Upgrade individual menus with important functions(Chrome)

              You hopelessly look for certain functions in the minimalistic menu of Chrome. You want easier access to some things and setup your own menu.

              Google itself offers the Chrome Toolbox that allows you to easily configure browser functions used most frequently. It can be downloaded and installed from 'chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fjccknnhdnkbanjilpjddjhmkghmachn'.
              Once installed, you can access the Toolbox via an icon in the menu bar. Using Toolbox, you can save form data, mute tabs, open last closed tabs, etc. There is also a key combination for every command. However, you will have to personally adjust the menu selection with the “Options” command. The settings required for that are given in the “Shortcuts & Menu” tab. Here you can find Chrome’s keyboard shortcuts and add them to the quick access drop down menu of the Toolbox. You can also define keyboard shortcuts for Boss Key, Quick Launch, Fill Form and Mute all Tabs. You can activate other useful options like moving icon bars for photos and videos from the “General Tab”. With the “Compare shortcuts with other browsers” option, you can use the extensive lists to directly compare and study the key combinations of the viewed browsers.

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Cancel hanging tabs or tools individually.(Google Chrome)

             Individual scripts or websites are sometimes defective and hang, or an add-on in the browser starts giving problems. Restarting the browser is what you usually need to do.

             Chrome is the first browser to introduce a consistent separation of individual tabs at the process level. You can check that when you start the task manager with many tabs open in the browser. Press the key combination [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Esc] and switch to the ‘Processes’ tab. For instance, if there are four tabs open, you will see the ‘chrome.exe’ process displayed at least five times. You can end the processes here itself but you cant see which process entry belongs to which tab.
              It is this information that the internal task manager of Chrome provides. You can call it up from the Chrome program window either by pressing the key combination [Shift]+[Esc] or by right clicking a free spot above the address bar and selecting the context command ‘Task Manager’. The following dialog shows the tab or plug-in to which the process is correlated. Select the desired entry and click ‘End process’.
              You can call up detailed information about memory usage of individual processes via the link ‘Statistics for nerds’ and thus identify which websites are low on memory. Moreover, the overview also shows the memory requirements of all other currently open browsers. You can thus end a hanging Flash Player without problems or close a tab with defective websites without affecting the remaining browsers. The closed page displays a message in the tab, thus enabling immediate reloading of the page.

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