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Get Facebook Notifications on Chrome Desktop

Just visit the mobile Facebook site http://m.facebook.com in the Google Chrome desktop browser and you will be prompted to allow notifications. If you accept, Chrome will enable Facebook notifications, which will appear in the bottom right corner of your PC. Sick of seeing them? Just follow these steps to switch notifications in Chrome off:  https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?hl=en .

Google Chrome in-page search shortcuts

I couldn't work it out by myself: The keyboard shortcuts for jumping through one's Google Chrome in-page search results. Well, I think I'll use Ctrl+G, hell, why not?! :) Ctrl+F Open find-in-page box Ctrl+G  or  F3 Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box Ctrl+Shift+G  or  Shift+F3 Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box

Google Chrome has poor performance with PDF documents

I always found opening PDF documents a drag in Internet Explorer, and just as bad in Firefox. All that waiting for Adobe Reader to load up its umpteen plugins... But I must say that the PDF experience seems far worse in Google Chrome. My CPU goes crazy and the browser hangs every time I try to scroll down a PDF document inside Chrome. I've already resorted to downloading the PDF first and then opening it, otherwise it's just not usable. Hmm, wonder if anybody else has experienced this? I'll have to go check the Chrome bug list. 

Google Chrome is a "must have"

There's no getting away from it. Google Chrome is the browser of choice. A beautifully simple and bug-free browser that's just dying to get onto every single desktop on the planet. I'm certainly using it already as my browser of choice. Partly because I'm admittedly a bit of a Google addict. In the sense that I loved Google from the moment they found exactly what I was looking for (no, not that) back in 2001 or something. And partly because I just can't wait for another browser to gain market share over Internet Explorer, and give Microsoft another reason to make Windows truly user friendlier. If you haven't tried Google Chrome yet, go and get it :) Here it is: http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en Even if you don't have administrator rights on your PC chances are you can still install it. I could. Now if you've already installed it and just happen to be thinking, like I did, that it would be nice to be able to make it look a tiddly bit different...