Category — Chrome News

Translation Bar has hit the beta channel for Chrome now Okay, I could have avoided that smiley, I know, there are people who are happy with the translation bar, and there are people who are getting annoyed with the translation bar. But again, its a good feature, provided there is an option to disable it.

So  we have the new beta release today with the Translation Bar and more content privacy settings. I told you guys about the translation bar few days back when I first noted it. Read it here for more info

Content Privacy Settings

From these settings, you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.

I was worried about chrome not giving enough options to control browsing history, so that we will have more privacy there.  The content privacy settings seems good, and there is something new coming in. Its called Chrome History API. This is still under development or “experimental” as they call it. But, once this is added to stable versions, we will see addons which will give more controls to history as I  discussed in that post. If you want to know more about this, you can read it here.

Now here is a video of the new translation bar.

Google is Advertising Google Chrome .. oh wait .. that’s not a “news”  but hey,  listen, they are advertising it on Bing.com too !

Try any browser related search on Bing.com, or simply search for “chrome” there, and you will find Chrome advertisement from Google. You will notice the same on searches on Yahoo! too.  But don’t forget that Microsoft is advertising bing.com on google adwords !

Read a detailed article with more screenshots here

Google Chrome will add another feature soon, allowing you to sync the user profile with multiple computers, not just bookmarks, but your theme, browser preferences etc.

This will be yet another powerful feature for Google chrome, and at the same time, will be a another step towards Chrome OS. Because when Chrome Os hits the markets, users are supposed to have seamless integration of user experience on any system they login with Chrome OS.

In recent Chromium nightly builds, code has landed which will extend sync capabilities. I am  yet to see any changes related to this on the UI, but will post them as soon as I see it

Another thing I am waiting to see on Chrome Browser, from the Chrome OS demo is those lovely panels. I want to have my gamil chat window persistent, moving with me to all tabs.  It’ll be really cool right ?  I hope it wont take much time since Chrome Os should come out this year itself !

Ah !! this is tough !! don’t make me wait too much Google !

source : downloadsquad.com

When I knew that Google do not have plans to add its popular Google Tool Bar to Chrome, I had a doubt that they are going to add most of it’s features in to Google Chrome by default, or “Built in”.

Recently, I got another sign of it, when I found ” Translation Bar” in the latest dev build that I am using ( yep,  I am using the developer version, to bring you the latest to you ).  When you open a website, in a language other than your default language, the translation bar will popup on the top, suggesting you to view the translated version of the page.

See the screenshot. Click on the image to zoom in.

You may get this even if a part of the website is in a different language. You can close the translation bar clicking on “X” icon on it. However, I am yet to find an option to disable the translation bar for the entire browser. But yes, this is still bring developed, and we will soon see those options.

Stay Tuned for more !

Are you using the stable version of Google Chrome ? If you are, I am sure that you were waiting for this release of Google chrome, version 4, with Bookmark Synch, Extensions, and much more !

There is a long list of new features

• Extensions
• Bookmark sync
• Enhanced developer tools
• HTML5: Notifications, Web Database, Local Storage, WebSockets, Ruby support
• v8 performance improvements
• Skia performance improvements
• Full ACID3 pass, due to re-enabled remote font support (with added defense against bugs in operating system font libraries)
• HTTP byte range support
• New security feature: “Strict Transport Security” support
• Experimental new anti-reflected-XSS feature called “XSS Auditor”

Have you checked if you are using the latest version of Chrome ? If not, here is how to do it. Also, start playing with extensions too ! Stay tuned to chromestory.com for the latest and greatest addons.

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