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Google speeds up Chrome

News New beta gives the browser a 30 percent speed improvement, HTML 5 functionality and visual tweak.

Friday, August 07 2009 08:50 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Document Object Model, Video, JavaScript, Web Address, blog, Automatic Update, Web, Web browsers

Google maps out Chrome's RSS support

News Chrome turns a blind eye to subscription offers from Web sites, but Google has revealed its plan to add the feature.

Thursday, December 18 2008 07:38 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, E-mail servers, Web logs, RSS, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Bloglines, Google Reader, blog

Google brings Chrome beta to Mac, Linux

News Search giant issues the first beta versions of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux. Maturity could spread adoption, and the stable version is due in a month.

Wednesday, December 09 2009 10:12 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome 4.0, Web Page, Web Browser, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Beta

Chrome extensions arriving in developer version

News The top-requested feature in Google's browser is now enabled by default--though only on the Windows version for developers.

Thursday, September 10 2009 09:44 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Apple Macintosh, CSS, social bookmarking, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Programming, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Google's 64-bit Chrome starts emerging on Linux

News Some heavy lifting has been done to move Chrome to the 64-bit world. It's Linux-only for now, though, and don't expect doubled performance over 32-bit versions.

Friday, August 21 2009 09:00 AM

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, V8, 64-bit, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows

Acer: We'll have first Chrome OS netbook

News Company's chairman says in an interview that Acer has been working since earlier this year on being first to offer Chrome OS on netbooks.

Thursday, December 03 2009 08:02 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Cloud computing, Notebooks and tablets, Open Source, ARM, Google Inc., Dell Mini, Operating System, Acer Inc., Cloud computing

One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing

News Printer drivers are a complicated problem to solve when building a new operating system, and Google hopes to come up with a unique solution for Chrome OS's launch.

Wednesday, December 02 2009 10:01 AM

Tags: Linux desktop OS, Google Inc., printer driver, Operating System, Web Browser, USB, Google Chrome, printer, printing, printer company

Google Goggles' visual search headed for Chrome

News A Google programmer is working on a Chrome browser interface to let people submit images as search terms.

Thursday, December 10 2009 11:11 AM

Tags: Search, Database, Google Inc., Google Goggles, Phone, cell phone, Web Browser, Google Chrome, wine, mailing list

Microsoft criticizes privacy in Chrome 3.0

News Latest version of the browser logs every search keystroke and sends it back to Google, Microsoft executive points out.

Thursday, October 22 2009 10:49 AM

Tags: Privacy, Web browsers, Google Inc., Security, Microsoft Corp., software, Web Browser, Privacy, software company, Google Chrome

Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation

News Google has revealed its goal for releasing Mac OS X and Linux versions of its browser. Also, cutting-edge Chrome sports early work to enable extensions.

Monday, January 12 2009 08:17 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Software engineering/development, Feature, Google Chrome, Web Browser, Google Inc., Web Page, Apple Macintosh, CSS, Linux

Google promotes Chrome with YouTube ads

News Forget word of mouth. Google is promoting its open source Web browser on YouTube and Facebook.

Wednesday, January 28 2009 06:31 AM

Tags: Video, Web browsers, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Web Browser, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Facebook

Chrome begins RSS support, solidifies extensions

News The second most requested feature in Google's browser, the ability to find and subscribe to Web page RSS feeds, is arriving. Extensions, the top item, is maturing.

Monday, March 23 2009 09:15 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Extension, RSS, Google Inc., Web Browser, e-mail, Search Result, blogging, blog

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.

Thursday, November 19 2009 09:49 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Chrome's new-tab page gets more interactive

News Google's browser presents new options to try to take better advantage of the time when a person is launching the browser or opening a new tab.

Wednesday, July 08 2009 11:17 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Web services, Protocols and platforms, Tab, Web Page, Web Browser, Browser Company, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox