Chrome extensions arriving in developer version

Support for extensions to customize Chrome, the top-requested feature for Google’s browser, has begun arriving for adventurous users. Previously, extensions worked only for those who enabled the feature with a command line switch. Now the feature is enabled by default in the developer preview version of Chrome on Windows, Aaron Boodman, the Google engineer who [...]

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Gmail Turf + Chrome Grass themes = yuck

Google lets you use the Gmail’s Turf theme with Chrome’s Grass theme. Don’t. (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Google is clearly proud of its environmental ethos and likes to show it off through its products, but there can be too much of a good thing. Mostly in an attempt to gross people out, I tried [...]

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Adobe’s default-browser advice worked for me

Since I helped open this particular can of worms, I feel responsible for sharing the latest news about an issue in which Adobe Systems’ software opens Internet Explorer even when Chrome is set as the default browser. I had a Twitter tirade in January after the umpteenth time that Lightroom showed me the location of [...]

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New Google toolbar gives Firefox a Chrome look

Google released a second beta of its toolbar software for Firefox that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google’s own Chrome. In Chrome, when you open a new tab, the browser displays a page with up to nine miniature versions of pages you visit often–a selection of what you’ve shown to be your collective [...]

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