Themes were added to the beta version of the Google Chrome web browser (also known as the Google browser) not long ago. It was more or less an unfinished feature back then with only two test themes released and the official theme website not working even though the button to open the theme website being [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The latest developer release of the Google Chrome web browser introduces two important changes to the extension and theme support of the Google browser. You might remember that Google Chrome users had to enable support for the extension engine by launching the Google browser with the –enable-extensions command line parameter. This has been changed in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

There is currently no build in extensions manager in the Google Chrome web browser which makes it quite time consuming to manage and work with extensions. Users who want to enable extensions have to do so by launching the Google browser with a command line parameter. This will change once the extension engine has been [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google has added extensions support to dev versions of the Google Chrome web browser (Google Browser). The feature is still not finalized and the only way to enable the extensions engine is to add a command line parameter so that it gets loaded during the start of the Internet browser. Google has made available several [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google, Google Chrome

Many news websites, bloggers and even conventional news sources such as newspapers or TV news have reported about the Microsoft killer Google Chrome OS, the cloud based operating system by Google that is based on their web browser Google Chrome and a modified Linux kernel. Google Chrome OS is expected to make its appearance on [...]

Categories: Operating Systems

The dev version of Google Chrome 3 was released earlier today fixing some of the problems in earlier dev versions of the Google browser but also introducing new features as well. Some of the highlights of the release with the full build string Google Chrome 3.0.191.3 are fixed animated gifs, printing under Windows, fixes for [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

When I worked in tech support I really had to be careful about words. Things like web browsers, the operating system’s name or even keys on the keyboard might feel natural to experienced computer users but they did confuse the hell out of the average user. Many did not know what the web browser was, [...]

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Web browser memory usage might not be that much of an issue in these days with Gigabytes of computer memory being build into modern computer systems. There is however the low end market that is fueled by the success of netbooks and other low end hardware. A memory usage test of popular web browser might [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Microsoft has published a comparison chart that compares Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox and the Google Browser Google Chrome in categories such as security, privacy, compatibility and ease of use. It is not clear when the comparison chart was published but it made the rounds on Reddit earlier today. A comparison chart created by the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer