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Google Chrome just got a bump.  The beta version of the Google’s web browser is now version 2.0.172.5.  The upgrade is supposed to help with stability and fixes issues with form submissions.  Most importantly, Incognito mode works a little better.  Previous to this update, if you visited a site even… Continue Reading »

Despite the fact I love the speed that Chrome offers, I just cannot move away from Firefox without having those extensions I have come to need.  Well, it seems that Chrome may be getting extensions sooner than later.  A discovery made by Nicholas Moline shows that Google will be having… Continue Reading »

What the?  In an obvious attempt to promote their own Chrome browser, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 and run Firefox or Chrome instead.  With these other browsers, Google promises that Gmail will run “twice as fast.”  Additional perks of the switch include fast JavaScript… Continue Reading »

Codeweavers, the company behind the commercial aspect of the WINE project, has released a Mac and Linux version of Google Chrome after only two weeks since the debut of the Windows version.  It isn’t a “real” release by any means.  The company even refers to it as a “proof-of-concept” and… Continue Reading »

Walt Mossberg is the personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal who has been a very influential reviewer of tech products for some time.  If you release a tech product and you want it to be successful, a good review from Walt Mossberg is a big step in the… Continue Reading »