Prerendering in the best case speeds up specific processes. When it comes to web browsers the technology could pre-load and render websites to display them faster for the user. This only works if the browser gets the site right. If you look at a standard web search for instance, you will get ten search results [...]
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Where Can I Download The Different Google Chrome Builds?
Did you know that Google alone is releasing four different versions of the Google Chrome browser regularly? And that is not even counting the Chromium releases that make up the core of the browser. This guide describes the differences between those releases. It also links to the official download pages where each build can be [...]
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Chromium Updater Overview
Chromium basically is the Open Source part of the Google Chrome browser. It is a standalone browser that runs very well on its own, and some users prefer to use it for a variety of reasons. To name some: It gets updates first before they are added to the three Google Browser variants dev, beta [...]
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Chromium Gets GPU Acceleration, Chrome Next
Hardware accelerated rendering seems to be a new web browser trend, as developers of all major browsers have confirmed that their browsers will support it in one form or the other. The latest announcement in this regard came from the Chromium team just two days ago. Google has for some time worked on implementing hardware [...]
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Chromium Debuts Labs Feature, Chrome Next
Procedures determine how new features are added to Chromium and the Google browser. They are usually integrated in Chromium first, make their way to the dev build of Google Chrome, then the beta and finally, after some time, into the stable release builds. Features are sometimes not tested enough to be made available directly in [...]
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Google Chrome Dev Hits Version 7
The Chromium developers have really redefined versioning at least when it comes to their web browser. The browser that made its first appearance in 2008 has now reached version 7 in the developer channel, with the likelihood that the beta and stable channels will follow suite later this year. Usually, a major leap in version [...]
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Google Chrome Extensions Gallery Gets Developer Signup Fee
A recent post on the Chromium blog revealed two changes coming to the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery. Both changes are introduced to increase the effort of protecting Chrome users against the distribution of malicious extensions. In the current system everyone can upload Chrome extensions to the gallery, and malicious developers could simply use that to [...]
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Enable Side Tabs In Google Chrome
All the talking about sidebar tabs today in Firefox reminded me that I wanted to write about a similar feature in Google Chrome, to be more precise in the Google Chrome dev releases and Chromium. The developers of the browser have added a startup switch to enable side tabs. Users who are running a dev [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Plugin Security Changes Coming To Google Chrome
Integrating the Flash plugin and a pdf reader in Google Chrome has been a controversial move. Some users liked the idea as it allowed them to access contents without having to install the necessary plugins first, others feared the worst, that Google would lack behind in updating the plugins whenever a security update would be [...]