Tag: DEVCHANNEL

Google Chrome 9 has arrived for Dev channel users, and while the list of changes in 9.0.570.0 is a lengthy one you're not going see any major differences. Not just yet, anyway. A number of the updates lay the groundwork for features that will be "coming soon." There's been a lot of work focused around Cloud Print, for example. Google Instant integration has also been tweaked, and a number of ...

Google has update the Chrome Dev channel to 8.0.552.18 on all platforms, and while the focus this time is on polish and bug fixes, one important new feature has arrived. First spotted in the Canary build a few days ago, password sync is now available to Dev channel users and enabled by default. I'm still not certain the sync is actually active, though, as my Canary builds on three machines ...

Intrepid users of Google Chrome's Dev channel received an update yesterday, and it wasn't just another string of security patches and bugfixes -- though there were plenty of those, too. So what's new? For starters, support for WebGL 3D is now enabled by default and hardware acceleration for certain CSS bits (like transforms) has also been turned on. Chrome's Google Instant integration is now ...

Plenty of noise has been made in the past about Google Chrome and version jumping, but a little grumbling isn't going to slow Google down. Today, Chrome's dev channel reached a new milestone, hitting version 5.0. For those of you counting, it's been a little over 16 months since version 1 first appeared. The list of changes so far is fairly small. Mac users will notice a bit more of a ...

You may not have played with Chromium's (or Google Chrome's) task manager before. It's really more intended for developer use, but it does provide some valuable functionality for the rest of us as well. One which has been added recently is the ability to free up memory. Like other browsers, Chrome and Chromium can get a little RAM-hungry after extended browsing sessions. By adding the ...

Hot on the heels of my roundup of 15+ great extensions for Google Chrome, I've already found some more that deserve to be mentioned. First on the list: ChromedBird. You probably guessed from the name, but yes, it's a minimal Twitter client which you can access from Chrome's main toolbar. It hides inside a little birdie button until you want to check your stream or post an update. ChromedBird ...

Did Google just take the next step in making extensions play a more interesting role in Google Chrome? Possibly, but at least now we can trim our command line switches down a little. Those of you running Chrome's bleeding-edge developer channel builds can now drop the --enable-extensions switch. They're now supported by default. Of course, that assumes you've bothered to enable them in the first ...