02 Feb 10 Google Chrome extensions

Extensions, available for Google Chrome in Windows, are a great way to add more features and functionality to the browser. Sometimes, a feature is really useful for some people, but not for everyone. Extensions let you customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use.

There are different types of extensions which is very easy to install

Browser actions

These extensions add a button next to the Page and Tools menus to let you conveniently perform a task (such as accessing a site or checking for updates) no matter what page you’re visiting.

Page actions

These extensions can detect whenever you’re on a certain type of page and display an icon in the address bar. Click the icon to do an action on the page

Content scripts

These extensions can directly interact with the page you’re visiting.

You can install extensions from Google Chrome Extension Gallery

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20 Dec 09 “There is a new version of Google Chrome available” notification

Why do we get this?

When Google Chrome hasn’t been used for an extended period of time, you may see a little pop-up appear on your screen, asking whether you want to give the latest version of the browser a try or whether you want to uninstall the browser from your computer. Since Google Chrome updates itself automatically, you’ll have a new and improved version of the browser waiting for you to try if you select the first option. If you decide that you’d rather not use Google Chrome, you can uninstall it. We hope you’ll tell us why in the survey you’ll get as part of the uninstall process.

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19 Sep 09 Google Chrome 3 Latest stable release download

This new release of Google Chrome is faster than ever, as Google continue to provide a modern browser that starts up quickly from your desktop, and is fast to load web pages and web applications; improved by more than 150% in Javascript performance since our very first beta, and by more than 25% since the most recent stable release.

The New Tab page

When you download and fire up this latest release of Google Chrome, you’ll notice that the New Tab page. Redesigned the New Tab page; easy to use and easily customizable, following some rigorous testing on the most recent beta channel release. Now you can rearrange thumbnails of your most-visited websites by simply clicking and dragging your mouse. Additionally, you can pin thumbnails to a spot so they don’t disappear even if your browsing habits change. This way, you can easily get to the websites you care about with just one click.

The Omnibox

Because it’s a search bar as well as the web address bar, the multi-talented Omnibox helps you get to the sites you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes. With this release, we’ve optimized the presentation of the drop-down menu and added little icons to help you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history.

HTML5 capabilities

You can give the <video> tag a whirl in Google Chrome and also check out our 50th Chrome Experiment, which uses HTML5 <audio> and <canvas> tags. It’s great to see the great innovations that come from the use of open standards, and we’ll continue to bring the latest and greatest in web technologies quickly to users through Google Chrome.

Deck your browser with Themes

Themes allow you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns and images.

Google Chrome Download link below:

Google Chrome 3.0.195.21 Download

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11 Sep 09 Google Chrome Incognito mode (private browsing)

When you want to browse in stealth mode, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode:

• Webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito aren’t recorded in your browsing and download histories.
• All new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window.

Changes made to your Google Chrome bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved.

How to turn on incognito mode

Quickest way to turn on incognito mode is to use Ctrl+Shift+N keyboard shortcut or follow these steps:

• Click the Tools menu.
• Select New incognito window.

A new window will open with the incognito icon:

Browsing on  Google incognito mode does not stop;

• Websites that collect or share information about you.
• Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit.

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10 Jul 09 Google Chrome OS

Google’s blog announces an extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks.

Introducing the Google Chrome OS

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We’re excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.

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