Add Purge Memory Button to Chrome Task Manager

Mark Kull provides a neat little trick to help us manage our memory when running Chrome;

1. Right click on your chrome shortcut on your desktop, taskbar, wherever, and edit the properties. 
2. Under the target field add this after the \chrome.exe: -purge-memory-button so it reads"\chrome.exe -purge-memory-button" then close and re-open chrome.

When you run the chrome task manager (shift+ esc) you'll also have a purge memory button you can use to purge memory on individual chrome processes.

Google Reader Full Feed - Chrome Extension

Google keeps rolling out extensions for their Chrome Browser. I'd like to share one that converts many truncated feeds to display the full feed in your Google Reader. It doesn't work on all truncated feeds ( I'm not sure why ), but it does work on many of the feeds I subscribe to. I used Reuter's news feed as an example that does work.

I really don't enjoy, or subscribe to many sites that truncate their feeds, but make exceptions when the site has quality content and isn't likely to bombard me with pop-ups and highly intrusive or distracting ads when I navigate to their page.

The first image ( above ) shows how Reuters appears in Google Reader. The second image ( below ) shows how this same truncated feed is expanded in Google Reader to display more of the item.  Notice the little orange icon just to the right of the title link? That icon indicates that this item can be expanded by pressing the 'z' button on your keyboard. It's that easy.

This extension is available at Google Chrome Extensions. It's free, and easy to download. There are comments on that page that express the feelings of others that have downloaded this extension. Some are not positive. I find that this extension works well in my version of Chrome ( 4.1.249.1045 ).

Let me know if you try this, and tell me how it works for you. Please include the version of your Chrome Browser in comments.

The Chrome OS Beta is a Fake, Don’t Download | WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India

The Chrome OS Beta is a Fake, Don’t Download | WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India: "If you read this like right now and head to Twitter and search for Chrome OS, you'll find over a 100 tweets getting updated by the second that Google has released a Beta Version of its Chrome OS."

Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 Released

Google Chrome 2.0.173.33 has been released to the Stable and Beta Channels;

Download; Google Chrome 2.0.173.33 This release fixes several serious security bugs.

Google Chrome Updates Video, May 21, 2009

Bookmarklet for friendfeed - Improved

Friendfeed has a great 'share' feature, that allows users to highlite and post text as well as pictures from visited pages to any of their Friend Feed groups, or main feed. This bookmarklet has the unique feature of being 'drag-able'.

That is to say you can drag the pop-up window to any place on your screen. This is good, because some pics are located in the top-right area of a page, and the standard Friedfeed bookmarklet covers that area and prevents the user from highliting the pic or text.

Drag this to your Chrome Bookmark bar; Share FF

Drag and Drop URLs in Google Chrome Browser

If you click on the URL in you Google Chrome 'omni-bar', you can drag it to your Bookmarks bar! Bookmarking couldn't be simpler. If the page you're Bookmarking has a symbol displayed in the omni-bar, the symbol goes with the Bookmark! Wow....

Now right-click on the Bookmark, and look in the pop-up window for 'edit'. You can edit the name of the Bookmark ( don't worry, it won't affect the function ).

Right-click on the Bookmarks bar, and look for 'add a folder'. You can create a folder to organize your Bookmarks! You can even put folders within folders ( file them in a way that's most logical for you, that will make it a lot easier to find them later ).

And here's something really good; you can drag URLs from your Chrome Browser window to the Bookmark bar too! That includes those great little java-script marklets that add so much value the fastest Browser available. Do you use Google Reader? Drag this to your Bookmark bar;

Subscribe in Google Reader

If there is a rss feed available for the page you're viewing, this little marklet will find it, and redirect you to your Google Reader.