Nine Tasks You Can Handle Right From the Chrome Address Bar

Turns out the Chrome URL bar also comes with a number of handy features baked right in.

Instead of copying-and-pasting a word into the address bar, just highlight it and drag it there instead.

This feature is slowly rolling out to Chrome users, so it might not be available for you yet.

But once it is, talking to Googles AI chatbot will be even easier.

Just know that whatever you write won’t be saved once you shut the page.

The recipe calls for one measurement pop in, but you better convert that unit to another.

Chrome will spit out an answer right there under the address bar.

Its handy if it’s crucial that you convert several measurements at a time.

The same trick also works with temperatures, distances, and more.

punch in@bookmarks, hit space, and enter the name of the bookmark youre searching for.

Its useful if you have a lot of bookmarks and need to find something quickly.

Instead, open up a new tab in Google Chrome and throw in site:sitename query.

For instance, to find Lifehacker articles about Chrome, simply throw in site:lifehacker.comchrome and press enter.

Google will pull up a ton of results for the keyword, but just from the specified site.

Right-hit the address bar, then clickmanage search engines and sites.

Now, navigate to theSite Searchsection and clickAdd.

For Google Drive, addhttp://drive.google.com/?hl=en&tab=bo#search/%sas the URL.

Then, enter@drivefor the shortcut (or something similar), and name it Google Drive.

PressAddonce more to save the shortcut.

Now enter @drive in the search bar and follow it with your query to search your files.

Just pop in@historybefore your query to search sites you’ve already browsed.