If you are excited about Google Chrome Apps, this will be an interesting piece of news for you. OMG Ubuntu, a cool linux blog found that Linux Daily builds of Google Chrome now has an icon on the new tab page for Chrome Web App Store.
Update : This has been added to windows dev build too. It is linked to the newtab page. Thanks Avi !
The icon currently links back to the official Chrome extensions gallery. But, for us Google Chrome fans, this is another sign, towards the coming of our Google Chrome web app store, and the Chrome OS getting ready for release !
So, wait for more updates and exciting Google Chrome Weeks ahead !
Looking at a dead website, ever wondered if its just you and your connection, or the website itself ? . A new feature added to Google Chrome can help you find the answer.
As you can see from the image above (courtesy of a commenter at Lifehacker), Chrome is getting a little more descriptive with its “Oops!” messages, gathering collective request failures from the Chrome crowd and determining that a site (in this case, Netflix) is having difficulties.
Cool Feature uh ? Ever noticed this one ?
thanks downloadsquad.com
I am not sure if you guys use Google Dashboard a lot. It is a single page set up where you can manage settings for all Google Services that you use. I remember checking it out when it was released. It’ll be good to have a look at your dashboard, because it will make you wonder how many google products that you actually use.
Now, the news is, Google Chrome will soon have an link to access these settings easily from your options menu of the browser.
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Oh Yes, I am biased !
I love Google Chrome and believe that it is the best browser ever built. Now, here is a good review about Firefox 4 from WebworkerDaily.com.
They found that even when firefox 4 has made improvements in terms of speed, it is still way slower than Chrome and Opera.
After testing with WebKit’s SunSpider, and Mozilla’s Dromaeo testing suite, the results were not so impressive for firefox 4 when compared to Chrome, Opera and Safari 5. Testing was done on my 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro; only the major Mac browsers were tested. Please share if anyone here has a better test results from a windows PC.
Please read the full review here. So firefox guys, better luck next time !
When the beta version of Chromium based Flock was released last month, the Chromium discuss groups saw many people requesting Flocklike sidebar options on Chrome as well. Well, looks like we have some good news here.
Google Chrome is planning to add a sidebar API which will in turn give us more extensions with those sidebars. Expect a twitter extension which will show your timeiline in a sidebar !
The proposed API allows Chrome extensions to access and control Sidebar – per-tab split-pane HTML container to the left (to the right in RTL environment) of the main page content with the ability to resize horizontally. Currently implemented under –enable-experimental-extension-apis flag.
