The amount of applications, tweaks and tips released for Google’s first web browser Chrome is increasing daily which can be somewhat attributed to the media coverage it received during the launch phase. The attention it receives is still surprising if you consider its mediocre market share of sub 1% of the browser market even with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

It has been about a week since the initial release of Google’s long awaited browser which marked Google’s entry into the browser market. The launch created buzz especially on the Internet where blogs and news portals raced to be the first to post interface screenshots, tests and reviews about Google Chrome. Even the mainstream media [...]

Categories: Google Chrome, Security

Google is releasing nightly builds of Google Chrome like crazy, up to 10 releases per day is a lot and it is hard to keep up with the releases because the nightly builds come without automatic update functionality. Donation Coder user Dirhael developed a simple application that checks for new nightly builds of Google Chrome [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google Chrome is using a client id variable in the file Local State which can be found in the user data folder of the chrome installation which is unique for every Chrome user. Privacy advocates are already warning users that the id can be used to create exact user profiles of a user’s actions while [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

Now this did not take long. Only one day after releasing a first public beta version of Google Chrome researchers at Kaspersky discovered (Thanks Neil for sending the tip) a security vulnerability that combines a security flaw in Webkit, the browser engine used by Google Chrome, with a Java bug. Apple fixed the vulnerability in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

The new browser by Google called Google Chrome is now available for download in various languages on the Google Chrome website. The installation file has a size of 474 Kilobytes on Windows XP and downloads additional components during installation. The first thing that users will realize after starting Google Chrome is that it will import [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome, Software

Rumors have been filling forums, blogs and websites that Google was working on a browser to compete with Microsoft on yet another level. Those rumors never ceased completely in the last three years or so and today those rumors seem to have gone over into a semi-official announcement of Google Chrome. Google sent out a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google