Chrome post #2

As I was searching the internets this morning (in my peppy little sports car of a new browser) I came across several things Chrome-related:

1) The beta release doesn't have any 3rd party extension system in place. According to the thread, the developers are working on getting this in place "soon"

2) If you *really* hate ads and love Chrome, install Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org) and point your Chrome browser at the local proxy (click the Wrench, then Options, "Under The Hood" tab, Change Proxy Settings, LAN settings then put 127.0.0.1 as the Address, and 8118 as the port.) This works like a charm. It's stripped all the ads out of Gawker and other sites I've tested.

3) I'm still impressed with the speed of this browser, even with 13 tabs open (my default amount of tabs)

Chrome post #2

As I was searching the internets this morning (in my peppy little sports car of a new browser) I came across several things Chrome-related:

1) The beta release doesn't have any 3rd party extension system in place. According to the thread, the developers are working on getting this in place "soon"

2) If you *really* hate ads and love Chrome, install Privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org) and point your Chrome browser at the local proxy (click the Wrench, then Options, "Under The Hood" tab, Change Proxy Settings, LAN settings then put 127.0.0.1 as the Address, and 8118 as the port.) This works like a charm. It's stripped all the ads out of Gawker and other sites I've tested.

3) I'm still impressed with the speed of this browser, even with 13 tabs open (my default amount of tabs)

Chrome post #3

Not since Phoenix beta 0.7 have I been this into an open source development project. (Phoenix became Firebird and Firebird became Firefox)

For those that want to see what's behind Chrome, check out Chromium. It's Google's open-source project for the browser.

Handy links for easy (and not-so-easy) reading:
http://blog.chromium.org - official blog
http://www.chromium.org/ - project homepage
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups - discussion about various aspects of the browser development.

I am waiting for nightly builds to become available, as well as community check-ins to start happening :)

Chrome post #3

Not since Phoenix beta 0.7 have I been this into an open source development project. (Phoenix became Firebird and Firebird became Firefox)

For those that want to see what's behind Chrome, check out Chromium. It's Google's open-source project for the browser.

Handy links for easy (and not-so-easy) reading:
http://blog.chromium.org - official blog
http://www.chromium.org/ - project homepage
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/discussion-groups - discussion about various aspects of the browser development.

I am waiting for nightly builds to become available, as well as community check-ins to start happening :)