IE9 Vs. Google Chrome

Okay, a piece of good news for Internet Explorer loyalists:
Finally, you guys can start falling in love with Internet Explorer 9 because it is said to be slightly better than Google Chrome. I know Chrome rocks, its super cool. As for me, I am using both Chrome and Firefox as default browsers. Heck, I don’t even remember when was the last time I used Internet Explorer. Probably, it was 10 years ago or something.
Anyway, the Microsoft browser will have its beta version launched this week. From what we’ve seen in the videos, IE9 beta has been blessed with new interface. It is a lot like Google Chrome but looks better.
How so? Well, word is that the IE9 guys installed some last minute visual upgrade plugins. The browser now shares its graphics based load with your VGA card. Your pages load supposedly faster and also look a tad bit appealing.
Brian Rakowski from Google Chrome’s dev team says, “I admit that Chrome 6 doesn’t do a lot of GPU assisted stuff but it is something that I and my team members have been working on. I think within a month or two, we’ll release something better and competitive enough to face the music.”
For now, we’ve to give it to Microsoft for its commendable effort. Pete LePage is Microsoft’s Senior Product Manager; he said that IE9 renders frames at 60Fps. The current build of Chrome only spins around 2 Fps, so we’re gonna have to try IE9 since it sounds too good to be true.
In the end, we all know that graphics aren’t everything. There are extensions, addons, plugins and 3rd party compatibility issues. Once IE9 is released, we’ll give it a full stress test to see if the browser is actually worth going for.

this post from: http://www.toptechreviews.net/tech-news/ie9-vs-google-chrome/

Google closes 10 holes in Chrome 6

Google's update to Chrome 6.0.472.59 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux fixes a total of 10 vulnerabilities, six of which the developers rate as "high" priority, and one as "critical". The stable & beta channel versions should automatically install the new update in the background.
The critical hole apparently only affects the Mac version; further details of the vulnerability are being withheld until "a majority of users are up-to-date with the fix". Two of the flaws (Khmer language support and cursor control) only affect the Linux version.
Chrome is also vulnerable to the Flash Player hole disclosed last Tuesday, because the browser contains the plug-in and activates it by default. Until Adobe releases an update, the only workaround is to disable the plug-in (disable Shockwave Flash 10.1 under about:plugins).
Chrome 6.0.472.59 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from google.com/chrome. Users who wish to update sooner than the auto-update system's checking can use the built-in update function by clicking Tools, selecting About Google Chrome and clicking the Update button. All users are encouraged to update to the latest release as soon as possible.

this post from: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-closes-10-holes-in-Chrome-6-1079569.html

Google Instant Now Built Into Chrome

Google wasn't kidding when it said it planned to bring Google Instant to every product, platform and even inside browsers as soon as possible. The latest Google Chrome dev builds already have a sort of Google Instant implementation, albeit not enabled by default.
If you run Chromium, Google Chrome Canary or the latest Google Chrome dev build with the "--enable-match-preview" command-line switch you'll be able to access the early implementation.

Note that this isn't Google Instant included in Chrome, rather it's the implementation of the concept, Chrome Instant if you will. This has some obvious advantages, but also some major drawbacks.

As you start typing in the Omnibox, Chrome displays a preview of the first suggestion the browser provides. If it's a Google search, it loads the Google search page and shows the results for the query being typed.

Unfortunately, it doesn't use predictions, like Google Instant does, rather it just does a search for what you've managed to type. Hopefully, this will change by the time the feature makes its way into the browser enabled by default.

But the advantage of doing a native implementation is that Chrome Instant applies to more than just Google Searches. If what you're typing matches a page you visited before, Chrome previews that page.

Again, the implementation is not ideal. If Chrome just loads a new page for each new suggestion, you get a flurry of activity that proves much more distracting than Google Instant.

What's more, it may load some pages that you might not want to be seen viewing at work, for example, but which may be in your history even if it's not the page you actually wanted.

Still, this is just an early implementation and Google will probably address all of the shortcomings before releasing the feature. While Google Instant may have been well received, it's not an universal solution and has to be adjusted for each particular application. Hopefully, Google will take this into consideration.

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged … and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

Is Chrome, Google's new browser, part of an ambitious effort by Google to own all of the world's data?

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As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser.

Why the odd timing? Hard to say. Google surely knows that just about anything it does these days is going to cause a news frenzy -- and especially when it's announcing its first thrust into a huge new market.

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So, perhaps it hoped to temper this coverage to a degree, and drag it out for several days. Or perhaps Google was unsure about the product itself, and didn't want to overhype it -- and then face a potential backlash. Or, maybe Google just didn't think Chrome was that important, saw a window between the two political conventions and rushed it out.

Google's official explanation is that the Labor Day release of Chrome was an accident, and the Terms of Use attached to that product were simply a cut-and-paste from other Google products. We will leave it to the reader to decide if these are viable explanations from a multi-billion company regarding one of its biggest new products in years -- and, if true, what it says about Google's competence in handling some of your most sensitive information.