Prerendering is a technology that can speed up web browsing by loading web pages in advance. The advantage of prerendering is an almost instant page loading time for prerendered pages. There are disadvantages though. The average web page has anywhere from a few dozen to more than one hundred links. Prerendering all link targets would [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Where Can I Download The Different Google Chrome Builds?
Did you know that Google alone is releasing four different versions of the Google Chrome browser regularly? And that is not even counting the Chromium releases that make up the core of the browser. This guide describes the differences between those releases. It also links to the official download pages where each build can be [...]
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Google Chrome Dev Hits Version 7
The Chromium developers have really redefined versioning at least when it comes to their web browser. The browser that made its first appearance in 2008 has now reached version 7 in the developer channel, with the likelihood that the beta and stable channels will follow suite later this year. Usually, a major leap in version [...]
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Enable Side Tabs In Google Chrome
All the talking about sidebar tabs today in Firefox reminded me that I wanted to write about a similar feature in Google Chrome, to be more precise in the Google Chrome dev releases and Chromium. The developers of the browser have added a startup switch to enable side tabs. Users who are running a dev [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Chrome Web Apps, What Are They?
If you follow popular tech blogs like Techcrunch or Download Squad you may have noticed teaser posts about Google Chrome Web Apps, a new feature that the Chromium and Google Chrome developers have been developing for some time. Google’s plan is to offer Chrome Web Apps in the new Chrome Web Store launched later this [...]
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Google Chrome Dev Gets Native PDF Plugin
The Google Chrome developers introduced a native Flash plugin in their browser less than three months ago. This internal plugin improved the traditional browser plugin model. Most noteworthy from a user’s standpoint was the immediate availability after installing Google Chrome and the auto-updating of the plugin to reduce security risks because of outdated plugins. Another [...]
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Google Chrome Dev Channel Gets VP8 WebM Support
If you have followed web browser developments in the past months you probably noticed that a fight for the HTML5 video format broke out between the big players. Both Microsoft and Apple supported h.264 while Opera and Mozilla supported OGG Vorbis and Google Chrome both. This would have proven disastrous not only for end users [...]
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Google Integrates Adobe Flash Into Chrome
One of the first things that many users do after installing a web browser is to install Adobe Flash as it is needed to display many websites and most of the hosted videos on the Internet. The Google Chrome developers have decided to include the Adobe Flash Player plugin into the latest dev version of [...]
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Google Chrome 5 Beta
The Google Chrome 5 development has reached a new milestone with the release of Google Chrome 5 Beta for Windows operating systems. The official release version of the Google browser is still version 4 but users and developers who are interested in testing the latest additions and improvements can download developer or beta releases of [...]