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to preview Google Chrome features.
Browse the web using tabs
When you visit a website, it opens as a tab in Google Chrome. To open a new tab, click the button. Tabs line up along the tab strip at the top of the browser window, so you can easily switch between different pages that you've opened.
Try the following tricks with your tabs:
- Pull a tab out into its own window.
- Pop a tab into another window by clicking and dragging the tab out to the top of the new window.
- Move a tab by clicking the tab and dragging it to a different location along the tab strip.
If a page unexpectedly stops working, just close that tab. Unlike other browsers, one misbehaving tab won't affect most of your other tabs or the overall responsiveness of Google Chrome.
Learn more about using tabs
Resourceful new tabs
Click this button to open a new tab. The New Tab page is designed to help you get to the site you want to visit, as quickly as possible.
Over time, the page will show you the following resources:
- Snapshots (or thumbnails) of your most visited sites. Just click a thumbnail to open the site. You can easily remove specific thumbnails from the page.
- Your recently closed tabs and windows.
Learn more about the New Tab page
Revisit webpages from your browsing session
Use these arrows to go to webpages that you've just visited in the tab. Click an arrow and hold it down to see a history of your browsing session.
Reload the page
Click this button to see the latest content of your page.
Open your home page
This button lets you get to your home page in one click. Turn on this button and set your preferred home page by clicking the wrench icon and selecting Options (Preferences on a Mac) > Basics tab > Home page.
Learn more about setting your home page
Browse or search the web
In Google Chrome, you don't need a second search box -- the address bar doubles as your search box. In addition to opening web addresses, here are all the other ways you can use the address bar:
- Search the web.
- See matches from your bookmarks and browsing history as you type.
- See suggestions of popular sites and search terms as you type.
Learn more about the address bar
Add useful features to the browser
Sometimes, a feature is really useful for some people, but not for everyone. Extensions (like add-ons in Internet Explorer) let you customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don't use.
See what extensions are available in the Extensions gallery.
Learn more about extensions
Find your bookmarks on the bookmarks bar
The bookmarks bar gives you easy access to the pages you've saved. Like tabs, bookmarks are easily rearrangeable -- move them by dragging and dropping them into folders or onto the bar directly.
A few helpful tips:
- Import your existing bookmarks from other browsers, like Firefox or Internet Explorer. You'll find them in the "Other bookmarks" folder at the end of the bookmarks bar.
- Dock the bar underneath the address bar. Do this by going to the wrench menu > Tools > Always show bookmarks bar.
- Use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows and Linux) and ⌘-Shift-B (Mac) to toggle the bar on or off.
- You can also use the bookmark manager to sort and organize your bookmarks.