Tag Archives: browsers

Switching to Google Chrome Developer channel

For months I’ve been using Chromium the open source browser that powers Google Chrome. Using Chromium had its advantages and disadvantages. I had the bleeding edge of what was offered by the Chromium team – whether it was stable or not. But, I also had to manually update my personal copy of Chromium on a [...]
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The Chromium Bookmark Manager

A few days ago I updated to the latest nightly build of Chromium, something I do every few days using TechCrunch’s Chrome-Up application, and was elated to discover that Chromium finally has a Bookmark Manager. Up until this release I was unable to edit any of the bookmarks that I had imported from Safari into [...]
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Google Chrome’s view source “oddity”

Viewing the source of a page on Google Chrome is, for the most part, a terrific experience. Chrome supports syntax highlighting of the underlying code of a page making it much more readable for us geeks while we look under the hood. However, something I’ve run into of late is that it doesn’t work very well [...]
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The next version of Webkit’s Web Inspector

I’m a big fan of Webkit. Although I had been a die hard fan of Safari for a while I’m now using Google Chrome as my primary browser. The great thing about Chrome is that it too uses the Webkit rendering engine. I’ll catalog my reasons for using Chrome in another post. The next version of [...]
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Why Google Chrome for Mac is important to get right

I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the Macintosh. [...]
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Chrome for Mac developer preview and extensions

Ever since Google release Chrome, their browser, I’ve been waiting with bated breath for Chrome for Mac. Thanks to my friend Jake Dahn I got a copy of the developer preview. Its really fast. Faster than Safari on the Mac. I’m excited for a more stable and complete beta at which point I plan to [...]
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IE to last until 2021?

Ben Parr of Mashable.com reports that, according to current trends, IE will be going the way of the Dodo in 2021. Or, at least, it won’t be the leading browser. This, in and of itself is great news – but do we really have to wait that long? Ugh.
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The page rendering race

A little observation that I've had about this race and how I don't think it will end any time soon.
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Odd tab dragging behavior in Safari 3.0

Two equally anal articles regarding Safari's odd tab dragging behaviors.
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John Gruber compares the Firefox 3 and Safari 3 browsers

An excellent comparison of two Internet browsers.
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Leopard wish list – Part one: Safari

A very short wish list for the next version of Safari - which is to be pre-bundled with Mac OS X Leopard.
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