Diagnostic Information with About: Pages
Firefox isn’t the only web browser to take advantage of the “about:” command in the URL bar. You can check memory usage with about:memory or see what version you’re using with about:version or even explore your browser plug-ins with about:plugins. There are even options for viewing your browser cache and histograms -- go on, you know how to do it by now.

Learn WebKit via Web Inspector
Like to see the inner workings of the WebKit running at the core of Chrome? Google thought you might, which is why they included an extensive Web Inspector buried inside its web browser. Simply Control-Click on an element on any web page and select “Inspect Element” from the contextual menu. We don’t know what most of that gibberish means, but it’s cool to know how to find it, just the same.

Drag and Drop Until You Drop
Chrome should be rechristened “the drag and drop browser,” with a metric ton of hidden functionality just clicks away. There are too many to list here, but a few of our favorites are the ability to drop files into an attachment box to quickly upload them without a file browser, dragging URLs to the “omnibar” (Google’s name for the URL bar) to open them and open files from your computer in Chrome, such as a PDF file. That’s what we call handy!

Switch Search Engines On the Fly
Understandably, Google prefers that you use the search engine that made it famous, although it does offer Yahoo!, Bing and a few others in the preferences. You can do this on the fly just by typing in the domain of the service you want to use (i.e., Bing.com), pressing the Tab key then entering your search query and pressing return. Visit Preferences > Manage Search Engines to see the others -- or even add one of your own.

Open a Tab In a New Window
This drag and drop tip is so cool it deserves its own spotlight. Ever wanted to break a tab out into its own window when things start to get cluttered? It’s stupid easy with Chrome -- simply click on the desired tab and drag it away. Once you let go of the mouse button, the tab now lives in its own window. You can even do the reverse, by dragging tabs from another window into any other.

Save a Click with Paste and Search (or Go)
Copied some text from another application and ready to paste it into Chrome to do a search? Save a keystroke by Control-Clicking in the URL bar and selecting “Paste and Search” to enter the text and immediately launch a search. This also works with copied URLs by selecting “Paste and Go” to paste and go straight to the website without further ado.

Lose Formatted Text When Pasting
While we’re in the mood to copy and paste, our final Chrome tip is for everyone who needs to copy a bit of text from the browser and then paste it into another window, but lose any formatting that might foul things up -- quite handy for Google Docs, for example. Select your text, copy it and instead of using Command-V to paste, hold down Command+Shift+Option-V and watch as the raw text gets pasted, just the way you like it.