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After celebrating its first birthday two weeks ago Google Chrome moved on and today it launches a super stable version of Google Chrome 3 web browser. Feature-full Google Chrome comes with,
Speedy Chrome: This stable version of Chrome is the fastest ever, its faster than any previous stable version. Google says they’ve improved it “by more than 150% in Javascript performance since our very first beta, and by more than 25% since the most recent stable release”. More»
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The busy Google Labs has launched a new service called Fast Flip – “a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles” to speed up slow browsing when reading news online.
Fast Flip aims at letting “you rapclassly flip forward to the content you like, without the constant wait for things to load. Imagine taking 10 seconds to turn the page of a print magazine!” More»
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Good news for “Chromers”. As from yesterday all builds in Google Chrome development channel will have extension support enabled by default, so the rather boring –enable-extensions switch goes on retirement. What does this mean, it means when installing Chrome extensions like Xmarks on Chrome dev channel, you don’t need to tweak your Chrome shortcuts in order to get an extension on and working — at-least on Windows, because reports say default –enable-extensions seems to be working only on the Windows build but not yet on Mac and Linux builds
via [Chromium Blog]
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Google was the first to bring synchronization to Chrome development channel without any add-ons, with the switch --enable-sync, but Xmarks was the first to announce it syncs bookmarks with Chrome development channel though in closed alpha test.
Now I got an invitation to try Xmarks alpha for Chrome development channel 3.0.196.0 or greater. It all begins with enabling extensions by adding the --enable-extensions flag to Google Chrome.
Given that both Chrome and Xmarks alpha are still under heavy development and therefore extremely unstable, its wise to back up all Chrome bookmarks before installing the alpha add-on.
If you have a Xmarks account, then sync all your bookmarks to the Xmarks server so if anything strange happens, you can always use the Xmarks restore feature to get everything back to where you started.
Xmarks alpha for Chrome also offers three types of login: “Login Only”, “No Encryption” and “Encrypt All”. These you’ll find on the Xmarks Settings -> Advanced tab.
To get more information on the plugin-in, to see its log output go to chrome://extensions/ and click the “Inspect” button for Xmark’s background.html view.
For an alpha, its not bad, it does what its supposed to do. The installation on Windows XP went smoothly though it hung at the first try. As for synchronization, itdid a good job without messing up my bookmarks. Xmarks for Google Chrome makes sense for across browser syncing.
More info: Xmarks for Chrome Wiki
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Just a little tip you can put into use when searching sites that you’ve previously visited in the Chrome address bar also known as the Omnibox.
It seems to work only on websites like Google.com, Facebook, Youtube, that we all frequently visit. Each time you start typing the name of any website you often visit, say google.com in Omnibox, after the first letters the Chrome address bar suggests the name of the site with auto-complete. In the case of some websites like those mentioned above omnibox also offers the option to search the site. More»
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