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Posts tagged with chrome.
List of Chromium Command Line Switches
A long, automatically updated list of options, most of them unavailable in Chromium’s Preferences.
On my netbook I use --memory-model=low, --disable-desktop-notifications and, sometimes, --disable-internal-flash.
shutup.css
Hide the comments sections on various popular websites—add it to your browser as a user stylesheet, or grab an extension for Chrome or Safari.
SimplyRead
SimplyRead is a simple program to remove unwanted distractions from webpages, in order to better enjoy reading on the web. It removes everything but the article from a webpage, displaying it simply and attractively. The program is packaged as an extension for several web browsers, or as a standalone JavaScript program to integrate into other browsers.
Via Jason Ryan.
markdown-preview
Preview local or remote Markdown documents in Chrome.
Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Surplus
A handy plugin for Chrome that lets you keep up with Google+ without visiting the site proper.
(I’m +Jack Mottram over there, if anyone wants to, er, encircle me.)
PostRank
An extension for Safari and Chrome that ranks and filters items in your Google Reader inbox according to their popularity on various social networks.
It works brilliantly on high traffic feeds with a dodgy signal to noise ration, like Pinboard/del.ico.us tags or sub-Reddits—the kind of stuff you want to skim through, river of news style rather than actively read, item by item.
dotjs
dotjs is a Google Chrome extension that executes JavaScript files in
~/.jsbased on their filename. If you navigate to http://www.google.com/, dotjs will execute~/.js/google.com.js. This makes it super easy to spruce up your favorite pages using JavaScript.
As a bonus, all the files in ~/.js have access to jQuery.
A new (to me) treat for users of Google Chrome Canary:
Swipe down with three fingers on your trackpad to see an overview of all your tabs. Click on a thumbnail to select it. Works great in fullscreen mode.
Reminds me of WebOS’s approach to multitasking.
To enable, dive into about:flags.
Via Majd Taby’s Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It
Shortcut Manager
Shortcut Manager is a powerful extension for Chrome that lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to URLs and snippets of JavaScript, so you can, eg., trigger the Instapaper bookmarklet with ⌥ + I
Chrome and chromium have some interesting experimental settings that you can tinker with by typing about:flags in the URL bar.
Of particular interest:
GPU Accelerated Compositing
Enables 3D CSS and higher performance compositing of web pages using Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) hardware.
Web Page Prerendering.
Speculatively prerenders complete web pages in the background for a faster browsing experience.
Click to play
Enables a “click-to-play” option in the plug-in content settings
