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Google releases stable version of Chrome 9
- Google has released version 9 of its browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome's latest builds. Chrome…
Microsoft offers H.264 plug-in for Google Chrome too
- Microsoft has released a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome so as to enable H.264-encoded video on HTML5 by using built-in capabilities available on Windows 7. As you may recall, less than two months ago, Microsoft released the HTML5…
Google updates Chrome 8, fixes 16 security vulnerabilities
- Google has updated version 8 of its browser. The update addresses 16 security vulnerabilities in the WebKit-based browser: one rated as Critical, 13 rated as High, and two rated as Medium.
Google to drop support for H.264 in Chrome
- Google just made a bold move in the HTML5 video tag battle: even though H.264 is widely used and WebM is not, the search giant has announced it will drop support for the former in Chrome. The company has not…
Chrome takes 10% of the market, IE slips to 57%
- Despite launching only two years ago, Google's Chrome now represents 9.98% of the total browser market share according to Net Applications' latest numbers. Further enforcing its lead on Safari and Opera, Chrome has nearly doubled in share since the start…
Google sandboxes Flash in Chrome, adds WebGL support
- Google has decided that while the company is going to embrace Adobe Flash in its Chrome browser, it is not going to let the plug-in introduce all sorts of security vulnerabilities. To minimize the risks posed by Flash, the search…
Gmail creator: Chrome OS is as good as dead
- Former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come right out and said what many people are thinking (or hoping for). On his FriendFeed page, Buchheit made a post titled "Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year…
GNU founder: using Chrome OS is "careless computing"
- Free Software Foundation and GNU founder Richard Stallman has declared that Google's Chrome OS should not be referred to as "cloud computing" as it actually encourages "careless computing." His argument is based on the fact that the rules over what…
Adobe announces Flash Player for Chrome OS
- Adobe has announced the Chrome notebook Pilot program, which will see Flash Player ported to Chrome OS. Google's latest mobile operating system is yet another platform that Adobe wants its three million Flash developers to develop for. Currently, the company…
Google opens Chrome Web Store, first Chrome OS hardware
- Google today opened the Chrome Web Store in the US, with plans to expand to more countries and currencies early next year. Developers have already started uploading Flash and HTML5 apps and the store will soon be featured prominently in…
Google releases stable version of Chrome 8
- Google has released version 8 of its browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome's latest builds.
Chrome extension and Kinect control the browser with gestures
- A group of students at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, devoted to move UI design past the typical keyboard-and-mouse interface, has turned the Kinect motion controller into a tool for Web browsing. They wrote an extension for Google…
Google: Chrome OS could replace 60% of Windows PCs
- Linus Upson, Google's vice president for engineering in charge of Chrome, recently made some bold comments about his company's upcoming operating system. Google has apparently done some research and found that 60 percent of Windows PCs used in the corporate…
Chrome OS in 2011, Google-branded hardware in December
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said that the next release of Android (version 2.3) will arrive in a few weeks and Chrome OS will officially be out in the next few months on Intel and ARM-powered netbooks. It seems many…
Google: Android is for touch, Chrome OS is for keyboards
- As you probably already know, Google is currently working on two operating systems: the Android OS, which has taken the smartphone world by storm and which is starting to show up on tablets, as well as Chrome OS, a browser-based…
Chrome to pre-load pages for "wicked fast" browsing
- Google is working on a new feature that could boost Chrome's browsing speed even more. Still in the works, the new page-preloading capability will allow Google's browser to load Web pages before they're actually needed. "Pre-load pages in background tabs…
Google releases stable version of Chrome 7
- Keeping up with its promise to accelerate the release cycle for Chrome and push out a new stable build every six weeks, Google has released version 7 of its browser. The update brings dozens of bug fixes as well as…
Google Chrome 8.0.552.0, Opera 10.63 released
- In a spree that's increasingly difficult to keep up with, Google has launched a pre-release build of Chrome 8, which is pretty much a continuation of Chrome 7 with a few changes. The announcement made through the dev channel only…
Google launches Chrome 7 beta, dev channel update
- Google has pushed out the fist beta version of Chrome 7. The latest test build is essentially the same as Tuesday's developer-channel release, which doesn’t really bring much new to the table besides taking care of a few minor bugs…
Google releases Chrome 6 with an even simpler UI
- Celebrating its second birthday, Google has released the sixth version of its browser. Chrome 6 features numerous changes, including an updated user interface, improved syncing tools with support for web form data and extensions, as well as the obligatory bug…
Weekend tech reading: Chrome 7 GPU acceleration confirmed
- Google confirms Chrome 7 GPU acceleration With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, we noticed a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome’s overall graphics performance. Our readers later found that…
Google sets $5 developer signup fee for Chrome extensions
- Hoping to stem the tide of fraudulent extensions, Google has instituted two new security measures, including a one-time $5 signup fee. Since introducing extensions to Chrome, the gallery has accumulated some 6,000 add-ons and over 10 million are downloaded every…
Rumor: Google Chrome OS tablet coming November 26
- It was rumored in May that Google was developing an iPad rival, and an unnamed tipster cited by Download Squad has shed more light on the project. The device will supposedly use Chrome OS and it's being built by HTC,…
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