IE9 Vs. Google Chrome

Okay, a piece of good news for Internet Explorer loyalists:
Finally, you guys can start falling in love with Internet Explorer 9 because it is said to be slightly better than Google Chrome. I know Chrome rocks, its super cool. As for me, I am using both Chrome and Firefox as default browsers. Heck, I don’t even remember when was the last time I used Internet Explorer. Probably, it was 10 years ago or something.
Anyway, the Microsoft browser will have its beta version launched this week. From what we’ve seen in the videos, IE9 beta has been blessed with new interface. It is a lot like Google Chrome but looks better.
How so? Well, word is that the IE9 guys installed some last minute visual upgrade plugins. The browser now shares its graphics based load with your VGA card. Your pages load supposedly faster and also look a tad bit appealing.
Brian Rakowski from Google Chrome’s dev team says, “I admit that Chrome 6 doesn’t do a lot of GPU assisted stuff but it is something that I and my team members have been working on. I think within a month or two, we’ll release something better and competitive enough to face the music.”
For now, we’ve to give it to Microsoft for its commendable effort. Pete LePage is Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager; he said that IE9 renders frames at 60Fps. The current build of Chrome only spins around 2 Fps, so we’re gonna have to try IE9 since it sounds too good to be true.
In the end, we all know that graphics aren’t everything. There are extensions, addons, plugins and 3rd party compatibility issues. Once IE9 is released, we’ll give it a full stress test to see if the browser is actually worth going for.

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Google closes 10 holes in Chrome 6

Google's update to Chrome 6.0.472.59 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux fixes a total of 10 vulnerabilities, six of which the developers rate as "high" priority, and one as "critical". The stable & beta channel versions should automatically install the new update in the background.
The critical hole apparently only affects the Mac version; further details of the vulnerability are being withheld until "a majority of users are up-to-date with the fix". Two of the flaws (Khmer language support and cursor control) only affect the Linux version.
Chrome is also vulnerable to the Flash Player hole disclosed last Tuesday, because the browser contains the plug-in and activates it by default. Until Adobe releases an update, the only workaround is to disable the plug-in (disable Shockwave Flash 10.1 under about:plugins).
Chrome 6.0.472.59 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from google.com/chrome. Users who wish to update sooner than the auto-update system's checking can use the built-in update function by clicking Tools, selecting About Google Chrome and clicking the Update button. All users are encouraged to update to the latest release as soon as possible.

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Google Instant Now Built Into Chrome

Google wasn't kidding when it said it planned to bring Google Instant to every product, platform and even inside browsers as soon as possible. The latest Google Chrome dev builds already have a sort of Google Instant implementation, albeit not enabled by default.
If you run Chromium, Google Chrome Canary or the latest Google Chrome dev build with the "--enable-match-preview" command-line switch you'll be able to access the early implementation.

Note that this isn't Google Instant included in Chrome, rather it's the implementation of the concept, Chrome Instant if you will. This has some obvious advantages, but also some major drawbacks.

As you start typing in the Omnibox, Chrome displays a preview of the first suggestion the browser provides. If it's a Google search, it loads the Google search page and shows the results for the query being typed.

Unfortunately, it doesn't use predictions, like Google Instant does, rather it just does a search for what you've managed to type. Hopefully, this will change by the time the feature makes its way into the browser enabled by default.

But the advantage of doing a native implementation is that Chrome Instant applies to more than just Google Searches. If what you're typing matches a page you visited before, Chrome previews that page.

Again, the implementation is not ideal. If Chrome just loads a new page for each new suggestion, you get a flurry of activity that proves much more distracting than Google Instant.

What's more, it may load some pages that you might not want to be seen viewing at work, for example, but which may be in your history even if it's not the page you actually wanted.

Still, this is just an early implementation and Google will probably address all of the shortcomings before releasing the feature. While Google Instant may have been well received, it's not an universal solution and has to be adjusted for each particular application. Hopefully, Google will take this into consideration.

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Google's Chrome, a Coincidence?

With a launch of Google Chrome, multi-million dollar company 'Google' has entered into web browser war. It has a share of about one percent of the browser market. This browser was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows a couple of days ago September 2, 2008. The name Google Chrome is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. Chromium is the open source project which plays an important role behind Google Chrome. This web browser is released under the BSD license. The Google Chrome implements the same feature set, but has a slightly different logo. The best part of this project is that it supports Mozilla's Firefox. As a matter of fact, Google will be supporting Mozilla Firefox till 2011.
The basic design goals are better in terms of security, speed and stability when compared to existing browsers. Is Chorme's launch a simple coincidence? Is the launch date random?
As Internet Explorer owns almost 85% of the browsers market and Firefox around 10%, Google's move is intended to irritate Microsoft. But this will come with a cost. The release date was chosen very close to the release of Firefox for a very simple reason: Firefox 3 is full of bugs and it's crashing at least once per day. Firefox fixed many of them on so, the majority of Firefox 3 users will get pissed off and they migrate to Chrome and not IE.
This is the cost Google will pay for pushing Chrome. They will lose Firefox users, but that was the plan: Google doesn't own Firefox, but it 100% owns Chrome, so they will sacrifice the first born.
There will be a decrease in the number of Firefox users in favor of Chrome and that will be not so nice for Firefox owners.

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New features in Google Chrome 6

Google Chrome made its debut in September 2008 and just two years later, it is the third most widely used browser with around 7.5% of the market. Only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox remain ahead of it and these two have been around for considerably longer. However, with Google Chrome’s current momentum, the situation may not remain so for very long

It has certainly come a long way in those two years and to celebrate these achievements and Google Chrome’s second anniversary, the stable version of Google Chrome 6 was released on September 2, 2010. Rolling out a new version of Chrome to mark such an occasion should mean that the new version includes significant improvements. So, what is new on Google Chrome 6?

Speedier

The new Google Chrome 6 is certainly faster than its predecessors and it is still the fastest browser available. Speed on Chrome 6 was ramped up by fixing a bug which affected the display of some Scalable Vector Graphics. Background image re-sampling which utilizes the power of multi-core processors to speed up page display when resizing images has also been introduced.

Autofill

Autofill is now on Google Chrome starting with version 6. Users can now save data including credit card information which they can use to automatically fill in web forms instead of typing. When using autofill, textboxes which have been completed using this feature are highlighted in yellow to let the user differentiate them.

Improved Syncing

Chrome 6 features better synchronization which now allows a user to synchronize browser extensions and web browsing history across different computers. This is in addition to being able to sync preferences, bookmarks and themes.

Google Chrome users can also sync their autofill information across different computers but this excludes credit card information.

Interface Modification

Obvious changes were made to Google Chrome 6’s user interface which gives a very different and simpler look from older Chrome versions. These include:

Single Menu Button: The two menu buttons - the page and wrench icons - on the right-hand side of the address bar have been merged into one button: the wrench icon. The icon now faces in the opposite direction from other Chrome versions.  The menu options have also been increased with the addition of Edit buttons which include Cut, Copy and Paste and there are also Zoom buttons.

New Position for the Bookmark Button: The bookmark button (the star icon) has been moved from the beginning of the address bar to the end. The button now resides inside the address bar and is not demarcated by a line as on previous versions.

Address Bar/Omnibox Changes: The length of the address bar has increased due to the merging of the menu buttons. At the spot where the bookmark button used to be, Chrome 6 now displays an icon which changes depending on what term is typed into the address bar. These include a globe icon when a URL is typed in and a magnifying glass icon for a search term.

The Go button (the arrow icon) at the end of the address bar has been removed and the Reload button has also been detached from the address bar.

Home Page: On the home page which shows your most visited websites, Chrome 6 now includes a number of links at the bottom of the page for easier navigation. These include links for History, Downloads and Help.

Google Chrome 6 certainly includes changes which will only serve to further increase Chrome’s appeal. Also according to Google, there are many more improvements that were not ready in time to be included in this version and will be added to next one.

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Google launched Chrome 6

Google has launched a new version of its browser.

Chrome 6 is claimed to be three times faster than the first beta version which was launched two years ago.

Other changes to the 'stripped-down browser' include the two previous menus combined into one.

The button locations and the background colour have also been adjusted.

In a blog post, Brian Rakowski, Chrome Product Manager says: 'As always, we're hard at work on making Chrome even faster, and working on ways to improve graphics performance in the browser through hardware acceleration.’

Chrome 5 users will receive an update to the 'tweaked' version 6 automatically


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