Google Chrome Tag

  Google’s Chrome web browser is now the most popular browser in the world. Taking over from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Google Chrome’s share of the browser market went up to 32.8% in the week ending May 20. Internet Explorer on the other hand, dropped to 31.9%. Mozilla’s Firefox retains third place in the market with 25% of the market share. This new data was released by StatCounter, a company that analyses web stats via its embed codes across blogs and websites worldwide. Back in March, Chrome toppled Internet explorer forRead More

Google has put out a stable release of Chrome 17. The company has added a new prerender option. When you start typing in the omnibox, the link will be auto-completed and Chrome will prerender the page. This means, before you finish typing a link, Chrome has already loaded it. This makes pages appear faster and sometimes instantly. A new type of anti-virus check has been added to Chrome. While you download files, Chrome will check programs on a whitelist. If the program doesn’t match a whitelist, Chrome will then searchRead More

For a lot of Android users and non-users there’s a bit of confusion over the default browser on the Android OS. It’s just called Browser. Google has finally introduced Chrome for Android Beta for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices only. Chrome for Android brings features from Chrome’s desktop version. Features like the Sign-in feature and Synchronisation are available on the app. It also brings Chrome’s speed and incognito for private browsing. Of course HTML5 support isn’t missing on this one. Chrome for Android finally brings HTML5 support to theRead More

Weeks after releasing WebRTC audio and video chat software as open-source, Google has begun to integrate the capabitilies of WebRTC into Chrome and moving past the features of Google Voice and Gmail. They’re planning for WebRTC to be at the frontline of Video conferencing and online chatting. The software is also royalty-free as Google is promising to work with other browser developers such as Mozilla and Opera to launch the project. In theory, anyone building a website can make use of the source codes and construct their own personal Skype.Read More