Things I allways add to Google Chrome - your favourite add-ons / tweaks here

[devnullius]

Hello,

First an introduction...

I just love Google and now it's rather new browser Chrome. First edition had some problems when displaying web-pages, but that was fixed in the second release. I have completely removed Internet Explorer (only costs me Microsoft Update, Windows Update will still work), and have as a back-up browser the now obsoleet browser Firefox for those pages that won't work with Chrome.

I love the speed of Chrome. I love the absolute logical interface and setup. Just the basics but very well thought out! All those small details, for example when downloading files (even exe's) to open once done or pre-downloading the complete file before you said you wanted it (because you were busy reading 3 other webpages for example:). This speeds up the browsing experience beyond anything I've seen - even faster than Lynx, once....

Now for the fun part... YOUR (and mine) favorite tweaks/gadgets/buttons/add-ons for your Chrome eXPerience!

For me it's;

1. Google Bookmarks (Favorieten) button to quickly add a webpage to your Google Bookmarks.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100215

Info from their site:
>>Bookmarks: Using Google Bookmarks
Google Chrome bookmarks are separate from those saved in Google Bookmarks. While it's currently not possible to automatically sync these two sets of bookmarks, you can use a bookmarklet to easily create Google Bookmarks in Google Chrome. Drag this bookmarklet to the Google Chrome bookmarks bar: Google Bookmark. Any time you visit a webpage that you want to save to your Google Bookmarks page, simply click the bookmarklet in the bookmarks bar.<<

Combine this button with a Chrome Bookmark to your Google Bookmarks overview page. This way you have 2 buttons to view, manage and add all your bookmarks within Chrome.

2. Translate selected (marked) page / text in a new pop-up with Google Translate into your language

http://orizens.com/wp/topics/google-translate-in-a-popup-bookmarlet/

From his site:
<<However, with the latest firefox and chrome releases, babylon doesn’t succeed in getting the selected text right. So i thought - why not making google translate bookmarklet like a babylon window? The result is very clear - similar to my google bookmarks bookmarklet, you select the any text on the page, click the “translate” bookmarklet and you get a pop up window with the result.
(Albanian, Arabic,   Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian,   Czech, Danish, Dutch (Nederlands), English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,    Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese)>>

You can get the applet / button from his site. Drag'n'drop should do it ; ) Or use following code as one line in the URL field when you create a Chrome Bookmark named Print Page:
javascript:( function(){ var transText = ''; if (window.getSelection) { transText = window.getSelection(); } else if (document.getSelection) { transText = document.getSelection(); } else if (document.selection) { transText = document.selection.createRange().text;} var a=window,b=document,c=encodeURIComponent,d=a.open('http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text='+transText+'&sl=auto&tl=nl' ,'gTranslate_popup','left='+((a.screenX||a.screenLeft)+10)+',top='+((a.screenY||a.screenTop)+10)+',height=420px,width=550px,resizable=1,scrollbars=1');a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()},300)})();

More info on adding code to Bookmarks? See TIP 3 below.


3. Print Page button

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/google-softwaretips/google-chrome-tweaks/

Right-click on the bookmarks toolbar and select Add Page.
In the Name box, type in Print and in the URL box, type in the following:
javascript:window.print()

4. Not a real feature, but very handy nontheless :) Portable Chrome

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2009/02/04/portable-google-chrome-201600/

Portable Google Chrome 2.0.160.0 download (page is in German, but very basic. Just download and you will get English portable USB Chrome!).

One request to Google Chrome team... Give it software auto-update option!!


That's it :P

Let me know what you guys found / think! Have fun, Peace & Thanx,

Devvie


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[devnullius]

Below some more info, via: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=519498586c828c1f&hl=en

Updates:
And if ANYONE says that Chrome, just isn't such a nice browser,... Show them why it's superiour to everything I've seen... It's awesome : >

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ 3/24/09


Some extra tips... From: http://www.chromeplugins.org/extensions/list-of-useful-add-ons-for-google-chrome-using-bookmarklets/#

Not everything there works, but the following are very handy too!

5. If you are a Google Reader user, this is great add-on. If you want to add a website / webpage to Google Reader, just press this button. How it exactly works, I don't know. But some tests seemed to do a fine job. This is excellent for the I-wanna-do-RSS-but-I-don't-get-it-people. No hassle, just add a page to Google Reader, IF that would make sense!
Code:

javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain='http://www.google.com';if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.src='http://www.google.com/reader/ui/subscribe-bookmarklet.js');void(b.appendChild(z));}else{location='http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)}

6. Share webpage on the web with Google Reader. Great for the Reader fan! Publish a webpage with a click via the Google Reader system.
Code:

javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain='http://www.google.com';if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.src='http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js');void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}

7. Bonus, for the Digg et. al. people... As script 6, but for adding a webpage to a Social network like hyves or stumble or ...
Code:

javascript:window.location%20=%20'http://www.socialmarker.com/?link='+encodeURIComponent%20(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(%20document.title);

Till next repost : ) 3/24/09
8. If bookmarklet number 5 doesn't find an appropriate RSS feed for Google Reader, you might have more luck with Page2RSS:
It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Code:

javascript:location.href='http://page2rss.com?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href); 3/24/09

9. GMail this page (as a link)... One that works!

From: http://email.about.com/library/misc/blgmail_this_bookmarklet.htm
Code:

javascript:(function(){m='http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=&su='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(document.location);w=window.open(m,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=575,height=545,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();},%20250);})();

Found via: http://speckyboy.com/2008/11/24/40-must-have-extensions-bookmarklets-and-tools-for-google-chrome/ 12:23 AM

[certifymix]

Thanks for this info. Will surely try it.

[devnullius]

you better follow this thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=519498586c828c1f&hl=en and this thread (sort of a copy): http://groups.google.com/group/altoswindows-2k3/t/64356144899e1ed3 .

I'll repost on both threads in the near future - I got a lot of new things to add - even to the extra's I added in above thread.

Good luck!

Devvie Nuis