Chrome Customization

 Chrome is the preferred browser for most of our school sites, so let's jazz it up a bit. I already blogged about OneTab for making your browser tabs more organized, but there are some other options as well.

Tab Groups

Much like OneTab, you can create groupings of tabs you use often.  To do this, have all of the tabs open in a Chrome window that you'd like to group together.  Right click on a tab and choose "add tab to new group".

Give the tab group a name and a color.  You can then add tabs to this group by right clicking on each tab and choosing "add tab to group" and selecting your choice.  

You can always edit these choices later by right clicking on the tab group name.

Clicking on the tab group name will expand all of those tabs or then consolidate them to take up less space.  You can also click, hold, and drag the tab group to another location in your browser window.

Customize Landing Page    

You can customize Chrome further by personalizing your landing page with shortcuts, quick links, and/or photos and colors.

To do this, you have to start from a brand new tab. Once you open the new tab, you should see "customize" or the little pencil in the lower right corner.  Click on it.

Choose a photo from your computer to use as a background or one of the themes already in Chrome.  Explore the different color options as well.

The shortcuts are the websites that appear on the landing page when you open a new tab.  You can either customize these shortcuts and add specific sites, or you can let Chrome gather your frequently visited sites and use those there.

Use what works for you and always know you can make changes later.