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Use Chrome like a pro (Now for Mac!)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Cross posted on
Official Google Mac Blog
.)
Two months ago, Chrome team members shared a list of their favorite extensions on the
Official Google Blog
. This time around, we asked Mac aficionados on the Chrome team to share with us the extensions they like the most. Below is a list of their favorite extensions.
Google Voice
- Make calls, send SMS, preview inbox and get notified of new messages right in your browser (US only)
Send from Gmail
- Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email.
iReader
- View news stories and other articles in a very easy to read, clutter-free, scrollable display.
Google Dictionary
- View definitions easily as you browse the web, similar to using ⌘-Option-D in other Mac applications.
delicious bookmarks
- Integrate your bookmarks with Google Chrome with the official Chrome extension for Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
Instachrome
- Collect articles from around the Internet to read them on the web with Instapaper.
These are just a few extensions to help our Mac users enhance their web browsing experience and address the most requested features. There are more than 7,000 extensions to choose from in our
Google Chrome Extensions gallery
, so you’ll be sure to find the right extensions for you.
Posted by Mike Pinkerton, Staff Software Engineer
Google Chrome Extensions at School: Get more done!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Over the last two weeks on the
Official Google for Students blog
, we have been highlighting extensions that help students
stay connected with friends
or
research and write papers
. For the last post in the
Google Chrome Extensions at School series
, we will showcase extensions that can help you stay on task and make the most out of your time.
Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing
Google Chrome Extensions at School: Research and write papers
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Last week in the
Official Google for Students blog
, we highlighted extensions that help students stay connected with friends and family. Check out today's
Google Chrome Extensions at School
for extensions that can help you research and write papers for any class.
Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing
Tip: Just the text, please!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Has this ever happened to you? You're writing an email online and you try to copy some text from a webpage. But when you paste it in, you get all the original fonts, colors, and spacing. "Wait!" you say, "I just wanted the text!"
This happened to us so many times while building Google Chrome that we added a special shortcut to do just that. Alongside the common Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut for "paste", Google Chrome supports a similar shortcut, Ctrl-Shift-V, for "paste as plain text". (And it’s Command-Shift-Option-V on a Mac.)
You can use this shortcut in any rich text editor (like Gmail's compose window, or when writing in Google Docs) to strip out all the presentation from the original source and just paste in a block of text.
Posted by Peter Kasting, Software Engineer
Google Chrome Extensions at School: Staying Connected
Thursday, September 9, 2010
It’s back-to-school season in many parts of the world, so we thought we’d kick off a
series
of blog posts about cool Chrome extensions that can make life easier for students. These include extensions that helps students keep in touch with friends and family, research and write papers, and be more productive during the school year. Check out the
Official Google for Student blog
to read about today’s extensions that help students stay connected with friends at school and those back home.
Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing Team
Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Watching the 1985 classic
Back to the Future
last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn’t been built yet, skateboards hadn’t been invented and nobody had ever heard rock ‘n roll.
Looking back today on Chrome’s second anniversary, it’s amazing to see how much has changed in just a short time. In August 2008,
JavaScript
was 10 times slower,
HTML5
support wasn’t yet an
essential feature
in modern browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a
research project
. All browsers have come a long way in the last two years and the web has become much more fun and useful.
Happy 2nd birthday, Google Chrome!
(Illustration:
Mike Lemanski
, click image to expand)
Since Chrome’s
first beta launch
for Windows, we’ve brought our Mac and Linux versions
up to speed
, and continued to make the browser faster, simpler, and safer across all three platforms. We’ve also introduced a boatload of features, including a
more customizable
New Tab page,
browser themes
,
side-by-side view
, password manager, better
privacy controls
,
built-in
Adobe Flash Player,
Autofill
,
automatic translation
,
HTML5 capabilities
and
synchronization
of various settings such as bookmarks, themes, extensions and browser preferences—just to name a few. Finally, there are now more than 6,000 extensions in our
gallery
to enhance your browsing experience.
Behind the scenes, we continue to extend the security features that help you browse the web more safely. This includes Chrome’s
Safe Browsing
technology—which serves as a warning system if you’re about to visit a site suspected of phishing or hosting malware; Chrome’s
auto-update
mechanism—which helps ensure that the browser is always up-to-date with the latest security updates; and the browser’s “sandbox”—an added layer of protection which prevents malicious code on an exploited website from infecting your computer.
The old Chrome: our very first beta!
Chrome now: Our brand new release today
Today, we’re releasing a new stable version of Chrome that is even faster and more streamlined. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. We’ve also been working on simplifying the “chrome” of Chrome. As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and stripped it down a bit more to make it easier to use. We combined Chrome’s two menus into one, revisited the location of the buttons, cleaned up the treatment of the URL and the
Omnibox
, and adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes.
Sliding back into Doc Brown’s
DeLorean
and setting the dial ahead by a few months, we have more in store for Chrome. As always, we’re hard at work on making Chrome even faster, and working on ways to improve graphics performance in the browser through hardware acceleration. With the
Chrome Web Store
, we hope to make it much easier to find and use great applications on the web. We also
ratcheted up
the pace of our releases so that we can get new features and improvements to everyone more quickly.
If you haven’t tried Chrome recently, we invite you to download our new stable version today at
google.com/chrome
. For those of you who have been using Chrome, thanks for a great second year! We hope that Chrome has made your life on the web even better, and look forward to the next year.
Life on the web, in the browser.
(Illustration:
Jack Hudson
, click image to expand)
Posted by Brian Rakowski, Product Manager
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