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 HTML5 web video wars are heating up again, this time with news that Google announced to remove support for the h.264 codec from the Chrome browser in the next couple months. […]
The introduction of extensions in Opera 11 and the release of Opera 11 final has seen an increase in third party development for the web browser. Popular browser extensions, like the Last […]
I have been a fan of Enlightenment for a long, long time. It's one of the most elegant desktops available today. But not only is it elegant looking, it's a joy to […]
Update: With Opera switching to Chromium just like Google Chrome, the method below is no longer working. To change the cache of Opera 15 or newer, you need to add the startup […]
Did you know that there is no setting in the graphical user interface of the Google Chrome browser to change the location and size of the cache? I searched up and down […]
Firefox is my default web browser, which can be mainly attributed to its amazing add-on support and customization options. But other browsers have emerged (Chrome) or improved to a point that Firefox […]
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 […]
A recent post on the Chromium blog revealed two changes coming to the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery. Both changes are introduced to increase the efforts made so far to protect Chrome users […]
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 […]
How many browsers does an operating system really need? If you are looking from the outside in at the Linux operating system you would think it needed plenty of browsers. Firefox, Opera, […]
"In the beginning was the command line" is not the just name of a great book by Neil Stephensen (read the text here), but a way of life for many Linux users. […]
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 […]
Integration of the Flash plugin and a native PDF reader in Google Chrome has been a controversial move. Some users liked the idea as it allowed them to access contents without having […]
The Google Chrome developers integrated a native Flash plugin in the web browser less than three months ago. This internal plugin improved the traditional browser plugin model. Most noteworthy from a user's […]
If you have followed the development of web browsers in the past months you probably noticed that a fight for the HTML5 video format broke out between big players. Both Microsoft and […]
Up until today three versions of Google Chrome were available for download. Google Chrome 4 was the stable channel that was offered to all visitors who wanted to download the Google browser. […]
Google yesterday officially announced the release of the Open Source, royalty free video format WebM making it a third contender for the HTML5 video crown after H.264 and Theora. WebM video might […]
Many Internet users load websites by entering the prefix http:// and then the url (actual address) of the domain in the address bar of the web browser they are using. This is […]
The Google Chrome browser and its open source counterpart Chromium do not have options currently to configure default programs. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer ship with configuration options to set default programs […]
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 […]
WinPenPack is a free software solution comprised of portable applications that are grouped into suites for easy selection. It can be very beneficial to store some applications on external USB sticks, Flash […]
Google added several new features to its Chrome web browser lately. We reviewed the new autofill and taskbar thumbnail features already that Google added to the latest developer release version of the […]
Opera Backup is a free program for Windows devices that you may use to back up or restore Opera browser data. Backups should be an important part of every computer user's disaster […]
The biggest feature addition of Google Chrome 4 was without doubt the built in extension engine that allowed Chrome users to install and use extensions. What the developers forgot to mention in […]
Regular readers know that I would make the switch from Firefox to either Google Chrome or Opera if those web browsers would support NoScript functionality and Last Pass. NoScript is a security […]
The stable version of Google Chrome 4 was released to the public a short time ago and we mentioned in the review that Google was now targeting both Internet Explorer and Opera […]
Now that a stable version of Google Chrome with extension support has been released to the public it is time to concentrate on some of the usability issues of the web browser. […]
Iron is a web browser that is based on the Chromium source code, the same code that powers the Google Chrome web browser. The main difference between Iron and Google Chrome is […]
Google Similar Pages is an add-on for the Google Chrome web browser that can help you in the discovery of related or similar websites by suggesting these sites to you when you […]
One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs, plugins and the core engine, in different processes to increase the […]
Google's entry as a DNS server provider (read: Google Public DNS) has caused quite a stir on the Internet. Some users have had privacy concerns while others started testing and using the […]
The memory usage of modern web browsers has increased quite a bit over the years which can be attributed to the increased functionality, but also to plugins and extensions that use computer […]
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 […]
Now that the source code of Chrome OS is in the open, the project has entered the second stage of the development phase. I suggest to read the Chrome OS announcement article […]
Google today has released Google Chrome OS - or operating system - as Open Source under the name Chromium Open Source Project. You may have already read in the past month that […]
Why is the Internet so damn slow. That's probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once. Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs […]
Chrome Cache Viewer is a portable software program for Windows that lists the contents of the Google Chrome browser cache in the application interface. Chrome Cache View is one of those applications […]
Until now userscript support in the Google Chrome web browser was severely limited by the fact that you had to copy the scripts to a folder of the Chrome profile. Recent versions […]
Update: The program has not been updated for quite some time and it appears that it is not working properly anymore because of this. We have removed the link as a consequence. […]
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