Once you’ve installed the Chrome beta, you can set up multiple profiles in the options menu, under Personal Suff, by clicking “Add New User.” This automatically generates a nickname and an avatar for the user, both of which can be modified. Users can also sign into their Google accounts from the options menu to fetch Chrome settings from the cloud.

Google does not see this as a way to keep your own information secure from other users. There’s no login necessary to access the other accounts, aside from an optional Google sign in to sync with other installations of Chrome. To keep browser information secure, Google recommends maintaining separate operating system profiles instead.

We alerted Apple to the problem before the release of 10.7 but they did not fix the problem before 10.7 went to final release. We’ve changed the font APIs that we’re using to newer versions which appear to fix the problem. The bug in Lion will cause severe crash problems for Firefox 5 users if it’s not fixed. - Christopher Blizzard, Mozilla’s Web platform director

According to Apple, Lion is set to release this month but the operating system has not received a ship date yet.

Blizzard also noted that emergency fixes will be issued if necessary regardless of the rapid release schedule where security updates and the like are instead rolled into the next version of the browser.

Firefox 3.6 will be updated at the same time as Firefox 5 to boot, disabling downloadable Web fonts when the browser runs in Lion.

The Mac versions of both Firefox 6 and Firefox 7 have already undergone the required font API changes. Firefox 6 is slated for a release on the 16th of August while Firefox 7 is set to come out on the 27th of September. They are currently in the beta and aurora stage respectively.

Going by what Mozilla has to say, the channel switcher will be removed from Firefox. Why? While the channel switcher seemed like a good idea at first, it was only really useful as a springboard it appears. This conclusion came to light due to the fact that the feature was rarely utilized once users made the switch to a particular channel.

As it turns out, users of Firefox are much more interested in running different versions of the browser alongside each other, and so Mozilla has declared that its efforts are best directed elsewhere. You will still be able to switch back and forth between the Aurora and Beta channels, of course. Simply visit the Future of Firefox page to obtain them.

As it was the most requested feature, the chat bar has been completely redone, with chats now being placed in the chat bar at the bottom so as to remain visible while browsing. Notifications for incoming messages are now more subtle to boot, and chats can be turned into separate windows by dragging them off of the chat bar.

View Later, on the other hand, allows users to save any links and any URL from the App Edge for later viewing. Individual posts from Twitter, Facebook, and other feeds are included. If you want to visit something again at a later time, just click the View Later icon and it will be there waiting for you. View Later is also accessible from any computer as long as you download RockMelt and sign in into your account.

Along with a visual redesign, the new Twitter app boasts new features as well. Updates are viewed instantly, retweets can be edited, direct messages can be viewed, all users can be responded to at once, and Twitter can now easily be searched as well.

Last, but not least, RockMelt now benefits from the latest Chromium updates as well. All users will be updated to RockMelt Beta 2 automatically.

With Flock now being gone, perhaps RockMelt will fulfill the need for social web browsing.

RockMelt Beta 2 can be downloaded from here.

Delivering some quick history on the browser, RockMelt is built around the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and numerous other feeds that provide updates in the real-time.

RockMelt has been developed so that these integrate entirely with the user’s browsing experience. Since RockMelt is a Chromium based web browser, it can also thus utilize extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Why not give it a try?

Google released the newest Google Chrome 10 build to the beta channel yesterday, boasting progress in the form of revamped browser settings, password sync features, as well as JavaScript performance.

V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine, now runs intense JavaScript applications faster than in the past. To be more specific, the V8 benchmark suite indicated an improvement over the current stable release of 66%. See the chart below to see how it compares with prior versions of Chrome.

GPU accelerated video is now also a part of the new beta, reducing CPU usage for and improving battery life. The highest recorded drop in CPU usage was 80% when using full screen mode.

Saved passwords can now be synced across numerous computers as well. It was previously only extensions, themes, bookmarks, and preferences that could be synced. Passphrases can be utilized to encrypt passwords for additional security.

With regards to the revamped browser settings, they now open in a tab instead of a window.

A search function has been introduced to allow users easily find the feature they wish to change the settings for (with results updating as you type). Settings pages now have their own URLs as well, giving users the ability to navigate straight to a particular setting.

Download Google Chrome 10.

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There are still 18 bugs which need to be fixed before new beta.

New release date should be revealed within few days.

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What’s new?

Frame Process Merging

Instead of running 2 processes every time you launch Internet Explorer 8, it will use 1 now = improved startup performance.

More tab processes

Adding more processes gives users much better isolation in the event of a failure. If each tab is in its own process, websites are completely isolated from each other.

Virtual tabs

Virtual tabs lets you navigate across Protected Mode in the same tab since we just switch the process under the tab to the correct integrity level

Automatic Crash Recovery

In the event of a crash, Automatic Crash Recovery is designed to get you back to browsing as quickly as possible. If IE8 crashes, now it will not only recover

Current URI
The travel log (your back/forward history)
Tab order
Which tab was active

But also:

Session cookies
Form data

And the last new feature:

Windows Error Reporting (aka Watson).

In the event of a crash or a hang, you may have received a choice to “send information to Microsoft”.

More detailed IE8 Beta 2 information.

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Pan and zoom — Just like Opera Mini, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta defaults to full Web page viewing and allows users to pan and zoom into their desired content easily.

Improved user interface — Opera has completely renovated its mobile UI. Cleaner and more intuitive, the new UI is designed for quick and easy navigation.

Opera Dragonfly — Use your Opera desktop browser to debug sites on your mobile phone through the Opera Mobile 9.5 debug menu.

Improved standards support — Opera Mobile 9.5 is the most standards compliant browser available, and the company remains steadfast in its commitment to make the Web accessible for all.

Save pages and/or images — With a click, simply save pages to your phone.

Known issues

ActiveX is disabled -> Flash plugins and embedded video streaming do not work.
Custom IME’s (like HTC’s IME) will be buggy at best, not working at worst.
Not multilingual build — Only English is supported. Problems with other languages (and input methods) is not unexpected.
Installation on memory cards may cause problems.
Text wraps in overview mode.
Fails on ACID2 test

Overall, new Opera Mobile looks great and I’m looking forward to try it.

Reviewer’s Guide to Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta
Opera Mobile 9.5 – the developer angle
Download Opera Mobile 9.5

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