They must be celebrating at the Plex now. Statcounter released their report for last month and for the first time Chrome overtook Fireofox to become the second popular browser world wide.

Chrome is the new 25%.

To all those who work to make Chrome great, congratulations, and aim for Internet Explorer now!!!!

During November, Chrome accounted for 25.7 percent of the global usage, slightly higher than the 25.2 percent that Firefox pulled down this month.

Will This Help Chromebooks?

The growth of Chrome as a browser, will it help Google sell more Chromebooks? The main reason they retained the same UI and features on Chrome OS was to attain almost zero learning time for anyone who wants to use a Chromebook. Anyone who ever used the Chrome browser must be able to use Chromebooks without spending even a minute to figure out how to.

So, more people who knows how to use Chrome means more people who can use Chromebooks or may even like Chromebooks.

What do you think?

via Statcounter

Indians and Bollywood movie lover will need no introduction about this one; but for others, Ra.One is a Bollywood (in Hindi language) movie released in India last week.

It is a dream project of Indian superstar Sharukh Khan. He hopes to make a real Indian superhero with this movie. Sharukh has used Google Plus Hangouts and other Google services to promote this movie and the latest, a Game for Chrome Web Store called Ra. One Genesis.

Ra.One | Genesis is a free to play top down 3D arcade action game, available for Smartphones & Online. You play as the mighty superhero ‘G.One’ who will stand to defend our world, against the wrath of a surreal creation codename ‘Ra.One’ and his minions, who are all set to bring chaos and destruction.

ps: Akon sings a Hindi song for this movie. Check it out here.

Download the Chrome Web App Here.

I’ve used dual boot machines and seen computers with more than two or three operating systems but a computer that runs multiple operating systems at the same time? A magical button that switches between them just like your alt+tab on windows?

This must be crazy

Chromium OS, Ubuntu, Android 2.3 and another flavour of Linux by alwaysinnovating.com is being demoed to us in these two videos, running more than one operating system at the same time.

By just pressing the magic AI button, you get a simple menu, letting you literally switch between several OS running at the same time on the same machine on a single processor. Instant-play, you can take the most of each OS, which means in our case: our AIOS, Android, Ubuntu, and ChromiumOS. Best of all, you can share your documents between those side-by-side instances

Everything is opensource and that’s really cool. For anyone interested in checking this out, here is the link.

Web browser on Android is moving closer towards Chrome and Chromium. In what shape and form, we do not know yet. But, that doesn’t stop us from imagining better things.

Chrome Mini for Android, for example!

Well, you can call it Chrome Mini or whatever you want, the question I am asking you here is, if they make one or modify the existing browser to be little Chromy, what features of Chrome would you like to see on this mobile browser? What type of integration would you prefer? I will tell you what I want to see, like it or hate it, let me know in comments, and add your points too!

Sync My Bookmarks, to Start With!

This will be one of the basic things that I would like to see on Chrome for Android, from the early versions of it. I should be able to bookmark something from my Chrome and get it synced to Chrome Mini seamlessly.

When that’s working, I can leave my PC and pickup my phone or tablet and access  the page that I was reading, with just bookmarking it. This will be useful when I move from phone to PC as well!

Give Me Speed!

Speed and simplicity is something we all like in Chrome. I would love to see the browser on Android becoming more powerful with Chrome powering it. Faster page loads and much more, that’ll be cool!

Chrome To Phone, Inbuilt

Chrome to Phone is a good extension/app. But we need an app installed on the phone, and then the extension on Chrome browser, for it to work. Can I get this feature without all that formality, please?

Now, what’s your feature request?

Dan Savage used the web to create the It Gets Better project–a movement that has generated thousands of uplifting videos that give hope to teens…….

We had some conversations in the green and rich comments field for couple of blog posts this week. Two thoughts emerged from those comments were thought provoking. So, here is another post to discuss those two points.

Does Chrome Have Enough Market Share To Make Hard Decisions ?

On the blog post Google Chrome to Drop Support for H.264 Video acupunc asks the following question.

The problem is when novice users try and use Chrome and can’t play a video, back to IE they will go. Chrome doesn’t have a big enough market share to dictate anything at this time. YouTube on the other hand does.

First of all, thank you for this very intelligent comment ! I was imaging myself as a new user to Chrome and finding it hard to play videos on many websites. I will sure go back to another browser that supports these.

Google may be trying to push innovation to another direction with new technologies and leaving outdated plugins etc. But at the cost of new users ? Making usability of the browser take a cut ? If there is a percentage of websites using this video format and Chrome discontinues it before it can convince everyone to their new WebM video format ?

Does Chrome has enough market share to pull customers, websites and companies towards their direction and make choices for them ? Are we there yet ?

How Many Weeks Is Too Many For An Update

The second topic emerged from the discussions around the 6 weeks release schedule of  Google Chrome. We are getting updates regularly and frequently with this new plan. This is commendable in the world of browsers which update once a year or so.

However, maldar thinks that this brings new features as early as possible to users, and we don’t have to wait for one year for a next version with new features. Which is, really true.

But Emmet Brown has a different thought. “Since the numbers are really arbitrary, it really doesn’t matter. Although, I do like seeing a higher numbered version every six weeks. Even if it doesn’t actually mean anything, I still like the way Chrome 10 sounds.”

Sometimes it does sound true … right ? Have you ever felt disappointed after a update to Chrome, because there was nothing much for you in it, even though they had a few features added with that release ?

I am not the right person to answer this question because from the very early days of Chrome, I moved to Development build and has a different pace of getting updates.  So, what do you think, if you are using Chrome stable version ?

Are you with maldar and believe that you need faster releases to get new updates as fast as possible or do you like the old 3 months cycle where you had major changes with every update, like Joshua Santos ?

This will be a little surprise to you all on this Monday morning. Chromestory.com is helping you with Firefox So, here is something similar to Chrome to Phone, for Firefox users.

FoxToPhone is a Firefox extension that lets GMail users send links from their browser to their Android 2.2(a.k.a. froyo) device.  Based on the ChromeToPhone project, it is fully compatible with the chrometophone app for Android

Features

• Send current page with address bar button
• Right click on any link/image to send to your Android phone
• Highlight any text and right click to send to the clipboard in your phone (Max. 1024 chars)
• Click on market:, smsto: and tel: links to open them in your phone
• Best of all it’s free and open source

Remember that you must install the chrometophone application on your Android 2.2+ phone before using this extension. via Fox To Phone.

Download The Addon From Here.

An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Finished watching the video ? Do you ever use these many tabs ??? Really ?

Some of the features mentioned in the last part of the video, yes, sounds cool but is this feature useful for users at large, the regular normal users ?

So, if you use 1000 tabs at the same time, switch to firefox. I am staying with Chrome .. what you think ?

Last Week, was the best one since I started Chromestory.com. No, I didn’t get an offer from Google saying they will buy this blog   I am happy because I got bunch of emails from few users here with new tips, suggestions, and I got a lot of comments for my posts too.

Thank you everyone !

and I have a BIG thank you to say to Maldar. One day he posted comment here on the about page, saying it will be good to have a faviocn added to the blog. I also thought it was cool, and after adding it ( I used the original google chrome logo ) , I sent him an email to let him know about this.

In his reply, he said,

You choose to have the google chome logo as your favicon. Not so wrong, but not so original.

My solution. I have created a favicon for your website. And, because I was not busy, I also created some kind of header for ChromeStory.

Now, to the Poll

photo by vistamommy

Hi Friends ! I celebrated my birthday last week.  ** distributes virtual sweets ** Here is a picture of my Bday cake !

Thanks in advance, for all your wishes and prayers !