Welcome CoolNovo Help Center

CoolNovo is a multi-tab/multi-window web browser, it is a green software and based on Chrome. It have more than 20 imporved features such as dual-core (IE and WebKit engine), the boss key, privacy protection and Ad block. It completely free, no trojans, no virus, no malicious software/Ads, no function limit and any third party software. It perfectly run as Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 and Linux like OS.

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If your issue do not have solution on this page, please go to our Forum http://forum.coolnovo.com/.

CoolNovo perfectly run as Windows 2003/XP/Vista/7

CoolNovo currently support below Linux distrbution:

Debian/Ubuntu 32-bit

Debian/Ubuntu 64-bit

Fedora/openSUSE 32-bit

Fedora/openSUSE 64-bit

1. Access www.coolnovo.com/

2. Click here to download setup package. From here, it will ensure you get latest security and content update. And understand all features of this browser.

3. Double-click downloaded CoolNovo_x.x.x.x.exe to install

4. Click shortcut on Desktop or CoolNovo.exe which in installation folder when finished. For portable version, just extract all files to a folder and run CoolNovo.exe.

1. For installation version, if you have selected "Add shortcut to start menu" when install CoolNovo. Please go to StartMenu > All Programes > CoolNovo > Uninstall CoolNovo. If you not seleted this option or not sure,you can uninstall CoolNovo from "Add or remove programs" in "Control Panel" of Windows2003/XP/Vista/7.

2. For portable version, just delete installation folder to uninstall. CoolNovo is a portable/green software, there are no any file write to other directory, also do not write anything to the registry.

Due to Internet is increasingly and rich, it is necessery to find a quicker and safer browser. Just try the CoolNovo! It display the webpage blink of an eye! The CoolNovo is very tersely and leave more space for you to surfing favorite web sites. This chapter describe the main functions of CoolNovo.

When you create a new tab, the most visited, closed webpage and windows in nearest will be shown on new tab. Press Ctrl+T (For Windows and Linux) or click will open the new tab. After a period of time to use CoolNovo, the snapshots of visited website will be displayed on new tab. To click these snapshots will quickly turned to the webpage.

The most visited and closed webpage will be shown on the new tab; you can restore them if closed by accident.

When webpage thumbnail occur around gray line-frame, you can delete this webpage by click button on top right.

When CoolNovo has been installed, you should take few times to fit it for your favorite behavior.

1. Import favorites

To copy a bookmark from other browser, you just need to open a new tab and click [import bookmark link] top of this tab. If you cannot find bookmarks toolbar, just press Ctrl+T (for Windows and Linux) to open a new tab, and click [import favorites immediately]. Your imported bookmarks will be stored in [other bookmarks]. If [other bookmarks] is empty, it will not be displayed automatically.

2. Select mainpage

The default homepage will be displayed on new tab automatically, but any webpage shoud be your homepage. Click Menu > Option to set your homepage and preferrences.

3. Close/Automatic Hide Favorites

As default, the Favorites Bar is below as Address Toolbar. It is the easiest way to access your bookmarks and other bookmark folders. To close/automatic display Favorites Bar, please click Menu > Bookmarks > always display Favorites Bar/automatic hide Favorites Bar. You should also press shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B (For Windows and Linux) to open, close or automatic hide Favorites Bar

4. Choose themes

Choose a pretty theme for the CoolNovo which from CoolNovo Webstore. The theme should be able to change at any time. Click Menu > Option > Personal Data to do the action

5. Set CoolNovo as default browser

Please set CoolNovo as default web browser if you feel satisfied! So the outside link will be opened in CoolNovo as a new tab. Click Menu > Option > Basic > Make default.

IETab

Some website is IE only (based on ActiveX), and in CoolNovo, the IETab is design for these websites. The basic IETab operation is to click CoolNovo icon right side of Address Bar, and it will switch to IE Kernel mode. As default, some IETab only websites will opened in IE Kernel mode automatically, and the user can manually swith to IE Kernel mode for a website as well. CoolNovo will remenber your chose and will opened as IE Kernel mode if you open this website again.

Double-click to close tab.

Just double-click a tab to close it. Your do not need to click "close icon" to close a tab anymore. In addition, you can set right-click to close a tab in Enhance Option as well.

Resume closed tab

When CoolNovo start, just click button on the toolbar to resume last unclosed tab, it is very easy and convenient. The button also be able to used if your close a tab/window by mistake.

The taskbar multi-tag function in Windows7.

If some tabs opened in single window, when the mouse move to Windows 7 taskbar, they will be shown as multi-tab (include web content).

Switch tabs by mouse wheel

To switch tabs, we recommend scroll mouse wheel on the Tab Toolbar instead of click them. On the other hand, press the right mouse button and scroll the wheel will do the same things as well (it belongs to the mouse gestures function). To click middle mouse button will open the link in background tab.

You can set up your privacy options to clean cache data when close the browser, such as cookies, URL history, cache and saved password, etc...

The method to clean cache data:

Click button right after of Address Toolbar, select "Option -> Privacy Protection".

In Privacy Mode, browser will not store URL history and search history, and Cookie also will be deleted when the window has closed. But all downloaded files and favorites will be kept.

The method into Privacy Mode:

Click button right after of Address Toolbar, select "New -> Create new privacy window" or shortcut key "Ctrl+Shift+N".

Delete all cache data manually when CoolNovo closed.

To delete cache data: click button right after of Address Toolbar and select [clean cache data].

Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Delete.

Mouse gestures is an action which your holding your right mouse button and move. If you do the action on CoolNovo, different functons will be applied such as close tab, create new tab, maximum/minimal window, etc.... It will save your lots of time, efficient operation and also increase the pleasure of use. For instance, you should go back/forward webpage by left/right mouse gestures, and close currently tab and switch to left/right tab by down-left/down-right mouse gestures. There are number of default mouse gestures and you can customize them for convenient.

As default, the mouse gestures is opened. Here is the method to close this feature:

Click Menu > Option > Mouse Gestures and unset [Open Mouse Gestures].

There are three types of Supper Drag: link, text and image: 1. Press left mouse button and drag the link to other position will open it in new tab; 2. For text, it will be searched in default search engine and opened in new tab; 3. For image, the image will be opened in new tab.

The SideBar is an important feature of CoolNovo, it is a powerful framework to install App. For most important, it is fully support Google Chrome App. You can install ToolBar App to SideBar by simple modify manifest.json file and repackage. With the SideBar Addon is unceasingly increase and rich, you will get more abundant SideBar applications such as games, search engines, shopping tools...

Welcome every developer help us make the App perfectly complete CoolNovo App Center. If you are the developer, please refer Developer Center.

For your convenience, CoolNovo add some download toolsets in right click menu. Currently following download toolset has been added: Thunder, Web Thunder, FlashGet, Mini FlashGet, NetX, QQDownload, NetAnts, Orbit, IS. You can find them in your right click menu if they already installed. And you can set a download toolset to default.

While your downloading a file, DownloadBar will be shown below TabBar to help you observe the process. You can click the file to open it when download finished.

Save the password

CoolNovo can save your account automatically. If you login to a websit, CoolNovo will prompt you whether or not save your account. The account(username and password) will fill up automatically by browser if it has been saved.

Automatic translation

CoolNovo will translate webpage automatically if it is not in your default language. Of course, you can close this feature in Option.

The other way is click right mouse button on webpage and then manually select [translate] in right click menu.



Please go to Google Chrome Help Center to see more functions

It is very convenience to add more functions to CoolNovo, or delete unneeded functions to optimize your browser.

How to install App

click "Tool" > "Addon" into configuration dialog, and then click "more App" link lower right corner to open Chrome Webstore. Click an Addon in Chrome WebStore, browser will download and install it automatic. Other way is to goto CoolNovo App Center to download.

Management App

In normally, just click right mouse button on Addon icon to configure, stop, uninstall.

If you have plenty of App to configure, you should click button to into "App"

click Option > Personal Data > Theme, and click "Get themes" to goto Chrome Skins and Themes webpage. In this webpage, theme file *.crx will be download when click "Apply" button.

If you have an own designed theme, just drag .crx file to the browser and then click continue button. In fact, .crx is an zip compressed file, if you want to see the detail, just change suffix to .zip and decompress it.

When download finished, the theme will be applied to browser immediately. Click "Cancel" button at the top of webpage will back to last theme.

Shortcut:View demonstrate

1、Switch to first tab: Ctrl + 1；

2、Create new tab: Ctrl + T；

3、Switch focus: Tab；

4、Close current tab: Ctrl + F4；

5、Switch to last tab: Ctrl + PageUp；

6、Hide browser`s window by boss key (to customize it in advance option): Ctrl + Shift + A；

7、Zoom in/out current webpage: Ctrl + "+/-"；

8、Switch focus to AddressBar: F6 or Alt + D；

Mouse Gestures:View demonstrate

1、Create new tab: Right Top (↗)；

2、Open a new link by Supper Drag and use mouse gestures "Down" (↓) to "PageDown";

3、Move mouse cursor to TabBar and scroll mouse wheel to switch to last tab；

4、Open a link in current webpage, and use "Left" (←) to back to previous webpage and use "Right" (→) to goto next webpage；

5、Press "Ctrl + double click" to close a tab, and use "Bottom Right" (↓→) to close current tab and switch to right tab; and use "Bottom Left" (↓←) to close current tab and switch to left tab；

Fixed tab:View demonstrate

1、Ctrl + T and input "mail.google.com" to open gmail, and right click current tab on TabBar and select "Fixed Tab"；

2、And then Ctrl + T to input "www.google.com", fix this tab and drag it for second tab;

3、Ctrl + T and open "www.google.com", fix this tab and drag it for first tab

4、Switch to third tab, and press Ctrl + 1 switch to first tab, search keyword in search engine and use Supper Drag.