by Conrad MacIntyre
By Conrad MacIntyre
Google sent out the following to Chrome Extension Developers via email:
We are updating our ad policies to allow extensions to monetize through ads.
Now, slide over to the Chrome Web Store's 'Popular' section and notice that two of the top seven extensions are "AdBlock" and "Adblock Plus". I wonder if they'll monetize through ads?
Google Chrome is quite possibly the best web browser you can install on your Mac or PC, and it could soon be the best browser on your iOS device, too.
10-to-1 that Chrome grows faster on iOS than Android. Any takers?
As a side note, I prefer Safari. Tried switching to Chrome but it didn't take. And with Safari 5.2 looking so great I can't see a switch coming any time soon.
Safari no longer has a search box — you just type your search into the address bar and you will be taken to your favorite search engine results page.
In 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, we’re introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet.
This looks like a really terrific browser, and has been touted by some as having some features that even make it better than mobile Safari. That all may be true, but my questions is this:
Why has it taken over 4 years to make this happen?
Seriously. Chrome was released in 2008, the same time as modern Android, presumably the two were being developed at the same time. Surely they could have included Chrome in the first version of Android if they wanted to at all. This is the sort of thing that would never happen at Apple. One of the three marquee feature touted by Jobs at the iPhone's unveiling at Macworld 2007 was the "Breakthrough Internet Communicator". It's well-known that the default jukebox software is sub-par. So when Android shipped it only had one of the three marquee features present in Apple's iPhone. Jobs said iPhone was 5 years ahead of anything else — history is again proving him right.
(via The Next Web)
Firefox 10, Opera 11, Chrome 18 – These release cycles are crazy. Chrome 17 was released on January 5th, Chrome 18 came out 11 days later! And some of the release notes are mind-boggling. For Chrome 11.0, released last April 27th:
HTML5 Speech Input API. Updated icon.
That's it!? An new API and an icon update? That warrants a new x.0 release number? They're worse than Microsoft.