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Tag Archives: chromium
Firefox 5 released; faster release cycle and fewer features
It was only a few weeks ago that Firefox 4 was finally released after a development cycle lasting over a year. While Firefox 4 added features and speed, Mozilla believe more should be done to keep up with Google’s increasingly popular browser, Chrome.
HTML5 version of Angry Birds lets you play in Chrome on Ubuntu
The folks over at Rovio, creators of the now famous Angry Birds, have unleashed an HTML5 version of the popular game that’s designed to run in Chrome (or Chromium!) on any operating system.
Chromium Daily build adds Unity Quicklist
Adding even more reason for switching to Chromium in Ubuntu, the latest Daily build of the browser has added a Unity Quicklist to the launcher icon, courtesy of Fabien Tassin.
Mimic the look of Ubuntu’s Overlay-scrollbars in Chrome/ium
Chrome/ium doesn’t use Ubuntu’s new Overlay Scrollbars which is a shame: thy’re cute, slim and awesome to use.
Whilst we can’t enable overlay scrollbars themselves in Chrome/ium we can at least match the look, courtesy of reader Micha R who mailed in just how to do this…
Chromium Daily adds Unity progress bar and badge support
The latest daily builds of Chromium come with a neat gift for Natty users – Unity Launcher progress bar and badge support.
This is the second Unity-specific feature to land in Chromium. Ubuntu Application Menu support landed in the ‘about:flags’ staging area back in mid-April.
Read on for install instructions.
Chrome’s tabs integrated into Ubuntu’s panel? Yes, please!
OMG! Ubuntu! reader Cyrill sent us through a little mockup of what Ubuntu would look like with tabs inside the panel.
He says “On my netbook’s 10 inch screen, every single pixel is important. And as there is barely no global menu for Chromium (this changed apparently in Natty), i was wondering how it would look if tabs were using that free space.”
Ubuntu Global Menu Support comes to Chromium
The latest Daily Builds of open-source browser Chromium have added in experimental support for Ubuntu 11.04′s new Global Menu via the about:flags staging area.
Firefox 4 released today; it’s faster & feature rich – is it enough to compete with Chrome?
Today marks the release of Mozilla’s long awaited Firefox 4. This new version of Firefox boasts that it’s faster and simpler to use, as well as introducing a few new features, most notably, Firefox Sync.
But is it good enough to compete with Google Chrome?
Chromium browser gets new a logo. Ish.
As spotted over on the excellent Chrome-obsessed blog ‘Chrome Story’ the Chromium daily builds are sporting a redesigned logo
Social browser Rockmelt is coming to Linux – just not yet
Rockmelt, the much hyped social web browser famously backed by by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, is heading to Linux – only not just yet.
Get Chromium on Ubuntu To Play mp4, H.264, MP3 & view PDF files natively
Google ChromeOS will do many wonderful things – the free and open-source version ‘Chromium OS’ sadly won’t. Many of these ‘features’ can, given the nature of what Chrome/iumOS is, be enabled easily in both – including in the current browser versions of Chrome/ium. Mp3 playback Wondering whether ChromeOS will be able to play back music [...]
Ohso Quicklaunch Chrome/ium web app
If you’re using a recent-ish version of Google Chrome or Chromium then you have support for ‘web apps’. These are, essentially, ‘pinned’ webpages sans toolbars, but can also be all sorts of custom applications that perform different functions.
Thanks to the hard work of Nicolas Leperlier, we now have an Ohso Quick-Launcher type Chrome App!
Chromium’s restyled ‘new tab’ page is minimal win
With so many visually important Ubuntu updates landing today it was nice to find something else non-Ubuntu related amongst them. Users of the Chromium Daily Builds may (or may not have depending on level of observation!) a new look ‘new tab’ page. The evolution of the Chrome/ium interface is one I really love following – simply [...]
Use Google Chrome’s Native PDF reader in Chromium
There are various odds and sods in Google Chrome which are exempt from inclusion in the fully open-source development version Chromium. Integrated flash is one and Chromes new native PDF reader is another. The reasons for this are, as Linux users you can probably guess, down to licensing issues. If you desperately want to use [...]
Chrome Dev Channel adds GNOME Keyring support for saving passwords
The Google Chrome dev channel (as well as the Chromium daily builds) recently gained preliminary support for storing user passwords in the native system keyring rather than, as currently, the built-in unencrypted password store. Whilst the feature is switched off by default you can enable it easily using one of the following switches below, either [...]