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Google Chrome

Updated May 26, 2025

Google Chrome is a web browser — a program you use to access websites on the internet. It’s what you open when you want to check your email, read the news, or watch videos online. Chrome is known for being fast, easy to use, and made by Google. It’s like the window through which you view and interact with the internet.

This is the main browser in use at MobilityData as it is best suited to work with Google Workspace. Other browsers are accepted as long as they work with GWS.

Product information

Product website

https://www.google.com/chrome/

Login page

https://google.com

Video Tutorials

More information

Group your tabs

You can organize your tabs with groups.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. Click New tab (+).
  3. Right-click a tab and then select Add to new group.
    1. To edit your tab group, right-click the coloured circle or name to the left. You can:
      1. Name your group.
      2. Add additional tabs to the group.
      3. Remove the group.
    2. To add a tab to an existing group, drag the tab into the group.
    3. To remove a tab from a group, right-click the tab, then select Remove from group.

Collapse and expand tab groups

You can collapse your tab groups so only the group's name or coloured circle is showing in your tab strip.

  1. Create a tab group.
  2. To expand or collapse the group, select its name or coloured circle.

Site search shortcuts

You can use the address bar (omnibox) as a search box. It automatically uses Google, but you can set another default search engine instead.

For example, you can create shortcuts to search, inside your Google Drive, by simply typing in the address/search box a keyword you define (like drive) , then a tab, type what you want to find in the drive and then hit enter to see the results of the search.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More and then Settings.
  3. On the left, click Search engine and then Manage search engines and site search.
  4. To change site search shortcuts:
    1. Add: To the right of Site search, click Add. After you fill out the text fields, click Add.
    2. Edit: To the right of a site search shortcut, click Edit.
    3. Set as default: To the right of a site search shortcut, click More and then Make default.
    4. Deactivate: To the right of a site search shortcut, click More and then Deactivate.
    5. Delete: To the right of a site search shortcut, click More and then Delete.

Tips

  • You can set up shortcuts to search specific sites.
  • When you deactivate a site search shortcut, it moves to the "Inactive shortcuts" section.
  • You can also find other suggested sites listed in the "Inactive shortcuts" section. To add them to your site search shortcuts, click Activate.
  • For some search sites, the site appears in the "Inactive shortcuts" section only after you search on that site.

Search your open tabs in Chrome

When you have multiple tabs open in Chrome, you can find the specific tab you want.

  1. Open Chrome.
  2. On the right of your last open tab, click Tab search (down-pointing arrow icon) .
  3. Enter keywords for the site you want to find.
  4. In the list of open tabs:
    • To open a tab, find the tab you want and click it.
    • To close a tab, find the tab you want and on the right, click Close (x).

Updating Chrome

Keeping Chrome up-to-date also ensures that sharing your screen or windows through Chrome works.

Important

If you see on the top right a button called Update, that means an update is available.

  • 🟢 Green: An update was released less than 2 days ago.

  • 🟠 Orange: An update was released about 4 days ago.

  • 🔴 Red: An update was released at least a week ago.

You need to click this button or relaunch Chrome in order to apply the update.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. In the Chrome menu at the top left of your screen, select About Google Chrome.
  3. In the window that opens, let it look for an update.
  4. If there is no update, it will say Chrome is up to date. Otherwise, click Update Google Chrome.
  5. Click Relaunch when the update is done.

Chrome custom URLs

chrome://chrome-urls/

Displays the complete list of URLs. Can also be loaded with chrome://about.

chrome://system/

Lists JSON information about the system, sync, memory usage and more.

chrome://apps/

Lists all installed applications (by user and those that ship with the Chrome browser on a new page.

chrome://download-internals

Start downloads and monitor responses and the process.

chrome://flags

Displays experimental features that may or may not be integrated into the browser at one time or the other.

chrome://network-errors/

Displays the list of network error messages that Chrome may throw.

List of approved extensions for Google Chrome

These extensions are known to be safe or from a reliable source. If you need an extension installed that is not in that list, please contact the IT Security Manager.