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Google has been one of those companies that for a long time seemed to have been fighting the good fight and not cow-towing too much to media lobbyists and pressure from copyright holders to make accessing sites that feature pirated (and legitimate) content harder, however that seems to be changing …

Don't you just hate it when you have a bunch of tabs open and one of those tabs starts making noise? Well that can still happen, but actually finding the culprit is going to get a lot easier as Google has shown off in its new beta version of Chrome. Google's …

Google is boosting security for its Chrome web browser, starting in January you will no longer be able to install extensions from outside of the Chrome store meaning some useful tools will be lost, but it should also put an end to malicious software. Google has deemed this necessary due …

Google has today announced the Chrome Beta channel for Android 4.x devices based on Chrome 25 over the stable channel's Chrome 18. Chrome Beta 25.0.1364.8 brings improved HTML5 support and Javascript support over the current stable channel version. Furthermore, the Beta version will be the first to receive any neat …

Google Chrome for Android and iOS currently fall short of their desktop equivalents, if not in performance then certainly version numbers. This will change over the next year as the Chrome team expect to start aligning all platforms by “early next year”. When asked why Chrome for Android currently sits …

Another day, another web browser version. Or so it seems between Firefox and Chrome lately. Today is Google's turn with Chrome 17 being released in stable form after a month long beta phase. Build 17.0.963.46 brings with it another performance booster in the form of Omnibox Prerendering support that comes …

Following last night's news that Google Chrome for Android had launched, Adobe has come out and publicly said that Flash will never be supported in the Chrome for Android browser. To some this may come as a surprise but last November Adobe said that they will no longer develop Flash for mobile …

After a longer than expected wait, Google's Chrome web browser is coming to Android with a beta release having just been made available on the Android market. All the most commonly used and loved features of Chrome have been carried over to the Mobile version, only some of which are …

Data tracking firm Statcounter have released information which show a huge rise in adoption for Google's Chrome browser. Usage share has increased by eight percent since the start of the year, to a claimed 23.16 percent marketshare. With the expansion of Chrome, the figures show a decline for Firefox, dropping …

Google's Chrome browser has been growing in popularity now for some time, but the latest news is that it is the UK's second most popular browser. A report from Statcounter shows that last month, Chrome took 22% of the UK market, overtaking Firefox by a small margin. Statcounter claim that …

Google have released information on a new search feature, which they are calling ‘Instant Pages'. This will give Chrome users faster connections to websites from links on search results. Instant Pages will apparently reduce times taken with a search process and it will be included in the latest test version …

Firefox has long been the browser of choice for Ubuntu, but Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth told Network World that he is a big fan of Google's Chrome. The interesting news is that Canonical may replace Firefox with Chrome as the default browser in the operating system. The indication was that …

Periodically, the back office systems are upgraded at KitGuru. It gives us a chance to experience the world in the same way as a regular consumer. When we got to the browser, we had a bit of a shock. In the early days, Netscape (Nutscrape to its detractors) was the …

Google Chrome is updated on a regular basis, and we have to say that the latest beta version was one of the best browsers we have had the pleasure of using in recent months. This has recently been pushed to ‘final stable' code. With a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript …

Over the weekend Google patched nine Chrome bugs and have upgraded the browser to Version 9, which is the most stable browser they have released yet. As well as fixing the bugs, Chrome 9 has also added support for WebGL, an API (application programming interface) that has hardware acceleration for …

HTML5 is an exciting proposition. Simply add a <video> tag and you can get web pages to embed video without the need for plugins. Strangely Google are moving the support for the ever popular H.264 codec in future versions of Chrome. We ask ourselves why? The company claim that they …

Google are launching a rather dramatic campaign to highlight the benefits of their Chrome based notebook computers. With cloud storage you dont need documents to be saved locally on your computer, a fact they are keen to point out by setting fire to one. The cloud aspect of a Chrome …

Google have launched Chrome OS in their continued expansion into other areas of software. Chrome OS is released as a trial program that users can register for online and will eventually be offered preinstalled on a wide range of computers made by global names such as Samsung and Acer. The …

Google have just announced a finished version of Chrome 8. This final, stable release adds a new built in PDF viewer that, like Apple's browser Safari negates the need to use a supporting application. Google have sandboxed the application to prevent dodgy PDF files from compromising the browser and posing …

A Google branded notebook is due for launch in November by Inventec, followed shortly after by Acer and Hewlett Packard in December. Dell were rumoured to be on this list, but info has not yet been detailed on their release date. Google's Chrome OS is supposedly a client which resides …