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Getting enterprise customers excited about Chromebooks can be an uphill battle – but for Google’s Rajen Sheth, it’s a deja vu. Sheth is known as the father of Google apps, and said at Net:Work Thursday that Google’s enterprise product was initially met with similar … Read More »

Popular cloud-based notes service Simplenote has many useful third-party add-ons. One such add-on is Syncpad Webnotes, a Chrome extension that enables you to attach virtual “sticky notes” to any web page that can be synchronized across different browsers through your Simplenote account. Read More »

 
 

Google’s Chrome browser is continuing to grow in popularity. According to StatCounter, a website analytics company, Chrome is now used by a fifth of Internet users worldwide, taking 20.7 percent of the global browser market in June, up from just 2.8 percent in June 2009. Read More »

We’ve probably all had times when we’ve been so busy we didn’t have time to deal with an important email when we we read it. The danger is that it ends up being forgotten. Snooze Your Email for Gmail may be able to help. Read More »

A new beta of social browser RockMelt has been released, including better chat and Twitter apps. Perhaps the most interesting development, however, is the new Instapaper-like “View Later” stream, which allows users to easily save web pages for later viewing. Read More »

Microsoft has released IE9, the latest version of the venerable Internet Explorer browser. To check out how it compares to to its competitors, I installed it (which, unlike other browsers, required me to restart my machine) and ran it through a few different benchmarking tools. Read More »

With Gist for Firefox, you get a Gmail widget that brings up information about all the individuals mentioned in the “To:” or “Cc:” fields of an opened email. You can choose to view their social media feeds, their profile, interaction stats, and notes. Read More »

In recent days, a new tool called Firesheep has become available to “sniff out” login information that’s being sent over wireless networks. Such tools have always been available, but this one makes it easy for anyone to collect other people’s private data. Read More »

If you’re like me, and would prefer Faceboook not know about your every move, you might like Facebook Disconnect. It’s an extension for Chrome that does pretty much exactly what you’d expect: stops websites from reporting back to Facebook via Facebook Connect. Read More »

TinEye Reverse Image Search is a service that can search for similar images on the web. Give it a source URL and it’ll return where that image came from, if modified versions of the image exist or (usefully) if there is a higher resolution version available. Read More »

When I hear from the folks at Springpad about changes to the service, I always read with interest. Even as my usage has waned, I really have always been very impressed with the service, and the possibilities of what it could become. Read More »

WWD Screencast: Group Chrome Tabs With Tab Sugar

Firefox-using “taboholics” may have been enjoying Tab Panorama, a feature introduced in Firefox 4b4 that enables users to arrange their tabs into groups. Chrome-using tab addicts may have been a little envious, but they now have Tab Sugar, an extension that replicates Tab Panorama in Chrome. Read More »

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optimizeLegibility is a CSS declaration that improves the handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in the browsers that support it; it makes text easier to read by spacing the letters correctly. It makes quite a bit of difference, particularly on larger fonts: Read More »

By installing a few carefully-chosen extensions, you can turn your browser from a simple tool for surfing the web into a collaboration workhorse; making the tasks of communicating with your team, sending them useful links and sharing files with your colleagues just a mouse click away. Read More »

If you have a critical project that you absolutely must get done and you’re finding it hard to concentrate, a distraction-blocking tool like StayFocusd might be useful. It’s a Chrome extension that you can use to limit the time you spend on distracting websites. Read More »

I’m always looking for images to use in blog posts, and am tired of having to open a new tab just to trawl through photos, which is why I was happy to discover Flickr Image Search. It’s a basic Chrome extension that provides on-the-fly Flickr search. Read More »

Instachrome is a nifty third-party extension that adds support for Instapaper — a service that allows you to save web pages to read later — to Chrome. It quickly lets you save the current page and check out your Instapaper items. Read More »

I’m gradually transitioning to the the ultra-speedy Chrome as my browser of choice. Although Chrome can’t yet match Firefox’s huge extension ecosystem, many of my favorite “must-have” Firefox add-ons are are now available for Chrome, or at least have Chrome equivalents. Read More »

While word processing software mostly comes with word counting functionality built in, the same can’t be said of browsers — and having to copy and paste text from a browser to a word processor just to get a word count is annoying. Read More »

Unfortunately, there’s no official Chrome extension for Read It Later. You could use the official bookmarklets, which work with any browser, but if you want an experience that’s more integrated with the browser UI, third-party tool Postponer works nicely. Read More »

In Chrome, the extension that I’m currently using to handle deciphering shortened links is called View Thru, which can handle links shortened by bit.ly, cli.gs, ff.im, goo.gl, is.gd, nyti.ms, ow.ly, post.ly, su.pr and tinyurl.com. Read More »

Since you liked our list of 10 must-have Google Chrome extensions so much, and seeing as Google today released a stable version of Chrome that includes extensions, I’ve decided to share another 10-pack of useful extensions. Read More »

Last week, Mozilla celebrated Firefox’s fifth birthday. While it may seem hard to believe that it’s really been that long since Firefox first burst onto the browser scene, it’s equally hard to understate just how important it has been for the … Read More »

Two small pieces of recent Google news were just announced that merit a mention, since both have ramifications for web workers. First, Google has put a date on a Mac beta build of Chrome, meaning there’s finally an end in sight to one of the company’s … Read More »

The browser war continues to rage unabated, with the end result being better products for us, the users. This past week has seen significant beta updates to my two favorite browsers: Chrome and Firefox. I’ve been playing with beta 1 of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.6. This … Read More »

I’m a firm believer that most of the innovation in browsers is coming from the open-source players. This week brings a number of interesting developments from the browser arena, especially if you use either of the two most popular open source browsers: Mozilla Firefox and Google … Read More »

It’s an exciting time to be a web worker, what with all of the great browser choices we now have available to us. Firefox may be the preferred browser for many of us, but Chrome, Safari … Read More »

This week brings several pieces of significant news on the browser front, about Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8. As covered on the OStatic blog, Google has announced a new, stable version 3.0 of Chrome. It’s downloadable here, and if … Read More »

The Google Chrome browser has been in existence for a little over a year now, and has close to three percent market share, according to NetApplications. Many people attribute its relatively low market share thus far to lack of availability of finished Mac and Linux … Read More »

Google yesterday made “developer channel releases” (alpha versions) of my current favorite browser, Chrome, available for Mac and Linux. Beware — these releases are not suitable for day-to-day browsing, as they are likely to be unstable and lacking features. The Chromium blog even posts the … Read More »

The Google Chrome team has announced a new version of the open-source browser, touting up to 30 percent performance increases on JavaScript-heavy tasks. I’ve taken it for a spin, comparing it to Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, which also has very fast JavaScript performance thanks to … Read More »

DownloadSquad has a short item today on QTWeb, an open source Windows browser based on the WebKit rendering engine (also found in Safari and Google Chrome). I’ve used the browser before, but decided to try out the newest version, which has quite a … Read More »

Have you been using Google’s open source Chrome browser? If you’re like me, you use it some of the time, and take notice of how speedy it often is, but favor Firefox for the many useful extensions that it supports. Because of the might of the … Read More »

There were several important updates on the browser front this week, from Mozilla, Microsoft and Google. From where I sit, there is very healthy competition going on in the browser market right now, and if you’re a web worker who favors only one browser, there … Read More »

There have been persistent – and reasonably credible – rumors that Google was going to release its own browser. Now, thanks to Google Blogoscoped, we … Read More »

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