Posts from — June 2009

I like things when they become ( very ) official.  There are themes and plugins available for g-chrome already, but I did not post about them yet, and this is my reason. It’s not that I don’t like to test things, I love testing, of course and I am using g-chrome development version on both my windows and linux installations.

When things go official, they become more easy for users to understand and implement. For example, installing a new theme or plugin now, that’s before they go official, requires few steps that an average users may not be able to follow. But, when plugins and themes are official, it may take only couple of mouse clicks, to get you going.

Okay, so to the news of the day, this is again ( following news from the dev version ? check out archives and subscribe to RSS for more )  from my development version running on windows XP. I see an option to  reset google chrome theme to default. Even Though I don’t see anything else other than this about themes or plugins, this is of course a good sign. We are just a few more steps away from implementing themes and extensions.

You will see more colors on google chrome very soon. Make your g-chrome look cute, sexy, or hot .. whatever you want !!

I found many people searching for google toolbar support for google chrome, and wondering why, it is not added to google chrome yet, both being Google’s projects and very popular at that.

However, Google Is Bringing a lot of feature of Google Toolbar to Chrome by default.  Very soon, we will have the translation inbuilt to chrome via a Translation Bar . Then there are extensions that will support many of your needs.

I also had no idea why this is so. But when I was uninstalling Google Toolbar from firefox, I kinda figured out why it is not there on Chrome yet.

Fact that we all know : We love the simple layout of Google Chrome for many reasons, and the most important reason : It gives more screen space. Google Chrome is designed to give you a better browsing experience, as far as space is concerned, and they have done this very well, and that does not come very easily … I am sure they have worked very hard on this.

If you have noticed, when Extensions are enabled, Google Chrome will not let them take more space from your screen area, that’s how they are making the extensions work too.

All this hard work, and they add Google Tool Bar to Chrome … then it will look a MESS !!

because it consumes so much from the screenspace… correct people ? Well, that should be the reason for Chrome still being away from Google Toolbar.

What Makes Me Think This Way

When you uninstall Google Toolbar on Firefox, you are supposed to tell them why you are doing that,  a feedback . And one among the most common reasons listed for you to select from is, ” It’s Taking My Screen Space” ( or something similar ? ). So, I would say, Google have enough feedback from toolbar users ( who uninstalled it ?  ) stating that they don’t want the google toolbar to take up more space.

So, in the current format, it’s not wise to add Google Toolbar to Chrome … what you think ?

Dear friends, We started our journey together on February 2009, and chromestory.com is 5 month old now. Thank you for the great support that you have offered me so far, and I hope that we will be together for years to come.

60+ people following the blog on RSS, and 100 unique visitors per day, average. That’s really nice, thanks again.

Now, I have a gift for you all. A brand new support forum for Chrome Related discussions. It’s fun answering questions from our friends, and learning more while helping others.

You can review your Chrome experience so far, share tips to make google chrome secure and stable, and more private and much more. We will soon start sections for Google Chrome themes and plugins.  Support forum for Linux, Mac, and Windows versions are also on their way.

Wow ! How Do I Join ?

Okay, I know you are excited, now, I’ve made joining the forum very simple. Simply click here and register for your FREE account.

They did this first for Gmail, ( do you remember those Gmail videos ? ) this time, it’s Google Chrome, getting new user created videos, funny, cute, interesting and much more.

Feeling inspired yet ? , you can submit your video too. Login and do that here.  Be sure to share it with us too !!

If you want to check out some cool videos that Google Chrome created, ( and later they put them on TV too ), we have it all collected here. Now, watch a sample videos from Google Chrome team for the new project.

Now, what do you think about Google’s efforts with videos, ads, and other promoting tools they are running for Chrome? Do you know anyone who changed to Chrome because they saw any of these ads ?

Image from : chrome.blogspot.com

And finally …..  sorry, I feel I need to add another “finalllyyyy” ( because, it took sooo long ) we have official releases of Google Chrome Linux and Mac OSX.

But wait, why am I so excited ? There is no need to be that much excited yet, since this is a developer version, where you can bugs, crashes and a lot of other issues, and missing features, but still, it makes me happy if not excited. Now, the funniest thing, they have added “don’t download” in caps, on the release post !! check this

In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

Ubuntu and Linux :  HERE

Apple Mac OSX : Here

Will you be testing them ? Downloading them ? Please let me know your comments ! ( more news and review coming soon )