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Right on cue, Chromium 21 has landed the beginnings of the next major Chrome release. Chrome 20 still has some time to spend in the dev channel, but Chrome 21 is coming soon. Chrome developers are always adding new features, large and small.Recently, several patches have made their way into the open-source project th... |
14 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Chrome 18 has been in the stable channel for a while now, but Google is only now getting ready to push Chrome 19 to the beta channel. This means that not only are beta users stuck with the same version as the stable channel users, but Chrome 20 has only recently made its debut, granted in the form of the Chromium dai... |
6 April 2012
08:05 GMT |
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Users that like a Chrome with a twist are aware of CoolNovo, the browser formerly known as ChromePlus. Recently, the application has been updated to build 2.0.2.25, which adds new features and takes care of a handful of bugs.
Among the new things available in this release, there is translation, themes and screenshot... |
21 March 2012
08:27 GMT |
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Thanks to Chrome's automated update mechanism, few people even notice when a new version is installed. Visible new features land now and again, but Chrome development may seem rather static otherwise. It's anything but, and, due to it being based on an open source project it's easy to track changes. ... |
6 March 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Chromebook owners, and anyone that uses Chrome OS, have something to look forward to: wallpapers. That's right, you'll soon be able to set a desktop wallpaper in Chrome OS and, while it may be easy to mock this feature, adding support for wallpapers isn't as easy as it looks.
Chrome OS was built on th... |
5 March 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Google Chrome's new tab page, the latest design, may not exactly be universally loved, but people have gotten used to it by now. Google is not done experimenting with it though.It recently added an "Other devices" link for open tabs on other browsers synced to the same account. Now it's working on a new tab... |
2 March 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome is finally starting to work on open tabs sync. It's been at it for a while, but it was an experimental feature and it didn't really work fully, until now. It's still experimental and it still doesn't work by default, but the latest Chromium builds have a new entry in the new tab page... |
29 February 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Firefox is not the only browser to improve its developer tools, Chrome is making some enhancements to the existing developer tools as well, the latest addition which hasn't landed in the dev channel yet is a color picker for the CSS editor.
With the color picker, web developers can customize the look of a web p... |
22 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Google has been working on the Dart programming language for quite some time now. However, it only recently started offering more info and actual implementation details. Even so, while developers could experiment with Dart there were still hurdles, not the least of which the fact that no browser supported it natively... |
17 February 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Since Google is based on Chromium, an open source project, many of the new features, improvements and changes are documented as soon as they go live in the latest dev channel builds or even the Chromium builds, as long as you're willing to scour the Chromium and WebKit bug trackers.
Google's Peter Beverloo... |
14 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Chrome for Android has been developed separately from the main Chrome, a fork, so there is no open source version of it. This means that the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) will continue to use the regular browser for the time being.
It also means that projects such as Cyanogen won't be able to use Chrome fo... |
8 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Chromium 19 is now available and, as usual, there are no release notes to point out the changes. Modifications may escape even those that are familiar with the web browser, especially if they are not aesthetic. However, there is one change you won’t miss if you played around with it in the past, and that is th... |
6 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Google is working on making it easier to auto-complete forms found online. Like several other major browsers, Chrome comes with a rather thorough autofill feature. It remembers data you provide to one website, when signing up for example, so it can automatically fill the same fields on other sites.
If it works, it&#... |
26 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome may not spark the interest in some users simply because they’ve become too dependent on features specific to their default solution. CoolNovo ChromePlus offers the exact same features as Google Chrome and adds a few extras. Mouse gestures and super drag (drag and drop a link to open it in a new t... |
7 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 has only been with us for about a month. But Google is already thinking about the next in line, Chrome 18. In fact, Chromium 18 is about to land, any time now. However, it's going to take another two weeks or so until Google Chrome 18 is available. That's because, the Google Chrome dev chan... |
6 December 2011
17:11 GMT |
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It's been another busy week for Chrome/Chromium developers and Google's Peter Beverloo has been keeping an eye on things to tell us all about it. He counts 1,945 changes made to Chromium and WebKit in the last week alone, 1,186 for Chromium, the rest for WebKit.
A lot of the changes focus on the technical ... |
6 December 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Google has been working on adding multiple profile support to Google Chrome for quite some time now. The first signs landed in Google Chrome 13, but even now, in the latest Google Chrome 15, it doesn't work perfectly, on all platforms.But it looks like Google has finally cracked it with Google Chrome 17, technic... |
30 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Google Chrome is always getting small updates and new features, but since these trickle in over time, especially if you're using one of the testing versions of Chrome, it's hard to notice changes.But old time Chrome users know that the best things are always hidden away, if you want to be on the cutting edg... |
22 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome 16 may not be available yet, except in the open-source Chromium flavor, but work is already underway on what's becoming the next Chrome, slated for wide release several weeks from now.Chromium 16 only showed up this week, but there are already several new features coming from Chrome 15. Google deve... |
14 September 2011
16:51 GMT |
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While Google is getting ready to move Chrome 15 from the dev channel to the beta channel, Chrome developers have already moved to the next version, Chrome 16.
It's only available as Chromium 16 right now, but if you really want to keep up with the latest developments, this is what you need to be using.
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12 September 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Right on cue, the first signs of Google Chrome 16 are here. There's no official release yet, but the open source Chromium builds are now labeled as Chromium 16.0.877.0. Google Chrome 16 is still some time away, since Google Chrome 15 is still in the dev channel.
Earlier this week, the build that would become ... |
10 September 2011
06:10 GMT |
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No sooner that the first glimpses of the integrated extensions manager in Chromium/Google Chrome showed up, that the feature landed in the very latest Chromium builds. The new extensions page is a welcomed update of the existing, stand-alone one, but it's hardly the only new feature or update of the past days.
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6 September 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Since Chromium, on which Google Chrome is based, is an open source project which lists all patches, updates and code changes for all to see, a bit of snooping around the most recent changes will reveal some interesting upcoming features more often than not.One such find is an upcoming UI change which will merge the e... |
5 September 2011
11:36 GMT |
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While Google Chrome 14 is on its way from the dev channel to the beta channel - a Chrome 14 beta should be landing very soon - the Chrome team is working on the very latest update, Chrome 15 which is coming to the dev channel shortly, but is only available as Chromium for now.The latest updates include many under-the... |
9 August 2011
05:28 GMT |
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With Chrome, Google is looking to translate all of the desktop computing experience to the web and the browser. This means enabling users to do with web apps the things they're used to doing with native ones, but also dropping some of the user experience elements that don't make sense anymore.One example ar... |
20 June 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Google is getting ready to release the stable version of Google Chrome 12, but it's not quite done yet and has pushed another update to the beta channel. Google Chrome 12.0.742.77 Beta fixes several small issues and should be very close to the version that gets pushed to the stable channel. Chrome OS R12 is also... |
3 June 2011
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One of Google Chrome's great features is sync which enables users to store their bookmarks, preferences, apps and so on, in the cloud making them available on any browser they log into. It's a very useful feature, but the regular cloud caveats apply, among which is data security. So a new feature just lande... |
25 May 2011
11:11 GMT |
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If you're a Google Chrome fan, one sure fire way of finding out what's coming next is to check out Chromium builds once in a while and maybe take a poke around the about:flags section. The latest versions come with some interesting tweaks and changes, as well as more work on hardware acceleration.The very l... |
23 May 2011
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The sync features in Google Chrome are a great feature for anyone using more than one browser. The ability to take your preferences, bookmarks, passwords and so on with you makes it a lot easier to switch devices or browsers and continue to work. One of the most interesting sync features, tab sync, is still missing i... |
20 May 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Google has been talking about a Chrome UI refresh and the first signs are already visible. The tabstrip is about to undergo a revamp, but first a compact UI is now being tested in the latest Chromium builds. The feature is Windows-only for now, but it enables users to shrink the already minimal Chrome interface to ju... |
17 May 2011
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With the launch of Google Chrome 11 a couple of weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before Google Chrome 12 entered the beta phase. Google usually runs the same version in both the stable and the beta channels for a while, but beta users should now start to be updated to the latest Google Chrome 12 Beta which has... |
10 May 2011
08:40 GMT |
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While Google Chrome 12 is getting ready for its beta debut, the finishing touches are being put on it in the dev channel, the rest of the Google Chrome team is pushing ahead with Google Chrome 13. The latest Chromium and Google Chrome Canary builds have added a couple of new features and it's starting to look li... |
9 May 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Google Chrome 13 has started trickling down the development channels. Chromium has already been upgraded to the new version number as well as Google Chrome Canary. But there's another addition, Google Chrome Canary for Mac OS X which has just been released.Apart from support for multiple profiles, there are plen... |
3 May 2011
09:20 GMT |
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An interesting new feature has finally shown up in Google Chrome and Chromium, the ability to run multiple browser profiles at the same time. This enables more users to share the same browser install or one user to separate work websites from regular ones and so on.The feature has been a long time coming and Google h... |
2 May 2011
11:00 GMT |
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It's been a busy week for Chrome developers and the cutting edge Chromium versions have been adding quite a few new features. Several UI changes have been implemented or are in the works, related to features that are still mostly in the planning or in early development stages.Most of the changes won't be af... |
13 April 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Google Chrome OS is for keyboard devices, Android is for touch. That has been the official line lately. But it may not be entirely true anymore, while the two operating systems have been relegated to different type of devices, they may end up competing in the tablet market.A very recent change in the latest Chromium ... |
22 March 2011
12:40 GMT |
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The tabstrip in Google Chrome is getting a major revamp. Several new features and big changes are planned and the first updates are already landing. The very latest Chromium builds now support multiple-tab selection and a new way of displaying tab titles, to make them easier to distinguish.These are very early change... |
15 March 2011
13:24 GMT |
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Last week, Chromium, the open source project on which Chrome is based, got a logo update. The new simplified logo started showing up just before Chromium 12 was launched. It looked certain that Chrome would get a similarly revamped logo and some designers envisioned what it may look like. But there's no need to ... |
14 March 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Google Chrome 12 is almost here now that its open source twin Chromium has already advanced to this version number. Those that are on the bleeding edge of Chrome development will notice that the latest versions are labeled Chromium 12.0.7xx. This is completely expected, Chrome 11 is heading to the beta channel now th... |
11 March 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Chromium, the open source, 'avant-garde' development version of Google Chrome has introduced a few new features in the latest versions, both visual and practical. One cool change is the brand new Chromium logo, the first revamp since the project started.There are a couple of experimental features related to... |
8 March 2011
10:50 GMT |
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As expected, Google Chrome 8 has reached the stable phase and has been pushed as an update to all stable channel users. The new release comes with a number of new features but nothing revolutionary from Chrome 7. With that out of the way, the Chrome team wasted no time in getting Chromium 10 out the door. There'... |
3 December 2010
10:12 GMT |
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The final version of Google Chrome 8 is getting close now, but the team is already working on Google Chrome 9. The latest dev release brings quite a few new features, if only in experimental form. The about:flags section now hosts several experiments that landed in Chromium very recently, like support for Native Clie... |
19 November 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Google is well on its way of delivering on the promise of sandboxed Flash content in Chrome, as the technology has been enabled by default in Chromium over the weekend.Back in June, Chrome has began bundling a special Flash Player plug-in designed by Adobe to make use of the new Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI).At the time,... |
15 November 2010
08:57 GMT |
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With development for Google Chrome 8 settling down, the stable version is set to launch by the end of the month, Chrome 9 is picking up steam. The Chrome team has been adding quite a lot of experimental features in the past few days which are available in the Chromium builds for now.One new experiment available in ab... |
13 November 2010
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Just when you thought the browser wars couldn't get any bigger, RockMelt launches a brand new one, with the same name, which aims to re-invent the way people use browsers. The premise is to build social features straight into the browser to make it easier for people to stay connected, share content and keep up w... |
9 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Ever since it was introduced, the Chrome Labs section has been a treasure trove of new features and interesting experiments and the Google team continues to add new technologies and test ideas with it. The latest experiments to land, only in Chromium for now, are Verbatim Instant and Web Page Prerendering, both aimed... |
5 November 2010
12:12 GMT |
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Working to finalize and release Chrome 8.0 no later than six weeks after the launch of Chrome 7.0, Google has issued a new Build of the next iteration of its open source browser to early adopters and developers. Google Chrome 8.0.552.18 is now available for download through the Dev Channel, just a few days after the... |
27 October 2010
05:42 GMT |
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A few days after Google Chrome 7 stable was released and before the Google Chrome 8 beta, the first sightings of Chrome 9 are already here. Chromium 9 is now available, specifically, Chromium 9.0.562.0 and above have the elevated major version number. What this means is that the development cycle for Google Chrome 9 ... |
23 October 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Chrome OS has been in the works for more than a year now. Officially unveiled about a year ago, Google hasn't made too many comments on the progress of its very own desktop operating system. However, the target date for release has always been fall 2010 and now we may have a more accurate one, November 11. Sever... |
12 October 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Alexander Tratsevskiy proudly announced today, October 8th, the immediate availability for download of the Calculate Linux 10.9 operating system.There are many changes in this release, especially the inclusion of the new Linux kernel 2.6.35.5, Amarok 2.3.1, and OpenOffice.org Office Suite 3.2.1."After five months of ... |
8 October 2010
22:11 GMT |
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