Category: Google Chrome
July, 2012 Mobile Market Share: Safari, Android Browser – Up; Symbian, Opera Mini – Down
With the rise of handheld devices and rising competition, we are starting a new section, which will focus on the mobile web browsers only. Let’s get going.
Currently in the lead, Apple’s Safari web browser has climbed up by 0.43 point, up from 66.22% to 65.79%.
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Windows vs. Ubuntu (Linux): Web Browsers
When it comes to performance, there is no such thing as too much. Therefore, today we will find out, what operating system you should use to achieve the best possible results and whether or not it’s worth the switch.
Test Details
Hardware:
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Download Google Chrome 21 Final
Well, here is something to cheer you up: a new Google Chrome build.
As we reported earlier, the following release includes a couple of new features, such as:
- Support for the getUserMedia API, which allows web sites to access your mic and camera, high-resolution screens.
- Better Google Clout Print integration so you can print docs from Google Drive, Chrome Mobile and more.
- High resolution display and better game pad support.
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Download Google Chrome 22 Alpha
Includes some new goodies.
Chrome’s developer channel pushed “Packaged Apps” to the v22 builds recently, which allows applications to be launched separately from Chrome (use its own window). Moreover, Packaged Apps have quite a few capabilities as they can interact with network and hardware devices, as well as media apps.
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Chrome Experiments Goes Mobile
Chrome Experiments, a site that flourishes creative coding, has launched a new version made specifically for the handheld devices.
Just like in the desktop version, various demos showcase the latest and greatest capabilities of the Google Chrome web browser, thanks to the cutting-edge web technologies such as: Canvas, CSS3 and JavaScript.
Benchmarks: IE9 vs. Firefox 13 vs. Google Chrome 20 vs. Opera 12 vs. Safari 5.1
Yes, we will finally post this.
With a release of new web browser builds, including Chrome 20 and Firefox 13, guys at the TomsHardware have yet again dome a good job ad benchmarking all of them.
Who will win? Check the results below to find out.
Tested Browsers
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Download Google Chrome 21 Beta
Chrome Build 21.0.1180.15.
Here comes another build from the search giant, which brings a couple of new features that only a few will use.
First in the list is a support for the getUserMedia API, which allows web apps to access your camera and microphone.
Lastly, a neat Google Cloud Print integration, allowing you to print documents from your Google Drive, Google Chrome Mobile or even FedEx Offices.
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Google’s Blogger Ditches Opera Support
Just when Facebook decided to replace Google Chrome and recommend Opera instead, it looks like Blogger did the opposite.
As first noticed by Bob Leggitt on June 27th, not only have they ditched the support for Opera but will also keep you asking to download Google Chrome over and over again. Ed Bott, one of the ZDNet editors has summed it up like this, “This is how monopolies work. If you use Opera to create or edit posts on Google’s Blogger network, you’ll see a nagging message. And you’ll keep seeing those nags until you switch to Chrome.”
[Thanks, Hiram]
June, 2012 Market Share: Firefox, Safari, Opera – Up; IE, Google Chrome – Down
Well, here is an interesting turn of events, a somewhat inverted market share data.
Instead of focusing on the user experience and eliminating the useless 2 year release cycle, IE team has decided to fire more ads instead. Certainly, even great ads have their limits and as shown above, Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, down from 54.05% to 54.02% (0.03 point decrease).
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Torch Browser: WebKit With Torrent Support And Download Accelerator
A little bit of everything.
We are not sure how many hundreds or thousands of different web browsers there are that use the WebKit rendering engine, but here is something slightly different: Torch.
So what’s so cool about it? Well, it builds on the foundation of the Chromium web browser and includes a couple of new features, such as:
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