Google recently released its Chrome browser for Mac OS X, but until now, users could not enjoy add-ons and extensions because they were not supported.
The latest development build (caution: this release might not be stable) of Chrome for Mac now includes support for Chrome extensions. Extensions are small and free apps that are made by third-party developers that add or enhance existing browser functionality. Extensions support was already available for the Windows version of Chrome. Other Mac browsers such as both Safari and Firefox already have a large list of available extensions.
There are few more enhancements in the latest build such as the ability to display your opened tabs only with their respective favicons only.
According to the latest data, Google Chrome is now the third most popular web browser, edging out Apple’s Safari browser. From CBC, the data indicates Microsoft’s Internet Explorer holds 63-percent market share, with Firefox second with only about 25-percent, followed by Google’s Chrome browser with a small yet significant 4.5-percent.
Last fall, Google released for the first time its new Google Chrome browser. Today, the company has finally released Google Chrome for Mac. The browser has been built from the ground up and is deeply integrated with Mac OS X, including with KeyChain and Spelling integration. Check out the video below for complete details.
Google hopes to launch its Chrome OS to power new netbooks by next year, saving all content directly to the cloud
Google has just unvield its Chrome OS that it hopes will be powering netbooks by 2010.
The Chrome OS will actually operate entirely in the cloud. It will not store any data locally on the
machine. The machine bypasses the bootloader and immediately launches the browser. The idea is, you should be able to acess your data anywhere and anytime.
Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai said yesterday during the unveiling that, “If I lose my Chrome machine, I should be able to go out, buy a new [machine] and re-create my previous computing experience easily.”
A new Apple patent aims to give a user control over sounds found on web sites. A panel would sit at the top right corner of your browser, allowing you to entire mute the sounds coming from the current website you are on. This will allow you to mute unwanted sounds coming from certain websites. The feature will prove especially useful for flash-based websites where it is sometimes not as easy to find mute buttons. According to the patent, you will also be able o create profiles. The feature would be used on supported on many browsers and not just Safari.
Skyfire is a mobile browser already available for Windows Mobile, but will now make the jump to BlackBerry. It is being dubbed as the best browsers ever available for BlackBerry. Skyfire seems to render pages essentially identical to a desktop experience, and even supports in-browser flash, so you can play videos from YouTube and Hulu straight from the browser. Skyefire also has support for Facebook, Twitter, Digg, among other social sites right from the main browser home menu. Skyfire is in Alpha right now, but will soon be available for all for free. Check out some of the screen shots from CrackBerry.
Microsoft has just released the final version of Internet Explorer 8. The update importantly now supports internet standards, includes faster performance, a smart Firefox like address bar, tabbed grouping, crash protection so you don’t lose your opened tabs, among many other features.
Popular social news site Digg.com seems to be developing a browser based toolbar, similar to StumbleUpon’s toolbar. The Digg toolbar apparently lets you Digg or Burry the page you are on, and also tells you how many Diggs the page has already received. The toolbar can also fetch related pages. Now, there are two very interesting features. The Digg toolbar features a shortened URL similar to TinyURL for each page making it easier for you to share stories by Facebook, Twitter, or by Email. The shortened URL includes the Digg prefix with 6 unqiue characters for the page http://digg.com/aaaaaa. This feature alone will pose a significant risk to existing shortening URL services assuming the Digg toolbar is widely adopted. Finally, another significant feature is the large orange Random button found on the right side of the toolbar, which effectively works the same as StumbleUpon by taking you to a random site. I personally think a Digg toolbar is long over due.
Lead Mozilla Fennec developer Brad Lassey has just done an interview with WMExperts and revealed some new information on new features coming from Mozilla’s mobile Fennec browser. One of the new key features, dubbed Weave, brings the ability to sync your opened tabs with your desktop pc, allowing you to easily continue research and doing what you were doing on your PC on your mobile. Fennec will also include the third party add-on support found on Firefox, developers will be able to easily port their add-ons for use on Fennec. The Fennec beta will be coming by this summer.
Opera Mini 4.2 for Android has moved out of beta and into Alpha. If you have a Google Android powered phone, you should get this new version as it features many new updates. New features include the ability to access local memory to upload files, video playback, among other improvements.
A complaint from Opera has promoted new antitrust complaints against Microsoft in Europe, this time concerning Microsoft Internet Explorer. Microsoft said “we are committed to conducting our business in full compliance with European law. We are studying the Statement of Objections now. Under European competition law procedure, Microsoft will be afforded an opportunity to respond in writing to this Statement of Objections within about two months.”
Google recently released its Chrome browser for Mac OS X, but until now, users could not enjoy add-ons and extensions because they were not supported.
Lead Mozilla Fennec developer Brad Lassey has just done an 
