2014/02/28

Add quick print button for Google Chrome

My friend was recently wondering that why doesn't chrome have quick print button. Back in the days i also got used to that quick print icon in Internet Explorer. And i do remember using it many times.

In chrome, normally you could print by opening Chrome settings tab from right hand side and select "Print...". Alternatively you can print by using keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P (Windows) or ⌘-P (mac).

Since my IE days are long gone, i would still like to have quick print icon in Google chrome. This is how you can get it.

Select "Customize and control Google chrome", from the top right corner next to the address bar.








Note that Show Bookmarks Bar must be enabled. Select Bookmarks -> Bookmark Manager.















While Bookmarks Bar selected, right click anywhere on the window right hand side and select "Add Page".



Left textbox is the name of the bookmark, i made it "Print". Right side is the bookmark URL, we are going to place small javascript to it: javascript:window.print(). Then hit enter and you are done.

Now you should have nice small quick print icon on your bookmarks bar. I wonder if you could actually have cool printer icon on it as well. Need to research that later.









2 comments:

  1. nice write up. How to remove Chrome Bookmarks bar.

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