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WebRTC, the real-time communications API for the web, is evolving rapidly. It was only introduced last year, but there's already support for it in Chrome and Mozilla is working on adding support in Firefox as well.
The team behind the WebRTC API believes that the main components are now stable enough for regula... |
11 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Just as the new Aura window manager/desktop made its debut in the dev channel, Chrome 19 graduated to the beta channel on Chromebooks. Owners using a Samsung Series 5 or an Acer AC700 will be able to take the new desktop for a spin in the beta channel which is a tad more stable than the dev one.
The new Aura desktop... |
11 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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With Chrome 19 now safely in the beta channel, Google Chrome 20 has debuted in the dev channel. While the round version number may be a milestone, there's nothing special about Chrome 20 compared to any of the releases that came before it.
In fact, with development on Chrome 20 having started about a week ago, ... |
11 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Although some were expecting Chrome Dev 20 to roll out last week, Google made the move only recently. Version 20.0.1096.1 of the web browser is now available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and, among others, it comes with an updated JavaScript engine. Th... |
11 April 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Google Chrome 19 has, finally, made it to the beta channel. Google Chrome 19.0.1084.15 is the first beta channel release and will eventually become the stable release.There's not much to brag about in this latest update, the only feature Google thought worth writing about is the open tab sync feature, which enab... |
10 April 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google has just updated the beta channel for their web browser, incrementing the version number to 19.0.1084.15. The new revision is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and features the “Other devices” menu in the new tab page, previously available only in Dev. T... |
10 April 2012
11:33 GMT |
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Chromebook owners running the dev channel version of the operating system have just gotten a very big surprise - a brand new window manager with a dock, launchers and other things common to desktop OSes but uncommon to Chrome OS. It's up to users to judge whether the surprise is a nice one or not.
The latest Ch... |
10 April 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Google Chrome 20 should be on the brink of being released but until we see it, the development team updated the stable channel of the web browser. The new revision is available only on Windows and deals with a single issue, SSL-related.Update 18.0.1025.152 of the web browser attends to a problem that would cause Chro... |
10 April 2012
04:08 GMT |
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The Beta and Stable channels of Chrome, Google’s popular browser, have been updated to version 18.0.1025.151. With this latest update, a number of improvements in the security sector were also rolled out.
Some of the security experts that uncovered the vulnerabilities, including miaubiz, Arthur Gerkis, and Sła... |
6 April 2012
08:12 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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All channels for Google Chrome have been updated, but it looks like progress on the web browser did not move forward to version 20 of the Dev release. Stable and beta are at the same version, 18.0.1025.151, so they share the same set of changes. Issues such as black screen on Hybrid Graphics system with GPU accelera... |
6 April 2012
07:28 GMT |
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According to a recent study by New Relic, Internet Explorer 9 is the fastest browser on the planet, at least on Windows. Overall though, Chrome 13 on Mac, is the fastest around.
The surprising results don't end here, the study further showed that Opera Mini, running on BlackBerry, offers performance that most d... |
5 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google is making some additions that will have the Chrome web store act more like an app store, i.e. a new "Trending" section. As you can imagine, the section will list the hottest apps of the moment, making it easier to discover what everyone else is finding useful at any given time.
"Starting today, Chrome Web Sto... |
4 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Google has released a new Dev version for their web browser, incrementing the build number to 19.0.1084.9. The new revision is available for all supported platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Apart from fixes, the set of changes also includes an update for the JavaScript engine, to build 3.9.24.7. Perfor... |
4 April 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Chrome is either just about to overtake IE to become the most popular browser in the world or has been losing users every month for the past three months. Both points of view are backed up by numbers, but they can't both be true. The optimistic view comes from StatCounter, the dire one from Net Applications. Th... |
3 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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There's a rather heated competition between desktop browsers, even if the pace of change is rather slow. Since launch, Google Chrome has been growing, Firefox has been staying put for a couple of years now and Internet Explorer is losing market share. That's the general trend, but things changed in the pas... |
3 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome is pretty fast, but it's getting faster all the time. Meanwhile, web itself is becoming faster and faster. In fact, the only thing holding it back now is not technology, but people themselves.
When trying to squeeze every inch of performance out of Google Chrome, the team came to a startling concl... |
2 April 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome lost market share for the third month in a row, while Internet Explorer saw a small bump in usage, continuing the positive trend of late. Firefox though slipped even further down in March.
The latest numbers from Net Applications tell an increasingly familiar story. Google Chrome, which has been growin... |
2 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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With Chrome 18 stable out the door and onto people's computers, Google is working on getting Chrome 19 from the dev channel to the beta channel. The latest dev channel release, Chrome 19.0.1084.1 is probably the first step towards that and a beta should be landing soon enough. In the meantime, the latest dev re... |
30 March 2012
09:15 GMT |
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Just one day after everyone else, Chromebook owners get to enjoy Chrome 18. The latest Chrome has made it to the stable channel and should be landing on people's computers over the next few days. The latest Chrome 18 for Chromebooks, that would be Chrome 18.0.1025.140 part of Chrome OS 1660.98.0, comes with all... |
30 March 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the stable channel bringing with it two big new features, both related to graphics. On the one hand, HTML5 Canvas content is going to be hardware accelerated. On the other, it is now possible to run WebGL content without hardware acceleration.
"We’ve enabled GPU-accelerated ... |
29 March 2012
05:50 GMT |
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A total of 9 vulnerabilities were resolved by Google with the release of the new stable variant of the Chrome web browser. It turns out that some of the security holes that were addressed in Chrome 18 rely on the studies performed by the company during the Pwnium competition. So what was fixed? In the high severi... |
29 March 2012
05:37 GMT |
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The stable version of Google’s web browser progressed to build 18.0.1025.142, which is now the same as the beta. The new release is available for all supported platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Among other improvements, the new revision brings to the table faster graphics on Windows and Mac, tha... |
29 March 2012
03:58 GMT |
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With the release of Adobe Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, the company also made an interesting announcement, certain technologies will only be available to developers that cut a revenue deal with Adobe. Specifically, developers that want to port an existing game to Flash or want to build a game that will work with Fl... |
28 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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It looks like Google Chrome development team is no longer switching on and off various functionalities in the web browser and released a new update for the beta channel, sporting several modifications. Google Chrome beta 18.0.1025.140 is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Fram... |
27 March 2012
04:26 GMT |
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It's not much of a secret that Google plans to support ARM processors in Chrome OS. What is interesting though is that the next-generation Chromebooks, slated to land in the coming months, will apparently be using ARM processors, the ones normally used in phones and tablets, ditching Intel.
What this means is t... |
26 March 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Having a new beta build for Chrome released on a daily basis is no longer a surprise. It would probably feel a little odd when Google stops doing it. The latest revision for the beta channel of the browser is 18.0.1025.133, but it is available only for Windows and Chrome Frame.The previous build had Swiftshader turne... |
23 March 2012
13:02 GMT |
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Google launched a new stable version for their web browser, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). It is not a major release and the modifications are mostly security related.
Google Chrome Stable 17.0.963.83 does not show impressive changes, except for those strengthening the ... |
22 March 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Google rolled out a new stable variant of the popular web browser not only to address a Flash issue, but also to patch up a number of security holes that could have exposed users to malicious operations.
A total of $5,000 (3,750 EUR) was awarded to the researchers who identified the high-risk vulnerabilities that we... |
22 March 2012
06:27 GMT |
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Google I/O 2012 is coming and if last year is any indication, it's going to be a very interesting event. Developers are clamoring to get there, tickets sold out in less than an hour last year and may do the same next week when they go on sale.With less than a week until tickets become available, the Google I/O s... |
21 March 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Google Chrome has been constantly growing in popularity around the world. Google's browser has been gaining up on Firefox, even overtaking it depending on who you ask, and catching up to Internet Explorer as well.
Still, it was firmly in second or third place, with IE having a big lead. But for one day, this we... |
21 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Chrome OS may not look like it, but it started out as Linux. In fact, under the hood, it's still running on some standard Linux components. Google started out with a standard Linux desktop set up and started stripping away anything that wasn't explicitly needed.
This still left a bunch of libraries and sof... |
21 March 2012
10:22 GMT |
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There was plenty of activity on the dev channel of Google Chrome in the past days. The development team has been busy, releasing new builds on a daily basis (except on Sunday) for about a week. Modifications consisted in turning off features (print preview is currently disabled but will be enabled in the next releas... |
21 March 2012
06:39 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Web Store has been a quiet success for Google. While the store may not be generating the kind of interest and discussion that its Google Play Store nee Android Market does, it's used by hundreds of millions of people.
But Google is looking to enable developers to go beyond the Web Store, in a ... |
20 March 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Google isn't exactly known for gaming and that won't change soon. But the company is working on several ways of making more games available to more people. One obvious avenue is Android, but a much more interesting one is Chrome, especially now that Native Client is mature enough.
To promote Chrome as a ga... |
17 March 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Pwn2Own proved to be quite a boon for Google if only because it found itself forced to run its own similar competition, focusing on Chrome alone, to ensure that any exploits that are discovered are actually revealed to the Chrome team.
Pwnium, Google's competition, only had two entries, just like Pwn2Own in fac... |
16 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, Google penalized a website for using paid links to boost its rankings. Google does this all the time of course, but this time around the website in question was Google Chrome's download page.
Now, that penalty has been lifted and the Google Chrome page again shows up in the top results f... |
16 March 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Google is expanding the V8 Benchmarking Suite with a new test based on physics simulation, specifically fluid dynamic simulation. It says that this type of computation is used frequently in games, graphic applications and scientific ones.
There are now a total of eight main tests in the V8 suite and Google says it w... |
16 March 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Google just rushed out an updated for the dev channel of their web browser, for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). The new build is 19.0.1068.1 and it has been released to take care of a sparring amount of issues.
This revision corrects a performance problem that caused the application t... |
15 March 2012
12:37 GMT |
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The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to build 18.0.1025.58. There aren’t too many entries in the change list and some of them refer to the functions that have been disabled in the previous update.
Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.58 reinstates GPU acceleration of the Canvas 2D, which in the previous... |
15 March 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Those that have been keeping watch on Google Chrome OS developments know that a brand new window manager and UI is coming, Aura, shared by the desktop Chrome as well, which will enable hardware accelerated graphics in the UI. But the feature has another trick up its sleeve, it will also add wallpapers, for the first... |
14 March 2012
11:03 GMT |
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Google updated the dev channel for their web browser for all supported platforms (Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). The new release sports fixes and improvements and extends the functionality of tab synchronization feature.
One of the most notable introductions available in Google Chrome Dev 19.0.1068.0 is the availabil... |
14 March 2012
06:08 GMT |
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Google Chrome ads have always been interesting, no matter the country where they came from. It seems this holds true for India as well, where a Google/Google Chrome ad aims to educate people and businesses on why the web is important in a very spectacular fashion, by building a real-life and gigantic Google Chrome.
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13 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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The web is becoming increasingly powerful, as a platform, the things being built into HTML5, things like WebGL, audio APIs, real-time communication APIs, gamepad APIs, camera APIs and so on, make the web almost as powerful as any native platform. Granted, there is still work to be done and some things are still exper... |
13 March 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google is working on even more integration between the Android version of Chrome and the desktop one. While the two browsers not only share most features and code and also sync data between them, there's still room for improvement.
The Chrome to Mobile extension, an official add-on from the Chrome team, enables... |
13 March 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to build 18.0.1025.56, but only Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms got to maintain the incremented revision number. The development team retracted the update, as Flash was running incorrectly.
Until Flash problems are solved, Mac users will continue to use v... |
13 March 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Google Chrome has finally been pwned, several successful exploits were presented during Pwn2Own and the Google-hosted Pwnium competitions that took place last week at the CanSecWest.
In the official competition, which pits browsers against skilled hackers who try to exploit bugs and vulnerabilities to take over the... |
12 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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A few hours before the Pwnium competition ended, a security enthusiast known as Pinkie Pie earned himself a prize of $60,000 (45,000 EUR) for identifying three zero-day vulnerabilities present in Chrome. Google almost immediately released an update for the browser’s stable channel to address the issues. Pinki... |
12 March 2012
06:18 GMT |
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SPDY, the alternative to HTTP proposed by Google is slowly gaining strength. Granted, it's got a long way to go, but Twitter has started adopting it and using it by default, with browsers that support it.SPDY, as the name implies, was devised to speed up internet connections. Google is working on several fronts ... |
10 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Not so long ago, Chromebook owners got their hands on the latest and greatest Chrome 19, as it debuted on Chrome OS after being available for desktop users for a while. But not all Chromebook owners got to join the party, the update didn't support Cr-48, the original Google Chromebook which was shipped out free ... |
9 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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