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Bookmarks Manager for Google Chrome

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:41:40 +0000

Released a few weeks ago only to the developer version of Chrome, Google has now pushed out a full-on bookmark manager in the latest beta going out to users (version 0.4.154.25). Make sure you’re running the latest build (choose About Google Chrome and hit the update button), and then you can hit Ctrl+Shift+B to launch the new Bookmark manager, which isn’t as fleshed-out as Firefox 3’s but is a huge improvement over the older version. There are no tags or smart folders, but there’s a search box (of course) and a Recently Added area where you can quickly see newly-bookmarked URLs. See the rest of the updates and bug fixes in the new version here. Now that Chrome’s been out for three months and much of the hype has died down, are you still using the new browser from Google?

How Google Chrome Logo was designed

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:20:04 +0000

Found this interesting news in another website. This may be just another coincidence but there are some elements that seem to be common between the logo designs of Google Chrome and that of ThinkFree.It’s not the official Thinkfree logo but is part of the installer that ships with the desktop version of Thinkfree Office 3.

Google Chrome to Get Bookmark Manager

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:04:03 +0000

Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google gets a

bookmark manager. Google has released a new developer-oriented version of Chrome that brings better bookmark management to the Web browser. This version of Google Chrome is available only to the subscribers of Dev channel of Chromium. The latest development version is 0.4.154.18 which gets the new

bookmark manager.

Another change according to the release notes is the popup blocker. Previously the pop-up blocker just minimized pop-up windows to the lower right corner of the browser window, create one ‘constrained’ window for each pop-up. Now, Google Chrome displays one small notification in the corner that shows the number of blocked pop-ups. A menu on the notification lets you open a specific pop-up, if needed.

Quick Tip – How to Open Hotmail in Chrome!

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:48:24 +0000

Here’s a quick hack although many of you probably know this:
1. Visit Hotmail.com

2. Login

3. The resulting page says that Hotmail cannot identify your browser (Typical MS style, if you think it’s better than your own, pretend it doesn’t exist! Try ignoring Firefox now!). Near the bottom of this page is a link which says “continue anyway” or something on that mood. Click on that and you are good to go. And use the new 0.4beta of Chrome for better performance.

Flash Player for Google Chrome – YouTube (and flash videos) in Google Chrome

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:03:22 +0000

Sometimes while using Google Chrome it may happen that you don’t manage to watch flash content (videos) from famous websites such as Google Video or YouTube. What you get instead is the following error message: “Sorry the video is no longer available”. Of course the video is still available but what maybe you don’t know is that you are just experiencing a Macromedia flash player incompatibility with your Google Chrome. To check this theory out it is just sufficent to open you Internet Explorer or Firefox browser and try to watch the video. If you can do it, it means that… your flash player needs to be updated. Here is the trick to fix it:

Uninstall Macromedia flash player installed on your computer. To do that, use one of these uninstaller: Download the Windows Uninstaller; Download the Mac OS X Uninstaller; Download the Mac OS 8.x, 9.x Uninstaller.
Download and install the latest flash plugin player. Flash player for Windows and Mac
Shut Chrome down and open it again.
Now you should be able to watch flash content on your Chrome

Google’s Chrome Browser Not Yet Secure

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:14:17 +0000

If we see theoritically, Chrome should be more secure than other browsers because, rather than being a single-threaded application, each tab is handled by its own sandboxed process.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s Chrome browser is only a day old, but security researchers already have found vulnerabilities that can be exploited.
According to a report published by ZDNet, security researcher Aviv Raff has found that he can combine a flaw in the open source WebKit engine with a Java bug to dupe Chrome users into downloading executable files.

Another security researcher, Rishi Narang, claimed to have found a way to crash Chrome with a malicious link.
“An issue exists in how chrome behaves with undefined-handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27,” Narang explained on the Evil Fingers Web site. “A crash can result without user interaction. When a user is made to visit a malicious link, which has an undefined handler followed by a ’special’ character, the Chrome crashes with a Google Chrome message window ‘Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?’ ”
And someone identified as “Nerex” has posted proof-of-concept JavaScript code on Milw0rm.com that supposedly “allows files (e.g., executables) to be automatically downloaded to the user’s computer without any user prompt.”
This exploit appears to be similar to the one identified by Raff.
In theory, Google Chrome should be more secure than other browsers because, rather than being a single-threaded application, each tab is handled by its own sandboxed process with its own memory space. Like a multiengine plane, Chrome is designed not to crash following the loss of a single engine.
“[Chrome] utilizes technology that has historically been associated with operating systems to create isolation between different browser tabs with the aim of improved crash-resistance and security,” IDC analyst Al Hilwa said in a research note. “The security capabilities also ensue from a new sandbox model that strengthens what is typically available today from other browsers.”
But Chrome is beta software and remains a work in progress.

Hilwa observes that while Google’s security architecture isolates the browser’s kernel from attacks on rendering-engine vulnerabilities, it doesn’t extend this same protection to plug-ins like Java, Flash, and Silverlight.
Mozilla software engineer Robert O’Callahan in a blog post said that while Chrome looks promising, Google’s coders still have challenges to overcome. “There are some interesting architectural problems they haven’t solved yet, especially with the process separation model, especially with regard to windowless plugins, and also Mac,” he said. “These are problems that will be encountered by anyone doing process separation so it will be interesting to see how that goes.”
Take a spin through our Google Chrome image gallery and have a look at the browser that’s being touted as a game-changer.

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Google Chrome < 0.3.154.9 Address Spoofing

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:09:45 +0000

Description: Synopsis :

The remote host contains a web browser that is affected by an address
spoofing vulnerability.

Description :

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier
than 0.3.154.9. Such versions are reportedly are affected by an
address spoofing vulnerability in pop-ups. An attacker can leverage
this issue to manipulate a window’s address bar to show a different
address than the actual origin of the content.

TEN REASONS WHY GOOGLE CHROME SHOULD BE A PART OF YOUR BROWSING ARSENAL!

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:06:32 +0000

1. Find It All In The Box

Chrome offers an all-in-wonder search box that lets you search for the URL, a bookmark, smart results, and popular searches based on the term or terms you entered. For our example, I chose to use “California”. When entering that term, I was able to get an option to search Google for California, go to the State of California website, and even search for the California Lottery and the California DMV, popular searches on Google that have the term “California” in them.

2. Never Forget Where You Were and Where You May or May Not Want to Be

When opening a new tab in Chrome, as long as the tab is blank when you open it [by pressing CTRL + T / CMD + T], you can bask in the awe of your most visited Web Sites. So if you visit CNN.com every day, it’ll likely be number one on this list. With the Most Visited feature, you can track up to 9 with thumbnails. You can even jump to your history with a click of the link.

What’s also very handy about this is when you’ve closed your tabs and decide you want to go back to them again, you don’t have to hit up your history, just open a new tab and look right under “Recently Closed Tabs”. The last three are listed there and are no longer beyond your reach.

3. Application Shortcuts to your Favorite Web Sites

With the power of Chrome, you can visit any Web Site you wish, click on the and choose CREATE APPLICATION SHORTCUTS. From here you can create links on your desktop, quick launch bar, and more to said favorite Web Sites. I was not able to get it to work under my environment but that doesn’t mean I can’t share the YouTube video with you that Google made about it.

If I could get it to work, this would be something I would promote heavily. Just a click on the desktop and you’re on your way to your email, your news, your online RSS reader, or even MySpace or Facebook.

4. Your Tabs Can Dance, So Make Them Dance

Chrome allows you to move your tabs in and out of the main window into the own windows if you so choose. I opened about 10 tabs to different various Web Sites and then rearranged them. You can see what I did to them in the shots below. The original tab arrangement on the left and the new dance moves on the right.

5. Huston, Only One of the Many Has a Problem

With the super special and crazy fantastic tab control Chrome offers, if you visit one Web Site and it crashes, your entire browser will not be taken down with it. This is currently an issue in Mozilla Firefox. IE8 seems to have taken care of that problem by having each tab in its own memory space. Just as IE8, Chrome does the same thing but also includes its own “task manager” in which you can view how much memory each tab/Web Site is taking for its own [left]. But say the simple stats of the task manager isn’t enough for you; not to worry. You can click on “Stats for Nerds” and you’re taken to a very detailed stats page within the browser [right].

Beyond the tabs themselves, you can view the memory usage of your plug-ins as well. Since I had a couple of flash-based Web Sites open as well, Silverlight was running as well as Shockwave/Flash. If either of those ever seize up on you, just click on END PROCESS, just like Windows’ Task Manager.

6.
Hide and Un-Seekable Mode: Going Incognito

For those times when you feel like you need to be extra sneaky and don’t want your history, cookies, or form data to be saved, going incognito is your tool. When in this mode, you no longer are saving any information while browsing, and on close, everything you did use and were using is erased, leaving no trace. So if your wife is snooping around because you’re trying to shop for her birthday gift online or you’re trying to shop for pr0n online [let’s hope it’s the former] everything is secret; just between you and your browser. [I’m keeping my friends out of this one]

7. If You Can’t Abstain From Browsing, At Least Be Safe Doing It

While browsing, if you run across any suspicious sites or Chrome sees a site you wish to browse to on a blacklist, it’ll warn you. Check out the YouTube video on the right for more information on this. I give you the video because I do not have any way to recreate this example to show you.

This is the same feature that Mozilla Firefox has, so the red screen will look familiar to some.

I wish this feature would have been implemented a long time ago into Internet Explorer, back in version 5 and early 6 days, before Firefox took off.

8. Bookmark In a Flash

Now you can bookmark with a single click. When you’re on a Web Site that you have just decided is your new found favorite, all you have to do is click the Star in the address bar and you’re done. Fill out the name and click. Bing Bang Boom.

What’s nice about this is when you’re on a browsing roll and don’t want to deal with the hassle of opening an entire dialog box and navigating, you don’t have to worry. It’s so simple now, my grandmother could do it [if she owned a computer and wasn’t afraid of technology].

9. Setting Importations

Now with a click or two, you can transfer all of your settings over to Chrome from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and more. How is this feat accomplished, you ask? Well it’s simple, child.

Step One: Click on the Settings Button.

Step Two: Choose

And Step Three: [see screenshot on the right] Choose the browser you wish to import from and click IMPORT.

It’ll work a little magic and you’re set!

10. Hide-a-way Downloads

Downloading is something everyone does every day in some form or another. With Chrome, downloading is unobtrusive. At the bottom of your screen, all you’ll see is a download bar. No box saying “xx% Complete” or even a “download manager” like what Firefox sports. Just a bar.

So there you have it! A new browser that I think will take off very much in the next few months!

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Google Chrome Theme Starter Kit

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:30:02 +0000

Google Chrome Theme Starter Kit contains 276 images from original ‘default.dll’ (which is a image library for default Chrome theme).

Download Google Chrome Theme Starter Kit

Google Chrome Theme – blurkMAC – Mac OS X Chrome Theme

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:28:42 +0000

Info

┌ Color: White
└ Current Version: 1.0

How to install

On the start button >>> your name >>>> Organize >>>> Folder & Search Options >>>> Click the view tab >>>>>> Under hidden files & Folder click show

Windows XP:

Extract to
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application.2.149.29\Themes

Windows Vista:

Extract to
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Appl ication\0.2.149.29\Themes

Download

Just dll:

┌ http://uol1.site40.net/mac/default.zip
└ http://www.4shared.com/file/62018347…a/default.html