Category: Google Chrome
Weekly Browsers Recap, September 12th
- Opinion: What Microsoft Must Accomplish in IE10
- Who Stole My Pictures Is a Firefox Extension That Helps You Locate Copied Images
- Google Chrome gets automatic single sign-on, brings security risks
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Researcher raps Apple for not blocking stolen SSL certificates
- Opera promises cross-platform apps for Smart TVs, gives us little to complain about
- One of the reasons why we made Opera Unite
- Opera Wahoo 12.00 Extensions improvements
Google To Developers: Start Targeting Google Chrome Only
It looks like the web ain’t all rainbows and sunshine as the latest document; “Future of JavaScript”, obtained from Google’s internal “JavaScript Summit” had some interesting things to say.
First of all, Google now encourages developers to start targeting Chrome only web browser when possible and is eager to implement at least some of the ECMAScript Harmony as soon as possible.
According to the same document, in case developers start focusing on all the web browsers, they will have to wait multiple years to get a direct Harmony support.
Here is an excerpt from the document:
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 6 vs. Google Chrome 13 vs. Opera 11.50 vs. Safari 5.1
Web browser benchmarks on Windows and Mac OS X.
With the recent Firefox and Google Chrome releases, TomsHardware has decided to test all the competitors in both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
There’s no time to waste, so let’s dive into the results.
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Google Chrome Celebrates 3rd Birthday
More than three years ago, on September 1st of 2008, Google has released the very first version of its web browser, which had a pretty significant impact in the industry.
Then, few years later, Google has introduced the Chromebook, a new breed of computing for a quick Internet access.
What kind of beast will it bring next? Let’s wait and see.
Cheers to the progress and happy birthday to Google Chrome,
Weekly Browsers Recap, September 5th
- Internet Explorer 9 Reaches 20% Usage Share
- IE: Browsing Without Plug-ins
- Introducing the IE9 on Windows Phone “Mango” User Agent String
- 10 Social Networking Add-Ons for Firefox
- Google’s Chrome Frame for IE ready for prime time
- Dutch CA banished for life from Chrome, Firefox
- Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Safari users still susceptible to attacks using fake DigiNotar certs
- New Wahoo 12.00 build with rendering and Speed Dial improvements
- Maxthon Browser 3.1.7.600 Beta Released
- Sleipnir for Mac
[Thanks, RamaSubbu SK, Sebastian, Shane Bundy]
IE Will Drop Under 50% By Mid 2012
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will lose its place as the majority browser next summer, according to statistics published by Web metrics company Net Applications.
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The Evolution Of The Web
Do you remember using Netscape Navigator or Mosaic? What about constantly evolving web standards and other web technologies?
With the help of recently created web page, you can now relive those memories and dive into the ocean of oblivion.
Click here to do that now.
[Thanks, Ichann]
August, 2011: Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera – Down
It’s Friday, Friday…
Another month passes by as we look at the August market share stats to find out, how web browsers competed at the end of summer.
Internet Explorer is approaching the 50% market share mark, as it’s now down another 1.13 point, from 52.72% to 51.59%.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 29th
- “Browser X is using Y MB of memory with Z tabs open” is a meaningless observation
- Mozilla WebAPI wants to replace native apps with HTML5
- Want a Faster Firefox? Pale Moon 6.0 Can Help
- Bing ad serves malware to would-be Google Chrome switchers
- Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera: Top Five Extensions
- Calling All Developers: Opera Developer Events
- 15 (More) Inspiring HTML5 Experiments
- Mozilla puts mobile Firefox on the front burner
[Thanks, Dirk Finken]
Google Chrome Receives New Tab Page, Bookmark Manager
Available in the latest Dev builds.
With all the upcoming changes, it looks like Google Chrome users will soon enjoy a new tab page, borrowing elements from Opera and Maxthon web browsers.
As you can see from the screenshots below, updated Tab Page groups data into the following categories: Most Visited, Apps, Bookmarks and Recently Closed.
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