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Chrome 14 Adds Better Audio, ‘Native Client’ Support

Google has bumped Chrome 14 from the beta channel into the mainstream. Chrome 14 includes some improvements for Mac OS X users, support for the Web Audio API and Google’s “Native Client” tools are now enabled by default.
If you’d like to try out Chrome 14, head on over to the downloads page.
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Reflecting on Chrome as Browser Hits Third Birthday

Google launched its Chrome Web browser on September 1, 2008—three years ago today. In the time since its debut, Google’s Web browser has attracted a considerable following and influenced other browser vendors. To celebrate the anniversary, Google has published an interactive HTML5 infographic that presents the history of the major Web browsers and Web standards. [...]

Google Related Collects Relevant Content at the Foot of Chrome

Google has released a new service entitled Google Related, a "browser assistant" Chrome extension intended to direct users to webpages on the same topic as the one they’re currently viewing. While some applications of the service, like getting extra info during a restaurant search, are useful, some others produce unhelpful suggestions in a framework that [...]

HTML5

Chrome 14 Brings Native Code to the Web

Google has released Chrome 14 to the Chrome beta testing channel, which includes, among other new features, the initial beta release of Google’s "Native Client" technology, first announced in 2010.
If you’d like to try out Chrome 14 beta, head on over to the beta downloads page.
Chrome 14 has several improvements including the much better [...]

Web Services

Google, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web

Google has announced a new set of APIs for its Chrome web browser, which are designed to connect applications and sites across the web. Web Intents, as Google is calling its new meta-website API, allows websites to pass data between each other — for example, to edit a photograph or share a URL with friends.

Chrome 13’s ‘Instant Pages’ Knows Which Links You’ll Click

Google has released a new stable version of its Chrome web browser, adding a new feature, “Instant Pages.” Instant Pages attempts to speed up Google searches by rendering pages in the background, before you even click a link. Google claims that Chrome 13’s Instant Pages feature saves between 2 and 5 seconds every time you [...]

Chrome Update Fixes Gestures in OS X Lion

Google has released a minor update to the Chrome dev channel which might be of interest to Mac OS X Lion fans. Previous releases of Chrome for Mac included support for left and right three-finger swipe gestures to navigate backward and forward in browsing history. Unfortunately those gestures conflict with gestures in Lion, which, by [...]

Opera

Bad Browser, No Donut

The Monkey is back from an extended vacation spent surveying the state of the internet around the world. I’m happy to report that things are, well, things are good, but far from perfect. Having spent the last eight weeks with unreliable, often very slow, internet connections we’d like to tell you about something we now [...]