17 Sep 08 First plugin set released for Google Chrome Browser

After a period of two weeks since the initial launch of Google’s new browser the world has tested and reviewed Google’s attempt at the browser market and liked what they saw. The largest critique for the Chrome browser is/was the lack of an arsenal plugins such as with the Firefox browser. But that seems to be changing now, by using some code snippets written in Java some useful Chrome browser add-ons have been written for Google’s browser.

 

Let us take a look at the list:

The first on the list, an important one is the Adblock+ plugin. This is a very handy plugin that gets rid of annoying popups and ads that you are confronted with when browsing the web. So what does this plugin do?

The Adblock+ plugin blocks java; flash; background music and 3rd party iframes from a website. So this handy plugin can be compared to the adblock type of plugin you see in the Firefox browser.

This is the java script code for the adblock+ plugin

javascript:(function(){function R(w){try{var d=w.document,j,i,t,T,N,b,r=1,C;for(j=0;t=["object","embed","applet","iframe"][j];++j){T=d.getElementsByTagName(t);for(i=T.length-1;(i+1)&&(N=T[i]);–i)if(j!=3||!R((C=N.contentWindow)?C:N.contentDocument.defaultView)){b=d.createElement(”div”);b.style.width=N.width; b.style.height=N.height;b.innerHTML=”<del>”+(j==3?”third-party “+t:t)+”</del>”;N.parentNode.replaceChild(b,N);}}}catch(E){r=0}return r}R(self);var i,x;for(i=0;x=frames[i];++i)R(x)})()

An easy way to install the adblocks plugin is to drag this link adblock+ plugin to your bookmarks folder in the toolbar of the chrome browser. A very easy way to install the above javascript code isn’t it? All plugins can be installed in the same way into your browser. Google’s browser allows these plugins to be installed in a very smooth, light and fast way, which is also the direction that Google wants to go with their new (14 day old) browser.

Next in line is the Stumble it plugin, a plugin for the popular social bookmarking website Stumbleupon. The great thing about this plugin is that you no longer need the special toolbar installed in your browser to use the functions of Stumble it so it saves you space in your browser window instead of losing web viewing space to another toolbar.

code for Stumble it plugin:

javascript:document.location.href=’http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=’+document.URL+’&title=’+document.title.replace(/%20/g,’+');

As you can see such a short line of code also known as code snippet can do a lot when used with the right tools which is in this case Google Chrome. Again drag this link Stumble it to your bookmarks folder to install the plugin.

Gmail this is a very handy plugin which allows you to mail any webpage to anyone directly by using Google’s Gmail service. Gmail this plugin code:

javascript:popw=”;Q=”;x=document;y=window;if(x.selection) {Q=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection) {Q=y.getSelection();} else if (x.getSelection) {Q=x.getSelection();}popw = y.open (’ https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=&su=’ ,’gmailForm’,’scrollbars=yes,width=680,height=510,top=175,left=75,

Install the gmail this plugin, the same way as for the other plugins above. There is even a plugin for Google apps mail where you can use your own domain name with your account. This is the java script code for the Google appls plugin:

javascript:popw=”;Q=”;x=document;y=window;if(x.selection) {Q=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection) {Q=y.getSelection();} else if (x.getSelection) {Q=x.getSelection();}popw = y.open (’ https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=0&to=&su=’ ,’gmailForm’,’scrollbars=yes,width=680,height=510,top=175,left=75,

Don’t forget to change yourdomain.com with your actual domain for usage of this plugin in order to make it work correct. Installe the Google apps mail plugin. Same way as described above.

Linkify this add-on for the Chrome browser can turn all url’s that are written on a webpage into clickable hyperlinks, a handy feature in certain circumstances.

Code java script for the Linkify plugin

javascript:(function(){var D=document; D.body.normalize(); F(D.body); function F(n){var u,A,M,R,c,x; if(n.nodeType==3){ u=n.data.search(/https?\:\/\/[^\s]*[^.,">\s\)\]]/); if(u>=0) { M=n.splitText(u); R=M.splitText(RegExp.lastMatch.length); A=document.createElement(”A”); A.href=M.data; A.appendChild(M); R.parentNode.insertBefore(A,R); } }else if(n.tagName!=”STYLE” && n.tagName!=”SCRIPT” && n.tagName!=”A”)for(c=0;x=n.childNodes[c];++c)F(x); } })();

Install the linkify plugin for Google Chrome, same way as described above.

Social bookmarking plugin
This handy plugin can take a lot of work out of your hands and might make all those social bookmarking links you see at blogs these days obsolete in the future. The social bookmarking plugin allows you to get a list directly from the Chrome browser with all possible social networks listed on it. You can mark the social networks of your choice and submit any blog post you cross into directly to all of these social network sites just with a few clicks of your mouse. Something like this is a huge timesaver so this smart plugin for Google’s browser does all the work for you and saves you a bundle of time.

This is the java script code for the Social bookmarking plugin for the Chrome browser.

javascript:window.location = ‘http://www.socialmarker.com/?link=’+encodeURIComponent (location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent( document.title);

You can install the social bookmark plugin for Google Chrome by using the following link: Social bookmark plugin

Video downloader plugin

The Firefox browser has a plugin that allows you to directly download videos from Youtube and Google videos to your pc, well this feature isn’t unique to the Firefox browser anymore, now you can use the Video Downloader plugin with Google Chrome to directly download videos in all kinds of formats you see streamed on the internet to your pc.
Code for the Video Download plugin

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Install the video download plugin for your Chrome browser.

Google Pagerank Plugin

This plugin is particular interesting for webmasters who wish to keep track of the pagerank which was assigned by Google to a webpage. The Google pagerank plugin for the Chrome browser

 

08 Sep 08 New comic parody on Google Chrome comic book released

Today a new comic popped up in Godfather style this time about hte Google Chrome browser. The comic (which is BSD licensed to keep up with the trend of the open source browser) has been the ideal target lately for artists and creative people to come up with hilarious alterations of the original comic book written by Scott McCloud for the release of the Chrome Browser.

Tags: browser launch, comic book, Google Chrome, parody, Scott McCloud

07 Sep 08 First update released for Google Chrome

The first official update has been released for Google Chrome. So how does this work you might ask yourself. It seems that the Chrome browser doesn’t update by itself but you can make it do an update by going to:

Tool menu –> About Google Chrome

You will be presented with a new window and see a message that an update is available for your browser. You then have the option to install the new update. This action will make the update take place. It could be the the Chrome browser updates by itself after a while by doing a forced update but if you wish to stay with the latest version of Google’s browser check the about panel in the browser. After the update has completed Google Chrome asks you to shut down the browser and restart it again to make the changes take effect.

It looks like Google is already making attempts to further tweak it’s new browser and tries to fix crashes and bugs which came with the release of the new software, even fixing certain security issues might be in place already. 

The official build for Google Chrome is now 1798 and the version is: 0.2.149.20

Tags: Browser, bug fix, Google Chrome, new version, update

06 Sep 08 New Google Chrome comics not by Scott McCloud

It looks like some plagiarism took place already with Google’s comic book which was initially written by Comic artist Scott McCloud.

 

Tags: comic book, Google Chrome, new, plagiarism, Scott McCloud

05 Sep 08 Google reviews terms of service on Chrome after public concern

On their blog Google states that when they are bringing out a new product they can rely on the fact that their users will come up with ways to improve the product. After many people objected to the fact that Google claimed all rights for any content which was transfered, displayed or submitted through it’s Chrome browser, Google has reviewed their EULA on section 11 of their terms of service on this matter.

Google states that they overlooked this and that for Google Chrome only the first section of section 11 applies which states the following:

11. Content license from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

Google continues to ensure that they are working hard to fix this issues in all their TOS pages for over 40 different languages.

04 Sep 08 Chrome browser takes a bite and gets 1% market share

After only 2 days the new browser from Google already reached a market share of 1 percent according to reports from Marketh Share and stat counter the new fast webbrowser from the search engine giant has started a strong upwards marching process against it’s competitors. Strange is that the first victim in this new browser war isn’t it’s biggest competitor internet explorer which holds a market share of over 80% but according to reports from Statcounter the usage of Safari dropped with 0.21 % and Mozilla Firefox lost 0.82 % to the new power driven Chrome browser. Interesting point here is that Microsoft’s explorer didn’t lose any market share at all because of Chrome.

The following statistics show details of which browser had what market share from August 28 untill september 04. While it’s still very early to judge on what impact Google Chrome will have on the market we see that it started a positive climb from the very beginning. We will report more on this aspect in the future.

 

	IE	FireFox	Safari	Chrome	Other
Aug 28	68.17%	24.66%	2.83%	N/A	4.33%
Aug 29	67.81%	24.78%	2.84%	N/A	4.57%
Aug 30	65.41%	26.38%	3.04%	N/A	5.17%
Aug 31	64.49%	26.91%	3.06%	N/A	5.56%
Sep 01	66.92%	25.26%	2.99%	N/A	4.84%
Sep 02*	67.58%	24.36%	2.91%	N/A	5.06%
Sep 03	67.81%	23.54%	2.70%	1.11%	4.87%
Sep 04	70.87%	21.26%	2.48%	1.15%	4.25%

Tags: 1%, Chrome browser, Google Chrome, market share

04 Sep 08 Google speaks in video on privacy in Chrome browser

Google put a new video on Youtube regarding privacy settings for their new webbrowser. Since privacy is a concern to many surfers it’s important to know how you can configure your Chrome browser so that your privacy remains respected during normal surfing.

 

This video provides tips for adjusting the privacy settings on your web browser and demonstrates some of the unique features we’ve built into our browser, Google Chrome, that give you options for protecting your privacy while surfing the web.

04 Sep 08 Chris Pirillo talks about Google Chrome on Youtube

This is a good video to watch if you aren’t very technical. Chris Pirillo explains all about how he is experiencing Google’s browser in this youtube video in an easy to understand way. So if you wish to find out something more about the specs and features on Chrome have a look at the following video I put up.

04 Sep 08 Easter eggs come with new Chrome browser by Google

When you don’t just type in a word in the omnibox of Google’s browser, when you don’t type in a url but start to get a little creative you can find an easter egg which has been put in Chrome by typing in:

about:internets

in the adress bar of the browser. You will see all kinds of pipelines generated on your screen, almost like the browser has a build in screensaver. People are currently trying to type in about:anything to discover more easter eggs in Google’s new browser. If you wish you can check out the source code of what produces the pipelines in your browser since Google Chrome is open source, so check out the code

Several other options have been discovered by people, Chrome seems to have several special about pages, here are a few of them:

• about:memory
• about:stats
• about:network
• about:internets
• about:histograms
• about:dns
• about:cache
• about:plugins
• about:version

All of these seem to have a specific funtion, most of them provide detailed statistics on things like the browser cache, memory and network statistics. There is also a version page mentioned which is pretty standard.

This statistics page shows the amount of memory consumed by Google Chrome at any given time but also what other browsers are using when they run simultaneous with Chrome.

This image shows what plugins are currently loaded into Google Chrome at time of usage. A handy feature that exactly shows what is loaded at any given time.

Histogram statistics provided by the browser.

The DNS statistics page shows all details about the domains that get resolved with Google Chrome and what amount of time it takes to resolve each particular domain. Something like this can help you to determine a good webhost service for example. Google Chrome calculates the minimum, average, maximum time for the applicable prefetch time in milliseconds and also does this for the recent resolution time.

We also have a statistics page about the statistics which Google Chrome collects from the Browser. I’m sure it collects more than just statistics, Google admitted it collects surf behaviour and sends this data back to Google so it’s fair to say that Google Chrome and how people are using it will have an influence on Google’s search engine. What better tool to collect information on the surfer’s behaviour than collecting it from a webbrowser.

04 Sep 08 First bugs discovered in Google Chrome

The new internet browser by Google has been downloaded millions of time since it’s launch on tuesday. Already several programmers have discovered bugs in the new webbrowser. Security expert Avi Raff showed that it’s possible by comining two bugs inside the Chrome browser that it is possible for webmasters with evil intentions to exploit these bugs and install mallware or even a virus on a surfer’s computer a so called carpet bomb vulnerability.

To show this bug in action Raff has placed an innocent sample bug for Chrome browser users online. The cause of this bug is that the browser makes use of Webkit 525.13 wich is the same version that was used in the past by Safari from Apple. Apply on the other hand has fixed this issue, the same is expected from Google of course. Something like this clearly shows it was a wise move to make Chrome open source so that these vulnerabilities can be traced down and bugs get fixed in a rapid way.

A second problem which has been discovered so far is that the Chrome browser can freeze up while a user moves with the mouse cursor over a hyperlink without even clicking on the link.