Tag: Chrome
Google Chrome For Android And iOS Updated
After the recent update for PCs, Google has also published a new build of iPhones, iPads and Android handhelds.
So what can you expect from this release? Starting off with tablets, you can now access your tab history by holding back button and in case this isn’t exactly your cup of tea, there is another improvement: a full screen mode, which will be triggered when you scroll down.
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Download Google Chrome 27 Beta
With performance improvements.
Good news for all the Chrome users out there, Google has just pushed a new update to its Beta channel, which brings some welcome enhancements.
The good news? These are not JavaScript performance improvements that browser makers seemed to be milking for quite some time now. Instead, Google Chrome 27 will now display web content about 5% faster, thanks to the much more aggressive resource scheduler.
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Google’s Blink Q&A (Video)
Blink is coming to Google Chrome in roughly 10 weeks.
After announcing its departure from WebKit, Google held a Q&A session, which can be seen in the video below.
If you don’t feel like watching all of it, here is a list of questions as well as a timeframe so you can jump to the segment that interests you:
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Google Plans To Ditch WebKit, Announces Blink
No more vendor prefixes.
Now here is something that you won’t see very often. Yesterday, Google has announced its plans to “ditch” WebKit and develop their own rendering engine called . Now, before developers get a heart attack, it should be noted that Blink (when it comes to standards) is pretty much a rebranded version of WebKit, at least for now.
So why do it at all? As explained by Adam Barth, the software engineer at Google, it’s all about reducing the complexity and simplifying your overall code base. In fact, it’s estimated that right off the bat they will be able to remove over 7,000 files with a total of 4.5 million lines in code, which says a lot.
Where all these complexities come from? According to Adam, “Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects.”
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Download Google Chrome 26 Final
Brings spell check improvements.
Just when you thought that spell check couldn’t get any better, it just did. Thanks to the recent Google Chrome update, the search giant not only added additional languages and improved dictionaries but also brought one important change: dictionary synchronization. No more will you have to re-add internet lingos and product names whenever you use Chrome on a new PC, the life is now headache free.
In addition to that, the “Ask Google for suggestions” feature now supports grammar checking, proper nouns, homonyms and more.
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Turn Your Favorite Website Into A 3D Maze Game
Who said that you need to wait till Friday to have some fun? Thanks to the latest experiment from Google, you can transform your favorite web site into a 3D maze game. The only requirement? You need to have a browser that supports WebGL, which isn’t a hard task to do.
Simply head over to the following page and enjoy yourself.
Chromebook Expands Its Market
Models from Acer, HP and Samsung are coming shortly.
After being the top seller on Amazon for a total of 150 days, Google’s Chromebook is finally expanding to six new countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands.
In addition to that, US buyers will start seeing these models far more often too as according to Google, Chromebooks will now be available in more than 1,000 Best Buy stores nationwide, up from 500 last year.
[Via: Engadget]
Google Now Coming To Chrome And Chrome OS
Now here is something to get you excited.
According to the latest discovery by enthusiast François Beaufort, the search giant has added a new feature reference in the latest build of Chromium, which allows users to enable Google Now if they have access to the server data.
While the following feature is not yet publicly available nor is finished, it’s pretty clear where we are heading and we can’t wait to test it out. On a downside, Google Now integration will be coming to Chrome OS and the Windows version of Google Chrome only.
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Google Chrome & Firefox Have More Vulnerabilities Than Flash And Java Combined
Time to go back to IE?
Now here is something you won’t hear that often. Despite the common hate for Adobe’s Flash and Oracle’s Java plugins, it looks like they are not the major offenders when it comes to the actual number of vulnerabilities.
According to the latest report by security firm Secunia, Google Chrome, Firefox and iTunes are responsible for the majority of Windows security issues. As it turns out, 86% of all Windows vulnerabilities in 2012 (up from 78% last year) come from non-Microsoft applications and here is the actual list (vulnerabilities – product name):
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Pwn2Own 2013: All Browsers Fail
No one cared about Safari.
With the Pwn2Own hacking contest coming to an end, it was revealed that every major web browser was hacked.
Google Chrome exploit allowed for a full breakout from its invincible sandbox resulting in a $100,000 reward, while both Firefox and Internet Explorer were exploited by a security firm VUPEN, resulting in a total of $160,000 in bounty payments ($60,000 and $100,000 respectively).
What about Safari? As it turns out, no one even pre-registered for Apple’s web browser this year despite the $75,000 prize.
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