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 context provided by net statistic providers.
With Ubuntu 10.04 having switched its default search engine from Google to Yahoo! and then back to Google again we’ve had a few ‘new’ Firefox start pages to look at this cycle. The latest, and […]
Canonical has reversed its earlier decision to set Yahoo! as the default search engine in Firefox for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Lucid Lynx will, as in previous releases, ship with Google set as the default […]
Version: 1.1.4 GoogSysTray is a notification area application that alerts you to updates for your various Google services, such as GMail, Google Reader and Google Wave. Application to get Google Reader updates in Ubuntu System […]
The ChromeOS application menu has some pretty cool icons for applications – so much so I’ve cheekily popped some of them here for your downloadable convenience. All are 128×128 and would look great in docks […]
Google Picasa on Windows comes coupled with an awesome image-viewer. Sadly Google didn’t make this available for Linux users of Picasa, but, thanks to Irakli Gozalishvili and a soul known as Caiacoa, you can install […]
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 […]
Canonical (the commercial funder/creator of Ubuntu) are contributing ‘engineering’ to Google (for ChromeOS, presumably) under contract. The official statement posted on the Canonical blog reads as follows. Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of […]
Reports are circulating that GMail chat – the web-based version of Google Talk/GTalk – will be adding multi-user video chat/video conferencing to this other Google services in the coming months. GMail Chat only supports one-to-one […]
An official version of Google Chrome has been available to try out for several months. It fully supports flash and extensions, is super fast to both start-up and load pages and is so incredibly stable […]
Run Google Tasks on your desktop – complete with all the features from the online version thanks to Mozilla Prism. Installation You can install this via the standalone Mozilla Prism package from the repo’s however […]
Google this week released Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Sadly no Linux version was offered, a fact Google blamed on the lowly adoption figures they have for Picasa on Linux. I think that’s a […]
