Multiple searches box in Google chrome

To get multiple search engines in chrome with out clicking a single  button just read on. what would you do if want to search wikipedia but your default search box is Google in Firefox or IE. Just click on the search icon / change search box button and select wikipedia.

Ie is better it will revert back to your default search box next time you open the browser but Firefox makes this as your default search box. in chrome you have to do the same expect for This simple trick .

Just click on the wrench icon . Now select "options" .

Under "basics " tab you will find "default search". Click on manage . Now select any other search engine that you want . Make this  search engine as your default search engine. Click ok and job done.

Now open a new tab. In the special chrome page you will see the previous default search engine below "search history" box..

You can use the default  search from the address bar and any other search engines by just  opening a tab. Ok here you have a click a button but it's very unlikely that you will search in the same tab in any of your browser

You can have any no of search box by repeating the process.

10 hidden pages in chrome

Like any browser Chrome has some hidden  "about" pages. Lets look at them. . the provide a lot of info on what the browser has been doing . Some are just for fun to show their funny side.

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1. about:version - Google Chrome shows the version number of  the browser, WebKit and V8 ( V8 is Chrome's JavaScript engine).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19


2. about:plugins - You might have installed tons of plug ins. by typing this Chrome will display the list of plug-ins installed in your Google Chrome like  Adobe Acrobat, Shockwave Flash, Google Update etc.

3. about:cache - This page will display the list of all the web pages cached by Google Chrome.

4. about:memory - This pages measures memory usage in a multi-process browse i.e compares the memory used by all the active browsers 

5. about:dns - Google Chrome prefetches the DNS records. Thsi helps it to load pages faster . Prefetching is done only for 10 frequently visited hostnames. Thsi page displays them

6. about:stats - Thsi page displays a internal counters and timers. thsi page a s specail sub-title "Shhh! This page is secret!".. why such a title go ask google

7. about:network -  dont exactly know what this page doest but it seams to besome thinf to do with  I/O tracking 

8. about:hang - If you type this on a active page it will cause the web page to hang the process  The other tabs will continue to work fine but this will just vanish(something like clear screen) .The tab remains as it is but will no longer show any thing


9. about:crash - This displays the page the is visible when an tab crashes. Actually this will cause the tab to crash. crash the active tab. Google Chrome displays the image of a "sad tab" with the following  text below it "Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page".

10. about:internets - This is the best page. It is basically one of the windows screen saver , Pipe 3D or 3D pipe  Google Chrome displays 3D Pipes screensaver from Windows

Blogger feed problem in Google chrome

Google chrome unable to handle blogger feed pages. Just check out these screen shots. First one is the RSS feed page of my Blog. The second one is the atom feed of my blog. For those of you dont know this is a blogger blog  and Blogger  is a Google product.
My point is why does not it support rss/atom feeds of blogger. i checkout the feeds provided by feedburner and they were perfect.. This just means that they forgot to test blogger feed pages during testing or they have decided to leave the ball in the blogger's court and let it handle the problem. Anyways this is nothing to worry about since it will be  a year or so before we can really count Chrome as a player in the field of browser

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Hope Google/Blogger irons them out soon.

Bugs in Google chrome

These is one minor bugs or incomplete/missing feature in Google chrome.In The following screen shot  one of the icon has a problem.  May be the icon no longer exist on the server. Idid a right click to select the option "View image " just to sure that the icon no longer exists and to my surprise i did not find any such option. .Just see the screenshots below. I just found "open image in new tab". Thats an ok alternative for proper images i.e photos but not for icons . Hope they iron it out soon.

I am currently testing chrome so you  can hope more reviews/ bugs on chrome soon

Google Chrome

A good first browser. This is not revolutionary(expect for looks) but a excellent start by google. In terms of looks it's Firefox on steroids. in terms of features it has a long way to go.

On the up side it looks great. The best thing is that the address bar acts as search bar. it has a stealth mode that prevents what you visited from being stored/recorded. It has a task manager too.No menu bar instead 2 icons on status bar. It has a auto hide status bar. "Page cannot be displayed" has  a link to google cache and also displas the correct error with the page.The start up page just shows the bookmarks and commonly visited pages and recently closed tabs.

On the downside the status bar just says connecting and does not shows the progress. 



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Great browser from Google with the coming versions it will be excellent. Although i must admit it cant compete with Firefox on features. Even in reach/size i will take lot of marketing effort to reach even 50% of Microsoft. just look at Google backed Firefox has just 19% of the market share despite google paying users who promote it.And the 19 % is because of it's features and not because of google.

I am sure with in a year it will be the third most used windows browser and second on apple