Tools are second to none. They allow you to closely analyze all the visual, interactive, and technical components of website locations.

To launch Chrome Developer Tools, go the View menu and select Developer → Developer Tools, or press Ctrl–Alt–I (Windows, Linux) or Option–Command–I(macOS X).

The developer view allows you to navigate the web on one side of the window, and inspect the resource’s components and attributes on the other.

Chromium

The Chromium Projects are open-source, community-driven projects to develop technologies for Chrome and ChromeOS. The Chromium browser is similar to Chrome, but is developed exclusively with Chrome’s open-source components.

Ungoogled Chromium

Ungoogled Chromium is a development fork of the Chromium browser which strips out selected browser components. The project’s stated goals are to:

• Disable or remove offending services and features that communicate with Google or weaken privacy.
• Strip binaries from the source tree, and use those provided by the system or build them from source.
• Add, modify, or disable features that inhibit control and transparency.

Cheers to New Look of Google Chrome

No judgment. Gogle changed the shape of Chrome tabs so that the website icons are easier to see, which makes it easier to navigate across lots of tabs. On mobile, we’ve made a number of changes to help your browse faster, including moving the toolbar to the bottom on iOS, so it’s easy to reach. And across Chrome, Google simplified the prompts, menus, and even the URLs in your address bar.

Now, Chrome can more accurately fill in your passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers, so that you can breeze through online checkout forms. All this information is saved to your Google account, and can also now be accessed directly from the Chrome toolbar.

Google introduces Omnibox by which will show you answers directly in the address bar without having to open a new tab. This rich results on public figures or sporting events; to instant answers like the local weather via weather.com or a translation of a foreign word.(Source: Google Chrome)

Top 10 Chrome Extension

On September 9, 2009, Google enabled extensions by default on Chrome’s developer channel, and provided several sample extensions for testing. In December, the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery beta began with approximately 300 extensions. It was launched on January 25, 2010 along with Google Chrome 4.0, containing approximately 1500 extensions.

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture turns your New Tab page into your own art gallery, delivering masterpieces of world art right to your browser. Each day brings a new piece of art every time you open your browser, or you can set the extension to deliver a new painting every time you open a new tab. If something sparks your interest; you can click on the image to find out more about an individual piece or artist. 

AdBlocker Ultimate

AdBlocker Ultimate is a free open source ad blocker that makes much of the fact that it’s beholden to no corporate sponsors or marketers. As a result, it won’t whitelist or let through “acceptable” advertising. The add-on removes advertising such as banner ads, videos and pop ups, while also blocking a variety of online tracking tools. Users do have the option of whitelisting select websites whose ads they want to support.

Checker Plus for Google Drive

Another useful Checker Plus extension is Checker Plus for Google Drive. It allows users to browse, open, search, or delete their Google Drive files from a browser button without having to launch a new Drive tab. Additionally, Checker Plus can also display desktop notifications for when your shared documents are modified or updated. 

MailTag

MailTag provides a series of free, helpful modifications to the stock Gmail web experience, including email tracking to find out when a recipient has opened your message (complete with real-time desktop alerts), and email scheduling so that you can send your messages at the appropriate hours (perfect for multi-timezone communications). It is ad-supported, and comes with a watermark. A premium tier removes ads and watermarks, while also providing expanded “ping sequences” that allow you to automate the email follow-up process.

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