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Enhance Your Gmail Account in Chrome
Are you tired of items like the Chat and Invite Boxes cluttering up your Gmail account? Then join us as we look at the Better Gmail extension for Google Chrome.
Before
Here are some examples of items that you may be tired of looking at in your Gmail account such as the “Footer” below your “Inbox”, the “Chat Box”, and the “Invitation Box”.

Perhaps you would also like to have the “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” moved elsewhere. And of course there is everyone’s “favorite” sponsored links… Time to do some cleaning up and reorganizing.

Better Gmail in Action
As soon as you have installed Better Gmail a new tab will automatically open and present you with the available options. Place a “checkmark” in the box for each option that you would like activated and click on “Save” when finished.
Note: The final option entry is a tie-in with two other “linked” extensions (Folders4Gmail & HTML Signature) while the middle listing is a link to an article for disabling Google Buzz.

View Maps and Get Directions in Google Chrome
Every so often we all need to look at a map for reference purposes or to get directions. If you are looking for a great quick reference app then join us as we look at the Mini Google Maps extension for Google Chrome.
Mini Google Maps in Action
While this may look like a rather basic map extension there is more to it than meets the eye at first glance. Here is the default view when you open Mini Google Maps for the first time. Things that we really liked about this extension were:
- Three different aerial views available (Map, Satellite, & Terrain)
- Three different viewing sizes available (and the extension remembers your chosen size)
- The ability to get directions in combination with a map

We decided to try each of the viewing sizes available…here you can see the “Medium Setting”. Notice that the scale stays the same but you get more territory included to view.
Delicious Extension Synchronizes Bookmarks with Google Chrome [Downloads]
Chrome: If you've got a good stash of bookmarks tucked away in Delicious, you can keep on saving and tagging them, and even synchronize them wit
Google Chrome Extension chromeTouch, touchscreen and inertia scrolling
Just a short demonstration of a Google Chrome extension called chromeTouch. It enables touchscreen and inertia scrolling in Google Chrome, similar to that of the Grab and Drag extension from Firefox. You can find chromeTouch in the Google Chrome extension gallery
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Session Buddy Saves and Restores Custom Browsing Sessions in Google Chrome [Downloads]
Chrome: If you want to restore browsing sessions anytime—and not just after a browser crash—Session Buddy for Chrome easily creates custom sessions and restores them whenever you wish.
After installing Session Buddy, clicking on the Session Buddy link in the Chrome toolbar brings up all your current Chrome windows and open tabs. From there you can save entire sessions or selectively edit out tabs from the list before saving. Saved sessions appear to the left of the current session list and remain until manually deleted.
You can use Session Buddy for something as simple as automatically saving your current session on browser close—available in the options menu—or for making custom session lists for various tasks like reading your favorite sites every morning or opening all the sites you use for bill paying.
Session Buddy is free and works wherever Chrome does. Have a favorite Chrome extension to share? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Modify New Tab in Google Chrome with Extensions
New tab is the opening door to browse a web page. Every user creates New Tab multiple times in a web browsing session and number of all New Tabs opened may not be calculated. Do you remember how many times you create New Tab in a day? This depicts that New Tab is one of the modules of a web browser which is encountered more frequently. There have to be some methods to modify the default look and behavior of New Tab. In result, the interaction of user with New Tab can become more convenient and easy.
In Google Chrome, the developers decided to modify the behavior of New Tab as it behaved in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari. The New Tab is filled with Thumbnails of the most visited web pages. A strip of Recently Closed Tab has also been placed below the Most Visited section. This conduct of New Tab in Google Chrome is strange for id="more-834">the users who are migrating from Firefox or Internet Explorer. In order to tweak or modify this behavior of New Tab in Google Chrome, the following extensions can be used.
Google Chrome isn’t a Spy!
Google's Chrome browser has been heavy hit by people claiming it has serious privacy issues.
After an interesting discussion with people who are, “relevant to my interests”, the topic of Google Chrome soon came up. Most predictably what was mentioned was the privacy issues raised with it. As a believer in the open-source vetting process, I heavily disagree that Google could be doing anything subversive to our personal data.
To settle this argument in a non-subjective way I decided the best course of action would be an experiment. Essentially, what I wanted to test was the difference in packets between Google Chrome on first boot-up and search term “test123″ and a comparable browser with similar conditions. This way, we test Chrome against a vetted control browser. A few conditions before we get started:
- Experimental Browser: Google Chrome Beta for Linux (Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 x64) with experience reporting disabled.
- Control browser: Midori 0.2.3 (Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 x64), a WebKit browser licensed under a similar permissive license as Chrome.
- Analysis Method: A tcpdump, sudo tcpdump -w testbrowser.pcap -s 1550 dst www.google.com, command and Wireshark analysis.
- This tcpdump commands monitors all traffic going to the Google domain (216.239.32.0 – 216.239.63.255)
- Wireshark was to make the dump look pretty.
- Procedure: Start the dump, load up the browser and enter a search term to Google for “test123″. Stop the packet dump after this and monitor the results.
What I found:
The results actually surprised me in a very positive way. Not only did the two browsers communicate on exactly the same ports but Chrome also used around 60 less packets in the final dump. A cruel twist of irony that a third-party browser communicates with Google over 100% more than Chrome does. Anyway, without further hesitation, here is the dump from the different conditions.
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Friday Fun: Play 3D Rally Racing in Google Chrome
Are you a racing fan in need of a short (or long) break from work? Then get ready to enjoy a mid-day speed boost with the 3D Rally Racing extension for Google Chrome.
3D Rally Racing in Action
This is the opening screen for 3D Rally Racing. You can start game play, view current best times, and read through the instructions from here.

The first thing that you should do is have a quick look at the instructions to help you get set up and started.

Click on “Play” to start the process. Before you can go further you will need to choose a “User Name”. Once you have done that click “Select Track”…
Latest Google Chrome Dev Release Crashing on Offline Gmail [Annoyances]

Tipsters like theworldisasheep saw it, this editor confirmed it, and Google even mentioned it in their blog post, at the very end: the latest release of their Chrome browser often crashes when loading Gmail with Offline enabled. It will likely get fixed in a small new update coming soon, but in the meantime, if you're desperate to get back into Gmail without your browser dying, you can create a temporary bookmark to the no-labs version of Gmail. If you want a more surefire solution, head to your Options, switch to the "Under the Hood" tab, click "Gears Settings," and click the "Remove" link next to Gmail and Google-related items. You may lose your offline data for now, but you'll be able to re-synchronize it when two of Google's best products finish duking it out. [Google Code]
Latest Google Chrome Dev Release Crashing on Offline Gmail [Annoyances]
Tipsters like theworldisasheep saw it, this editor confirmed it, and Google even mentioned it in their blog post, at the very end: the latest release of their Chrome browser often crashes when loading Gmail with Offline enabled. It will likely get fixed in a small new update coming soon, but in the meantime, if you're desperate to get back into Gmail without your browser dying, you can create a temporary bookmark to the no-labs version of Gmail head to your Options, switch to the "Under the Hood" tab, click "Gears Settings," and click the "Remove" link next to Gmail and Google-related items. You may lose your offline data for now, but you'll be able to re-synchronize it when two of Google's best products finish duking it out. [Google Code]
Google Chrome Developer Update: 3000 Extensions, Events on 4 Continents and More
- Merge all of the open tabs into a single window.
- Use OAuth to connect to web services.
- Make cross-domain XMLHttpRequests from a content script.
- Display page actions based on the current URL or the current page's content.
- Sydney, AU - Mar 5th
- Tokyo, Japan - Mar 11th
- DevFest Japan, Google Chrome extensions, HTML5
- Austin, TX - Mar 14th - Mar 15th
- South by Southwest, advanced extensions and HTML5 101
- London, UK - Mar 16th
- Madrid, ES - Mar 18th
- Google Chrome hackathon @Universidad Complutense de Madrid (sign up here)
Google Cans SearchWiki for Starred Search Results
Google SearchWiki, we hardly used ye.
Google March 3 said it is replacing its little-used SearchWiki feature with stars, little star-shaped buttons next to search results that users can click to mark favorite Web pages.
SearchWiki, which you can see demoed here in its November 2008 launch, let users add, remove or reorder Web pages, as well edit and compose notes on search results for any query.
It was tedious. When you wanted to manage your favorite results, you had to go to the bottom of the search results page, which people don't tend to do naturally, and click the "Add a result" link at the bottom.
There you could add Web pages to the search results, along with links to show and restore listings you've removed, and changes and comments made by other users.
The Easy, Any-Browser, Any-OS Password Solution [Passwords]
Whenever we talk passwords, we always preach the same thing: Use strong, difficult-to-remember passwords, and different passwords for every site. Easy to say, extremely difficult to do through sheer willpower. I've tried many password-remembering systems, and this is what I've stuck with.
To paraphrase photographer Chase Jarvis, the best password manager is the one you have with you. Of all the password management utilities out there, I consider LastPass the most elegant compromise between convenience and security, and if you're not using it already, I recommend you start. It's mostly free, plugs into nearly any browser or smartphone, is KeePass compatible, and just works.
Chrome Beta Update Adds Automatic Translation, Content Controls [Updates]
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<!-- /videoId: HqmUbNGkM9I -->Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest Beta update for Google Chrome does away with the need for clever bookmarklets by automatically dropping down a translation bar when you're browsing another language. It also adds whitelist-type controls over Flash, Java, and other browser content.
The video up top demonstrates Chrome's translation bar in practice. It's worth noting that if you don't want Chrome to offer a translation bar for certain foreign languages (those different from the language you set in the preferences), your best bet is to add that language to your list in Chrome's settings—there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off entirely.
A polyglot Google Chrome beta, with new privacy features
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Whether you're catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we're all constantly reminded that the internet is an amazingly multilingual place. The Google Chrome team is excited to introduce a new beta feature to help our users navigate the multilingual web: instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins.
How does it work? When the language of the webpage you're viewing is different from your preferred language setting, Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate.
Here's a demo of the translation feature by Jay Civelli, one of the engineers who developed it:
For more on how automatic translation in Chrome works, read on in our Help Center article. We hope that the development of online translation tools like this one will help make all the world's information universally accessible in an easy, frictionless way – imagine reading a diversity of foreign language news sources in your mother tongue, or easily conducting online commerce across borders and languages.
With today's beta release, we're also excited to introduce new features that will give you even greater choice and control over your privacy as you browse the web. We realize that many users have questions about privacy in browsers, so we've produced a short video to help users better understand privacy in the browser:
In addition to Chrome's existing incognito mode – a handy way to browse the web without leaving traces of website visits on your computer or downloads in your browser history – you can now manage your privacy settings in the new "Privacy" section of Chrome's Options dialog. From these settings, you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.

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How to Change Icons on the Bookmarks bar
For those of you who like to put bookmarks on the Bookmarks Bar in Google Chrome but hate that a few bookmarks or any bookmarklet doesn't have a favicon, this tip is for you. Here's how to change the favicon to any bookmark and any bookmarklet in Google Chrome.
For this example, I'll be working with changing the favicon for the Readability bookmarklet.
Note: Make sure Google Chrome is closed.
1. Download SQLite Database Browser [sourceforge.net] and extract it.
2. Open it and go to FileOpen, or click on the open folder icon on the toolbar.
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3. Navigate to your Google Chrome application directory:
In Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
In Windows Vista/7
C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Note: Change "YOUR USER NAME" to your real user name.
4. Open the "History" file
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5. Click on "Browse Data," and in the "Table" drop down menu, select "urls."
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