MAKE THE MOST OF THE WORLD,S HOTTEST NEW BROWSER, GOOGLE CHROME! Finally, there,s a web browser for today,s Internet, and today,s user: you! It,s Chrome. (From Google-of course!) Now, there,s a book that reveals how you can use all of Google Chrome,s built-in power and speed-and extend Chrome to do even more! Jerri Ledford and Yvette Davis start with a quick, practical tour of Google Chrome,s stripped-down, hot-rod interface -including its do-everything, know-everything Omnibox. You,ll be using Chrome like a pro in minutes, but that,s just the beginning. You won,t just learn how to customize Chrome: You,ll dive under the hood, tweak its code, and transform it into the browser of your dreams. Bottom line: If Google Chrome can do it, this book will help you do it smarter, faster, better! Covers all this, and more...* Improving life on the Web: what,s new and different about Chrome, and why you care * Getting from Chrome newbie to power user-fast! * Browsing more safely in the Web jungle * Spit-shining Chrome: making a good-looking browser look spectacular * Optimizing your own web site to make the most of Google Chrome * Tweaking tabs, and more: customizing Chrome to your heart,s content * Saving time with Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts * Troubleshooting problems with Google Chrome, step-by-step * Learning about Chromium (the foundation on which Google Chrome is built) and its components, WebKit, WebKit Core, WebKit Port, and WebKit Glue. Jerri Ledford has been a freelance business technology writer for more than ten years, publishing more than 1,000 articles, profiles, news stories, and reports. She develops and teaches technology training courses on topics ranging from security to customer service. Ledford also helps optimize websites for Google and writes about technology topics ranging from search engine optimization to consumer security and identity theft. She has written 18 books, four of which are about Google applications: Google Analytics, Google Analytics 2.0, Google Powered: Productivity with Online Tools, and Google AdSense for Dummies. Yvette Davis is Managing Editor for Brighthub.com,s Google Channel and Contributing Editor for its Linux Channel. www.WebGeeksGuide.com Table of Contents Introduction 1 Part 1: Google Chrome and Browsing the Way It Should Be Chapter 1 Web Interactions Past and Present 9 The Theory of the Web-Based Operating System 10 A Star Trek-esque Society 10 Web-Based OS Is for the Future 10 Mobility Must Come First 11 Openness Is the Key to Mobility Is the Key to...1 2 Browsing in an Application-Driven World 13 Chaos, Fallen Orderly 13 Web-Based from the Ground Up 14 Closing the Door 15 Chapter 2 What Google Chrome Brings to the Browser 17 NOT Your Momma,s Web Browser 18 Comparing Chrome to Other Browsers 19 Internet Explorer 19 Firefox 22 Opera 24 Speed Depends on How You Handle the Code 26 Share and Share (Resources), Alike 31 Taking Out the Trash Keeps the Browser Moving Cleanly 32 Searching for the Right User Experience 34 Tabbing Through Life 34 Surfing Without Being Seen 36 It,s About the Right Amount of Chrome 37 Closing the Door 38 Chapter 3 Getting Started with Google Chrome 39 A Quick and Easy Download 40 Chrome and Your Privacy Concerns 42 Download and Install Chrome 43 Initial Chrome Customization 44 Everybody Has a First Time Once 46 Chrome Grows with You 46 Chrome Page Controls 47 Point and Click, or Type 49 Bookmark Manager 50 Your Browser, Your Way: Basic Customization 52 Closing the Door 55 Chapter 4 It,s Everything: The Omnibox (Plus Some) 57 If It Is Everything, You Should Use It for Everything 58 The Usual Address Bar Duties 58 Security Indicators 59 A Few Other Functions 60 And Then There Are Page Controls 61 More Customization and Controls 64 The Basics Tab 65 The Minor Tweaks Tab 67 The Under the Hood Tab 68 Closing the Door 69 Chapter 5 Stability on the Net 71 Consequences of a Crash 72 Crash Management 72 Chrome,s Task Manager 73 Stats for Nerds 74 So Why Won,t It Crash? 76 Isolated Tabs Equals Increased Security 76 Using Memory More Efficiently Extra Precautions: You Can Never Be Too Safe 78 There,s No Little Black Box in the Browser 82 Weaving a Multithreaded Web 84 Closing the Door 86 Chapter 6 Safe Browsing on a Threatening Web 87 It,s Not If, It,s When You,re Attacked 88 Chrome Saves the Day? 90 Secure Sockets Layer 91 Security Certificates 93 What Threat Level? 95 Viruses 96 Spyware 97 Trojans 97 A Phishing Reminder 98 Got Sand? Sandboxing Slows Attacks 98 Closing the Door 100 Part II:Tinkering Around Under the Hood Chapter 7 Open Source Overview 103 Everyone Can Participate 104 Cost 107 Turnaround time for bug fixes and software improvements 107 It Takes a Village: Open Source Is Collaboration 109 Putting the Chromium in Chrome 112 Kits 113 Threads 116 Processes 117 Libraries and Scripts 118 Ensuring a Flawless Application 120 Closing the Door 120 Chapter 8 Developing Sites for Chrome 121 Is This Part of the WebKit? 122 I Should,ve Had a V8 127 Shifting Gears: How Gears Works with Chrome 131 Closing the Door 134 Chapter 9 Spit-Shining Chrome 135 Chrome Better Faster Stronger 136 ...Extended Chrome,s Functionality 137 Gears 138 Bookmarklets 140 exe Tools 142 Themes and Theme Editors 143 Greasemonkey 144 Greasemetal 147 We Have the Tools 148 Libraries 148 C++ 152 JavaScript 155 Closing the Door 155 Chapter 10 Making It Yours 157 You Gotta Have a Theme 158 Viewer 159 Settings 160 Theme Creator 160 Just a Little Bookmarklet 163 And a Bit of Grease 165 Closing the Door 168 Part III: Chrome for Power Users Chapter 11 Chrome Hacks for the Power Users 171 Skinning Google Chrome 172 Taking Control with Bookmarks 175 Increase the Capacity of the Bookmarks Bar 175 Changing Bookmark Icons 177 Adding Bookmarklets 181 Print from the Bookmarks Bar 185 Creating Profiles in Google Chrome 186 Creating Multiple User Profiles in Chrome 186 Command-Line Switches 190 About. ..Chrome,s Special about: Pages 196 Closing the Door 198 Chapter 12 Troubleshooting Google Chrome 201 Part IV: Appendices Appendix A Google Chrome Shortcuts 213 Navigation Shortcuts 214 Address Bar Shortcuts 215 Chrome Feature Shortcuts 215 Web Page Shortcuts 216 Text Shortcuts 216 Appendix B Chrome for the Non-Windows User 219 CrossOver Chromium 220 Linux 221 Mac OS X 224 Appendix C Glossary 229 Index 237
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这本名为《Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome》的书籍,坦白说,我当初是带着一种半是好奇半是功利的心态买下的。我一直觉得自己对Chrome的了解仅限于日常使用——开网页、看视频、偶尔同步一下书签。然而,这本书的深度和广度彻底颠覆了我的认知。它并非那种教你“如何安装扩展”的肤浅手册,而是深入到了Chrome背后的架构和Web标准实现机制。比如,作者花了大量篇幅解析V8引擎的JIT编译过程,让我这个自诩了解JavaScript的人,第一次真正理解了“为什么某些代码写起来就是比另一些快”。书中对内存泄漏的排查技巧,简直就是救命稻草,我过去处理应用卡顿时只能靠重启大法,现在学会了如何使用DevTools的Performance面板进行精确的火焰图分析,那种从“盲人摸象”到“洞察本质”的飞跃感,太令人兴奋了。而且,它的语言风格非常适合技术人员,没有太多冗余的修饰词,直击要害,图表和代码示例的配合简直完美。对于任何想把Chrome从一个工具变成一个工作台的开发者或技术爱好者来说,这本书提供的视角是无可替代的。它教会我的,是如何用Chrome的视角去理解整个现代Web生态系统是如何被渲染和执行的。
评分读完这本书,我的第一感觉是,终于有人把Chrome的“黑匣子”打开了。我最欣赏它的一点在于,它没有仅仅停留在介绍Chrome的某个功能,而是追溯了这些功能背后的“为什么”和“如何做”。举个例子,关于沙盒机制的章节,它不仅仅是告诉你Chrome很安全,而是细致地画出了进程间通信(IPC)的边界和安全策略,这对于理解浏览器安全模型至关重要。我记得书里有一段关于Service Worker生命周期的讨论,极其详尽,连同离线缓存策略的演变历史都穿插其中,让我这个之前总是被缓存问题搞得焦头烂额的前端工程师,找到了一个系统的解决框架。这本书的结构安排也很有匠心,它不是简单地按功能划分,而是以“用户请求”到“页面渲染”再到“后台服务”的逻辑流来组织内容,读者可以很自然地跟随着一个HTTP请求的生命周期来学习浏览器内部的运作。我很少在技术书中看到如此清晰的逻辑串联,它真正实现了“Guide”(指南)的价值,指引读者一步步深入核心。
评分说实话,这本书的阅读体验非常“硬核”,但绝对是物有所值的硬核。它不是那种轻轻松松就能翻完的读物,很多关于网络协议栈和渲染流水线的章节,我不得不放慢速度,甚至需要配合Chrome的官方文档一起对照着看。但这种深入的挖掘,带来的回报是巨大的。比如,它对GPU加速渲染管线的剖析,让我明白了为什么某些复杂的CSS动画会导致掉帧,并且提供了实用的优化建议,比如如何避免不必要的重绘(Repaint)和回流(Reflow)。作者在介绍扩展API时,也展现了超越一般教程的深度,不再是浅尝辄止的API调用,而是探讨了权限模型、生命周期管理以及如何处理跨域资源共享(CORS)在扩展环境下的特殊性。这本书的文字风格,就像一位经验丰富的老工程师在给你做Code Review,直接指出问题所在,并给出最底层的解决方案,充满了实战的智慧,少了一分学院派的空泛。
评分这本书的排版和插图设计,也体现了对技术读者群体的尊重。每一张关于浏览器组件交互的流程图都清晰且信息密度适中,避免了过度美观而牺牲了信息的准确性,这一点我非常赞赏。最让我印象深刻的是关于Web Vitals(网页核心指标)的章节,它不仅仅是罗列了LCP、FID、CLS这些指标,而是详细解释了Chrome的内部计时器是如何捕捉这些数据的,以及开发者如何通过最小的改动来迎合浏览器的计算方式。这是一种“知其然,更知其所以然”的境界。它确实需要读者具备一定的基础知识储备,否则阅读起来会有断裂感,但对于那些已经掌握了基础Web开发,正在寻求下一次技术飞跃的人来说,这本书无疑是最佳的催化剂。它提供的知识体系,能让你在面试中或在实际项目中,面对那些关于浏览器工作原理的刁钻问题时,显得游刃有余,因为你的知识储备已经超越了表面的API调用层面,触及到了核心的工程实践。
评分我必须承认,这本书的某些部分对我来说确实有些超纲了,特别是深入到Chrome的C++源码层面的讨论,我只能大致理解其意图。但即便是这些“深水区”的内容,也间接提升了我的整体技术视野。比如,即便是略过那些复杂的内存地址细节,了解Chrome是如何设计其多进程架构的,也让我对前端性能调优有了新的认识——很多时候,性能瓶颈可能不在JavaScript本身,而在进程间的资源竞争上。这本书的价值在于,它提供了一个“上帝视角”。你不再仅仅是一个在浏览器里编写代码的“用户”,而是开始理解这个运行环境是如何被设计和约束的。它对WebAssembly(Wasm)的介绍也十分精彩,不是简单地介绍语法,而是阐述了它如何与JavaScript紧密协作,以及它在浏览器安全模型下的定位。对于那些渴望突破Web前端技术栈,想了解浏览器内核如何工作的技术人员来说,这本书更像是一张通往底层世界的地图。
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评分I already read till the end of Chapter 7. And then I skimed through to the end of the book. Learn the little tricks in that part of the book later on, if necessary. Available at Safari Tech Books Online via BANQ.
评分I already read till the end of Chapter 7. And then I skimed through to the end of the book. Learn the little tricks in that part of the book later on, if necessary. Available at Safari Tech Books Online via BANQ.
评分I already read till the end of Chapter 7. And then I skimed through to the end of the book. Learn the little tricks in that part of the book later on, if necessary. Available at Safari Tech Books Online via BANQ.
评分I already read till the end of Chapter 7. And then I skimed through to the end of the book. Learn the little tricks in that part of the book later on, if necessary. Available at Safari Tech Books Online via BANQ.
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