Chrome News & Articles

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," says Internet Explorer, as Microsoft's default Windows web browser regains some of the market share previously lost to its major competitors Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

The fPrivacy Chrome extension gives users more control by disallowing specific app permissions.

Google's Chrome browser has now hit 30% share of web browser usage and as it continues to rise, new and improved features keep appearing, the latest being a revamp of the app store.

Have you ever wanted to analyze the sentiment of your Twitter or Facebook content without having to employe some clunky, expensive application or widget? Look no further than ViralHeat’s new plugin for Chrome.

The DAM Lowdown is back with: Henry Stewart Publications Calls for Articles, The Real Story Group Updates Its DAM/MAM Report, Amazon Announces Server-Side S3 REST Encryption, DAM Best Practices Everywhere, Google Adds Native Client to Chrome Beta, DAM Stew and the Return of the Twitter Shout-out of the Week.

Google quietly rolled out the latest Chrome update over the weekend. Most Windows users won't notice the update, although Mac OS X Lion users will be pleased with a few UI optimizations for the Mac version. This update will be more exciting for developers, though, as Google has already activated Native Client application support through sandbox.

This week, Google fired at Skype's success with talk of baking a VoIP service into Chrome. Meanwhile, offline support was confirmed and we waved farewell to IE 7. 

Skype (news, site) may want to watch its back. Shortly after releasing WebRTC, an open-source software project for audio and video chat, the great Google is beginning to build it into the Chrome browser. 

For all you Google Analytics fan kids, we've taken a peek at some of the coolest parts of the new version release. We've also got some news on Chrome 12, Discussion improvements and a couple of hot acquisitions. 

Now that's progress. It's taken Internet Explorer one and a half decades to reach version 10; Google's (news, site) Chrome hits 12 in less than three years with the latest stable release.

Microsoft has finally set a (approximate) date for the release of its Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, which, according to the Office Sustained Engineering and Release blog, will support Chrome once it is released.

As Google (news, site) gets ready to unleash the Chrome OS, hardware makers such as Samsung are preparing their products to run the web-based OS.

Since its launch, Google Chrome (news, site) has been pretty much rock-solid in terms of security, to the extent that Google has offered rewards to hackers who can break into Chrome. A recent turn of events might prove that Chrome may not be so secure after all.

If you’re a college student with $20, you can get some tacos and a beer or two, or as Google hopes, rent a laptop. We’ll let you decide what the best deal is. 

This week in Google saw the launch of Chrome 11, new Docs features, and a significant cutback in Apps.