Some Internet users are reluctant to use Google’s web browser Google Chrome due to privacy concerns. These concerns are not just based on thin air but on the fact that data is transmitted between the Google browser and Google servers. Part of what is send is also being used by other web browsers like error [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome Cache Viewer
Chrome Cache View is one of those applications that is not really needed to perform a given task but it makes that task way more comfortable. Like ever web browser Google Chrome uses a cache on the hard disk to save data, to open that data faster on the next time the website is loaded [...]
- 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 [...]
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Google Chrome 4 Gets Bookmark Syncing
The latest developer versions of the Google Chrome browser come with the build in option to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computer systems by utilizing a Google account to store the data. Google Chrome dev build users might already know the feature from previous developer builds where it had to be enabled by launching the Google [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ten Great Google Chrome Themes
Themes, like extensions, have only been added recently to the Google Chrome web browser. The Google Chrome theme engine on the other hand offers an advantage over other web browsers as it does not require a restart after applying a new theme to the web browser. Designers and theme developers have been busy since to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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LastPass For Google Chrome Arrives
There are two Firefox extensions that I do not want to live without: NoScript and LastPass. I’d think about switching to another web browser if that web browser would support these two extensions. This option has come a step closer with the announcement that LastPass has developed an extension for the Google Chrome web browser. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Who The Hell Needs Google Chrome Frame?
Innovation is good. Niche software is good as well as there are usually at least some users who might need a program that the majority of users does not even bother thinking about. Google Chrome Frame is a niche product. The niche might however be that small that it lacks the core ingredient: users. Google [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Releases Google Chrome 3
Version chaos; That’s what many web users called Google’s fast paced versioning of their Google Chrome web browser. The stable release was Google Chrome 2 for some time, the stable developer build Google Chrome 3 and the latest build Google Chrome 4. Google Chrome 2 was the version that was offered at the Google Chrome [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Finally: Google Chrome Extensions Turned On By Default In Dev Releases
Not many users understood why the Google Chrome development team decided to operate with lots of switches to manage some functionality of the web browser. Users who wanted to turn on the extension engine had to launch the web browser with a parameter, the same is true for userscript support, bookmark syncing and dozens of [...]