Google has just released a public beta version of Google Chrome for Android. Google’s main goal was to port the speed and simplicity of the Chrome browser to mobile devices running on Android. The beta version is only available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices, and currently only in the following countries: United States, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
Fixing No Sound Issues In Firefox and Chrome
I had one of the strangest experiences ever in the past 24 hours. Yesterday evening I noticed that I was not getting any audio in Firefox. I first thought this was a hiccup and restarted the browser to see if this resolved the problem. It unfortunately did not. I then tried to play videos on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 83
Google Showing Ads In Chrome Browser, Is This The Beginning Of The End?
Internet users are accustomed to seeing ads on Internet pages. One of the most prominent advertisement schemes used these days is Google Adsense which is available for websites, searches on websites and for mobile devices. Adword ads dominate the Google search result pages, and other Google properties are also displaying their fair share of ads. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
A Look At New Google Chrome Browser Flags
Ghacks readers know that the chrome://flags page leads to a list of experimental features in the Chrome browser. These features are not yet ready for prime time. Adventurous Chrome users can enable select features to change the behavior of the web browser in core areas. A big warning paragraph warns users that these “experimental features [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Advanced Find For Chrome, Include Inflections In Search
All modern web browsers come with options to search the active web page for specific words or phrases. None as far as I know support wildcard searches or the inclusion of inflections. The Google Chrome extension efTwo Advanced Find on Page adds support for the latter to the Chrome web browser. Sometimes when I search [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Chrome Web Apps Suggestions Based On Chrome History
I do not like the navigational structure of the Chrome web store. I cannot figure out for instance how to sort all extensions based on their last update. Sure there is the new and noteworthy category but it is limited to a handful of extensions. Featured and popular as well do not provide access to [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 17
IE9 decimates other browsers for socially-engineered malware protection in report
Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware. This is malware that attempts to trick users into installing it, much in the way Apple Mac users have been suffering with the recent spate of ‘Mac Defender’ malware. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 11
Page Prerendering Introduced In Google Chrome Dev
Prerendering is a technology that can speed up web browsing by loading web pages in advance. The advantage of prerendering is an almost instant page loading time for prerendered pages. There are disadvantages though. The average web page has anywhere from a few dozen to more than one hundred links. Prerendering all link targets would [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Create Google Chrome Shortcuts
Having an extension like Mega Button for Chrome to access often used features faster is nice and all, but it is not the fastest way to work with the browser. Shortcuts are faster, and they additionally do not add buttons or other clutter to the browser or menus. Google Chrome comes with a set of [...]