Desktop Notifications in Chrome via Extensions
Desktop notifications are deployed to notify users that something important has happened in the “background”. Desktop notifications are now available to extensions in Chrome 5, which means developers can start using the notifications API in their extensions to deliver non-modal messages from web sites. Notifications from an extension have no permission prompts or infobar warnings.
Chromium Stable Channel for Ubuntu
Chromium for Ubuntu now has a stable channel that matches the recently released Google Chrome Stable (Channel) for Linux. First remove other chromium-daily PPAs before adding this one. Google actually decided that Chrome beta for Linux was stable enough to become a Stable, so Chromium Beta and Chromium Stable are the same builds, v5.0.375.55.
How to Play YouTube WebM Video Clips in Firefox
Yesterday the WebM open web media project was announced Google I/O. Opera, Chromium and Firefox already have builds that support WebM. Over 1.2 million YouTube video clips are already available in WebM, and Google has announced it will sooner transcode all YouTube videos to WebM. To test/play YouTube WebM video clips in Firefox, download Firefox [...]
Mozilla, Google, Opera and others announce WebM, an open web media project
Mozilla, Google, Opera and forty other publishers such as Adobe have announced WebM, a “project dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.” This projects aims at setting the web free with an open alternative to the h2.64 format championed by Apple and Microsoft.
Chrome Sync extended to Settings and Autofill
Like Mozilla Weave that synchronizes almost everything about your Firefox setup; your saved passwords, browsing history, preferences, open browser tabs, and bookmarks across Firefox browsers, new Chromium build now syncs your Chrome Settings and Autofill data together with your bookmarks. As shown in the screenshot above, when setting up Chrome sync you can choose not [...]
Free up memory in Google Chrome and Chromium with Purge Memory Feature [Linux]
That Google Chrome is sometimes is a memory hog is a well known fact, but what Linux users of Chrome and Chromium might have missed is that Dev Channels of these browsers like their Windows counterpart now have a memory purger that when used in some cases drastically reduces the memory in use by Chrome/Chromium.
Chromium Daily Builds for Linux gets Content Settings in the Options menu
Bleeding edge Chromium browser daily builds for Linux/Ubuntu update comes with bug fixes and some new features, the Content Settings window takes center stage. This also means its just a matter of time and this new feature will be available in Google Chrome for Linux Dev channels. The Content Settings dialog in the options menu [...]
Chromium for Linux Daily Builds reach 5.0
While the Dev and Beta channels are still stuck in version 4.0, Chromium for Linux Daily builds make it to version 5.0. The Daily PPA is updated more frequently than the Dev PPA, but it is completely untested, that certainly makes it more unstable and unreliable. It works and loads web pages quickly too.
Bookmark Sync for Chromium Linux now Available [No Plug-ins]
Google Chrome’s bookmark syncing feature (without installing any plug-ins) has been available for the Windows beta version of Chrome 4. This same feature has now been dropped on Chromium builds for Linux. Chromium is the open source project behind Google Chrome. If you often update your Chromium builds for Linux, you should have noticed the [...]
