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Give Google Chrome as a Christmas gift

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:07:52 +0000

Am I hearing this correctly ? Give Google Chrome as a Christmas gift to your ….Grandma ? W T F is my grandma going to do with Google Chrome ? I thought the same thing, but here is what Google is upto

http://www.givechrome.com/

Step 1: Click on http://www.givechrome.com/

Step 2: Select a theme to wrap your gift in. The theme then dutifully wraps itself around the Google Chrome logo

Step 3: Type in the recipients, your message et all and send.

So what does this do ? Probably just sends a Chrome download link to the recipient, but the main thing I like about this is the Ajax powered design, its lovely ..simple and elegant..and you should give it a try just for the sake of seeing the creation.

Google Chrome introduces browser extensions

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:40:59 +0000

Google Chrome

What is a great browser ? One that loads up quickly OR one that makes your browsing experience speedier than the other browsers? OR is the add-ons or the extensions which might include functional add ons or themes.

I would say that a major selling point of Firefox initially was its support for extensions which let you do all kinds of goody functional stuff with either the websites, bookmarks, web development functionality or other stuff.

And now Google Chrome is onto the bandwagon announcing that Chrome will support extensions, and which can be downloaded from https://chrome.google.com/extensions/

You would have to however, download the latest beta version of Chrome for running these extensions.

At the time of writing this article, these are the popular extensions,

Google Mail Checker

(1389)

- 112,109 users

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to…

AdThwart

(835)

- 72,164 users

Blocks ads on websites. Includes the EasyList ad filter list as of 18 Dec 2009.

Google Translate

(375)

- 66,020 users

This extension translates entire webpages into a language of your choice with one click. By the…

Google Wave Notifier

(312)

- 50,866 users

Displays number of unread Waves.

Full list of popular extensions at : https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular

What is the Google Chrome Omnibar ?

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:35:02 +0000

One of the best known features of Google Chrome is the Omnibar or the so called ‘Psychic Bar’ by the developers.

Simply speaking it combines the address bar and the search box in one. So you would type in your search query right where you would have typed the web page url.

And Google Chrome goes further. It guesses what you are looking for, by showing you a list of websites from your browser history, bookmarks and search results from Google.

You can also search inside a website from your address bar, by pressing the tab key.

See the omnibar in action,

Google Chrome Demo

Omnibar for Mozilla Firefox

If you are looking for a omnibar add-on for firefox, there is one available on the add-ons page