Chrome

Clean Google search URLs

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/clean-up-extra-url-parameters-when-searching-google/

I set the URL field to be “{google:baseURL}search?q=%s” (without the quotes).

Now when you search for [flowers] the url is just http://www.google.com/search?q=flowers. Ah, nice clean urls in the browser bar.

Original settings:

{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:instantFieldTrialGroupParameter}sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s

How to change default Google search engine

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1521#c32

1. Kill 'google-chrome' or 'chromium' (whichever you are using): $ pkill chrome or $ pkill chromium.
2. Navigate to this directory (this is relevant to Ubuntu/Kubuntu distros): $ cd ~/.config/google-chrome/ or $ cd ~/.config/chromium/.
3. Open the file 'Local State' in vim or your preferred plain text editor: $ vim Local\ State.
4. Search for the strings hast_known_google_url and last_prompted_google_url adn replace their values to your preferred Google base URL (.com in my case).
5. Save the file and exit.
6. Should do the trick.

Extensions

• Vimium - vim-like keybinding s.
• Tweetdeck - the best way to read Twitter.
• TextAid - edit textarea in an external text editor (gvim in my case).
• Catch.com - allows to save URL to Catch.
• Google Analytics Opt-out - opt-out from Google Analytics.
• Grab y'all links - grabs urls in all tabs to save them in a text file.