Category: Google Chrome
Build the Google Chrome Icon
Google Inc. is asking everyone to submit creative, 15-60 second videos in which participants should build a Chrome icon in any way possible.
Entries should be submitted in the following page until July 22, 2009.
WebKit Vulnerabilities Fixed
The latest Chrome version 2.0.172.31 and Safari 4.0 has fixed one of the vulnerabilities which was exploited in WebKit earlier this month.
As H Online describes: A vulnerability in WebKit can be exploited by an attacker to crash a tab or execute arbitrary code in Google Chrome due to a memory corruption issue in WebKit’s handling of recursion in certain DOM event handlers. For an attack to be successful, a victim must first visit a maliciously crafted website. The malicious code, however, will be sandboxed, limiting the damage that an attacker can do when exploiting the vulnerability.
Thanks to mabdul for sending this.
Browsers vs. 6 Video Sharing Sites
Entertainment and informational video hosting services, such as YouTube, Blip.tv, etc. can play quite a huge role in today’s people life. As millions of visitors spend more and more time on those sites, it’s time to see, which web browser works and which doesn’t. Yes, we are talking about compatibility here, from the most visited and popular sites, to not so well known.
For traffic stats, we are going to use Compete.com, 04/2009 data. As per my personal experience, actual numbers can be more than 10x times higher than reported. At least, that’s the case of FavBrowsr.com Continue Reading
Google Releases Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux
Months after development, Google has finally released the very first builds of Chrome for both, Linux and Mac OS X. As it’s available in dev channel, product managers have warned users not to download any of those builds, unless you are a developer or just like to use incomplete and crashing software.
Firefox Shows Some Love to Other Web Browsers
To make the story short: Before downloading Google Chrome, as usual, I have opened web browser and started to type “Google Chrome” in the address bar, predicting that it will lead me to the Google search results.
To my surprise, once I have typed that into Firefox 3 address bar and hit enter, it has opened Chrome home page instead.
Same with other web browser names: Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera queries lead to their home pages as well.
Kind of nice gesture from Mozilla, I guess.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 2nd
- Solutions: Internet Explorer 8 is preferred over Mozilla Firefox
- Firefox users flip out over sneak MS add-on
- Google Chrome And Firefox Extensions Differences
- How excited is Google about the ad blocker for Chrome?
- How to Pick the Best Web Browser for Your Business
- Browser Behavior: Opera, Skyfire, Bolt And AdMob All Weigh In
- 5 Reasons Why Browser Sniffing Stinks
Video Interview (Firefox): Mitchell Baker and John Lilly Highlights
Bit about IE, Chrome and Firefox on mobile devices.
June, 2009 – Internet Explorer Loses; Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome Gains
By more than just a few requests, we are going to try something new this month, which is StatCounter instead of Net Applications. Let’s begin, shall we?
Internet Explorer continues its saga to the bottom, this time its market share fell by 1.46, from 62.09% to 60.6%
Firefox is likely to pass 30% mark this month. As for June, its market share increased by 0.93, from 28.75% to 29.68% Continue Reading
Google Chrome Extensions (Add-Ons) Are Here
Understanding the importance of extensions/add-ons, Google Chrome team did their job and finally released first developer builds, which adds an early alpha feature to support them. Geek Technica reports 4 Chrome extensions:
1. Cleeki: IE8 Accelerators for Google Chrome. “Cleeki can capture keyword(s) anywhere on a screen with as simple as one click, search it on the Internet, and preview the results immediately.”
2. Adsweep: The very first Google Chrome ad blocker. Continue Reading
Web Browsers: Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista
The latest BetaNews test shows that Windows 7 RC does actually increase web browsers performance for 12% or more except for Safari 4 Beta which was the only browser to have better index score in Windows Vista than Win 7. Continue Reading
