September 2, 2010 7:37 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
It’s been two years since the first public version of Chrome appeared, but in some ways, Google’s browser remains a novelty.
On Thursday, Google released the sixth stable version of Chrome, though only the second for
Mac OS and Linux users. In other hands, it would [...]
September 1, 2010 4:47 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
The new about:labs feature in Chrome Canary gives Google a user-friendly way to test out experimental features.
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Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Google’s “canary-in-the-mineshaft” version of its Chrome browser gained a new “labs” option for users to explore on Wednesday. Users of Chrome Canary, named to indicate [...]
September 1, 2010 10:19 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
IE remains the dominant browser, but its share has slipped in the last year as Chrome rose.
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Net Applications / Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Internet Explorer’s growth slowed once again, and Chrome shook off its slump in August, new statistics show.
Although Microsoft made progress in its goal to [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Experimental work under way in Chrome gives the browser a graphical way to switch among tabs similar to Apple's Expose feature.
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Nico Weber)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
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Google)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding to Firefox.
As browsers have expanded to accommodate ever larger amounts of computing tasks, separating different tasks into different tabs across the [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
(Credit:
Google)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding to Firefox.
As browsers have expanded to accommodate ever larger amounts of computing tasks, separating different tasks into different tabs across the [...]
August 27, 2010 11:46 AM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
Just a few weeks after the Chrome beta updated to version 6, Google upgraded the developers version of Chrome to 7 on Thursday. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome dev 7.0.503.0 comes accompanied only by minor bug fixes.
There are some small tweaks to [...]
August 25, 2010 2:36 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt
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The latest beta from
Firefox introduces Panorama, a new tab-grouping feature that makes it much easier to manage tabs. See how to use it in this video.
Want to try it out for yourself? You can download Firefox 4 [...]
August 25, 2010 11:50 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
The current version of
Firefox will likely be the end of the road for people using PowerPC Macs.
A final decision will be based on usage data that’s better than what Mozilla possesses right now, but technical difficulties raised by Firefox 4 improvements mean at a [...]
August 24, 2010 12:03 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Firefox Panorama lets people group tabs in a visual array in an attempt bring some order to browser tab chaos.
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Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Mozilla released its fourth beta of
Firefox 4 on Tuesday, bringing a new feature that addresses one of the biggest challenges in the [...]