Version 2.0 of Google Chrome, known as the Google browser, has been released yesterday by the Chrome development team. The web browser is now officially out of beta. The speed of development is a little surprising for a company that seems to love the beta tag on many of their products. Some think that Google [...]

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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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The Google browser is not really taking off as Google might have expected even though it is advertised in virtually every Google service on the Internet. That does not keep Google from using unorthodox promotion techniques. You might remember that the web browser was introduced with a comic. Their last endeavor are 11 short films [...]

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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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One of the elementary things that the Google browser is missing is support for some kind of plugins or extensions that Firefox offers for a long time. Google announced plans to support an extension API in later builds of the web browser but it currently lacks that support and that could be one of the [...]

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Most modern web browsers make use of a password manager that stores usernames and passwords of websites and services in the browser so that the user does not have to enter them over and over again. Mozilla Firefox and Opera provide access to a password manager in the browser that can be used to manage [...]

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The release of Google Chrome and its Open Source counterpart Chromium put Google for the first time in the position that Microsoft was in for the last ten years or so. Users are looking at Microsoft products with suspicion suspecting privacy breaches and data collection on large scales. This is especially apparent in Microsoft operating [...]

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