http://www.download-google-chrome.org A news blog about the Chrome Browser Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:47:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last friday, Google engineer Ojan Vafai told that Chrome will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey. However unlike the case in many times for add-ons for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, Google wants to make sure that ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/googles-support-to-chrome-add-ons-and-web-standards/ An automatic patch updates Chrome to version 0.2.149.30. It was released on 17 september 2008. It contains updates on security and some changes and bug fixes. From the release notes : Fix a potential denial of service with very long title attributes on tags. Stop adding content from HTTPS sites to the searchable ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/chrome-beta-release-0214930/ To enhance experience for webbrowser users Google Chrome has set as one of it goals to speed up browsing. To accomplish this, two interesting things can be mentioned : the DNS prefetching and the new Javascript engine, V8. DNS prefetching [caption id="attachment_206" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="about:dns"][/caption] Chrome does this by scanning links, domain names ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/why-is-chrome-so-fast/ [caption id="attachment_194" width="340"][/caption] What is the difference between Chromium and Chrome? Chromium definition Quoted from the Chromium developer site : Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/chromium-versus-chrome/ [caption id="attachment_188" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Chromium on Apple"][/caption] Codeweavers, the producers of CrossOver - which allows to run Windows applications on Mac an Linux on the Wine engine - has succesfully ported Chromium to run on Mac and Linux. Codeweavers only took 11 days to succesfully port it. "We were looking for a ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/chrome-chromium-on-mac-and-linux/ If you like to check out the latest developers version of Chrome check out the Dev Channel of Chromium developer. There you can download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser. The Dev Channel is meant for : Web developers who want to test their sites or scripts with pre-release versions of Google ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/google-chrome-developers-update/ There are not many Google Chrome Addons yet. However a small guide how to create them can be found on ChromeAddons. More can be found on Mychomeaddons, including an much needed adblock,  Chromium Theme Creator, XChrome - a theme manager and an article on Greasemetal - a userscript runtime for ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/google-chrome-add-ons/ Google Chrome (web browser) has just hit the world. Google Chrome backup is a small tool to create, ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/google-chrome-backup/ A nice informative site about Chrome plugins, Chrome extensions and Chrome themes can be found on Chromeplugins. Allready there are articles like about the Google Toolbar, Command Line Switches, a backup and profile tool, shortcuts and there is a nice forum. Check the site on chromeplugins.org http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/chrome-plugins/ Mike Schaffner on Forbes.com wonders if Chrome offers enough for people to make them switch from other browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox. This from a corporate point of view. He discusses the speed, security, stability, features, website support for Chrome, Outlook Web Access and company IT support requirements. Read ... http://www.download-google-chrome.org/2008/09/does-chrome-offer-enough-to-switch-from-internet-explorer-or-firefox/