Month: November 2008
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Why One Person Switched to Google Chrome
Stephen Shankland writes: Sorry if it sounds like I’m drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google’s executives said we should: speed. (Get Google Chrome from Download.com.) Years ago, Firefox won me over chiefly with plug-ins, tabbed browsing, and some…
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Google to preinstall Chrome?
Murad Ahmed writes: Google is considering pre-installing its Chrome browser on personal computers in the search giant’s latest challenge to the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The move would significantly ramp up the browser war that Google launched against Microsoft when it launched Chrome in September, in the battle to dominate how users access and…
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Joe Wilcox Says Chrome Will Kill Firefox
Joe Wilcox writes: I love Firefox. It’s a remarkably fast and reliable browser. But Mozilla’s dirty little public secret has been its dependence on Google search revenue. This open-source success story is as much about commercial financial support as community participation. Firefox will fail, I predict for the future, unless Mozilla gets more donors or…
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Beta and Plugin Improvements in Google Chrome
From the Official Google Chrome Blog Anantanarayanan Iyengar writes: After the beta launch in early September, from the first wave of feedback, we realized that a large number of users were facing plugin compatibility issues in Google Chrome. These included Adobe Flash videos not playing, as well as various browser performance issues with Adobe Flash…