This is one of those things that I can’t stand about the Inter­net. Com­pa­nies use people’s vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties to force prod­ucts down their throats. Case in point. Java recently made every­one down­load a secu­rity patch. But if you quickly down­load it (like I did) and don’t look at what you’re down­load­ing, the next thing you’ll see is the ‘Ask’ tool­bar tak­ing over valu­able screen real estate on top of your Chrome browser.

You might try and find a way to remove it and come up empty. The way you remove it is to click on the nav­i­con (but­ton with three lines on the top right). Then you remove the Ask exten­sion.

Java is owned by Ora­cle. Why is Ora­cle bak­ing the Ask tool­bar in all of its down­loads? Hmmm.

You may have learned how to use a key­board short­cut to open this awe­some tool. It seems like yes­ter­day where Fire­fox and Fire­bug were king but now after a short time I can’t remem­ber the last time I used Fire­fox or Fire­bug. Isn’t is amaz­ing how fast things change on the Inter­net? (Except for IE — which seems to linger around way too long).

Net­tuts is a a great resource for learn­ing use­ful stuff in the field of Web Devel­op­ment. Here is one such arti­cle that tells you about the bells and whis­tles of the Chrome tool.

Enjoy.

Here is a use­ful tip if you are tired of see­ing some­thing like this:

If your copy of Google Chrome has taken on a sud­den and inex­plic­a­ble hatred for Shock­wave Flash, we’re here to help. Read on as we show you how to tame Chrome and get it to play nice with Flash.

More so than other browsers, Google Chrome is par­tic­u­larly sus­cep­ti­ble to a spe­cific but not uncom­mon sit­u­a­tion in which it sim­ply will not coex­ist peace­fully with Adobe Flash—frequent slow downs and annoy­ing crashes are com­mon as a result. The fol­low­ing tuto­r­ial will help you get Chrome back to its speedy self.

Here is the link to fix the prob­lem.

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