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Google’s Chrome Released on Mac and Linux
Google’s Chromium browser (open-source Chrome) has been released for Mac and select Linux Distros, but the release page warns not to download unless you like incomplete software. Keep in mind this isn’t even beta yet, for Google that’s something. Pretty soon though Mac, Linux, and Windows user will get to enjoy Chrome. Me personally I’m waiting for an extension system like Firefox before I’ll use it solely as my browser of choice.
Google Chrome 1.0
Google Chrome is no longer beta, yes you heard right a Google product that isn’t beta. After only being beta for 3 and 1/2 months Google removed the beta tag with the release of 1.0 Thursday. It appears that Google has been busy improving their browser, it’s now 1.4 times faster processing JavaScript. Many popular plugins are also said to run faster. Another area of improvement was with the bookmark management, this was a sore area with some users who like to export and organize their bookmarks which now they can. The privacy options have also been improved.
Source: InformationWeek
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Google Chrome’s First Bug
The first vulnerability of Google’s new browser has been announced and fixed. The bug is a buffer overflow when the user tries to save a web page containing a very long title tag. Now I’m sure it’s because of all the attention the browser is getting that this vulnerability was even discovered and more so that it was patched so quickly. The side affect of all the attention is more bugs and problems will probably arise but also that these will be patched and a excellent browser will emerge.
Side Note: I just can’t figure out why that decided to use Apple’s WebKit instead of Gecko for the engine. I have a problem with my computer at work with my mouse wheel scrolling not working correctly in Safari for Windows and the same problem occurs with Chrome.
Source: PCWorld
Google Chrome Screen Shots
I promised some screen shots and that’s what I’m giving.
One of the nice features I’ve found so far is the incognito window, this makes a function that is only available through a plugin in Firefox built in. In essence it is doesn’t keep track of what you do in that window. So if you happen to be on some inappropriate sites no one will ever know.
The biggest difference that I can see is that Chrome doesn’t use some of Mozilla’s custom CSS tags such as -moz-border-radius which makes pretty rounded buttons in Firefox. I’ve done a little side by side screen shot to show what I mean. Since all the screens are large I’m going to post them on the full page click below to continue on to the screens.
