sites.google.com - 1/9/2009
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New version of WebKit. WebKit is the open source code Google Chrome uses to render web pages (HTML and CSS). 1.0.154.36 used basically the same version of WebKit as Safari 3.1, but the WebKit team has made a lot of improvements since that was released. 156.1 uses WebKit version 528.8 or, more ...
blog.chromium.org - 1/9/2009
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blog.chromium.org —
Release early, release often. We think that's the
best way to develop software that delights people. With...
Google Chrome, we want to release fewer features more often instead of making you wait 12 months for the next Major Dot-Oh Release Jam-Packed ...
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Google Chrome Release Channels
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 1/9/2009
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googlesystem.blogspot.com —
Google Chrome 's development is high-paced and version
numbers are not very significant, but it's weird to...
see a pre-beta release of Chrome 2.0, four months after Chrome 0.2. There are many new things in Chrome 2.0: * form autocomplete , one of the ...
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Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta
dev.chromium.org - 1/8/2009
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dev.chromium.org —
Install a recent trunk build of Chromium Launch
chrome.exe with the --enable-user-scripts flag. Create a directory to...
store user scripts in: On Chromium builds 2.0.156.1, the directory should be called User Scripts and be in your chromium user ...
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User Scripts (Chromium Developer Documentation)
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Google Chrome Update With Form Auto-Completion And More
Google Blogoscoped —
The latest preview version of Google Chrome features a couple of additions, Google announced, including:
CSS gradients, CSS canvas drawing, reflections and masks
form auto-completion
a full-page zoom when you use the Ctrl-Plus/ Ctrl-Minus shortcuts, as opposed to just increasing the font size
more spellchecking customization options
When I tried this version, it messed with my Windows task bar visibility, and also distorted this blog’s layout, so for serious usage I’d ...
Google Chrome 2.0 with Form Auto-Completion and more
D' Technology Weblog —
The latest release of Google Chrome pre-beta features a couple of new features, including:
CSS gradients, CSS canvas drawing, reflections and masks
form auto-completion
a full-page zoom when you use the Ctrl-Plus/ Ctrl-Minus shortcuts, as opposed to just increasing the font size
more spellchecking customization options
If you don’t have Google Chrome, you can download it from google.com/chrome. ...
Google tunes up Chrome development
Webware.com —
... Google's Chrome development team on Thursday offered an update on the status of its work on the company's young open-source browser.
The most significant changes, according to a Chromium Development Documentation posting, include the following:
• New version of WebKit.
• Form autocomplete.
• Import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks.
• New network code.
• New window frames on Windows XP and Vista.
Although Chrome was unveiled just in September, Google uncharacteristically took it out of beta in December. ...
Google's Spam Cop Cracks Down on Chrome Complainers
Google Watch —
... Larson innocuously notes Google Chrome now has its own implementation of HTTP network protocol, which will pave the way for Mac and Linux versions of Chrome. ...
Google Gets Chrome Ready For Mac, Linux
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... X and Linux. Google on Thursday released the pre-beta, officially called 2.0.156.1, to its Dev Channel, which is where developers get a chance to take a look at possibly new features. One change in the latest release that's sure to end up in the final version is a shift to the ...
Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation
Webware.com —
... said. "The beta channel is now what the developer channel used to be," he added, with newer features but still a reasonable amount of testing. Newest is the developer preview channel, where code will be frequently updated and much more raw, and where Google expects some features to fail and be withdrawn.
Google expects to issue new developer preview versions roughly every couple weeks and new beta releases roughly monthly, Rakowski said.
Major new features
Version 2.0.156.1 includes many new features beside Greasemonkey support. Among them: ...
Google Chrome Browser for Mac, Linux by mid-2009
jkOnTheRun —
... that allow developers to design and implement custom features or functions. Just last week, they added experimental support for user scripts similar to Greasemonkey. ...
Google Chrome Test Shell Now Available For Mac.
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... , and just wish Google would show us Mac users some love. Well, Google has been listening, and it looks like Macs won't be Chrome-less much longer. On Friday, Google announced that they would like to release a version of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux by the end of the first half of the year. Google also blessed Windows users with a new version of Chrome that will bring the most requested feature to Chrome, ...
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In the announcement, Google claims “more than 10 million ...
Google Chrome, Out of Beta. Will That Be Enough? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 12/13/2008 — Google’s V-P of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, ruined the official coming-out party of the Chrome browser when she said yesterday that the company would soon take it out of beta. She spoke a day too soon — must be the ...
Report: Google Chrome 'coming out of beta'
download.com 12/11/2008 —
Google's Chrome Web browser is coming out of beta testing, according to a TechCrunch report Wednesday.
Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of user experience, told TechCrunch's Mike Arrington as much in an interview at Le Web 08 , according to ...
Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users
readwriteweb.com 12/12/2008 — When Google released its browser called Chrome this fall, there was an unusually loud controversy about its End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) . The company responded quickly to those complaints.
Now the contract with users has been changed ...
Google Chrome Goes Gold With 1.0 Release -- Google Chrome -
informationweek.com 12/12/2008 — Google's Chrome Web browser for Windows is no longer beta software. The company released Chrome 1.0 on Thursday, a mere 3-1/2 months after its initial release. That's the blink of an eye compared with Gmail's gestation in beta, which began in April ...
Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation
news.cnet.com 1/9/2009 —
Showing signs it's working to meet requests for new Chrome developments, Google said Friday it hopes to release versions for Mac OS X and Linux by the first half of the year and released a new version Wednesday that paves the way for the most ...
Google Chrome 1.0 Released
googlesystem.blogspot.com 12/11/2008 — "We've heard a lot of feedback about product bugs and feature requests and have worked hard to prioritize work on them. We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label," explains a post from Google ...
Google Previews Chrome 2.0 —
Today @ PC World 1/9/2009
Now available in an alpha version, updated browser adds some basic features (autocomplete, full-page zoom) and some more interesting ones, like the ability to create user profiles.
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