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Disable highlighting of links when pressing tab in Google Chrome

September 18, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Google Chrome has a feature which when pressing tab highlights the links and form fields. If you are user who heavily uses keyboard tab for navigating between the form fields and you do not want the tab to be highlighted then you can disable this feature using Chrome Preferences.

Click the Chrome menu on the menu bar and select Preferences from the list of available menus.

In the Preferences window, click the Under the hood link.

Navigate to Web Content section available in Under the Hood page.

Now un tick the check box with label as Pressing tab on a webpage highlights links, as well as form fields. This would only highlight the form fields when pressing tabs.

Create Shortcut for Google Chrome Extension

August 8, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

In this tutorial we will cover the steps required for creating a shortcut for a Google Chrome Extension. If you like a chrome extension and you intend to use it quite often then you can create shortcuts to access the extension.

Open a new tab page in Google Chrome and right click on the extension for which you want to create a shortcut say for extension like Google Docs. This would display the following list of menus.

Now select the Create shortcut option from the menu list.

In the Create application shortcuts window, select the places where you want to create shortcuts like Desktop, Start menu and Quick launch bar and click on the Create button. And now you could see the shortcuts getting created in the selected places.

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How to import a certificate in Google Chrome

July 8, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

A SSL certificate can be imported in Google Chrome using option menu. Click on the wrench icon –> options –> Navigate to Under the Hood tab

Scroll down to Security section and click on the Manage certificates button

Click on the import button and use the Certificate import wizard to import a certificate

Click Next and using Browse button locate the certificate file with a .cer or .cert as file extensions.

Click Next to continue with Certificate Import Wizard

Specify the location of the Certificate Store

And click Finish to complete the process.

How to turn off pop up blocker in Google Chrome

July 5, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

Google Chrome has an inbuilt pop up blocker feature. The default option is set is Do not allow any site to show pop-ups. You can disable pop up blocker in Google Chrome using Options menu similar to ie8 pop up blocker

Click on the Options menu