Google Chrome Blog: 2010

Appy Holidays from the Chrome Web Store

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Holiday collection Gilt for Chrome

Amazon Windowshop

Hipmunk

Stupeflix Video MakerDropMockscomemoriesChrome Web StorePosted by Christos Apartoglou, Product Marketing Manager

60 million tabs towards good causes

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

In 2010, the Chrome community has joined us in moments of fun, invention, exploration, and now, giving. Last week, we invited Chrome’s users worldwide to “donate” their opened tabs in Chrome to drive a charitable gift of one million dollars. We on the Chrome team were deeply impressed with the support and participation and now we’re happy to share the results with you.60,599,541 tabs

Each Chrome user chose the causes their tabs would support, which determined how we allocated our one million dollar donation. Accordingly, we’re excited to make the following donations on behalf of the Chrome community:

$245,278 toward planting trees in the Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s endangered tropical forests.
$232,791 toward providing clean water, by building freshwater wells for communities in developing nations.
$112,078 toward building shelter, to be constructed by volunteers for impoverished families in Latin America.
$267,336 toward administering vaccinations against meningitis to combat outbreaks in Africa.
$142,518 toward publishing books by local writers and illustrators, which will be created and donated to schools and libraries across Asia and Africa.

We’ll be making the donations at year-end, and our partner charities are already looking towards applying the funds from Chrome for a Cause in 2011. Read more about how your donation will be applied specifically by visiting our partners’ websites:

We're glad to connect Chrome users with these important causes all around the world -- so much so that we’re already thinking of more Chrome for a Cause projects for the future!

Feel free to keep your extension installed if you’d like to hear about future opportunities to work together with the Chrome community for a good cause. We’ll post all the details about how to participate on the Chrome blog, so make sure you check in when you hear about new opportunities.

Thanks for joining us in this endeavor. Happy Holidays!

Posted by Sarah Nahm, Product Marketing Manager

Guest post from the Demo Lab: Help us test the Cr-48

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

google.com/demolabPosted by Lab Tech, Demo Lab

Safer plug-ins, faster search, and richer graphics

Thursday, December 16, 2010

previewedbeta channelsandboxFlash Playerplug-inadditional layer of protectionmalicious pages

Google InstantInstant enabledomniboxChromium blogonline guidebook to browsers and the webPosted by Carlos Pizano, Software Engineer

Browse for a good cause

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Whether it’s bug fixes to the Chromium open source project, dazzling apps and extensions arriving daily in our Web Store, or boundary-pushing Chrome experiments -- the Chrome community never fails to inspire us with their awesomeness.five worthy causes

Everyone’s total tabs will determine a charitable donation made on behalf of the Chrome community, up to one million dollars. Here's what your tabs can do:

10 tabs = 1 tree planted
10 tabs = 1 book published and donated
25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided
100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built
200 tabs = 1 person's clean water for a year

To find out more about this effort and the organizations we're partnering with, visit google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/.

Want to participate?

Get the Chrome for a Cause extension
Browse the web with Chrome between December 15 - 19
At the end of each day, you’ll be prompted to click on the extension to submit your tabs
Choose which charity you’d like to support with that day’s tabs -- you can always support the same charity, or pick a different one each day

Next week, we’ll be sharing the details of the good deeds you’ve enacted. In the meantime, browse away!

Posted by Sarah Nahm, Product Marketing Manager

Added on December 15, 2010:

In order to prevent hackers, spammers and bots from manipulating the extension, and to maintain the integrity of the campaign, we ask that users login with their Google account before submitting their tabs. As part of this step, the account log-in process requires connecting to one of Google's APIs to connect with your account. The Google Contacts API is the lightest of all Google APIs and grants the least permissions. Though we use the Contacts API to verify your account we do not use any of your Contacts data in the Chrome for a Cause promotion.
Rest assured, Google's not going to spam your contact list or send you a single email about this.

Chrome is Ready for Business

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

120 million usersMSI installerlist of policiesset of templatesChrome OSGoogle Apps for Businessphone and emaildocumentationgive the new features a trylet us know what you thinkPosted by Glenn Wilson, Product Manager and Daniel Clifford, Software Engineer

How to upgrade your browser (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Monday, December 13, 2010

a recent Chrome experimentautomatically

TeachParentsTech.orgPosted by Sean Liu, Associate Product Manager on the Google Apps team

X = G / (CHROM - 3)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Yesterday, we posted a demo video with a secret challenge where the first clever person to crack the code would receive a Cr-48. Just 20 hours later, the puzzle was solved correctly by the team at Jamendo. Congratulations!
Here’s how you can find the puzzle and the solution.
First, around 2:24 in the video, you see the following equations on the board:

The constants solve out as follows:

G = 900.91

C = 8335727

H = 269462689

R = 222647

O = 694079

M = 552

The final equation is written as:

X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3)

Plugging in the previous answers gets you to:

900.91 / 191605050401140404051920181525

At that point, the puzzle changes from math to code where the numbers represent letters. It hints to that by the final equation spelling CHROM3, but we expected people to get stuck here and have to play around for a bit. The first mental leap is that you have to visually identify 900.91 as goo.gl (just like spelling words on a calculator: 9=g,0=o,0=o,9=g,1=l). The division sign is a slash ( / ), so this pretty clearly points to the Google URL shortener. From there, you need to figure out the shortened URL.
The number 191605050401140404051920181525 may confuse people for a bit, but the large number of zeros and the repeated "04" and "05" sequences in it visually allude to pairs within the string. Once you see that, it can be broken up into:

19 16 05 05 04 01 14 04 04 05 19 20 18 15 25

If you've gotten this far, you've probably noticed that all of those numbers are between 1 and 26. From here, it's just a straight mapping to letters of the alphabet (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc). Decoding the full string gives you:

s p e e d a n d d e s t r o y

Putting everything together, the end result is:

goo.gl/speedanddestroy

That URL points to a page where you can fill out a form to request a shiny new Chrome notebook (the form is closed now, of course).
Posted by Chris Lyon, Hardware Engineer, Chrome OS Team

Keep calm and carry on: Chrome notebook

Friday, December 10, 2010

Chrome event

Posted by Glen Murphy, UX Designer

An update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Chrometwice as fastearly access channelsChrome Web StoreChrome Web StoreChrome OSannouncedChrome notebook websitePosted by Linus Upson, VP Engineering and Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management

A curious guide to browsers and the web

Thursday, November 18, 2010

comic bookWhatBrowser.org20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the WebHTML5 experiencesChristoph Niemann

ChromeHTML5Chrome PDF viewerwww.20thingsilearned.comgoo.gl/20thingsGoogle Code Blog

Posted by Min Li Chan, Product Marketing Manager

New Chrome Extensions by Google

Thursday, November 11, 2010

gallerynew Google Calendar extension

Web Clipboard extensionGoogle Docs clipboard

YouTube Feed

Blog ThisGoogle Calendar CheckerNews ReadergalleryPosted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager

PDF goodness in Chrome

Thursday, November 4, 2010

beta channelPDFW-4 tax formsecuritybeta channelPosted by John Abd-El-Malek, Software Engineer

Understanding the omnibox for better security

Friday, October 22, 2010

National Cyber Security Awareness Monthomnibox

phishing attackbuilt-in protection against phishingencrypted connection“extended validation” certificate

https://www.benefitaccess.com/Help Center article on Chrome’s indicatorsPosted by Adam Barth, Software Engineer

Bringing another Chrome release to you, right on time

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

mentionedhundreds of bug fixesAppleScriptHTML5 parsing algorithmFile APIdirectory uploadblock sitesPosted by Jeff Chang, Product Manager

New Featured Extensions

Thursday, October 14, 2010

gallery

Layers

Postrank

Ozone

Highlight to SearchgalleryPosted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Use Chrome like a pro (Now for Mac!)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

(Cross posted on Official Google Mac Blog.)Official Google Blog

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.

Google Chrome Extensions galleryPosted by Mike Pinkerton, Staff Software Engineer

Google Chrome Extensions at School: Get more done!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Official Google for Students blogstay connected with friendsresearch and write papersGoogle Chrome Extensions at School seriesPosted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing

Google Chrome Extensions at School: Research and write papers

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Official Google for Students blogGoogle Chrome Extensions at SchoolPosted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing

Tip: Just the text, please!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Posted by Peter Kasting, Software Engineer

Google Chrome Extensions at School: Staying Connected

Thursday, September 9, 2010

seriesOfficial Google for Student blogPosted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing Team

Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Back to the FutureJavaScriptHTML5essential featureresearch project

Happy 2nd birthday, Google Chrome!
(Illustration: Mike Lemanski, click image to expand)first beta launchup to speedmore customizablebrowser themesside-by-side viewprivacy controlsbuilt-inAutofillautomatic translationHTML5 capabilitiessynchronizationgallerySafe Browsingauto-update

The old Chrome: our very first beta!

Chrome now: Our brand new release todayOmniboxDeLoreanChrome Web Storeratcheted upgoogle.com/chrome

Life on the web, in the browser.
(Illustration: Jack Hudson, click image to expand)Posted by Brian Rakowski, Product Manager

Arcade Fire, HTML5 and Chrome

Monday, August 30, 2010

The Wilderness DowntownChris MilkArcade Fire

betastablewww.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefirePosted by Thomas Gayno, Google Creative Lab

More ways to find the right Chrome Extension for you

Thursday, August 19, 2010

launchedNews and weatherPhotosProductivitySearch toolsSocial

ProductivityStart!Incredible Start PageStayFocusdTime Trackerphotos and imagesAwesome ScreenshotWebpage ScreenshotiSlideCoolirissocial networking servicesShareaholic for Google ChromeAddThisTweetMemeChromed BirdChrowetygalleryPosted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Instantly zap links, maps and phone numbers to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Chrome to Phone extensionFroyo

Chrome to Phone extensionhelp centerextensionPosted by Dave Burke, Engineering Manager

Syncing, simplifying, and speeding up with Chrome’s new beta

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

beta releaseAutofill

synchronization capabilitiespreviewedOmniboxV8 benchmarkSunSpider benchmarkDOM Corebeta channelPosted by James Hawkins, Software Engineer

Become the ultimate sports fan with Chrome Extensions

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Are You Watching This?! Sports extension alerts you when games get interesting via colored icons, so you know when to turn in. It lists the scores, news and TV listings for many professional and college sports in the US.

For those who need an edge in your fantasy sports leagues, there are a few Chrome extensions that can help you improve your fantasy team fast. Pickemfirst Fantasy Sports works with Yahoo!, ESPN, CBS and many other fantasy sports websites. This extension brings you news, stats and blogger opinions about all the players mentioned on the web page currently displayed in your browser.

Tweetbeat Firsthand brings in recent tweets from people and organizations mentioned in the page you're looking at. With this extension, you can see what players, coaches, sports bloggers and commentators think about upcoming matchups.

If following sports online is not enough for you. StubHub's Event Ticket Finder helps you find last-minute tickets to your favorite sports events right in your browser.

These are just a few extensions to help you stay on top of your game, and you can find many more in the Chrome extensions gallery.

Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager

100 Chrome Experiments and counting!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Chrome ExperimentsJavaScriptHTML5HTML5Destructive VideoSketchPadHarmony
If you haven’t checked out Chrome Experiments recently, do take some time to explore the work of these talented artists/programmers in Google Chrome or any modern browser. Of course, if you’re a programmer yourself, we’d love to see your work -- just click the Submit button at the top of the site.

Thanks to everyone who has helped spread awareness of what browsers can do. We can’t wait to see what the future holds, and we’ll see you again at 200.

Posted by Aaron Koblin and Valdean Klump, Google Creative Lab

Making the web more accessible, one step at a time

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

worka new categoryChromeVisChrome DaltonizegleeBox

Chromium blogPosted by Jonas Klink, Accessibility Product Manager

Adobe Flash Player support now enabled in Google Chrome’s stable channel

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

most recent stable releaseChromium blogChrome FastBall

youtube.com/chromefastballgoogle.com/chromeUpdate 9:20 AM PST: Due to the overwhelming response to the game, some things aren't quite working as we hoped due to server-side overloading. Please forgive the maintenance work as we get the game back up again. Thanks!Update 2 6:00 PM PST: All technical issues have been resolved now, so you can enjoy the game. Thanks for your patience!Posted by Jeff Chang, Product Manager

Gooooaaal!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

2010 FIFA World Cup™FIFA.com Chrome extension32 custom themes

World Cup sectiongallerybestPosted by Max Madile and Paola Veglio, Product Marketing Managers, Google London

A new Chrome stable release: Welcome, Mac and Linux!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

most recent beta releasefastest versionGoogle MacChromiumbookmarksbrowser preferencesextensionsextensions managerHTML5Geolocation APIsApp Cacheweb socketsdrag-and-dropdragging and dropping attachmentsgeolocation functionality

Adobe Flash Player integration into Chromegoogle.com/chromePosted by Brian Rakowski, Product Manager

Six ways to find the right Chrome Extension for you

Friday, May 14, 2010

gallerynewsweb developmentbloggingshoppingsportsfunGoogle applications

I always love finding a bargain online. For all of you who also like to shop smart, these extensions can make online online shopping faster and easier. You can track an item's price history with the Camelizer extension or complement your bargain hunting with extensions from Amazon, Woot! and eBay.

We also have extensions dedicated to fans of sports from around the world. You can track live scores and commentary on cricket, rugby and Formula 1 with extensions from ESPN. If you want an edge in your fantasy sports leagues, the Pickemfirst extension brings you news, game statistics and commentary of pro sports players currently displayed in your browser.

Besides sports and shopping, these blogging extensions can help you write better blog posts and share web content more efficiently. You can quickly post to your blogs at TypePad or Blogger. You can also get contextual suggestions of related articles, images, links and tags with Zemanta. After the Deadline offers an extension that automatically checks your spelling and grammar (while optionally checking for cliches and double negatives!)

In addition, we made it easier to find the extensions for Google applications you frequently use. These include extensions to preview Google Docs or to check your Google Calendar directly from your Google Chrome browser.

For those of you who want to complement Google Chrome's developer tools to create a customized development environment in Chrome, there are web development extensions such as viewing PHP documentation, creating random dummy text or testing your page at various resolutions.

Finally, if you want to play a prank on your co-workers or take a 5-minute break with a game, there are quite a few fun extensions to brighten up your day.

I hope you enjoy these pages. There are more than 4,000 extensions waiting to be discovered in the gallery. Happy hunting!Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

released a new beta

video's description drop-down in YouTubePosted by Mads Ager, Software Engineer

Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Aarhus, DenmarkV8SunSpiderchannel

introduced bookmark syncsynchronize not only bookmarks, but also browser preferencesincognito modeHTML5Geolocation APIsApp Cacheweb socketsdrag-and-dropinitial integrationAdobe Flash Playerauto-updatebeta channelMacLinux

video's description drop-down in YouTubePosted by Mads Ager, Software Engineer

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