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Chrome extension Search Plus (formerly FullSearch): Search Any Text String Across All Open Tabs In Chrome

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/11

Often while researching, I have a zillion pages open in Chrome. Mentally I have the right search texts in my head, but finding back the really relevant tabs can be a pain. That’s where the Chrome extension Search Plus comes in handy which used to be called FullSearch.

To quote a via FullSearch: Search Any Text String Across All Open Tabs In Chrome review :

The extension allows you to search for text in all open tabs at once, and shows a list of search results right in the pop-up. Moreover, clicking any of the results takes you to the particular tab with the highlighted text.

From the Search Plus extension page:

The Search Plus is a Chrome Extension App.

It helps to find the tabs you’re looking for from all opened tabs regardless of window, and you can manage the found tabs easily and quickly.

It works like a charm.
Highly recommended!

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Chrome, Google, Power User | 2 Comments »

Link dump: URLs I used to setup Google 2-step verification on my account, devices and software I use

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22

It was a lot of pain, and somehow my Android 4 device now doesn’t sync contacts any more.

–jeroen

Posted in Android Devices, Chrome, GMail, Google, Google Apps, GoogleCalendar, GoogleMaps, GoogleSearch, HTC, HTC Sensation, Power User | 1 Comment »

Time to disable Java for a while: Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/27

Hmm, time to disable Java for a while:

Malware Intelligence Lab from FireEye – Research & Analysis of Zero-Day & Advanced Targeted Threats:Zero-Day Season is Not Over Yet.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Apple, Chrome, Google, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User | 3 Comments »

Some Chrome links: finding out which tabs make noise, muting noisy tabs, restarting chrome while retaining all pages

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/13

Finding out which Chrome tabs make noise (I opted for the MuteTab extension)

Restarting your browsers retaining the opened tabs. Chrome does this automatically upon update, but there seems to be no manual automatic way other than this:

  1. Change your options to Reopen the pages that were open last
  2. Close your browser
  3. Restart your browser
  4. Resetting your Reopen the pages that were open last back to what is was

Not nice, but it works.

–jeroen

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Fix to force Google Chrome to use google.com as default search (via: I cannot get Chrome to use www.google.com as the default search engine rather than www.google.com.hk. – Google Chrome Help)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/22

Every couple of Google Chrome versions it starts using the local Google search domain (the one that Google things that geographically matches you, probably in a language you do not understand).

I have the “Use Google.com in English” cookies set, the right Chrome language settings, the right Google language settings, etc.

This is not the “right” solution, but it works, thanks Dwight Stegall:

  1. Right click the address bar and click on Edit search engines. When the box opens click the Google option in the list. Then click the X to the right to delete it.
  2. At the bottom look for a box with “Add new search engine”. Type in Google and in the next box type in a keyword. I use “g” for Google.
  3. Where it asks for URL paste this in.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s

You can use a similar solution for instance to force Google.co.uk as your default search domain.

–jeroen

via I cannot get Chrome to use www.google.com as the default search engine rather than www.google.com.hk. – Google Chrome Help.

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Administrative and Personal offline installers for Chrome (via: Alternate offline Google Chrome installer Windows – Google Help)

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/04

Because I tend to forget where Google keeps the information on dowloading the offline administrative and personal installers I have quoted their full help page below.

According to Google Employee Blair (Googler) (at 20100614 in topic Google Chrome Offline Installer – Google Chrome Help):

Be aware that the version of Google Chrome available from the link may not auto-update to future browser releases, meaning you could miss important security fixes and feature improvements. Make sure to check back often to download newer releases.

The standalone offline installers from the quote at the bottom of this post did all keep themselves up to date.

There is a bunch of version specific Google Chrome installers THAT WILL NOT AUTOUPDATE (they usually keep less than 2 months) with URLs formed like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Chrome, Google, Power User | 2 Comments »

Refined: Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/03/30

Just updated my earlier post on Google Chrome offline installers with this info:

Google Chrome has two offline installers: one single user install, and one for all users on the same Windows machine.

It ends up at one of these download pages, each with a download link for the current version (which changes for every new version):

–jeroen

via: Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows) – Google Help « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.

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gmail harmless error message when editing settings: “Your changes have not been saved. Discard changes?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/28

When you edit your gmail settings, recently you often  get this message if you move the focus away from the settings pane:

Your changes have not been saved.
Discard changes?

The odd thing is that the settings are indeed saved just before you move the focus away.

So I always wondered if the message can be really ignored, and this thread confirms the message indeed is harmless.

I do still wonder why I get this message mostly in FireFox and Internet Explorer, but almost never in Chrome :-)

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Firefox, GMail, Google, Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »