Web browser news as it happens
In: Chrome
14 May 2009With the latest developer build of Google Chrome being released this week (version 2.0.180.0), evidence has surfaced showing that extensions and plug-ins are on their way for the browser.
Release notes show that developers have implemented “extensions window & tabs API events.”
“The extensions posse would like to point out that as of today’s dev channel release, [...]
In: Chrome
31 Mar 2009Ars Technica has posted a great review of the current state of Chrome for Mac. Included are two videos showing how far Chromium has come in just the last few months.
Karen Grünberg said “we’re working as fast as possible and progressing as fast as we can without compromising security” and suggested that we might see [...]
In: Chrome
26 Mar 2009LinuxHaxor has discovered that early-pre-alpha builds of Chromium, which Google Chrome is based off, is 4 times faster than current stable builds of Firefox on Linux.
The test was run with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark tool.
While these results are impressive, LinuxHaxor mentions that current Google Chrome Windows builds are still 2 times faster than early Chromium [...]
In: Chrome
3 Dec 2008Google Chrome is to get the same level of customisation as Mozilla’s Firefox, with a new effort launched to make it possible for developers to create plugins for the popular browser.
Third party applications or addons are attributed to the huge success of Firefox, and is currently the number one most requested feature from Chrome users.
Aaron [...]
New Google Chrome builds are showing support for Greasemonkey, albeit very basic and still in early stages of development.
Until now, Greasemonkey has been a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages.
Martin from gHacks writes “Only scripts in c:\scripts are loaded and only if the [...]
In: Chrome
24 Sep 2008Thanks to the CrossOver Chromium project, it is now possible to download Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux.
The Chromium project is an open source effort, built using the same code as Chrome and “aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web“.
At this stage, [...]