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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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Google Chrome 19 has just been pushed to the dev channel. But, as always, the update only covered Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but not Google's own Chrome OS. Instead, Chromebook owners have received an update to Google Chrome 18 in the dev channel. Chrome 18.0.1025.29, part of Chrome OS 1660.20.0, is available... |
11 February 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has landed in the dev channel and is ready for testing. It already brings several new features and it's got six more weeks in the dev channel to get more. But apart form the new features, Chrome 19 also adds support for some advanced JavaScript concepts part of the Harmony project, which is slat... |
11 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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All Google Chrome channels have been updated in the past few days. Now the developer incremented the version number for the dev channel to 19.0.1036.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame, and there are plenty of modifications available, reintroducing the refreshed “Settings” page, already available i... |
11 February 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Google is celebrating two years since it started offering monetary rewards for security vulnerability reports in Chrome and related technology. During that time, Google paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to researchers revealing vulnerabilities.
Now, Google is expanding the program to include Chrome OS issues as ... |
10 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to version 18.0.1025.11. The current build is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and among the most notable changes is enabling 3D content for older GPUs. It also touches on GPU accelerating 2D Canvas. However, the GPU-acc... |
10 February 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Now that Google Chrome 17 is in the stable channel, Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the beta channel. The latest chrome to wear the beta label comes with two big new features, both focusing on graphics. Accelerated 2D HTML5 Canvas On the one hand, 2D HTML5 Canvas graphics are now hardware accelerated, resulting... |
10 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 has landed in the stable channel. As always, Chromebook owners have to wait some more though, they're still stuck with Chrome 16 for the time being. It shouldn't be long now, but Chrome 17 certainly isn't ready for now. Google though decided to at least give Chromebook owners a heads-... |
9 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 is here, in the stable channel. After several weeks in the beta channel and in the dev channel, the latest and greatest Chrome is available to everyone. Google Chrome 17 comes with two notable features, as far as Google is concerned, page preloading and download scanning for malicious files.
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9 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome 17 moved to stable channel on all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and it makes available all the goodies touted in the beta version. The most notable of them are faster browsing and improved protection against malicious downloads.
In order to shorten the time for you to reach... |
9 February 2012
03:28 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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Google Chrome for Android comes with plenty of features. It's got the WebKit engine from the desktop Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine as well, optimized for ARM processors. One thing that it hasn't got though is support for Adobe Flash.
And it's never going to get it either, since Adobe made it ver... |
8 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Developers will love Chrome for Android since it comes with a full set of dev tools. You can connect it to a remote debugger, which you can run on your desktop, and enjoy all of the tools that the desktop version provides. "In addition to support for the latest web technologies, we hope to make interactive web conte... |
8 February 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google’s just announced Chrome browser for devices running under Android 4.0 or newer will not enjoy the benefits of Flash, Adobe has confirmed.
This is in line with what Adobe revealed last year, namely that it would no longer develop the Flash Player for mobile devices.
Chrome for Android Beta does not of... |
8 February 2012
13:03 GMT |
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Google has provided updates for Chromebook owners in the dev and the beta channel. Dev channel users get Google Chrome 18.0.1025.6, part of Chrome OS 1660.13.0, along with the new Verizon portal that is already available to beta users.
Beta channel users get Google Chrome 17.0.963.51, part of Chrome OS 1412.174, a m... |
8 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome for Android may differ a lot from the desktop version, but it's got enough in common to warrant the name. Chrome for Android is a big upgrade over the regular Android browser and it's not all in how it looks.
Under the hood, Chrome for Android has plenty to show for itself. The browser is sti... |
8 February 2012
09:01 GMT |
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A new build for Google Chrome has been released on the dev channel. It is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and besides improving the stability of the application, it also solves synchronization of New Tab Page icons across different instances of the web browser.
Synchroniz... |
8 February 2012
07:18 GMT |
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Chrome for Android has finally landed. It's a pretty big project and it meant rewriting and adapting most of the existing Google Chrome code to the Android platform and the special requirements of mobile devices. While the Android browser already shared several components with Chrome, they were different beasts... |
8 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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One interesting concept pioneered first put into practice by Mozilla but then quickly adopted based on an idea by Google is "web intents." The idea is to be able to "register" web apps for certain actions just as easily as you'd register desktop or mobile app to be the default option for various actions.Editing ... |
7 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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At least some government officials and agencies are giving Google credit where it's due, Google Chrome was highlighted as the browser of choice for a security conscious user.
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) put together a best practice guide for PCs running Microsoft Windows.
Among the... |
3 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Google Chrome development team has picked up the pace, as they launch a new build for the Dev channel, two days after the previous one. The fresh release focuses on stability and bug fixes and it is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame).
Among the most notable entries in the ch... |
3 February 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Google+ finally has an official Google Chrome app. You'd think that a project so important to Google would have gotten one sooner, but it took the company several months to create one.Once you install the app, you'll see why it took Google so much time. Actually, no, you won't, it's just a link to... |
2 February 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Google has been working on this for years now, but it has finally enabled the “Click-to-play” option for plugins by default in the very latest Chrome 18 releases. The feature allows users to block plugins, like Flash Player, from loading when a site requires them, until they explicitly allow it to b... |
1 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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In order to improve security, Google has added a couple of new features to Safe Browsing in Google Chrome 17 which extend the use of the feature. Chrome 17 can detect malicious files that you may be trying to download and also warns about sites that may be dangerous.
Users had a lot of questions about the new featur... |
1 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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January has proven an interesting month in the browser market. IE grew in the first month of 2012, while both Firefox and Chrome lost market share, Chrome for the first time in its history. Internet Explorer, all versions combined, ended the month with 52.96 percent market share, according to Net Applications data, ... |
1 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Angry Birds for Chrome is quickly becoming a showcase of the latest and greatest web technology. It uses HTML5 and WebGL for the graphics part. Browsers that support WebGL and have the proper drivers installed get the full hardware accelerated experience. Otherwise, HTML5 Canvas is used.
Angry Birds has now introduc... |
1 February 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome dev channel has been updated to a new build, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). It comes with an updated JavaScript engine (V8 - 3.8.9.0) and a new API for extensions, freshly moved from “experimental” status.
V8 engine has been improved through va... |
1 February 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Google Chrome has introduced an updated Settings page. The new Options is only available in recent Chromium builds and in Google Chrome Canary Builds. It should debut in the dev channel along with the next update there. The new page is greatly simplified, the look is even more minimalistic. There are only two sectio... |
31 January 2012
11:21 GMT |
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A couple of Google engineers set about creating a JavaScript to Dart "dictionary." The idea is to enable JavaScript developers to see how code written in their preferred language would translate into Dart, what the differences and similarities are.
The app lists some of the common use cases and language constructs. ... |
31 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Google is cramming more and more functionality into Chrome. That's a good thing, but the added weight is beginning to be felt by users. Add to this instability issues and Chrome doesn't look like the nimble, rock stable browser it was when it launched in 2008. Google engineers have known about this for a w... |
31 January 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Mozilla is not the only one today to deliver a new build for their web browser. Google also incremented the version number for the beta channel, refreshing the build to 17.0.963.46. Although the release notes are more than sparing in details, mentioning only fixes for a bunch of stability and UI issues, the modifica... |
31 January 2012
05:07 GMT |
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WordPress.com has debuted a Google Chrome extension that should simplify some of the things you can do on the site while also making it easier to keep track of everything without actually having WordPress.com open in a tab all the time.The most obvious use of the extension is for notifications. You will receive an up... |
29 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The more adventurous Chromebook users will be glad to know that an update has been released to the dev channel, the first since Chrome 18 debuted. The latest release comes with several fixes and improvements, mostly affecting performance and stability. There are several security patches as well.Chrome OS 1625.0.0, wh... |
28 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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The latest version of Chrome OS Linux has been released. Not to be confused with the similarly named operating system built by Google, Chrome OS Linux is an openSUSE remix which focuses on the Chrome browser and uses a number of other Google software that is available for Linux. The latest update, Chrome OS Linux 1... |
27 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Google has updated the beta channel for Chromebook owners. Google Chrome 17.0.963.43 Beta is now available, part of Chrome OS 1412.142. Desktop users, i.e. those running Google Chrome on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux have already been updated to Chrome 17.0.963.44 Beta.
The latest Chromebook beta update comes with a nu... |
26 January 2012
09:21 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 has released a new beta build for its web browser, incrementing the version number to Chrome 17.0.963.44. The changes featured in this installment are pretty technical, but absolutely necessary for improving overall functionality and performance of the application.
One notable bug that plagued the previous ve... |
26 January 2012
04:06 GMT |
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Chromebooks haven't taken the world by storm. Perhaps they never will, but they do have their advantages in several areas in particular, businesses and schools being prime targets. It's no surprise then perhaps that Google was able to convince several schools to get as many as 27,000 Chromebooks for their s... |
25 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Chromebook owners should be getting updated to the latest Chrome 16.0.912.77. The same version has recently been released to desktop users. The update fixes a number of security issues, but also some bugs. It's part of Chrome OS 1193.194.0.
A full list of security fixes is available in the initial announcement ... |
25 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Google Chrome’s progress is marked by a new release for the Dev version, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame).
The new build, 18.0.1017.2, takes care of a huge set of issues, but only a handful is more notable for the regular user. The new release comes with an updated J... |
25 January 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Google Chrome 18 has debuted on the Chrome OS platform. With Chrome 17 already in the beta channel, it was about time dev channel users were updated. Google Chrome 18.0.1010.2 is part of Chrome OS 1590.2.0.The update comes with the usual array of bug fixes as well as performance, stability and security improvements. ... |
21 January 2012
07:31 GMT |
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There is a new update available for Chromebook owners running the beta channel. Google Chrome 17.0.963.38 has now been pushed via the update channel and should be landing soon if it hasn't been installed already on your Chromebook.The first Chrome 17 beta landed on Chromebooks a bit over a week ago and Google ha... |
20 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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The newest build for Google Chrome beta, 17.0.963.38, is available for all supported platforms except for Chrome OS. It focuses on improving overall stability of the browser and fixing some UI issues.
One of the most important changes of this release is disabling GAIA profile info. The decision has been taken becaus... |
19 January 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Google has announced an important milestone for the WebRTC standard it is proposing, Google Chrome now supports the technology. The latest dev channel builds integrate WebRTC, meaning that apps that leverage technology, not that there are too many of them at this point, can work in Chrome.
"Since we open sourced Web... |
19 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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The latest Google Chrome Dev comes in two builds, one for Windows and Chrome Frame (18.0.1010.1) and one for Mac and Linux (18.0.1010.0). However, they both benefit from a common set of modifications. One of the changes available in the latest release of the browser, available on all supported platforms, refers to t... |
18 January 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Security has been at the heart of Google Chrome from the get go. In fact, the team built Chrome around some very solid security principles since it had the luxury of building a browser from scratch, something Mozilla doesn't have, for example.
While sandboxing and several other security-oriented features were b... |
13 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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It's only been a couple of days since Google Chrome 17 Beta debuted on Chromebooks, but Google is already putting out an update.
Perhaps the reason why Chrome releases for Chromebooks are always behind the desktop ones is that it's a more complex platform or simply because more issues arise.
The first up... |
13 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Google has updated the Gmail Offline app, introduced last year for Chrome. The app makes it possible to catch up on emails and even write new ones without an internet connection.
However, the app is not truly an offline version of Gmail, it's an entirely new app with access to your Gmail data. It has several bi... |
13 January 2012
05:45 GMT |
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The Webconverger project, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafes where only web applications are used, is now at version 11. Webconverger 11 comes with some necessary updates, and a logo and site design made by Patric Schwarz.The most important change in Webconverge... |
12 January 2012
09:34 GMT |
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