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How to enable web apps in Google Chrome on Ubuntu

With Google gearing up to launch the Chrome Web Store December 7th now is the perfect time to get a sneak preview of how webapps are going to look in Chrome.

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Just how popular is Chrome/ium on Linux? answer: Very

The early builds of Chromium on Linux were basic. Very basic.

Google Chrome for Linux will be one year old on Friday 4th June. Crazy non? To mark this relatively minor milestone I’ve decided to take a look at how Google Chrome’s growth on Linux has, well, grown in that time. I can only base my findings on my blog as a whole with some outside [...]

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Google Chrome Extension Gallery Now Live

Google Chromes’ official Extensions Gallery is finally open for business. Tons of new extensions are available from the official extension gallery – yes, even adblockers - including official extensions from eBay, StumbleUpon and Google themselves, all with one-click installs and no browser restart required. Eat that Firefox! Check them out now @ chrome.google.com/extensions  Don’t forget that [...]

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Google Chrome Beta Officially Released For Linux

No major tech site is currently reporting on this, but (Edit: 45 minutes later the rest of the big tech sites catch up! yet another OMG!Ubuntu! first…) The Google Chrome Beta for Linux is now available officially from google.com/chrome. Prior to this Linux users had to use a pre-beta dev version via the chromium.org development [...]

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MurrinaChrome – Best Chrome-like GTK Theme Yet

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A few days ago I posted a gorgeous Emerald theme based on Google Waves’ interface. In that post I mentioned i couldn’t find a decent GTK theme to match it. Thankfully reader Nicolas came up trumps and suggested MurrinaChrome – a light Google-toned theme that is more than a match for the Wave Emerald theme! [...]

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Extensions Can Now Sit In Google Chrome’s Toolbar

The latest update to Google Chrome on Linux finally brings extension heaven for users unhappy with the way in which “notifying” extensions were layed out. My two previous posts on Chrome – 15 Must Have Extensions for Google Chrome and Why Google Chrome should be your default browser – both generated lots of positive feedback [...]

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The Face Of Google ChromeOS?

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Following my earlier post that Google Chrome OS will be Debian based (just like Ubuntu – tangible link ahoy!) I thought I’d take a peek at the available build of Google Chrome for Google Chrome OS. (Stay with me!) For anyone not following the whole ChromeOS saga it will essentially be a "web-browser as OS" [...]

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15 Useful Extensions For Google Chrome: Adblockers, flashblockers, session savers, mail notifiers, delicious, etc

Further to my previous post on “Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Browser“, i thought i’d post a boring-yet-useful list of 15 Chrome extensions that make an already awesome browser even more awesome… er. Adblockers Two ad-blockers are available as extensions for Google Chrome/ium. Adsweep blocks and hides adverts with a minimum of fuss. [...]

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