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Adobe Flash On Linux Will Soon Be A “Chrome Exclusive”

Adobe announced today that they are stopping development on Linux version of their flash plugin. Google Chrome will soon be the only place where Linux users can use Flash. As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the [...]

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Google Chrome Developer Tool Gets CSS Color Picker – A Blessing for Web Developers

The only bit of coding I know is some HTML and CSS. Chrome’s developer tools or those options you get when you right click and select “inspect element” is a place where I try to learn new things while playing with CSS and HTML. I’ve got a really cool feature added to Chrome today (Chromium [...]

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Chrome’s History Page Gets A Better UI Design

We saw the updated UI for the settings page recently. Now, here is  new version of the history page with similar design. This page will be integrated into the new settings page. That means you will have “settings”, “extensions”, “history”, “help”, “about” and even more at some point in the left side of the new [...]

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Chromium 19 Says Hi

I know, I know… version numbers doesn’t matter anymore since Chrome team is shipping features on a regular basis. So, here is a post just to say hi to Chromium version 19. Let’s take a look at the interesting comment on the v.19 push on Chromium source code. In English speech, the numbers 19 and [...]

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Chrome’s Settings Page Gets A New Fluid UI

Brandon Giesing send me an email with  a screenshot of the new settings page for Chrome. This new UI is more clean and “fluid” I don’t know if I used the correct word, but take a look at the screencast below and let me know what you think. This is available on the latest Chrome Dev [...]

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Chrome User Profiles, Now Complete With Your Avatar!

This is a small change but something that I’ve been waiting for, from the time they introduced multi user profiles on Chrome. Chrome dev version, with the last update, has added avatar images on top of the Chrome shortcut on my computer. Check this out! I know, I am overdoing it, this excitement. But I [...]

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GoogleBot Is Actually Chrome?

Surprised? I was too, when I came across this long article explaining such a possibility. “What if Chrome was in fact a repackaging of their search crawler; affectionately known as GoogleBot, for the consumer environment?” author asks. In simple words, this is what the blog post trying to establish. There are so many “signals” Google uses [...]

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Offline Gmail App Now Packs 30 Days of Email For Your

I’m not a big fan of the Chrome Offline Gmail App. I like the old offline gmail better. It was for many reasons including the limited number of emails available on offline mode. I am sure many of you had the same concern. Things are improving, but it will take some more time for this [...]

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Arrr! Something Tried to Commandeer Your Default Search Setting!

“Arrr! Something Tried to Commandeer Your Default Search Setting! We weren’t sure what to do, so we set it to Google.” Welcome to a brand new feature on Chrome. Google Chrome now protects your default search engine. It won’t let any third party app change your default search engine. Here is a video from François Beaufort . [...]

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Chrome is 18 is Coming

While we all are using Chrome 16 stable version, the team is busy grooming v.17 for its D day and also raising a new Kid (or Adult), Chrome 18. Let us take a look at the recent developments on Chromium and Chromium OS. Chrome Settings on chrome://chrome The team is playing around with a WEB [...]

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