Skilled programmers can use the Chromium code to build their own version of the Chrome web browser. That’s how the Chrome Plus project started. The developer’s have taken the default build of the Google Chrome web browser and have added extra functionality to it. Chromium Plus offers five additional features next to the full feature [...]

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The Google Chrome development team has released long awaited public developer builds of the Google browser for the Apple Macintosh and Linux operating systems. Up until now it was only possible to get most of the functionality by downloading third party builds of the web browser. The developer builds of Google Chrome can be downloaded [...]

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The team that is developing the Open Source version of the Google browser for Linux has finally released the alpha version of the Internet browser. The Chromium for Linux version was in pre-alpha stage for quite some time. Even the pre-alpha versions of the Chromium web browser were fairly stable but the alpha release marks [...]

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One of the things that is keeping the Google browser from attracting a larger audience is missing extension support. While it is without doubt possible to work with a web browser that does not support extensions it is not quite as comfortable – and sometimes secure – as it could be. The majority of experienced [...]

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Google Chrome – or its Open Source counterpart Chromium – is a relatively new web browser developed by Google. It combines several interesting features and ideas that the other Internet browsers do not offer. This article will examine five interesting features of the Google browser. Some of them can be added to other web browsers [...]

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Chromium is the open source variant of the Google Chrome web browser. We recently explained how to download both Google Chrome and Chromium in our Google Browser overview. The problem that users who download Chromium run into is that the web browser does not notify them if an update is available. This is kinda problematic [...]

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I recently tried to download the latest version of the open source version of the Google browser called Chromium. A search on the Internet did not reveal a website with a download location in the first results. The only thing that came up was the build server of the Chromium project which listed all the [...]

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Is anyone else feeling that the Google Chrome developers are desperately trying to raise the version number of the Google Chrome browser to be on pair with Mozilla Firefox and probably Internet Explorer? It is hard to see another reason if you look at the release schedule. The Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta was released less [...]

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Are that many security vulnerabilities of Google Chrome coming to light because it is less secure than other web browsers? Or is it because everyone is putting more effort into discovering vulnerabilities because it is Google’s browser? Whatever it is; No week passes by without the discovery of a new security vulnerability in Google Chrome. [...]

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