Posts Tagged ‘Chrome’

Chrome Canary, a rather unstable build of Chrome that is positioned somewhere between the developer version of Chrome and the Chromium nightly builds, is now also available to adventurous Mac users.

Google updated its stable and nightly channels. Chrome 11 arrives with HTML speech input, while Chromium 13 pushes substantial GUI updates.

Making Chrome run faster on your website depends on you.

During its quarterly earnings call, Google ended up in a open discussion about its key products. Chrome may be free, but it is critical to the company’s future.

Google is currently working on apparently more than 1000 minor and major modifications of Chrome browser features and we are seeing plenty of new items hitting Chromium releases this week. In the past week alone, we noticed about three dozen core and GUI changes that highlight the fast pace of Google’s browser team.

There has been quite some buzz about the Chrome touch UI lately. Following our initial report from March 20, Cnet recently uncovered more evidence that Chrome (OS) will be getting a touch tablet version and now we are seeing a screenshot (?) of the onscreen keyboard. Oh, and Google has quietly reduced the page load time of Chrome for pages on its own servers by a stunning 50% by modifying the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

It would not be accurate to say that Larry Page is wasting time in his new and old position of the company he co-founded. He is leading an empire that has a solid business foundation, massive resources as well as deep pockets to reach well beyond its core market. Page’s management changes set new incentives are clearly designed to keep its top leadership hungry. Google’s eyes appear to be laser-focused on Microsoft. Is Google strong enough to bring Microsoft down to its knees?

Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome browser that is designed to protect users from Windows malware to be downloaded to a computer.

Google today unveiled predictive web browsing in Chrome. A preview version of the browser can now communicate with Google’s servers that foresee content published on the web up to three weeks in advance. Google considers this feature as a revolutionary step in the browser speed race and said that it wants to settle claims of the world’s fastest web browser once and for all.

Preview - Google plans to release seven new Chrome versions this year, which means that you will be browsing with Chrome 17 by Christmas. While we can’t predict all new features for this year – we doubt that even Google can – we know that at least four categories will be addressed: Chrome’s fat, the integration of web applications and plug-ins, cloud capabilities and the touch UI, which is already in its second phase following the initial release. UPDATE: Guess the meaning of the headline?

We have little doubt that Google is preparing its Chrome browser for a major UI overhaul again. Following our previous report of the possibility of a dropped URL bar, we are now seeing a first example of Google’s new Chrome start screen, which will work pretty much like the app screens on your smartphone.

When was the last time you updated your graphics driver? If you don’t know the answer right away, there is a good chance that you aren’t keeping pace with technology and you will have to adjust your user behavior to keep your browser running smoothly and get the most out of your computer in future web applications. Intel will also have to adapt a much more competitive graphics driver strategy.