Make Chrome’s Address Bar Work for You

Google Chrome shortcuts to save you some time

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Introduction

Google Chrome's address bar, also known as Omnibox, can do a bunch of things you’d be amazed at, and all of this without actually performing a full Google search. These are shortcuts I’ve been using for some time and I’d like to share them with you all. Let’s dive right in.

What’s the weather like?

While you can get the answer to this question by looking out of the window, if you’re too comfortably seated on your couch in front of the laptop with or without a bag of chips, you can instead type in weather and the city in the address bar and you should instantly see the weather pop in the results. Add the word tomorrow to see tomorrow’s weather.

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Temperature and other conversions

So, Google gave you the weather in Celsius but you needed it in Fahrenheit. Ouch! Don’t worry, you can use the same address bar to quickly convert the temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

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In fact, there's a whole bunch of conversions you can try like centimetres to meters, feet to inches, etc.

Who likes Math?

From conversions to calculations. Next time you need something calculated, instead of opening the calculator app, simply type in the value in the address bar and you should almost instantly see the results of your calculation.

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Surprisingly, you can also do slightly complex Math problems from the address bar itself, like percentages, and sin and log values. How amazing is that!