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Google Chrome celebrates 5th birthday

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

Who would have thought that a small project by a search engine would turn out to be one of world’s most popular browsers? But the small project not only became popular, but it soon caught up the race with other […]

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New Yahoo! Toolbar for IE, Firefox, Chrome launched

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Yahoo! some months ago shut down Yahoo Axis, Alta Vista and a handful of other offerings from Yahoo! but that hasn’t dampened the spirits of the team as it has now decided to come up with a brand-new browser toolbar. […]

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Google launches ROLL IT campaign for Chrome browser

By AnkitGupta@TWCN |

We often connect two devices for the tasks such as connecting to the internet, transferring data from one device to another and many more. However, what will it be like if you can use both your computer and your phone […]

Internet Explorer 10 beats Chrome, Firefox, Opera at blocking malware

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Yet another study has shown that Internet Explorer 10 beats its competitors when it comes to blocking malware. NSS Labs compared the built-in protection capabilities of Internet Explorer 10 with the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera browsers and concluded that […]

Chrome & Firefox browser extension that hijacks Facebook profiles found

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Microsoft has been receiving reports from Brazil about a browser extension with malicious intent, that attempts to hijack the Facebook profile of the victim. The malware, Trojan:JS/Febipos.A, is being specifically targeted at Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Once installed, […]

Google Chrome 25 released; will disable silent extension installs

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Google Chrome 25 has been released and is now available for download. The changes introduced include improvements in extensions and add-ons management, performance,  security and minor bug fixes. Chrome 25 will by default, disable extensions which are installed by third-party […]

Google develops App Launcher For Chrome Packaged Apps

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC |

Google has released a new app launcher for Windows users. The Chrome app launcher is designed specially to help Chrome users opening the web apps outside the browser. With this Chrome app launcher the packaged apps can be launched from outside, […]

Rich Templated Notifications now Available for Windows Chromium Build

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for experiencing the web. It has now been updated for Windows to include a new notification center. The first person to note this […]

Google Chrome 24 Released; Boots Even Faster

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

A new version of Google Chrome – Chrome 24 has been released. Prior to the release, there was no word from the Internet search giant. No fireworks! Just a short description on Google Chrome read as – ‘With today’s Chrome […]

IE 10 trailing behind Chrome 23 and Firefox 17

By RogerDunning@TWCN |

The New Year doesn’t seem to bring good news at all for Microsoft. First, this morning Net application report suggested Windows Phones are still way behind Android and Apple’s iOS and now the website’s  preliminary data from December shows the […]

TwitPic Blocked by Google Chrome over Malware Issue

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Yesterday, some Twitter users reported they encountered a problem while trying to log into their Twitter or TwitPic account using Google’s Chrome browser. Google referring TwitPic as a malware distributor and citing reasons that the micro-blogging platform’s picture sharing service […]

Google Chrome 23 with Do Not Track feature support released

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

Microsoft was first to start supporting the ‘DO NOT TRACK’ feature in its proprietary browser – Internet Explorer. Later, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Opera followed suit, but Google’s Chrome trailed behind. Not any more! Google has released Chrome version […]

Chrome Remote Desktop loses Beta Tag, Adds Useful Extras

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

Google last year developed a desktop sharing tool, an extension called Chrome Beta Desktop for its widely popular browser – Google Chrome. The plugin allowed its users to remotely access a computer at another location through the Chrome browser however, […]

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Internet Explorer 10 beats Chrome in performance in Google’s RoboHornet test

By HemantSaxena@TWCN |

Google yesterday released an open-source micro-benchmark test named as RoboHornet for evaluating the browser performance. In the performance test, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 scored extremely well, but what was puzzling was Chrome’s own performance in the test. It was extremely bad and […]

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Chrome Time Machine celebrates 4 years of the browsers launch

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

To celebrate 4 years of launch of the Google Chrome web browser, Google has launched a website that will let you track Chrome’s journey for a better web. The Chrome Time Machine lets you travel through key moments in Chrome’s history […]

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Google confirms working on Windows 8 Metro mode version of Chrome

By SusannahLindsay@TWCN |

With the release of Windows 8 coming closer day by day, companies are working hard to make their products compatible to Windows 8 Metro UI. Now according to the latest news, Google has confirmed that it is developing a new […]

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Google introduces Google Related, a browsing assistant

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Google has introduced a browsing asistant called Google Related. It is a Google Toolbar feature that will show you related useful content as you browse the web, and display it in a thin bar at the bottom of your page. […]

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Google Chrome’s Browse For A Good Cause initiative

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Google has launched a new social initiative under the “Chrome for a Cause” umbrella. Every tab you open on Chrome browser, this December 15 through 19, will serve a good cause.  

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Google launches the Chrome Web Store

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Google has launched the Chrome Web Store where you will see a lot of apps, extensions and themes for Chrome, some paid, some free.

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GMail adds drag, drop, save attachment to desktop feature

By AnandKhanse@TWC |

Google has added a new feature to GMail. If you are using Google Chrome browser, you can now drag, drop and save file attachments onto the desktop. Dragging and dropping files is an easy way to save time .