I love Chrome's incognito mode when developing. Let's say you're logged into your site checking things. Then you want to login as the admin without logging out and logging back in. Just pop open an incognito window and away you go!
That sort of thing is very handy when testing workflows between users on a system that uses cookies for session state, though is actually handled better by IE of all things.
Using "new session" from the file menu in IE8 (or just running a new instance of iexplore.exe (instead of just creating a new window) under IE6/7 if you have the "reuse windows" option turned off) you can create several independent sessions. There are not many cases when you need a lot of concurrent sessions, but there are a few I hit occasionally where four is useful (for instance a workflow where a file quality reviewer, adviser, adviser's supervisor, and a compliance officer all interact with the process at some stage).
You can do the same in Firefox but in a slightly more long-winded way: you need to setup independent profiles which is a little more faf initially. Each profile gets its own firefox.exe process and addin-ins, which can be handy: I keep a clean profile (no addins at all) for some testing (for instance to rule out an oddity being due to interaction with a particular plugin) without having to disable all the add-ins on my main profile.
Does anybody know how to use a search engine other than the default from the omnibar? I see you can set a keyword under "Edit Search Engine", but then I cannot attach a query. (Say, "d" takes me to DDG's front page, but "d water" just googles for that, which makes sense.)
Search engine keyword are meant for exactly that. For queries to work though you need to configure the search URL: double-click on the DDG entry for the engine in the Manage Search Engine dialog and make sure its URL is set to http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Thanks. I had set that up already, and gone back to Google as my default search engine since then (too traumatic a step for now!). However, I occasionally want to look things up through DDG. I have figured out how to do it now. (See my other comment.)
Duh! I just had to press tab after typing the shortcut. Something as short as “d” is a bother because Chrome populates your omnibar with suggestions, so you have to delete and then press tab; “ddg” feels more apt =).
Control-click on the address bar, click "Edit search engines...", and you can create a thing. The keyword will be a shortcut for the page, and "%s" in the URL will be replaced with the text following the keyword when you type it in. For example, here's my Wikipedia search engine thing:
Name: Wikipedia
Keyword: wp
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&search=%s
Chromium has a "Network" Tab in its development tools. In Chrome I cannot find it. Is there a way to bring it up? Why was it even removed (hidden) like that?
Are you talking about Chromium OS / Chrome OS? Yes, it is slightly different than Chromium/Chrome. I have both Chromium/Chome installed and I don't and haven't ever seen Network. It is present on my CR-48 though.
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ctrl(cmd for mac)+shift+n
handy for testing session/cookie issues without having to reset everything
;-)
Using "new session" from the file menu in IE8 (or just running a new instance of iexplore.exe (instead of just creating a new window) under IE6/7 if you have the "reuse windows" option turned off) you can create several independent sessions. There are not many cases when you need a lot of concurrent sessions, but there are a few I hit occasionally where four is useful (for instance a workflow where a file quality reviewer, adviser, adviser's supervisor, and a compliance officer all interact with the process at some stage).
You can do the same in Firefox but in a slightly more long-winded way: you need to setup independent profiles which is a little more faf initially. Each profile gets its own firefox.exe process and addin-ins, which can be handy: I keep a clean profile (no addins at all) for some testing (for instance to rule out an oddity being due to interaction with a particular plugin) without having to disable all the add-ins on my main profile.
While using it I was surprised by how pervasive Facebook is on the sites I visit.
chrome://net-internals/#dns
and it comes with a very handy HTTP req/response capture tool
chrome://net-internals/#events
Edited for clarity.
Nice tips still.