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New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video
adeelarshad82 writes "Google developers are always working on and updating Chrome in three channels — Stable, Beta, and Developer — in increasing positions on the bleeding-edge scale. Today the company thought changes to the Beta channel warranted a post on the main Google Blog. The advances range from the superficial addition of themes for customizing the browser's window borders to even faster speed under the hood to internal support for HTML 5 tags such as <video> and 'web workers,' which allows the browser to divvy processing work among sub-threads."
Has Google managed to get Chrome install in the "program files" director yet? The fact that it installs in "application settings" is the number one reason I can't install it.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Just put chrome into Incognito Mode (ctrl+shift+n, or do it from the menu). That accomplishes the same thing as Mozilla Firefox in Private Browsing mode and should prevent it from storing history while you porn surf.
As a incognito porn site surfer, I was really taken aback and worried about privacy issues.
Interesting choice of words. Chrome has an "incognito mode". From the blurb shown when you open the browser in that mode:
Pages that you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files that you download or bookmarks that you create will be preserved, however.
Question everything?
There is an Adblock already for 3.0 beta version.
Then load up one window in Incognito mode, and another window that's not. I really don't know what you're complaining about. :\
If you're looking for absolute privacy, don't use the web. Otherwise, Incognito-mode is about as good as it gets (just remember to clear out your Flash cookies from time to time, the browser doesn't control those).
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
Adblock is needed because of all those blinking and colourful flash ads that are all around. Googles ads are quite moderate and most people would not mind to see them, so your statement is false.
This would give a lot of people the motivation to switch to Chrome, which would be a gain for Google while not having big add revenue losses (actually they would gain add revenues, as the js cross site google ads would not be blocked any-more).
They're problem is probably, that this would raise anti-competitive questions they want to avoid, so this could only be done with an open plugin system (via trusted third party plugins).
Downloaded the latest Chrome Beta (3.0.195.4), installed AdSweep, failed to be impressed. AdSweep loads ads the first time you visit a page in a session then erases them, highly annoying. The biggest problem I had was that I failed to notice any speed difference between Chrome and Firefox 3.5.2 on the sites I visit. If anything my non-scientific observation was that with AdSweep loaded, Chrome was significantly slower than Firefox.
When will google learn that plugins, especially something like adblock, is the killer feature they need to attract the "willing to switch" audience, a lot of whom are using firefox right now. I personally love Chrome for its speed and stability, used it for a week or so, but then switched right back to Firefox because I just didn't realise how it is to do many things in Firefox with extensions such as adblock, no script, autopager, del.icio.us integration etc.
Oh here we go again! :)
SRWare Iron is the same browser as Google Chrome except it has all the privacy concerns removed.
IT ALSO HAS ADBLOCK SUPPORT.
SRWare Iron - http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ADBLOCKER SUPPORT: "11.10.2008: Adblocker integrated in Iron
The wish of many users comes true: We integrated an Adblocker in Iron! With a filterlist so nearly all online-advertising can be blocked. A working list can bedownloaded here and just has to be copied to the Iron folder (e.g: C:\Program Files\SRWare Iron\). Note: You must first get the latest version of Iron you can find under "Downloads". So Iron is the first Chromium based webbrowser worldwide which has an adblocker included."
Here is the link to download the latest adblock.ini file http://www.srware.net/downloads/adblock.ini
I can get it up to 2GB virtual memory in a morning's average browsing.
(emphasis mine)
Virtual memory has no real bearing on the quantity of physical ram occupied by an application. Virtual memory is a large, expandable, virtually contiguous slice of memory provided by your OS's memory manager. What you're looking for is resident memory. My current FF3.5 session is 'using' 973 MB virtual memory but in reality only 163 MB physical (resident).
I can't remember the last time I forgot anything.
Give me static images or text and I won't block them.
Adding @@|$image to your Adblock rules will allow image ads through on all sites. For specific sites, enter a URL before the $.
I think it's fair to say Google is aware of the demand for extensions, since the dev channel version of Chrome currently has support for it.
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http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/05/13/download-sample-google-chrome-extensions/
Of course the extensions are still rather primitive, but they do work.
Ad blocker: http://adsweep.org or http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46974
Flashblock: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46673
Delicious & Twitter: http://www.chromeplugins.org/extensions/lightweight-delicious-bookmarks-twitter-chritter-extensions-released/
Facebook: http://www.chromeplugins.org/extensions/facebook-notifications-facebook-shortcut-extensions/
Mouse gestures: http://www.chromeplugins.org/extensions/chrome-gestures-google-chrome-mouse-gestures-extension/
I should probably put this comment onto my clipboard pastelist, seeing as how the "no Adblock" comment is ubiquitous on virtually every blog post concerning Chrome on the web (closely followed by the uninformed "no Mac" and "no Linux" comments).
Of course, a quick Google search would have revealed all of this
Except they have explicitly mentioned AdBlock as something they want to support through their in-development extension system.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
Citation here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110247-2.html Technical details here (I think): http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/gleam-api