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Old 03-23-2011, 11:25 PM
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is anyone trying out chrome beta? I might go for it if its stable enough and still fast
Old 03-23-2011, 11:33 PM
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I've never had stability issues with any of the Chrome betas
Old 03-23-2011, 11:46 PM
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wow it works pretty damn well. Messed up on acurazine once, then the other times it comes out as acura zine.com

Haha i take back my earlier comment, this is cool


If you install the beta, you don't need to add the flag.

It is quite impressive. I coughed in between words and it still spit out my sentence right.

Now for the HTML 5 standard committee to approve this....
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got beta...

I thought this speech thing was gonna be incorporated into the address bar also, guess not. Wonder if/when sites will start incorporating this.
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Needs to be approved by the standards committee first.
Old 03-31-2011, 12:19 PM
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Need two tings fixed pretty pretty prease:

1. When I have only one tab open, I want the "x" to close that tab gone. It's right next to the "+" for New Tab and I have shit down my browser more than a few times clicking on the "x" by accident. A warning would be nice...

2. When I get emails from websites with links to the sites, Chrome can't open them. FF has no problems. They are referral links like:

http://link.emails-nashbar.com/u.d?D...mith@gmail.com
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Are you having an issue opening any link in an email or just certain ones? Is this through outlook? One of my clients had an issue where she couldn't open any links in an email with chrome. Something had gone funky and i reset chrome as the default browser and that fixed it.
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FYI took that link and sent it to myself in outlook and I had no problem clicking on the link and opening the link in chrome
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I've been using Firefox forever on my home pc and use Chrome at work. Chrome always worked faster at work but I just figured it was because the connection there is a lot faster than at home.

Lately Firefox has been so slow for me and I've been getting those messages asking if I want to 'stop script' or 'continue'. So I just downloaded Chrome for my home pc. It is pretty much twice as fast! I love it. Now I gotta reformat my old ass pc and will reinstall with Chrome only this time. Never thought I'd say no to Firefox..
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You're not alone. Firefox's share is falling, it was at almost 25% last year but now it's down to 21.5% and Chrome is still the fastest growing browser with people switching from IE and FF to Chrome.




http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011...e-analysis.ars

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Old 06-20-2011, 07:09 AM
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I finally downloaded the free Angry Birds through Chrome. And I also downloaded a hacked Super Mario Bros where you play SMB1 with NES characters like Samus, Link, Simon Belmont, Mega Man, and the dude from Contra. Very freaking cool.
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^^^ Enjoy being "hacked" for all your user data with that SMB "game".

Oh and...Firefox just got too slow.
Old 06-20-2011, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Doom878
I finally downloaded the free Angry Birds through Chrome. And I also downloaded a hacked Super Mario Bros where you play SMB1 with NES characters like Samus, Link, Simon Belmont, Mega Man, and the dude from Contra. Very freaking cool.
AS Moog said ...

https://acurazine.com/forums/technology-16/super-mario-chrome-app-better-watch-out-820430/
Old 06-20-2011, 10:43 AM
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^^ I still at that. Oh noes!!!!
Old 06-20-2011, 12:47 PM
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Should I get a chromebook?

I mainly want something I could use to surf the net while at the TV or gaming...
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no. For the price you can get a faster and more capable Windows PC
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Chome OS is still pretty limited in features
Old 06-20-2011, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Mizouse
Should I get a chromebook?

I mainly want something I could use to surf the net while at the TV or gaming...
Didn't you just buy an iPad, Miz?
Old 06-20-2011, 04:09 PM
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No. I do NOT have an iPad.
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Ah, thought you did. It's what I use for kind of watching the TV while surfing or gaming.
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Can't decide if I want 32Gb + 3G flavor or just get 16GB...
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He doesn't have an iPad but he has more posts than anyone else in the iPad thread.....
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Chrome 17 available

Safer downloads and a cautious expansion of site pre-caching land in Chrome 17 today, continuing Google's two-tiered approach to browser speed and user safety.
Google Chrome 17 stable for Windows (download), Mac (download), Linux (download), and Chrome Frame includes a number of new extension APIs and security fixes.
As revealed in the Chrome 17 beta version, Chrome's safe browsing technology will now scan downloads as well as Web sites. It looks for known malware files, and it analyzes installation files starting with Windows-based EXE and MSI. Google hasn't clarified if the scan will later include other Windows-based file types or installers from Mac and Linux operating systems. If a file is suspected of being malicious, meaning that it doesn't match a whitelist, Chrome will check it against Google's search index to see if the site you're downloading it from hosts a high number of known malicious downloads. If it determines the download to be unsafe, Chrome will barf up a red warning page.
The feature is important for blocking the threat of ransomware "fake antivirus" programs, among other things.
Speed has always been a focus of Chrome's developers, and in version 17 the browser extends the site pre-caching feature to the location bar Omnibox. If you have pre-caching activated in Settings, it will pre-load the first site that autocompletes its URL to a site you're likely to visit. If you choose that site, it will appear to load instantaneously.
Google did not specify what the new extension APIs were, although I recall at least one being related to privacy controls in extensions. Its SVN browser revision log was not working at the time of writing. There were, however, numerous security fixes revealed for Chrome 17. These included one marked Critical, which fixed a race condition after the crash of a utility process; and eight marked High, which fixed problems including use-after-free problems and buffer overflow issues. Click through to read the changelog for Chrome 17 stable.

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4...load-security/

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Originally Posted by #1 STUNNA
It's interesting looking how the browser market has change in a year.......

2009:


2010:

2012:


Then Ars keeps track of what browsers visit their site and since they're mostly a tech site it's a good gauge of what the smart techy guys are using.

2009:


2010:


Looks like Chrome might pass FF as the #1 browser on Ars in a few months.......

2012:



2009:
http://arstechnica.com/software/news...ses-safari.ars

2010:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...ble-digits.ars
any day now....


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http://www.newser.com/story/139927/g...d-iphones.html

(Newser) – Google has been quietly using computer code to get around default privacy settings on Apple's Safari browser—both on iPhones and computers. Safari automatically prevents tracking techniques that other browsers allow, including the use of cookies. But Google coding "tricks" Safari into allowing the tracking, the Wall Street Journal reports. Here's how: Safari OKs tracking in one case—when a person needs to interact with a site to, for instance, submit a form. Google placed code in some of its ads that fooled Safari into thinking the user was submitting a form to Google—an invisible one. And, ta-da, Google would get the OK to install a cookie.

The Journal found that ads on more than 20 of the top 100 websites, including YouTube, ehow.com, and AOL.com, placed the code on users' computers or iPhones—but there's no indication the sites themselves were aware of it. After the tracking technique went live, it let Google follow user activity on most websites. After the Journal contacted Google, the search giant disabled the code; three other online advertisers were also using the "workaround." Google said the Journal "mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled," and the cookies don't "collect personal information."
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No one here will care, they love that Google gives them a reach around.
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slowly bit by bit eroding our privacy
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At work, Chrome was literally at least 3x faster than IE. But they uninstalled Chrome from our machines because it isn't safe enough for them. So we can't use Chrome or Firefox at work, must use IE . I hate it.


Of course I use Chrome at home and will continuing using it. I thought Firefox was awesome til I switched a year or two ago and discovered Chrome was better and much faster.
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Privacy in the intertubes is a myth.
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Originally Posted by jupitersolo
No one here will care, they love that Google gives them a reach around.
It's not that no one cares. It's just that no one should really care.
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It's not that no one cares. It's just that no one should really care.
Says the forever Google fanboi
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Says the forever Google fanboi
Calling me names doesn't really help your argument.
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Google Do Not Track extension for Chrome available now

After much discussion today on how the Google Chrome web browser’s up and coming “Do Not Track” button would be applied to the browser in future versions, Google has gone ahead and released a preliminary extension to make it so. This extension is one that anyone can click to install on their Google Chrome browser with ease, the functionality of it very likely to simply be baked in to future Google Chrome releases. This extension acts to opt your web browser out of online ad personalization via cookies once and for all – permanently.

This extension offers you an one-step persistent opt-out, as they say, of the personalized advertising and data tracking that has landed Google in so much hot water as of late. Google is careful to note that such personalized advertising and the data tracking that’s involved in making it happen is still within the industry privacy standards for online advertising. Google is also careful to note that at no time will this extension ever track or keep any record related to the websites that you, the user, may visit.

You can view the self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising that Google mentions above over at http://www.aboutads.info/, and not again that this is what’s spoken about earlier today in regards to Google adding a “Do Not Track” button to their Chrome browser, but more specifically you can take a peek at http://donottrack.us/ to see how Do Not Track is implemented. And you can use that site to enable Do Not Track for Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.

This extension we’re talking about here and now goes by the name Keep My Opt-Outs and has actually been on the Chrome Web Store for months. The last update to this extension was all the way back in October of 2011, in fact, well before this most recent bout of privacy concerns arose for Google. As google noted back then:

“Why are we doing this?

We recognize that some users are uncomfortable with the personalization of ads that they see on the web and we offer many levels of control over this personalization. Two years ago we launched two ground-breaking innovations, the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/) and the industry’s first persistent cookie opt-out. Now we’re giving users who don’t want their ads personalized the same permanent, one-click control for advertising-related cookies across our industry.

Is there a downside to installing this extension?

Without a cookie, the ads you see on the web are likely to be less relevant and diverse. It also may result in less profitable ads for your favorite websites.” – Google

So have at it! Download that extension for Google Chrome inside your Google Chrome browser and you shall have tracking for ads no more!
http://www.slashgear.com/google-do-n...-now-24215204/
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
After much discussion today on how the Google Chrome web browser’s up and coming “Do Not Track” button would be applied to the browser in future versions, Google has gone ahead and released a preliminary extension to make it so. This extension is one that anyone can click to install on their Google Chrome browser with ease, the functionality of it very likely to simply be baked in to future Google Chrome releases. This extension acts to opt your web browser out of online ad personalization via cookies once and for all – permanently.

This extension offers you an one-step persistent opt-out, as they say, of the personalized advertising and data tracking that has landed Google in so much hot water as of late. Google is careful to note that such personalized advertising and the data tracking that’s involved in making it happen is still within the industry privacy standards for online advertising. Google is also careful to note that at no time will this extension ever track or keep any record related to the websites that you, the user, may visit.

You can view the self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising that Google mentions above over at http://www.aboutads.info/, and not again that this is what’s spoken about earlier today in regards to Google adding a “Do Not Track” button to their Chrome browser, but more specifically you can take a peek at http://donottrack.us/ to see how Do Not Track is implemented. And you can use that site to enable Do Not Track for Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.

This extension we’re talking about here and now goes by the name Keep My Opt-Outs and has actually been on the Chrome Web Store for months. The last update to this extension was all the way back in October of 2011, in fact, well before this most recent bout of privacy concerns arose for Google. As google noted back then:

“Why are we doing this?

We recognize that some users are uncomfortable with the personalization of ads that they see on the web and we offer many levels of control over this personalization. Two years ago we launched two ground-breaking innovations, the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/) and the industry’s first persistent cookie opt-out. Now we’re giving users who don’t want their ads personalized the same permanent, one-click control for advertising-related cookies across our industry.

Is there a downside to installing this extension?

Without a cookie, the ads you see on the web are likely to be less relevant and diverse. It also may result in less profitable ads for your favorite websites.” – Google

So have at it! Download that extension for Google Chrome inside your Google Chrome browser and you shall have tracking for ads no more!
http://www.slashgear.com/google-do-n...-now-24215204/
been available since oct of last year...
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I've had that extension for a hot minute....
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the new Google Chromebook for $249

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/




Key specs:

- 11.6’’ screen (1366x768)
- Samsung Exynos 5 Dual Processor
- Less than 0.8 inches / 2.5 pounds
- 6.5 hours of battery (Varies based on usage)
- Boots up in less than 10 seconds
- 100 GB of Google Drive free for 2 years
- Built-in dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
- VGA Camera
- 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0
- HDMI Port
- Bluetooth 3.0™ Compatible




3) How long is this Drive storage offer valid?

You will have 100 GB of free storage for 2 years, starting on the date you redeem the offer.

4) What happens to my files on Drive after 2 years?

All of your files will remain in Drive and you can access them whenever you want. You won’t be able to add additional files unless you buy more storage at www.google.com/settings/storage.

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http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/18/g...mebook-249-ul/

Google just launched the latest iteration of its Chrome OS-based laptop here in San Francisco -- the $249 (or £229, for those in the UK) 11.6-inch Samsung Chromebook. It's ARM-based (fanless), 0.8-inches thick, weighs only 2.43 pounds, runs 6.5+ hours on battery, boots in under 10 seconds and supports 1080p video playback. Pre-orders start today at Amazon and PC World, and the laptop includes Google Now integration using Google Drive as a transport and comes with 100GB of free storage for two years. It will be available for sale on the Play Store and featured prominently at retailers like Best Buy, and naturally, we're expecting this one to make a bigger splash than prior models based on the bargain bin price alone.

Under the hood, there's a dual-core A15-based Samsung Exynos 5 Dual (5250) SoC, 2GB RAM, 16GB of built-in flash storage, WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth, all of which should act to give this Chromebook a lot more oomph compared to slower, earlier models. Other specs include a 1366 x 768 native screen resolution, a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 socket, combo headphone / mic jack, an SD card slot and a "full-size Chrome keyboard." Hit up the links below for the nitty-gritty, or hop on past the break for a promo vid.
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They have Chrome mini stores in Currys here. The sales people are fun to watch. They explain what the chrome book is and people scurry away.
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They have Chrome mini stores in Currys here. The sales people are fun to watch. They explain what the chrome book is and people scurry away.
$20/hr, sales goal is 2/week, no commission, one week of company paid training in Miami in Nov. In U.S., you'll be hawking them in BB stores. Check your local Craigslist for the job adds: Google Chrome Specialist. Not bad pay for standing around and making people scurry away

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