Many Internet users load websites by entering the prefix http:// and the url of the domain in the address bar of the web browser. This is a standard that has been there since the invention of the World Wide Web. But http is in fact not needed to load websites. Removing it from the query [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Chromium Gets Rid Of Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnails
The feature to display taskbar thumbnails in the Windows 7 operating system was recently added to Chromium and later on to Google Chrome. The taskbar thumbnails were enabled by default with no option to disable them in the web browser. Some users found a way to disable the thumbnail previews by running the Google Chrome [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome To Allow Extensions In Incognito Mode
The Google browser is getting many feature updates in the last few days. We already reviewed the new autofill and taskbar thumbnail feature that has been added to the latest developer releases of the Google Chrome browser. The latest versions of Chromium, the Open Source core of Google Chrome, outline another interesting feature that will [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Keep Chromium Up To Date
Chromium is the Open Source project behind Google Chrome. Chromium and Google Chrome have many similarities and it is usually the case that new features are integrated into Chromium first before they make they way into the Google browser. One problem that Chromium users experience is that the web browser does not come with an [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Hide Extension Buttons In Google Chrome
Now that a stable version of Google Chrome with extension support has been released to the public it is time to concentrate on some of the usability issues in the web browser. One of these usability issues is that most extensions add buttons to the Google Chrome toolbar. This toolbar can fill pretty quickly with [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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SRWare Releases Iron 4 Release Candidate
Iron is a web browser that is based on the Chromium source code that is also powering the Google Chrome web browser. The main difference between Iron and Google Chrome is that the developers of Iron have removed privacy related issues from the code. This includes things like the unique client ID, error reporting or [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome Gets Option To Free Up Memory
The memory usage of modern web browsers has increased quite a bit over the years which can be attributed to the increased functionality but also to plugins and extensions that use computer memory as well when the web browser is running. Google Chrome and Chromium make it easier for the user thanks to the build [...]
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Google Tries To Make The Internet Faster With SPDY
Why is the Internet so damn slow. That’s probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once. Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs and slow loading websites every now and then as the speed to display a website in the user’s web browser does not only [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome To Get Automatic Userscript Support
Until now userscript support in the Google Chrome web browser was severely limited by the fact that the user had to copy the userscripts into a folder of the Chrome profile. Recent versions of the Chromium browser outline what users of the Google Chrome dev releases are soon going to experience as well. Google apparently [...]