Tag Archives : Google Chrome

Google is planning to add restricted accounts for Google Chrome browser, which should be useful for parents looking to limit their kids’ internet usage according to BrowserFame who spotted a feature in the development version of Chrome that would allow for ‘supervised user’ accounts. ‘Chrome team is currently working on the UI, backend and flow. Interested users can preview these [...]

Google demonstrated conversational search for desktop version of Google Chrome browser at last week’s Google I/O conference, the  Google Now like voice search to the desktop is now available to users of its Chrome browser through the latest version of Google Chrome browser (27.0.1453.93). Conversational search works on natural language and semantic search and more built into it. To use the feature [...]

Google has introduced push alert support for apps in Google Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The protocol called Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently. Earlier apps that wanted to respond to an outside trigger would have to keep checking back with a server, using more data and power. Now, developers can have [...]

Google Now can start using the feature in Google’s Windows browser and Chrome OS platform  enable the option if they know the relevant Google Now server. As the feature is not yet public, Google Now  notifications are not yet displayed. Discovered by Francois Beaufort, a fan of Chrome, he posted the information to his Google+ page. In a recent Chromium release, engineers have added a potentially [...]

Google’s Chrome browser popularity and usage is on the rise, according to the latest report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome’s market share has gone up to 33.8 percent worldwide in July from 32.8 percent in June.   Microsoft Internet Explorer is close second at 32 percent, Mozilla’s Firefox which was among the first decent alternate to Internet Explorer is slipping [...]

Instant Search in Google Chromium Chromium, the open source browser that Chrome is based on, now offers the Google Instant feature integrated into the browser.  This makes real-time searches pop up in your main browser window while typing in queries from the Omnibox. This may not mean that you will have this option added to your Chrome browser soon, most features that come to Chromium, usually find [...]

Google Chrome Google’s  annual developer conference held in May bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser. Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps.  In that direction, Google has launched the first developer preview, developers can access the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store through Google Code Labs. Information [...]

Google Wave Last year at Google I/O, Google has launched Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser (character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop). Google said yesterday that they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code [...]

Image Source - www.netmarketshare.com Microsoft’s good ole boy – Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, According to www.netmarketshare.com Internet Explorer has grown its usage share for the second month in a row. And once again, the fastest growing web browser overall is Internet Explorer 8. IE’s gains come, as before, at the expense of both Mozilla Firefox and [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the significant and useful feature of mobile Operating system Android 2.2 Froyo showcased at the Google’s Developer Conference last week which go dwarfed by the announcement of  Google TV and Android Froyo  was  the ability of  Chrome-to-Device messaging service which allows you to automatically send links from your computer to your Google Android device. Google [...]