August 11th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Tabs can be great for working with multiple pages at the same time. But if you open them by right-clicking links and selecting “Open link in new tab,” you might not have realized that there’s an easier way. Just use your middle mouse button (it might…
August 5th, 2009 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
There’s a brand new beta for you to try out today. As always, we continue to focus on speed, and this beta release shows over 30% improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release. We’ve also improved two of th…
July 21st, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
We recently showcased how the address bar (also affectionately known as the Omnibox) doubles as a search box: simply type a search term in the box and press Enter to see results from your default search engine. Here’s another fun fact about the address…
July 13th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Over the past few weeks, we on the Google Chrome team have been delighted and entertained by your video entries for the Google Chrome Icon Project.Videos so far have ranged from dessert making in California to coordinated hockey players in Russia to co…
July 8th, 2009 | by Ian Fette | published in Google Chrome
We’ve been getting a number of questions in reference to our ‘Introducing the Google Chrome OS’ blog post, and so here are a number of your most frequently asked Qs – along with our As. We’ll be sure to add more to this list as popular questions com…
July 7th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Google Chrome has a lot of features that make your browsing easier, but you might not notice them all right away. This is because we’ve taken great care to keep our design clean, so features don’t get in your way when you’re not using them. A great e…
July 1st, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
A few months ago, we released the source code to Google Update, our software that ensures that users are using the latest and greatest version of Google Chrome. Today, we are making another improvement to Google Update such that it will run at periodi…
June 25th, 2009 | by acd | published in Google Chrome
Google Chrome is available in 50 languages, but that’s not the only thing international about it. The browser was developed by open-source contributors and Google engineers from around the globe, including our Tokyo office.Engineers at Google Japan dev…
June 18th, 2009 | by acd | published in Google Chrome
Google Chrome’s New Tab page is designed to help you get to where you’re going, faster. In the following video, I’ll show you an overview of how it works and the newly added ability to remove items from the page.Posted by Glen Murphy, Google Chrome team
June 11th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
A few weeks ago, a few of us on the Google Chrome team decided to experiment with creating the Google Chrome icon out of different objects. We started off simple, using things like spoons and balloons, and eventually progressed to more elaborate creat…
June 4th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Looking at usage statistics, we’ve noticed that many users don’t take full advantage of the search capabilities of the Omnibox, our combined search and address bar. So we decided to make the following short video to show you the basics of how it works…
May 21st, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
It’s been about 8 months since we launched Google Chrome. Aside from exclaiming how fast it is, users have been sending us lots of feedback and feature requests. We’ve increased our focus on speed and also added some of the most-requested features. Som…
May 15th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
If you’re an IT administrator, you may be interested to know that today, on the Open Source blog, we announced a way to manage the update cycle for Google Chrome via Google Update for Administrators. This means that administrators are now able to spec…
April 29th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
For those of us who live and work on the web, the browser is an unsung hero. It’s become the most important piece of software on our computer, but rarely is it given proper recognition, let alone fêted.We invited some creative friends to make short mo…
April 21st, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
A few weeks ago, we joked about creating a special version of Google Chrome that made the web 3D. Well today, all joking aside, a team at Google is actually taking a step in that direction by introducing O3D: a shader-based API for 3D graphics in the…