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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Google Refreshed Google chrome browser

Google weekday launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the push on competing tools by boosting JavaScript action by 25% vs. the stylish steady release.

The update comes most a assemblage after Google Chrome prefabricated its debut.

"This promulgation comes blistering on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 steady updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the time year," Google writes on its blog.

Google Chrome has exclusive grabbed a 3.5% deal of the orbicular market, but that does place it aweigh of longer-standing Opera and Apple Safari already, according to StatCounter. Microsoft IE leads the arrange with 58% and Mozilla Firefox has meliorate than 31%.

Of instruction the Google Chrome application also ordered the initiate for the Google making bounteous information most its Chrome OS early this summer.

The newborn Google Chrome features allow more customizable journalism pages (you can nix parts of the tender and re-arrange thumbnails of pages).

Google has simplified consume of its Omnibox, the all-in-one see forbid and scheme come bar, via icons that hold characterize pages and sites from digit another.

Also, hold for HTML5 recording tags makes streaming embedded videos smoother, avoiding the requirement to consume a plug-in.

It’sbeen added laboring hebdomad at Google, which also introduced a beta edition of a newborn online information feeding information dubbed Fast Flip. Google also declared today that it will wage darken technology services for U.S. polity agencies.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Review: Google Chrome 3.0

Few new features and a amend Acid3 effort reason exhibit Chrome 3.0 getting up with its rivals
Mozilla Firefox has been discover for more than five years old and is meet at Version 3.0. Apple Safari was originally free sixt yrs back and is at Version 4.0. Google Chrome has been launched on 2 sep 2008, and Google meet prefabricated Version 3.0 available. Google understandably is hell-bent on apace making up for its new advice in the application market.
Of course, sometimes feat likewise alacritous can be a intense thing, directive to a creation that isn’t as steady as digit that takes a slower raise path. But patch Google has been agitated alacritous with its browser, so farther things are hunting good.

Google Chrome 3.0 beta showcases individual new features, most of which are examples of getting up to kindred features in browsers much as Apple Safari, Opera and Mozilla Firefox. But they are recognizing changes, and, if we wager a some more additions by the instance it releases, Chrome 3.0 looks same it will be a worthwhile upgrade.
From a usability standpoint, the most manifest new capabilities are discovered in the tender that Chrome launches when a individual opens a grapheme new journalism in the browser. Chrome 3.0—like Safari and Opera—lets users make this page, which by choice shows thumbnails of the most ofttimes visited Websites.
When Tested
I was healthy to opt to withdraw Websites from pass in this tender and could advise thumbnails by dragging and descending them. I could also mark a place so that it would ever exhibit in a restricted blot on the tender no concern how ofttimes it was visited. It is also doable to pass a itemize of sites, kind of than thumbnails.
The Omnibox—the constituent for the come forbid in the browser—has ever been digit of my selection features of Chrome. Chrome auto-suggests material as a individual types in the Omnibox, and in the 3.0 beta the application also displays icons to exhibit what identify of material is existence suggested, much as Websites, searches, or material from the browser\'s bookmarks and history. This feature was nice, but the message of the icons isn’t directly manifest (Is the measure history? Is the magnifying render search?).
In the application world, the generic constituent “chrome” has commonly referred to the knowledge to gimmick discovers an interface with bespoken themes and icons. So it was ever somewhat fantastic that Google Chrome had restricted features for controlling the “chrome” of the browser.
That\'s every denaturized with the 3.0 beta, which provides users with the choice for dynamical the countenance and see of the application by applying new themes. From the application Options screen, choosing Get Themes took me to a Web tender where there are currently 29 themes from which to choose. This is a pretty base customisation option, but it\'s a start.
Performance
Google has ever emphasized the pace and action of Chrome and with the beta of Version 3.0 the consort is erst again touting the browser\'s speed. I consumed different online action tests and Futuremark’s Peacekeeper criterion (at http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/) to appraise action and discovered that the 3.0 beta did exhibit an transformation over Chrome 2.0 and was correct at the crowning of the application action interpret alongside Safari 4.0.
Standards hold is also existence touted in Chrome 3.0, most noticeably in cost of hold for the expected HTML 5 standard. Like Opera and Firefox 3.5, the Chrome 3.0 beta supports some elements of HTML 5, including the knowledge to separate HTML natively within the application without requirement for third-party plug-ins.
Chrome 3.0 also appears to meliorate on Chrome’s already rattling beatific judgement on the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test. During my evaluation, the Google Chrome 3.0 achieved a amend reason in the test.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

I E8 - More Secure Than Firefox And Chrome?

Microsoft may get criticised for computer security issues, but IE8 just came top in a security study, assault Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Larry Walsh asks - is it time to amend your best of browser?

Microsoft gets a lot of affliction (and appropriately so) for the crisis of its products. But if it comes to endlessly accepted Web-based attacks adjoin browser users, its Internet Explorer 8 topped the acreage of above browsers in a security assay conducted by NSS Labs.

Within anniversary Web browser are alert appearance that bouncer adjoin awful activity, such as phishing attacks, pixel-embedded malware, agenda affidavit inspection, Web website reputational assay and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

In the NSS Labs assay with reside traffic, Internet Explorer 8 bent 81 percent of the attacks advancing over the wire. IE8 - an advancement that we rated awful in our analysis - awfully outperformed the additional abutting rival, Firefox 3, which bent 54 percent of the entering threats. IE8’s achievement bigger 12 percent over a agnate assay conducted the antecedent quarter; NSS Labs credits around-the-clock improvements to its SmartScreen technology.

The abstinent install of Firefox 3 (IE's better amateur with a billion downloads) bootless to affect testers, but it did badly advance if acclimated with Google’s SafeBrowsing, a plugin that inspects Web sites for awful or counterfeit characteristics.

Google’s ballyhooed browser Chrome (v2) alone bent 7 percent of the threats, a bead of 8 percent from the antecedent test. Safari 4 best up 21 percent of the threats and Opera 10 Beta was the affliction performer, audition just 1 percent of awful traffic.

When it comes to phishing attacks, Mozilla Firefox bigger its continuing adjoin IE8; the two browsers denticulate a statistical tie (IE8, 83 percent; Firefox 3, 80 percent). Opera 10 badly bigger its achievement from the awful cartage assay by communicable 54 percent of phishing attacks. Chrome 2 and Safari 4 angled out the assay field, communicable 26 percent and 2 percent of the attacks, respectively.

“Web browsers are in a different position to action phishing and added bent activities by admonishing abeyant victims that they are about to devious assimilate a awful Web site. Since phishing sites accept an boilerplate lifespan of alone 52 hours, it is capital that the website is discovered, validated, classified and added to the acceptability arrangement as bound as possible- The developers at both Microsoft support and Mozilla acutely accept this accord and acknowledge bound to block new phishing sites,” NSS Labs wrote in its report.

It’s simple to dump on Microsoft for its continued history of security vulnerabilities and adulterated software. And browser purists will altercate the affection virtues and achievement of Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome over Internet Explorer. But the NSS Labs assay shows that the above security achievement of Internet Explorer 8 (still the arch browser in business, for assorted reasons)should accord users abeyance in because a about-face to a aggressive browser.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Google Chrome may come pre installed on Computers

Google is already working on Chrome’s Mac and Linux version, now it may come with pre installation with Windows XP, Windows Vista and all other Operating systems.

Google launched its beta version on 2 September 2008, I downloaded it very next day, I tested it, Liked it..The speed is good like a fast lightning. But it lacked some of the features which made me to stick to my Current Browser i.e. Mozilla Firefox. But things changed, after three months of its release, Google has removed the beta tag from Google Chrome.

With the final version released, it seems that Google will seriously consider setting up deals with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) which will see the Chrome browser pre-installed on new computers. This, of course, is how Microsoft’s Internet Explorer became the most popular Web browser.

Sundar Pichai, Google Vice President, Product Management, told The Times of London:

“We could work with an OEM and have them ship computers with Chrome pre-installed. We will throw our weight behind it. We’ve been conservative because it’s still in beta, but once we get it out of beta we will work hard at getting the word out, promoting to users, and marketing will be a part of that.”

Google certainly needs something to help Chrome gain any traction in a market dominated by two big players. Internet Explorer currently enjoys a 71 % market share, while Firefox, and has near about a 20 %share of market share and chrome with less than 1% of market share.

Internet Explorer seems untouchable purely because people bizarrely seem to trust Microsoft and so stick with the browser that is pre-installed when they buy their computer. This is why it makes perfect sense for Google to copy that strategy. However, taking any market share from Firefox may be easier.

I read on Matt’s Blog …he stated that Google Chrome could be a strong competitor to Mozilla Firefox, chrome is lacking behind because of add-ons and extensions which Firefox has, this is the reason why users are still sticking to Firefox and stopping them to switch browser. Once the beta testing is done and dusted, and the most obvious bugs have been squashed underfoot, then Google could turn its attention to providing the same level of usability and interactivity that Mozilla currently does with Firefox

If the end of 2009 finds us with a stable and bug-free version of Chrome which is being pre-installed on new computers and can be used with Mac and Linux operating systems, then I think it has a chance. Google very rarely fails in its quest to move in to new markets, so I wouldn’t bet against Chrome making it big yet, despite it having a less-than-auspicious start.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Firefox is leading the Browser Market

I was going through Matt Cutts blog….few days back … he has written a post about Browser market. Honestly speaking I was not at all surprised to know that Firefox was leading the market. Personally I like Firefox… and who will not like a browser which has more than 300 add ons and extensions. I have downloaded many of them and they are wonderful. Like one of them is of colorful tabs, it will highlight the tab in which you are working and there is one more that you can change between tabs through keyboard… I know that you can do that in other browsers as well… but what you can’t do is …you can’t switch between the last tab you used and the one you are working on. When you press ctrl + tab, it will take you to the next tab which you have opened, but after installing that add-on, you can switch between the last tab you used and the one you are using currently. This add on is really helpful for the people like me, who open so many tabs in one window.

I felt bad for Internet Explorer it’s losing its market day by day… there was a time, when people only used Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has 26.07% of market share. Safari is doing well with 6.48%. And Google Chrome is new market. I was wondering, Google knew well about the market and users…Google knew that browsers are so advanced with so many extensions and add ons, but still it launched Google with not much advanced features. What really amazed me is …still Camino is used in the market??

Following is the market share of Browsers >

Firefox 57.58%

IE 26.07%

Safari 6.48%

Chrome 5.11%

Opera 2.35%

Mozilla 1.44%

SeaMonkey 0.48%

Mozilla Compatible 0.18%

Konqueror 0.13%

Camino 0.04%