Not seen this Chrome trick before.

OriginalGriff

Aren't they though? :thumbsup:

Mike Hankey

One feature that I like about FF that IE doesn't provide and haven't tried in Chrome yet is that if you drag a non-clickable link in the page to the toolbar or to a new tab it will open that page.

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OriginalGriff

In Chrome, it you drag it to the tabs or address bar it opens it, if your drag it to the bookmarks bar it creates a new bookmark.

Mike Hankey

I also forgot to mention that if you drag any text to the address bar or new tab it will automatically do a search for you. Glad to hear Chrome has that also. I haven't messed with Chrome a lot, the fact that it wants to sync to everything is really throwing me off. I'm sure that you can run it without syncing but that just pissed me off first thing.

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OriginalGriff

Mike Hankey wrote:

it wants to sync to everything

I actually find that quite handy: it means if I add a bookmark on my desktop, I can use it on my tablet later on, and vice versa.

Mike Hankey

That would be OK except with everything that's happening right now, NSA tracking, etc.. In fact I believe they have been tracking me for some time and am worried that they are out to get us all through social sites. They are after my bacon and I will defend it to my last breath. :)

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Ravi Bhavnani

I think this only works if you have auto-suggestion enabled. /ravi

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BillWoodruff

I hypothesize that what you may be seeing is not actually a Chrome feature ... but an artifact of the tab-order of the Controls on the CodeProject page. Type in 'bbc.co.uk' and then hit tab and watch what happens.

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OriginalGriff

I don't think so - the behavior is very different: when I type CodeProject.com and press tab, the address bar changes to "Search The Code Project:" and whatever you type after that uses the CP search on Articles. BBC doesn't do that at all. I suspect it is the Hamsters being clever little rodents, and talking nice to Google's Web crawlers. If so, then "Well done Chris and co!"

OriginalGriff

You gotta defend the important stuff first. Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness come second and third to "No Muthaelephanta is getting near my bacon"

Mike Hankey

Exactly you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands, might wanna nuke it before you eat it though. :)

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BillWoodruff

Hi OG, My point was that it was not a "Chrome trick," but a result of CodeProject's own page structure. Hence the counter-example of the BBC site to give weight to the idea that the behavior had nothing to do with Chrome per se. On my machine ... Win 8/64 ... in Chrome Version 31.0.1650.63 m ... typing in 'codeproject' in the Chrome address bar loads the site, and one tab keypress puts focus into CP's global search text-edit box, which causes the drop-down to drop. I agree that Hamsters deserve all glory :) yours, Bill

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Paulo_JCG

Mike Hankey wrote:

NSA tracking,

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reihtec

This feature has been in Chrome for a long time now. In fact, it automatically "learns" sites that you do searches on and saves them as search engine entries. You can create your own entries or modify existing ones by going into Settings > Manage Search Engines. For example, instead of having to type "CodeProject.com" and then tab to type your keyword, you could change the "Search Engine Keyword" to "CP" and then you could just type CP and then tab (btw it also works with just pressing space instead of tab) This is actually one of my most used features in Chrome and I love it :)

Nicholas Marty

In Chrome it's way easier. Just select the text and right click it. If it's a link you can open it (opens in a new tab) or if it's just a word you can search for that word.

OriginalGriff

I use that all the time - but this selects the site and does a search there, rather than a "generic" Google.

RafagaX

What kind of devilry is this?... very clever trick indeed...

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OriginalGriff

As Mr Mercury said: "It's A Kind Of Magic"... :laugh:

RafagaX

:laugh: :thumbsup:

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MLaino

This is a really really old feature, from the earliest versions of Chrome, it works for all sorts of sites which have integrated search, such as Wikipedia, CodeProject, even Facebook! It's one of the reasons I like this browser so much :)