Taking the Official Google Chrome Tour

by Clint Boulton

This guide walks you through the main features of Google Chrome. Clicking on a region gets you an explanation for each feature.

When you visit a site, it opens as a tab in Google Chrome.

Click the New Tab button to open a new tab. It starts out as a blank page, but gets enriched with more Web surfing.

Use these arrows to go to Web pages you’ve just visited in the tab. Click an arrow and hold it down to see a history of your browsing session in the tab. Very efficient.

Easy, just click this button to reload your Web page.

This button lets you get to your home page in one click.

We all know how important bookmarks are to help us find Web pages we want to return to. Chrome’s bookmark button is right next to the search box.

Search the Web, and enjoy suggestions with this Swiss-army navigation box.

This tool bar lets users cut, copy, paste and more in Chrome.

A tool menu helps you manage Web pages in Chrome. Open a new tab or window, import bookmarks and, importantly, open a new window in incognito mode, so that pages you visit won’t be stored in your browsing history.

This gives you easy access to the pages you’ve saved and lets you drag and drop bookmarks into folders or onto the bar directly.

Now that you’ve learned the features, it’s time to set up Chrome to your liking. This page tells you how.

Here are a few mini-tasks you can do to test Google Chrome.

Think you’ve mastered Chrome? Here are a few more tips you may not be aware of.