Posts Tagged ‘Chrome’

Charles Arthur of The Guardian has finally shed some light on Chrome’s recent announcement that they would be dropping H.264, and all he had to do was ask Google’s PR team.

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Yesterday Google Chrome announced that they would drop H.264 support. We ask a few questions and look at the possibilities of why they would do something so rash.

We all know that YouTube is great, but what if it could be even better? Here are 10 fun extensions for Google Chrome users that will help you make your YouTube experience all that it can be.

RockMelt, the new socially-focused web browser backed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, was released (by beta invite request only) Monday. The browser aims to transform web browsing into a true social experience by closely integrating with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.

The browser has been in development for two years, and uses the Chromium engine pioneered by Google’s Chrome browser. RockMelt founders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes recently sat down with PCMag.com to talk about their new toy and how it stands out from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Flock, and all the rest of them.

“All the browsers available today, although they’ve gotten a lot faster, are still just about navigating web pages. We built features into the browser to address people’s three top browsing behaviors: interacting with friends, consume news and information, and searching,” said Howes.

With all the competition, RockMelt faces an uphill battle. Even the critically-acclaimed Flock social browser, which aims for basically the same target, has yet to capture a mainstream audience. But RockMelt has a couple of aces up its sleeve. Read more

Google’s announced Chrome Web Store is essentially an open marketplace for web applications. Introduced at the 2010 Google I/O confference, the Chrome Web Store aims to make it easy for developers to package and release apps or games that can be launched through the Chrome browser. At the recent Future of Social Gaming Panel sponsored [...]

You would think that Google would make their various services work efficiently within Google Chrome, the company’s increasingly popular web browser. While reading an article about Google Earth images of Haiti, I saw the image below which highlights that Google Earth doesn’t work within Chrome. Granted, Chrome is extremely fast on most other things, but [...]

As I’m using Chrome for more than a month now I have installed few useful extensions to make my life a bit easier. There are new Chrome extensions every day but for you to choose the right ones to install, I will give a little review on addons dedicated for Facebook, Twitter.

Twitter

Chromed Bird – Really cool twitter client integrated right into your Chrome browser. You can also try Chrowety, Tweetings or some other built-in Twitter client.

TwitterBar – easy to use plugin for posting to twitter – no unnecessary features just type in and post.

Fast Twitter Search – this extension adds Twitter search button to the toolbar so you can quickly find something on twitter.

What the trend – very interesting plugin to see what’s are the top trending topics on Twitter right now.

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Covering the launch of Google Chrome, Yammer – the TechCrunch50 winner, the next phase of Jott and 39 social networking apps for iPhone. Check out the podcast for more!

By now, there are probably millions of users who have downloaded the new browser in town – the lightweight, clean and simple Google Chrome browser. If you haven’t, waste no time, head on to Google.com/Chrome and download it now. Or if you wish, you might want to read first, our initial impression of Google Chrome.

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