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So I’ve downloaded Chrome to see how good is it, and I’m amazed – it’s faster then I expected… Firefox 3 will look so slow now… The task manager is awesome! The look is pretty cool. Haven’t had the time to test javascript virtual machine, but it does sound pretty nice… Damn it… How can I go back???

Well, I can actually because there are several things that are buggy:
1) my middle click (wheel click) won’t scroll the page (i hate wheel scrolling of huge pages).
2) facebook and chrome don’t get along very well, maybe it’s my internet connection because I’ve had problems with it today, but there are some issues that need to be fixed!
3) this isn’t a bug, but i like the Firefox way – when you mark address in address bar and press enter it will erase the address(I mean WTF???)
4) no menu??? I’ll try to find this in options but there is no standard menu bar in this browser which makes things easier
5) at the end of installed process, and first run of chrome it crashed, don’t know way, never had the same issue again…

So – if you haven’t tried it yet – Just do it …
You can find the download link here: http://www.google.com/chrome

Article from: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

This is just the beginning — Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we’re committed to continuing on their path. We’ve used components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others — and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We’ll post an update here as soon as it’s ready.

Update @ 3:30 PM: We’ve added a link to our comic book explaining Google Chrome.

Posted by Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management, and Linus Upson, Engineering Director

If you have malware problems (wich could cause problems with your programs – games, browsers, multimedia players…) I have a few tips. Recently I had some problems with malware, and my anti-virus and anti-spyware could not find it – I’ve tried with avast!, NOD32, SpyBot S&D, SpyEraser, Kaspersky, Dr.Web, … All were saying that I’m “clean”.

So here’s a tip – if you think you might be infected, and all this software says you’re clean, download HijackThis – just Google for download links… After that it will show you possible problems, but I don’t suggest you go on and remove them – NO! Save your log file and go to http://hijackthis.de. Maybe you’ll need to switch the language so look there in the upper oe upper left corner. After that you will see an option to upload your log. Upload it and wait for the results. You’ll see users information and then it will be easy to se what’s malware. Then re-run HijackThis and remove those enteries.

And that’s it…

The main thing that made Firefox so popular beside it’s browsing speed, and highest security, certainly are add-ons. If you are an IE, Safari or even Opera user, there is a great chance that you haven’t used add-ons, so try downloading Mozilla Firefox and try some of the add-ons, and believe me, you will not go back to other browsers.

To browse add-ons use this link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

So shall we get started?

Ok – so here’s the list:

1) Web Developer – it may not be in your TOP list, but if you are a web developer it will certainly find a way to your TOP 5. Web Developer lets you easily see the source code of the page, and makes viewing of CSS styles “piece of cake”. Also it brings you Cookies, Forms, Tables, Headings, and everything you can imagine!!! And that’s not all – not only you can view data you wish, you can disable what you wish, and disable some stuff like maximum lengths of fields… There are literally milion features  you can use, so if you are a web developer, or you are interested in web developing be sure to install this add-on.

2) FireNES – an add-on that you may use when you are bored. This add-on brings you ability to play Nintendo games (and some SEGA copy and Terminator games) using Java. It has 2,500 games, and they are not stored locally wich has a good and a bad side, but 2,500 games is a lot, and almost everyone of us has played this games as a kid(one word for you to get that time back – Super Mario). Since I couldn’t find this add-on on Mozilla server, I’m gonna give you the link for it: http://firenes.en.softonic.com/
Be sure to check it out!

3)  StumbleUpon – if you haven’t used StumbleUpon before you don’t know what you are missing. Ok – so here’s the story – over 5 milion people that are registered at stumble upon are browsing the web, and when they find something interesting they post it on StumbleUpon. They also choose a category wich will be assigned to the site. Other members check there links and rate the site. With StumbleUpon toolbar you just have to register on StumbleUpon and choose your “categories of interest”. Then when you wish to browse the web just click on the button “Stumble!” in your toolbar and there you go. The only problem with this add-on is that you become very addicted to it – believe me MySpace and Facebook are nothing compared to this, so be sure to check it out if the “force is strong with you”.

4)  PicLens – at first i thought this would be one of those add-ons that you install, try, and delete… And altought I hate to admit it I was wrong… Very, very wrong… This add-on transforms your Firefox browser in some kind of a 3D wall. It lets you browse images and videos from the current web page, displaying them as thumbnails, and let you search and zoom them. And thats not all, it gives you ability to search sites like YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo,… by not going back into your browser at all. The reason why this add-on is in 4th place is because i don’t use it a lot. Now, many of you will go – so why the f* do you recommend it? The reason i don’t use it is cause i usually have a slow internet connection (256kbps), and it works pretty much ok with that, but if I’m downloading something it usually leaves me 64kbps, and that doesn’t give you the ability to realy enjoy PicLens – I’ve tried it on 1Mbps, and it’s awesome!!!
See the demo here: http://piclens.com/demo

5) Download Statusbar – as much as I love Mozilla Firefox, I must admit that I hate that little download window… Especially if you have multiple running you know what I mean… Don’t panic there is a simple solution – Download Statusbar will let you “View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. ” . Simple as that. All i can say is – great add-on!!!

I’m hoping that this article helped you… If you have any suggestions about some other or these add-ons feel free to comment!

My friend asked me to install some smileys and i downloaded the setup. It asked me if I wan’t to install a MyWebSearch bar, and I replied No. However the search bar DID install!!! The main problem is that it’s not an extension, so you need to do following steps to remove it:
1) Go to your Mozilla folder, and enter the chrome folder – default C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome
2) Find m3ffxtbr.jar and m3ffxtbr.manifest and delete them

I’m sick of all that spam and chain letters I get from my email contacts. I’m getting about 100 stupid emails a day, and my spam and inbox folders are almost always full of this crap. Is it so hard to see the difference between hoax and truth? I’ve wrote some simple questions that every human (well almost every) will be able to answer before sending me an email, and I’m going to send it to all of my contacts (a potential chain letter to fight against chain letters). If you have any more suggestions please comment.

Questions:

- Do you think it’s possible to win a lottery award of 1.000.000$ by not even playing the lottery?

- Has anyone had the things from chain letter (like not having sex anymore or similar) happened to him?

- Do you honestly believe that a Microsoft worker is using a yahoo email address as a official business contact address?

- How did the lawyer of an African billionaire found you as a right person for money laundry?

- If you are asked to forward a mail to all your contacts, because you will earn 10$ for every mail that they forward, and 5$ for every mail that they forward, do you think that you will end up by being a millionaire or a sucker?

- Is it possible that msn made a mistake and that it has only 500 usernames left and it’s using a chain letter to close inactive accounts?

- Do you think that Microsoft official mail will consist of words like “dude”, “(sorry?)”, and will be written like 5yr old(forgotten capital letters, commas, funny paragraphs…) wrote it?

- Are you sure that I want to receive that chain letter about some “naked celebrity” pictures?

If I ever get a stupid spam or chain letters after this from some of my email contacts, I’m going to mark it as a spam email address and block it (or delete it).