Thelma wants to send page by email with Google Chrome
I’m trying to switch over to Chrome from IE. On IE, I can send “Page” or “Page by email link”. I can’t find button for that on Chrome. Is there a quick way to send web pages. I do that a lot. Thanks, Thelma
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Hi Thelma. As Web pages become more and more complex and with HTML5 being implemented more and more, they days of sending entire Web pages by email are nearing an end — IE or not. Since IE was tightly integrated with Outlook Express (in XP) and Windows Mail in Vista (Windows Mail when activated on Windows 7 and 8 is not integrated) you could send entire pages without much problem — and those days are coming to an end.
Chrome does have an extension called Send by Email which places an icon on the Chrome toolbar that lets you email a page – it opens a blank email with the link to the page you’re sending. It might not be what you really want but it really is the way you should be sharing pages by email.
With all the different email programs and browsers and devices connected to the Web now, you’re much safer just sending a link to the page you want to share rather than trying to send a whole page as an email.
If you are interested in adding Google’s Email This Page extension to your Chrome browser, visit this page:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbeoemfhkdniadbojeencpkgmobndpai
I can still easily email pages in IE. In fact when I want to send a page by email I have to switch back to IE just to do that. Some sites do not allow you to copy anything off of their pages. If I email a page to myself I can then copy anything I want from the emailed page. Pretty presumptuous of you to tell people how they should be forwarding pages.
I totally agree with Tim66. Technology is all about getting what you want done, the way YOU WANT it done. If Chrome doesn’t have it, then it’s a shortcoming that Chrome has to address. Archaic thinking that your wants and needs had to be defined by technology, died with the monochrome screens and MS dos.
And Microsoft gives you what you want to get what you want done? Really? Microsoft has spent years try to squeeze every penny from its loyal customers while the world (and Apple) passed it by – including their clumsy Internet Explorer browser — which despite all its contraptions still remains the buggiest, most insecure, and slowest browser you can use.
We respect your right to disagree — but Chrome is 4 years-old and it has now passed Internet Explorer in the number of people using it — even though Microsoft has an advantage because Internet Explorer comes installed with Windows (in the USA). There’s a clear reason why Chrome has succeeded in passing Internet Explorer- it is fast,it supports full W3C standards (IE never did) and it remains the most secure browser you can use.
In the end, you can use what you like, but it seems rather odd to say that Chrome isn’t giving users what they want — or “It’s archaic thinking that your needs had to defined by technology…” Chrome isn’t defining your wants and needs anymore than Windows or Internet Explorer are. So your premise is illogical since you’re defining your needs using technology — a browser, the Internet, a forum.
Chrome is a browser like Internet Explorer– it defines nothing. It’s a tool — like any other tool. It just happens to be a better screwdriver than Internet Explorer is all kinds of ways — including the most important way: Security.
I want to email the page and not a link to a page. This is not the answer.
Just an FYI. No reply needed.
The old day of mailing entire page is gone – unless you can find a browser and an email program that allow such a security risk. I suppose there is one somewhere, but none that I know of.