If you have visited the Google Chrome Web Store today you may have noticed that Google redesigned the store completely. The layout of the page has been streamlined into a minimalistic listing of apps, extensions and themes. The page has three core elements. First the sidebar menu linking to application categories and extensions and themes [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

All modern web browsers come with options to search the active web page for specific words or phrases. None as far as I know support wildcard searches or the inclusion of inflections. The Google Chrome extension efTwo Advanced Find on Page adds support for the latter to the Chrome web browser. Sometimes when I search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I do not like the navigational structure of the Chrome web store. I cannot figure out for instance how to sort all extensions based on their last update. Sure there is the new and noteworthy category but it is limited to a handful of extensions. Featured and popular as well do not provide access to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google+ is probably the most hyped service on the Internet these days. This stems from the fact that many of the early adopters are first movers that run their own blogs, websites or are very vocal on social networking sites. It still remains to the be seen how the general public will perceive Google’s social [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Google, Google Chrome, Twitter

Google Chrome has supported extensions, sometimes called add-ons, for some time now. Recently the Google Chrome Web Store was added to the browser which has added web apps to the picture. The terminology can be confusing and this article tries to explain the differences. Lets take a look first at how extensions and web apps [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

You have three choices if you want to scroll a page in the Google Chrome browser. You can use the scrollbar at the right side of the browser, click the middle mouse button or use the page up / page down / cursor keys on the keyboard to scroll. That’s basically all you need to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you want to search for videos on Youtube you can either go directly to the site and hack your search phrase into the search form offered there, use a search engine instead to find what you are looking for or use a browser extension to search Youtube directly without leaving the page you are [...]

Categories: Google Chrome

If you visit the official Google Chrome extension gallery you notice that there are quite a few ways to sort the extensions. It is for example possible to display extensions sorted by popularity, date or rating. If you compare those filters to the ones offered at the Mozilla Firefox add-ons portal you notice that some [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the advantages of the Google Chrome browser is that Google is actively developing extensions for it. That’s an advantage because it ensures that users do not have to worry (that much) about data security and that popular Google services are available as extensions for the web browser. Google Similar Pages is an add-on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome