February 2010

Google is Advertising Google Chrome .. oh wait .. that’s not a “news”  but hey,  listen, they are advertising it on Bing.com too !

chrome news  Google Advertises Chrome on Bing.com Too !

Try any browser related search on Bing.com, or simply search for “chrome” there, and you will find Chrome advertisement from Google. You will notice the same on searches on Yahoo! too.  But don’t forget that Microsoft is advertising bing.com on google adwords !

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chrome extensions  Google Chrome Extension for ESPN CricinfoAre you a cricket fan ? Someone always keep a browser tab open for cricket news and scores at work and at home ? Here is a chrome extension to make your life easy

The official ESPN Cricinfo Chrome Extension. This extension shows you the latest cricket news, features and live scores from cricinfo.com.

Click Here to Install

In addition to alerting you about a new story on Cricinfo.com via a small notification badge, we also show the current scores in a tooltip when you hover over the extensions’s icon. You can also select one or more matches to follow and the extension will update you whenever a wicket falls.

I have seen many at work keeping a browser tab open for cricket news, since they can not go and watch the match, even if they want to, very badly.  This extension is dedicated to all you guys chrome extensions  Google Chrome Extension for ESPN Cricinfo

This is simple… When I open chromestory.com in Google Chrome, I see the following advertisement on the footer, by Firefox.

chrome fun  Mozilla says Chrome is good but Firefox is awesome :)

… and when I use Firefox, I get this

chrome fun  Mozilla says Chrome is good but Firefox is awesome :)

Yes, Mozilla thinks Firefox is awesome and Chrome is just “Good” .. do you agree ?

Funny – This Chrome Extension is used for “NOTHING”

Oh yea, I haven’t gone crazy, there is an extension that does “nothing”. Name of the extension is “Nothing” and the description says ”This extension does nothing.” And now, see stats for this extension “464 users – Weekly installs: 6,383″      Oh !!!! Really  ? Click here and see for  yourself, if you don’t believe me. [...]

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Next Step, Full user profile sync on Chrome

Google Chrome will add another feature soon, allowing you to sync the user profile with multiple computers, not just bookmarks, but your theme, browser preferences etc. This will be yet another powerful feature for Google chrome, and at the same time, will be a another step towards Chrome OS. Because when Chrome Os hits the [...]

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Chrome OS – Login to your Computer from Browser ?

Here is an interesting news. Google is Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS.  ”Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login”  says Techcrunch. The feature was first mentioned [...]

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Google, We Need More Control on Managing Browsing History !

Dear Google, you are concentrating too much on “Search” based functionalities on all your products,  and most of them are awesome !but  here is something you forgot while working on “Search” on Chrome. If you go to “History” page for your Chrome browser, there only two ways to browse history, the “newer” and “older” links, [...]

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Use Facebook Inside Gmail, Like Buzz – Chrome Extension

Yes ! there is no typo in the title You can actually use Facebook inside gmail, just like Buzz used to be. Oh yea, I said used to be … because I know all of you started using it and then turned it off after couple of days  Now, let’s try facebook in the same [...]

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Google Chrome To Add “Translation Bar” – Built in Translation

Added : If you are searching for a way to disable this feature, click here to know HOW When I knew that Google do not have plans to add its popular Google Tool Bar to Chrome, I had a doubt that they are going to add most of it’s features in to Google Chrome by default, [...]

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