Google Chrome is testing two new features for tab addicts

I have a confession to make: I’m a tab addict. My browser is so stuffed with the bastards that they’re practically microscopic. It puts my poor laptop under so much strain, sometimes I hear it scream. The folks at Google must have heard the cries, because they’re working on new ways to help manage the addiction. Reddit userLeopeva64-2spotted an option in tahe Canary build version of Chrome that allows users who’ve closed a tab group to easily restore the pages both individually and en masse....

2 min · 386 words · Jacob Novak

Google Chrome overtakes Firefox to become Britain’s second most popular browser

With significant investment in marketing its web software, Google’s Chrome web browser has overtaken Firefox for the first time to become Britain’s second most popular browser, statistics collated by analytics serviceStatCounterhave revealed. Google Chrome now holds a 22.12% share of the browser market in the region, narrowly beating Mozilla’s Firefox browser into second place with a 21.65%. Chrome’s growth has come at both Firefox’s expense and has also affected the market leader Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, although it still commands a 45....

2 min · 382 words · Gary Barnes

Google Chrome sucks — here’s why you should stop using it

Google Chrome sucks — here’s why you should stop using it The RAM Chrome uses is insane Chrome is a memory beast. Unless your PC has 8 GB of RAM or hopefully a solid processor, it will hate Chrome. I’ve seen games that don’t use the RAM Chrome does. Obviously, using less extensions on Chrome can lead to lower memory usage, but even my grandpa has somehow found ways to install several browser extensions on his computer, which brings me to my second point....

4 min · 783 words · Bryan Allen

Google Chrome user saves a browser-using buddy, and he may never know

Browsing for things that your spouse or family might not approve of is always a slightly risky business, but with most modern browsers now offering ways to surf without a history being kept, the problem is on the decline. But not everyone is so savvy, and sometimes people get caught. Or, almost caught, as is the case today. The following question and answer (it actually happened) is an example of how you can help save a life, or even a marriage, on the Internet....

1 min · 195 words · Tiffany George

Google closes Aardvark social search as part of Labs shutdown

Question and answers service Aardvark is being shut down as part of GoogleLabs at the end of September, according to an announcement made today on the Aardvark blog.. The service which allowed users to ask and answer questions from people in their extended social network through their Google Chat window was a fast hit, but it wasn’t to be. Aardvark began as a small experiment in a new kind of social search, and over a few years blossomed into a service that made millions of connections between people to answer each other’s questions....

3 min · 432 words · Maurice Clark
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