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Google Chrome bookmark synchronization just landed on dev channel

lacisoft — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:41:47 +0000

The Chrome development team just pushed live to the dev channel the new Google Chrome with version number 4.0.201.1. This contains a lots of bug fixes but one major new feature too – bookmark synchronization.

Now you can synchronize your bookmarks across multiple Chrome installations (multiple computers). To activate bookmark synchronization, start Chrome with the “–enable-sync” flag. After you fill in your Google Account data, Chrome will upload and store your bookmarks. Now when you add or modify a bookmark, the changes will be sent to the cloud and immediately broadcast to all other computers for which you’ve activated bookmark sync (using the same XMPP technology as Google Talk).

Read the announcement and enjoy this new feature from Google Chrome.

New Google Chrome Beta

lacisoft — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:15:52 +0000

Google is just rolling out a new beta of the increasingly popular Google Chrome browser, with many improved features. This update comes just a few months after they took off the beta label from Google Chrome in last December.

From the new features:

improved speed (about 25% to 35%)
form autofill
full page zoom
autoscroll
a new way to drag tabs in side by side view

More details on the new Google Chrome blog.

Google Chrome’s popup blocker sucks!

lacisoft — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:09:22 +0000

I’m having difficulties working on Chrome lately. I’m using a webpage that constatly spawns popups for reminders and my problem is that Chrome blocks these popups. And it shows the notice that a popup has been blocked only for a few seconds. If you are not quick enough you have no way to see the popup.

The annoying thing is that there is no way to enable popups for a certain site. At least not from Google Chrome interface. I found a startup parameter “-disable-popup-blocking” that should do that but i want to enable popup blocking only for certain sites. Not all of them! Maybe Google should have waited with the launch of Chrome until some basic features like popup blocking are finished.

Here is the rest of the startup parameters (maybe they help someone):

-disable-hang-monitor
-disable-metrics
-disable-metrics-reporting
-assert-test
-renderer-assert-test
-crash-test
-renderer-crash-test
-renderer-startup-dialog
-plugin-startup-dialog
-testshell-startup-dialog
-plugin-launcher
-channeltesting-channel
-homepagestart-renderers-manuallyrendere…
-renderer-pathplugin
-single-process
-process-per-tab
-process-per-site
-in-process-plugins
-no-sandbox
-safe-plugins
-trusted-plugins
-test-sandbox
-user-data-dir
-appupload-file
-dom-automation
-plugin-pathjs-flags
-geoidlangdebug-children
-wait-for-debugger-children
-log-filter-prefix
-enable-logging
-dump-histograms-on-exit
-disable-logging
-remote-shell-port
-uninstallomnibox-popup-count
-automation-channel
-restore-last-session
-record-mode
-playback-mode
-no-events
-hide-icons
-show-icons
-make-default-browser
-proxy-server
-dns-log-details
-dns-prefetch-disable
-debug-print
-allow-all-activex
-disable-dev-tools
-always-enable-dev-tools
-memory-model
-tab-count-to-load-on-session-restore…
-memory-profile
-enable-file-cookies
-start-maximized
-enable-watchdogfirst-run
-message-loop-strategy
-message-loop-histogrammer
-importsilent-dump-on-dcheck
-disable-prompt-on-repost
-disable-popup-blocking
-disable-javascript
-disable-java
-disable-plugins
-disable-images
-use-lf-heap
-new-http

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 released

lacisoft — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:24:10 +0000

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 RC1. You can find it here. The final launch is probably in the first half of this year. The question is how many people will make the switch, because i’m horrified by the large number of people still using Internet Explorer 6 years after Internet Explorer 7 has been released.

Opera 10 looks good aka browser wars are back on

lacisoft — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:53:59 +0000

I’ve just tested Opera 10 with its new Presto 2.2 rendering engine and it seems that Google Chrome has some competition on the speed factor. Opera 10 loads somewhat slower then Google Chrome but much faster as Firefox. It renders pages faster then Firefox but i couldn’t decide wich one is faster Chrome or Opera 10 (need some benchmarks on this). Opera 10 also has an Acid 3 score of 100/100!

Still neither Opera neither Chrome will take Firefox’s place in my navigational behavior. That is because neither of them has something like Firebug. I’ve just come to the conclusion that i cannot use a browser without a good inspecting tool like Firebug. Sure you could argue that they have something like that. Yes, but it is far behind Firebug!

Opera 10, Chrome 1, Firefox 3.1, IE 8 and Safari. So who said that browser wars ended ? They just starting.

The origins of the Google Chrome logo

lacisoft — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:47:00 +0000

Source: http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/28/origins-of-the-google-chrome-logo/

Funny Firefox easter egg

lacisoft — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:01 +0000

I’ve just seen a funny easter egg hidden in Firefox. If you open the browser and type in the address bar about:robots you will see a funny page dedicated to robots. It is kinda old trick – since FF3 appeared but i just learned about it. It made my day.

Google Chrome after one month of use

lacisoft — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:56:14 +0000

It is more then a month from the moment when Google Chrome went live. I use it since then and i love its speed and its simplicity. It crashed on me only once and it took all the tabs with it. But that was a minor incident, it can happen. But what is worse is that i found that Flash and Chrome are having problems when used together.

When i open flash heavy sites, or flash streaming sites it starts to become unresponsive. And some of the streaming sites don’t have sound (checked with Firefox and worked well).

I was thinking that memory is a bottleneck but i tried it both on my home machine with 4GB of RAM running XP64 and at work with 1GB of RAM running XP and the result is the same. Chrome and Flash won’t work well together.

Later update: I found out that this is a known bug and it is somewhat fixed in latest development release.

Google Chrome crashes all tabs

lacisoft — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:07:33 +0000

The much advertised feature of Google Chrome, the one that prevents a web page to crash the whole browser because of a bad site, isn’t working as supposed to be. I just opened a pdf file from a web site, in one browser instance and that crashed the whole browser (All instances and tabs crashed). I guess they just have to work more on it.