Tag: NIGHTLY

Yesterday, extension support landed in the stable version of Google Chrome. Today it looks as though the Chrome team is looking at ways to enhance the current extensions interface. One common gripe about some Chrome extensions is the creation of unnecessary buttons. In recent snapshot builds of Chromium, an tweak has been made that will allow us to hide unwanted items. Between the Omnibar and ...

Pinned tabs are a great way to save room on your tab strip in Google Chrome. But suppose you want to free up the resources something you've pinned is using -- say the 50+ MB of memory used by Seesmic Web or another similar web apps? In the latest Chromium nightly builds, a new feature has been added called phantom tabs. When enabled, you can right-click and close a pinned tab and its favicon ...

Mozilla has been working on bringing multi-process plugins to Firefox for quite some time, and in the latest nightly trunk build it's finally arrived. Yes, the same superpower which prevents Google Chrome from tanking entirely when a single plugin bites the dust are now built in to Firefox's core as well. In fact, it's built in using some of the open source Chromium code. The feature is ...