Top 5 Tricks That Every Chrome User Must Know

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Chrome is a very good internet browser and I am happy with it personally. There are lots of features that makes chrome the no.1 browser. However some of the features are not known to everyone since it is hidden from the direct menu and documentation. Here are the top 5 hidden features of google chrome.

5.Play Media

You can use Google chrome to play music(top 5 sites to listen to free music),videos,images,pdfs,etc. All you have to do is drag the file that you want to play into a new tab. You can use this feature to avoid launching different applications for different file types. Moreover you can also have basic controls for your media right in chrome. Check out the below gif to learn how to easily open media with chrome.
Top 5 Tricks That Every Chrome User Must Know
Demo of media playback in chrome

4.Incognito Mode

Many of you may know what it is. Incognito mode stops tracking your browsing data,does not save browsing history,etc.which means you are going partial anonymous on internet. Why I said partial is because the ISP providers can still track your data. To launch incognito mode press Ctrl + Shift + n

3.Chrome Resolution Tester (in Chrome Dev Tools)

You may be aware of the chrome dev tools which can be opened by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I. Chrome Devl tools has a lot of features than just editing the codes. It has almost all the tools that you need while creating a website. One of them is resolution changer. Developers need this tool to test how their website looks in different resolutions. 
  1.   To access the resolution changer simply open dev tools by selecting inspect element from right click menu. 
  2. Click on the settings icon (lower right gear icon).
  3. Select Overrides tab.
  4. Pu a check on Device metrics(if unchecked).
  5. Type in the resolution and hit the go button.

2.Temporary WebPage Edit

With chrome dev tools you can easily edit webpages on the go. You can change text,images,colors or anything with chrome dev tools.
How to change texts temporarily?
  1. Select the text that you want to edit and then click on inspect element from the right click menu.
  2. You will now see the html code for that texts. You can see that the text lies between an opening code and closing code like the sample I have given below <sample code>Texts</sample code>
  3. Right click on that line of code and click Edit as HTML. Now go ahead and change the texts.
  4. When you are done close dev tools. Watch the gif to clearly understand this procedure.
    Top 5 Tricks That Every Chrome User Must Know
    Demo of temporary webpage edit
    You can edit images,colors,etc. with this technique which I am not going to demonstrate today. If you want to know more leave a comment and I will help.

    1.Make Calculations In Omnibox (Url field)

    You will be surprised to know that the url box of Google chrome can perform calculations too.Simply type in the query and the result will be waiting for you.
    Top 5 Tricks That Every Chrome User Must Know
    Demo of omnibox calculations in chrome

    If  I have missed any of the trick that is worth sharing then please let us know in the comments.We shall discuss about more cool hidden tricks in the comments.