If you run the Google Gears add-on for Firefox on Linux, then you’ve probably been getting annoyed by Firefox trying to update the add-on and getting a failure message that interrupts your web browsing.
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The web has been abuzz this week with the news that Google has released an early version of their new Chrome OS. This early version is actually the open source Chromium OS. If you really want to get a feel for this new operating system, you can follow the directions on the Chromium OS site …
Continue reading Use The Chrome OS Start PageGet Google Chrome on Linux If you’ve been waiting impatiently for Google Chrome on Linux, there is now a developer version available for Ubuntu and Debian systems (x86 and x86-64-bit only). The first step to installing it is to go to Dev Channel on chromium.org and download the appropriate .deb package file for your architecture. …
Continue reading Test Driving Google Chrome on LinuxOne of the great new features of Firefox 3.5 is the native support of the Ogg video format. If you don’t know, Ogg is a Free and Open Source video format from Xiph.org.
Continue reading View Ogg Videos in Firefox 3.5With the arrival of the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta I figured it was a good time to run some benchmarks on the major web browsers available for Windows. I chose to run the Acid3 Test and Google’s V8 Benchmark. The Acid3 Test checks to see if a browser properly renders a page according to web …
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