Alright, guys. Hello and welcome to GEEKcompNERD’s computer zone show. And in this tutorial, I’m going to be talking about Google Chrome which is a new free open-source web browser released by Google on the 2nd of September and Google worked on this web browser for about two years and the first beta version was released and obviously it’s a beta version so you should expect to find some bugs.
So without any delay, let me get started. And this is how Google Chrome will look once you have installed it, nice looking, simple, but nice and attractive looking interface over here. You can see the bookmarks bar, the address bar, tabs up there. This is how the homepage by default is set to. And so, I’m just going to start off by showing you and explaining what Google Chrome’s features are and what Google has stressed upon in making it much better and distinguish it from the rest of the browsers. So first of all, I’m just going to forward you to this site called ‘Google.com/googlebooks/chrome’ and this is actually, you can think of it as a ReadMe file of Google Chrome. So, it’s not like a simple text file that you can normally find but instead they’ve made it a bit different and explained the ReadMe file in a comic strip form. So, they have explained what Google Chrome is, how it works, what are the new features, how the idea was developed in making this, what’s new in it, how’s it different, how it’s safe, how it’s reliable and how it’s much faster than the rest.
So it’s a much—it’s obviously you must be used to looking at those reading text files which is explained with plain text but this is a nice comic strip. So, it’s actually quite enjoyably to read so I’ll forward you to this. I’ll put in the description for you to download and go check it out. So, going back, explaining what basically explains inside this comic strip is who has actually aimed at giving a much pleasant user experience and they’ve done this by making a feature available in the tabs, right? And each tab is set to have its own process. By that, I mean I’m going to open two tabs here, and I’m going to go to Task Manager and as you can see, there’s two ‘Chromes.exe’ processes.
Now, the more tabs I open, the more Chrome.exe processes will come under the Task Manager and that’s a really good thing because if I go to Mozilla Firefox and I open up Mozilla Firefox, you can see that if I open Task Manager again, you can see that no matter how many tabs I open up in Mozilla Firefox, sorry let me just re-open it. No matter how many tabs I open up in Mozilla Firefox, there’ll only be one process whereas in Google Chrome, I open up two tabs and there’s two processes there. So basically, what the Google has done here is they have made Google Chrome, each tab has its own process and that’s really useful because if one of these tabs crashes, that will only affect the process over here, right? And that will not affect the rest of the tabs.
So if you have like about 20 tabs opened up here, one of them crashes. That’ll not interrupt the rest of the 19 tabs because they each have their own processes and they’re not sharing that same process whereas in Mozilla Firefox or IE or whatever, if you have 20 tabs opened up, one tab crashes. They’re all sharing that one process only so one tab crashes that causes the entire browser to close down and restart. So, they have actually made that really useful, say, you’re really long e-mail and suddenly a browser crashes just because of one tab. That will obviously cause you to restart and retype that entire e-mail. So, that’s what they’ve done here, made it much more convenient for us.
Next, you can obviously move tabs around like this by just clicking and dragging across. You can close tabs by just right-clicking. You can duplicate a tab by opening it up in a new window, reload the new tab right there, close the tab, close all the other tabs and you can actually close the tabs to the right if it has tabs on the right of it, close tabs, open by this tab, whatever. You can just figure that out on your own. And another nice feature on Google—on the Chrome is that you can actually drag tabs out into their own windows. If I click and drag outwards, it opens the tab up in its own new window and in fact you can just click and drag it back in, it rejoins with the rest. So, you can actually navigate and open up them in their own windows if you want to.
So, that’s it basically about the tabs. As you can see it’s above the address bar and not below and my bookmarks as you can see have all been imported if you’re wondering from Mozilla Firefox when I installed Google Chrome. So, you can just import them. Up here, you can see the address bar. Now, this address bar is a two-in-one bar function. As you can see, there’s no search box to type in and search on Google. As you can see, it says ‘Type to search” over here. So, you can actually use this address bar for searching on Google and also navigating through webpages. So, if I type in ‘YouTube’ over here, you can see it says ‘Search Google for YouTube?’ or you can actually directly go to YouTube.com. So, if I click on that, it’ll take me directly to YouTube.com and if I type in YouTube again, I can actually search Google for YouTube and I’ll search Google for anything related to YouTube. So, it’s a two-in-one bar function.
Moving on the side, you can see that on the top, you can see there’s no ‘File’, ’Edit’, ’Open’. Now, all those View buttons up here; they’ve all been integrated into these two things here so you can just find all your options here in New Tab, you open New Tab, New Window, New Incognito Window. I’ll get you to that later on, the video Create Application Shortcut. I’ll also get to that later on. Cut, Copy, Paste, Find in Page, Print, Text Zoom, Developer, if you know—it’s open source, you can view the source. If you know Java Script, you can use these functions. Task Manager. Now, Google Chrome has its own Task Manager and you can actually end processes and everything just like a normal Windows Task Manager so if something, like a plug-in or anything isn’t working, all your plug-ins by the way will be listed here, all your tabs, everything in Google Chrome will be listed over here so you can immediately end processes and tabs immediately without having them actually crash your browser.
If you click on ‘Stats for Nerds’ down here, it’ll show you a summary of everything that’s open, as you can see, Firefox is also opened. It lists Firefox. It lists Chrome. It shows you the memory usage on the side over here. This is obviously for advanced users if they want to know the advanced options, processes, you can see all the tabs open, and all the memory stats. It’s basically. you can just find that all on your own. Report Developer, if you have gone by a broken website, you can report anything that’s not working properly like a crash or something won’t load. You can send a screenshot to them, page URL, description. That’s pretty much normal as other browsers.
Now, as I said, I’ll come back to this New Incognito Window. New Incognito Window as you can see is sort of different from the actual web browser, bluish here, a lot little icon here. Now, New Incognito Window, as it says over here, it won’t be—pages that you view in this window won’t leave any history, traces like cookies on your computer after you close incognito window. So, you can actually browse the web without actually having to worry about anyone tracking it down or leaving entries in your computer on what you’ve visited. So, it won’t make any entries of cookies, history, all that stuff. I actually find this particularly useful for those of you—with money for online from one bank account to another, thus, it won’t leave any information. The computer brought you back a number or password or whatever and no one can actually track you down while you do this. So, it’s useful that’s why it has this little sign over here with this undercover agent.
Moving on, you can actually hide or show your tool bar here. History, you can index through your history by just searching through your history by just typing it in like that. You can search through history. It shows you a little thumbnail version of its screenshot. Downloads again, you can index through them. Clear browsing data, import bookmarks, options, you can choose what you want to start up. Choose which pages to load if you want to be specific, restore the last tabs that were opened up. Homepage, you can choose what to be that home page or your most frequently visited websites or you can choose a page that you want to open. You can hide or show, as you can see, the Home button, choose a default search engine, choose a download location, offer to save passwords. Basically, it’s all the same, nothing too different; just normal tweaks that are same in every browser, About Google Chrome, Help, and Exit. So, that’s basically it on Google Chrome.
If you have any other suggestions, comments or anything about, do not hesitate to mail me support@GEEKcompNERD.tk. Please visit my website at GEEKcompNERD.tk and I think I’ve covered basically everything on Google Chrome here. I’ll send you the link to download. It’s in the description. And I hope you guys have fun. I’ve totally switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome. It’s really, really fast, reliable, as I said, it’s integrated both to really—I don’t think I mentioned this but it’s integrated both Mozilla Firefox an Apple’s Web2Click into one browser. So, it’s using Mozilla Firefox’s technology and Apple’s Web2’s technology into this browser so you got the power of two really, really powerful web browsers into one really, fast, reliable and safe web browser. So, thanks for watching, if you have any comments please leave them in the description and please subscribe to my videos and, once again, thanks for watching. Peace!
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