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In response to complaints from browser makers, Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators so that Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon every launch. The previous method had them listed in alphabetical order, putting Apple's Safari first. Complaints from Opera, Google, and Mozilla resulted in ...
Extensions are coming to Google Chrome in the near future. The current developer build supports them, and there’s a lot to be excited about in the implementation — you don’t have to restart the browser to use an extension you’ve just installed like you do in Firefox, for example. On the other hand, the group of brave folks using the developer build don’t have nearly as many extensions to pick ...
Tech Source From Bohol: "Not long after Google Chrome was released, we've featured here a few sample extensions. Now that there are plenty of Google Chrome extensions available, I would like to share to you some of those that I think adds important functionality to this fast and simple browser."
Microsoft has agreed to make some final changes to its web browser ballot system to accommodate requests, a tip indicated Friday. Following pressure on the European Commission from Google, Mozilla and Opera, the company has said it will randomize the order of the browser choices to provide an even playing field and will blank out the "Windows Internet Explorer" text in the title bar to avoid ...
Google Chrome for Mac will be missing several features when it arrives as a beta in the next few weeks, according to TechCrunch, with Google rushing out th web browser to meet a self-imposed end-of-year deadline.
Or is it? Clearly, something is up. The Chrome page still only offers a download option for Windows. That's a pretty clear sign there is still no Mac version of the Google browser. However, the Chrome development team's page tells a different story. Check out what's in the fine print: "Now that we have an initial beta release under our belts, our goal is to fill in the missing features and ...
You thought the whole browser ballot thing in Windows was behind us, right? That everybody was finally happy, so that we could continue doing what an overwhelming number of people have already done without a ballot screen - that is, install non-IE browsers? Not exactly. Opera, Mozilla, and Google still had complaints, which Microsoft addressed, making everybody happy.
The seemingly never-ending antitrust trial in Europe may soon come to a close, if a new report by Bloomberg is on the money. Bloomberg reported on December 3 that the European Commission (EC) may issue its final remedy in the browser-bundling case involving Opera Software and Microsoft by December 15.
Microsoft, with IE 9, isn't the only browser provider planning to harness hardware acceleration. Mozilla is planning to do the same with Firefox. Firefox developers have posted a prototype demonstrating the ability to take advantage of Direct2D and DirectWrite. Google is interested in the possibilities of hardware-accelerating Chrome, as well,...
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome snapping at it's heels Internet Explorer's market share ebbed again last month, a web measurement firm said today, more proof that Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) hasn't stopped desertions to rival browsers.
Chrome is a speedy little browser, but that speed comes with a tradeoff: It also eats tons of memory. If you've got plenty of RAM, that may not be an issue; if not, you can reclaim that memory with a...
