Girl Geekette

New Google Look coming soon!
Here is what google is going tword – this look.

((ps – I have not figured out yet how to change back.. so.. please dont hold me responsible if you change yours ))

If you use Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+,
open google.com in a new tab then do the action for your browser:

Chrome’s JavaScript console (Ctrl+Shift+J)
Firefox’s Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K)
Safari’s Web Inspector (how to do that?)
IE’s Developer Tools (press F12)

Find and select the “console” tab and paste the following code:

document.cookie=”PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds; path=/; domain=.google.com”;window.location.reload();

When you visit a website, you want to make sure that you are getting the latest version of a page pulled from the webserver.

For example

You look at a Car For Sale on Sunday using Internet Explorer or Firefox to view a webpage. You write the number down because it is too late to call right now.

At lunch the next day, you pull up that webpage you added to your favourites. You admire the car, then call the number.

The man at the other end says “Sorry, I sold that car this morning. It should have a SOLD banner across the picture now.”

You thank him and hang up.

You sit at the computer, open up IE and click on the webpage in your favourites. Sure enough the car looks just like it did when you looked at it this morning. No SOLD banner across it.

Then, all the sudden you remember a tip you read about. Holding down CTRL+R on your keyboard, your browser refreshes to the most current version of the webpage and the car has the SOLD banner.

How Get Latest Version

There are a few ways you can get the most current page.
IE8, Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox all use the CTRL +R to get the latest page.

Or you can “Clear the Cache” in these browsers as well

• IE8 – Tools / Internet Options / General / Browsing history / Settings . Set it to check for newer versions Everytime I visit the webpage. Set the Discspace to 8 and click OKAlso on the same place at Tools / Internet Options / General / Browsing history / Delete a window will pop up and you can choose what data to delete . Make sure Temporary Internet Files is checked, then click Delete
  
• Chrome – Tools / Options / Under the Hood / Privacy / Clear Browsing Data . Make sure Empty the cache is checked. The click Clear browsing data
  
• Mozilla Firefox – Tools /Options / Advanced / Network / Offline Storage change the number of MB for space for the cache to 8. Click Clear Now. Click OK

And yet another way you can do this is with the key combinations

IE , Chrome, and Firefox- hit SHIFT +F5

Previously IE, Netscape and Firefox all had key combinations of CTRL SHIT F5 and R you could use. CTRL +R now seems pretty standard.

For those who love bleeding edge technology and want to try out the latest of the Chrome, there is a new Chrome in town. It is called Google Chrome Canary Build.

It is the newest of the new bleeding edge browsers that will one day become the next Chrome released. It is a preview of what is to come.

At first glance, it is even faster than the regular latest build of Chrome. It loads up pages at lightning speed.

The best part of this build – unlike the beta’s , is that when it is installed, it runs via a different path to which it is installed (%localappdata%\Google\Chrome SxS\ on Windows) . This means no more overwriting your regular Chrome build if you have it installed. You can even run both simultaneously. Also, since it is installed apart from Chrome, you can also run different sync profiles, themes, and browser preferences with the Canary Build.

Google Canary Build is the bleeding edge technology that falls between Chrome dev and the Chromium snapshot builds. It will recieve more updates than the developers version does.

The ‘Canary’ Part could be named that after the old tradition of miners bringing a canary into the mine. If the canary died, it was not safe. With Chrome Canary, if a new feature is added, and it ‘dies’, it is not carried over into the developers build.

The look and feel of the Canary Build reminds me of Chrome – on steroids. This launches faster, searches faster, and loads web pages up faster. And, if it crashes, I have not lost the stable version of Chrome I have.

Want to give it a try? You can download it here from Google.

What a way to remind you:

Well, it may not be as obvious as it is in IE or Mozilla browsers, There is a new icon that let me to investigate further.

When I clicked on it, the menu showed:

Notice the Update Google Chrome !

And that is what led me to read the error about Restart to Apply Update because it has not crashed or been restarted lately

After a restart the icon went back to ‘normal’.

Literally. This post is about the about in Chrome

It started with a tweet from MattCutts:

so, I decided to experiment.

I was not even sure what version of Chrome I have.  So, I went to the tool sign  and clicked on the about

This is what I saw

In the Chrome Address bar, I typed

about:

I get this – The Google Chrome About Version Page

Here is the dev one of the Chrome Version I just installed.

now, in the address bar I type

about:about