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Get Chrome for OS X Early With Chromium Nightlies

Google’s Chrome browser is fast, small, and “nearly” perfect. Using the same Webkit rendering engine as Safari, and its own custom V8 javascript engine, Chrome has been blowing away the competition on...

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Google's Chrome OS: Why It's Not a Layup

Whether it fails or succeeds, Google’s upcoming Chrome OS will be one of the biggest technology stories of 2010. As predictions of its future success in tablets and elsewhere proliferate, though, the...

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Flock Dumps Mozilla for Chromium

Flock, the popular browser built atop Mozilla’s Firefox but with a social networking aspect for easy sharing of web information, has become the first major third-party browser to use Google’s Chromium...

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RockMelt Adds “View Later” to Bookmarks

The second public beta of RockMelt — a web browser with built-in social features –  has been released, with a raft of improvements, including better chat and Twitter apps. Perhaps the most interesting...

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Simon Crosby leaving Citrix to tackle cloud security

Simon Crosby is leaving his post as data center and virtualization CTO at Citrix Systems to launch a new company called Bromium that will utilize virtualization technology to tackle cloud computing...

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Why is Opera moving to WebKit? Because it has to.

Opera is about to shake up its browser business in a major way, by abandoning its Presto rendering engine in favor of the increasingly-ubiquitous WebKit, and by joining in the open-source Chromium...

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Why your Chrome browser is about to get smartphone-like rich notifications

Google’s latest stable channel of Chrome includes developer support for rich browser notifications in web apps. This isn’t the rumored Google Now integration coming to Chrome, but it does bring the...

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Now desktop users can find out what’s next for Opera, too

In February of this year, Opera announced a major revamp of its browser portfolio that involved ripping out and replacing some key components – in a nutshell, the innards of Opera’s new browser now...

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Still don’t believe Google Chrome is a platform? This video will change your...

Is Chrome your browser of choice? For many around the globe — 39.1 percent as of April, according to StatCounter — it is, which gives Google quite a computing mandate. I’ve been watching Google’s...

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Heavily redesigned Opera exits beta for Windows and OS X

If you’re an Opera desktop user who’s been waiting for the heavily revamped version but doesn’t like to play the beta game, then today’s your lucky day: the Norwegian firm has released the full,...

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These new features give Chrome Packaged Apps a more native-like app boost

Apps written to run on any computer that has the Chrome browser installed are gaining some new tricks. Google’s Chromium team, the group behind the open source Chromium browser, announced six new and...

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Google launches Portable Native Client, eliminating chip fragmentation in Chrome

Following up with its Native Client technology that lets apps created in traditional programming languages run in a browser, Google launched Portable Native Client, or PNaCl, on Tuesday. In a post on...

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How to pin bookmarks and hosted apps in the Chrome App Launcher

A common complaint about the Chrome OS user interface looks to be getting addressed. Google’s François Beaufort pointed out a new experimental feature in Chromium that lets users save a website...

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RoboForm Comes to Chrome — Sort of

It’s an exciting time to be a web worker, what with all of the great browser choices we now have available to us. Firefox may be the preferred browser for many of us, but Chrome, Safari and Opera are...

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Chrome for Mac Imminent, Why We Should Care

It has been a long time coming. Google’s Chrome web browser has been available on Windows for over a year, while Mac users have been left with three options — take their chances with a nightly build of...

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Get Chrome for OS X Early With Chromium Nightlies

Google’s Chrome browser is fast, small, and “nearly” perfect. Using the same Webkit rendering engine as Safari, and its own custom V8 javascript engine, Chrome has been blowing away the competition on...

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Google's Chrome OS: Why It's Not a Layup

Whether it fails or succeeds, Google's upcoming Chrome OS will be one of the biggest technology stories of this year. As predictions of its promise in tablets and elsewhere proliferate, though, the...

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Flock Dumps Mozilla for Chromium

Flock, the popular socially-based browser built on Mozilla, has a new Windows beta that rides atop Chromium, the same code base used by Google for the Chrome browser. Speed, extensions and a proven...

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Boom! Google integrates Chrome apps into the Mac OS X Finder

Google's long-term Chrome strategy to take over your desktop is making more progression. Chrome can now associate local Mac files with Google Chrome apps in the Finder if you have Chrome Canary...

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Google Chrome for Android can now re-open closed tabs

Google Chrome users on Android should keep their eyes peeled for the newest update, which is rolling out Wednesday. Chrome version 35 has a number of improvements, including an undo tab close button,...

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