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Google Holds Chrome OS Overview And Launch Plans Thursday
2:00AM Adam Pash | According to tech weblog TechCrunch, Google is hosting a Chrome OS event today in which they’ll provide a complete overview of the thus far top-secret operating system they announced in July. More »
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Chrome’s Sample Extensions Add Gmail Checking, Feed Subscribing
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re running Google Chrome’s development version, or a Mac or Linux nightly build of Chromium, you can already install three sample extensions from Google developers. Two of them add some pretty nifty Gmail and feed conveniences to your browser. More »
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Chromium On Linux Gets Bookmark Sync
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re running on the cutting edge of Chrome with a Chromium daily build on Linux, you can now try out the Google-based bookmark syncing that Windows users have had for a bit now. More »
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An Early Look At Chrome’s Extensions System
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not officially released, but a gallery-like site for extensions has made itself known into the latest development builds of Google Chrome for Windows and Linux. Take a peek at what’s coming, presumably very soon, in these development screenshots. More »
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Google Chrome OS To Be Available Next Week?
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Another week, another Google product launch rumour — but this one’s a bit more notable than most. If TechCrunch’s source is correct, the first iteration of the operating system may be available for download within a week from today — but it would be far from a plug-and-play download. More »
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Chrome Beta For Mac Arriving In Early December
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Google plans to release a beta version of its Chrome browser in early December. How does the net know this? A mailing list discussion shows off the latest implementation of extensions in Chrome, already working on the latest Windows and Mac builds of Chromium, but not in the rough Mac test builds. More »
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Chromium Installs User Scripts As Extensions
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | The nightly builds of Google Chrome’s open-source foundation, Chromium, includes a feature that might mean great things for Greasemonkey fans. Click on a user script file, such as at UserScripts.org, and Chromium asks to install it as a working extension. More »
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4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More »
Browser Speed Tests: The Windows 7 Results
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being “faster”. We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging. More »
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Google Chrome Beta Adds Bookmark Sync, Speed Boost
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: The latest beta release of Google’s Chrome browser ups its dynamic page building speed by quite a bit. What users are really going to notice, however, is the built-in bookmark syncing, a feature previously available in bleeding-edge development builds. More »
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