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The latest beta version of Google's Chrome Web browser is making it easier for you to keep track of all your favorite Web sites across multiple computers. The search giant introduced bookmark syncing this week as a feature of Chrome's latest trial version. Google started testing bookmark syncing earlier this year on developer builds of Chrome, and its release on the beta channel means bookmark syncing is one step closer to becoming a standard feature of Chrome's stable version. [1] Google has launched the latest beta of its Chrome web browser. This release includes bookmark sync. "For those of you who use several computers -- for example, a laptop at work and a desktop at home -- you've asked for a way to keep your Google Chrome bookmarks in sync across multiple computers," explains Google.[2] Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recently gave the Chrome team a multi-million-dollar stock bonus for creating the browser. Google Nov. 2 rolled out a beta of Chrome 4.0 with the much-requested bookmark sync tool to enable Chrome's 30 million-plus users to keep their favorite Web pages up to date across multiple computing devices. The idea is fairly obvious these days; most users have computers they use at home and computers they use at work. Workers don't always -- or can't -- take their work machines home. Users want to access the same bookmarks at home that they would normally tap into at work without manually adding their bookmarks every time they use a different computer. Bookmark sync is a natural solution for this quandary.[3]
Google has a lot riding on its Google Chrome Web browser. The search engine Nov. 2 added bookmark sync for its latest build of Chrome to let the browser's 30 million users to keep their favorite Web pages up to date across multiple computing devices.[3] You'll be able to access your bookmarks in a weird location: a read-only folder in Google Docs (things will look less weird when Google Docs is transformed into Google Drive, a general-purpose online storage service). Install Google Chrome's dev build on a different computer and you'll be able to access your bookmarks, edit them and all the changes will be saved online. It is unfortunately not possible to sync bookmarks across multiple web browsers using this method.[4]
In addition to a number of speed improvements, the most exciting thing about today's beta release is the inclusion of the Google Chrome synchronization framework. Although still in development, this technology allows Chrome users to sync their browser bookmarks across multiple computers without having to manually recreate them on each machine used.[5] Google have released the latest Chrome Beta build 4.0.223.16 which offers 30% faster browsing speeds and useful features such as bookmark synchronising. It offers a cloud backup of your browser bookmarks and is very similar to a very popular Firefox extension. This is a very useful feature for a user that wants all of their computers to show the same bookmarks. It works by you logging into your Google account and saving the bookmarks to your profile. This then means you can sync all of your computers to have the same information by simply logging in on each machine. Google are looking to give users and potential users all of the features they want from their browser. It is clear that Google will continue to add more and more to challenge the market leaders Internet Explorer and Firefox.[6] The new version of Chrome for windows has a new feature called " Google Chrome bookmarks sync," (creative name, Google), that will take your bookmarks with you on all your computers. This is a boon for the corporate worker with computers at work and home, or the travelling person with separate laptop and desktop needs. Those Chrome users that have been subscribing to the developer builds have already seen this, but it is now in the normal beta channel.[7] If you grab the beta of Chrome 4, either as a version upgrade from Chrome or a new install, you'll get an option in your "wrench" menu to synchronize bookmarks, enabled through your Google account. We've shown you this feature when it was an optional switch, but this feature looks to make it into the final build of Chrome's Windows release. Google touts Chrome's DOM Core speeds (i.e. jQuery powers) at its blog post, continuing in the tradition of browser makers constantly changing their speed metrics.[8] The latest Windows version of Google Chrome, version 4.0, is now in beta. It's reportedly a scorching 30% faster than the current release, and it includes a bookmark syncing feature that's been floating around in the developer preview version of the browser for some time.[9] The development of Google Chrome has certainly been interesting thus far. It's seems like we're always getting the "30% faster" claim (who's complaining?), and tons of other great features. No different this time, dear readers, because Google has just let loose beta build 4.0.223.16 of Chrome, and you know what? Google claims the browser is 30% faster and they're introducing a new feature called Bookmark Syncing.[10]
According to Google's blog post about the beta release, the sync feature has to first be activated on each of your computers where Google Chrome is used. To do this, you'll need to download the beta build of the browser available here.[5] At the time users had to specifically activate the feature in the latest Dev channel release via a command-line flag. The Chrome 4 beta release now enables this feature by default and users need only sign in using their Google account on each of their computers to use it. According to Google, once activated, any changes to the bookmarks will automatically be synched on all of their computers in a "few seconds" using the same XMPP -based servers that power Google Talk.[11] Google has published a beta release of Chrome 4.0 that will allow users to keep their bookmarks in sync and up-to-date across multiple computers. The update will remove the need for users to manually copy bookmarks every time they use a different computer, according to Google.[12]
BEIJING, November 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Google has updated its Google Chrome browser with a new beta release which allows users to synchronize bookmarks between different computers.[13] ''Aside from speed improvement which according to Google is a 30% improvement from the current stable release, the new Chrome beta comes with bookmark synching feature. This new feature simply means that you can now synchonize all your bookmarks across all computers where you installed Google Chrome beta.[14] I've downloaded the new Chrome beta release but ''haven't started synching bookmarks on my desktop at home and at the office. Will have to check later whether this feature goes well. I would have to say though that this latest beta version of Google Chrome is definitely faster than the previous version I was using.[14] Google has released version 4.0 of its Chrome browser for Windows, which introduces the bookmark sync feature first rolled out in a developer-only preview version in August. While Google's Anthony LaForge showed huge excitement for Chrome's latest feature addition in a video explanation, it's hardly new.[15] Google Chrome bookmark sync is a new feature introduced with version 4.0 Beta, with a self-explanatory moniker.[16] Google Chrome Beta Gets Bookmark Sync The test version of Google's browser will let you save your favorite sites, and access them from multiple computers. That compares $50-per-user-per-year for the paid version of Google Apps.[1] The latest developer versions of the Google Chrome browser come with the build in option to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computer systems by utilizing a Google account to store the data.[4] The latest builds of the Google browser, for example 4.0.223.11 and above, offer bookmark syncing between multiple computer systems running Google Chrome out of the box.[4]
Google Chrome 4.0 Beta allows users to synchronize bookmarks across multiple devices that are running v4.0 of the open source browser.[16] "Recently, we announced that we're starting to ramp up hiring for positions across the company, continuing our investment in the future as we imagine it. That future is shaped by small teams of creative people who want to make a difference. We're on the hunt for these kind of people -- let us know if you think you're one of them." The Chrome team, undistracted by its windfall, turned loose a new beta of version 4 of the browser, featuring the addition of bookmark synchronization across multiple computers and speed improvements that make it 30 percent faster than Chrome 3 and 400 percent faster than Chrome 1.[17] Chrome's new speed claims come on the heels of similar statements from Mozilla, which released the beta version of Firefox 3.6 on Friday. Despite the media attention heaped on Chrome since its initial release last year, the browser is still far behind in popularity compared to the two market leaders: Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.[1] Google works in hyperwarp compared to the rest of the browser industry, slapping a major version number on browser updates that include only minor feature improvements. It's taken Mozilla about seven years to get to version 3.6 of Firefox, for example, while Google has raced to version 4 of Chrome in little over a year. The standout feature of Chrome 4 is bookmark synchronisation - a feature that Internet Explorer and Firefox have offered for years via extensions such as Xmarks.[18]
An alternative that is working with multiple web browsers is the Xmarks extension which supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer ]] Internet Explorer and Safari.[4] Google's Chrome is catching up on popular web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer as Google recently claimed Chrome now has 30 million active users. Google is still one of the most generous companies in the Silicon Valley and the company is yet again willing to go the extra mile in offering the best perks to its employees.[19]
There are numerous bug fixes for all platforms and Mac users finally get printing and the Apple Quicktime plugin. What's also interesting from my point of view is that Google is now treating its Chrome Frame - the effort to enable Chrome to run inside of a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser - as its own release version, same as Windows, Linux and Mac. There are 14 seperate fixes for Chrome Frame made by Google in its recent release, and that's significant. It means that Google takes its fight to take over IE from the inside seriously and is putting the full weight of its Chrome engineering expertise into the effort.[20] If you compare browser market share data from Net Applications for IE, Chrome and Safari for September 2009 versus September 2008 (as illustrated by the Atlantic's Daniel Indiviglio), it's pretty clear that Microsoft has given up nine points of market share to Firefox (+4 basis points), Chrome (+3), and Safari (+2). Why is this significant? Well, imagine if Google's search share had fallen from around 65% last year to 56% now; people would say the sky was falling, and they'd be right. It would be a lot worse for Google, as search share is directly related to the company's only significant revenue stream, which is online advertising. This nine-point decline isn't less significant for being an indirect indicator of the direction in which Microsoft is headed: down. It's not as if Opera, for instance, were catching fire with the hip crowd (which would be a lot better sign than what's actually going on).[21] Google's Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla's Firefox in October, the fourth time its gains have trumped those of the second-place browser in the last year, a Web metrics company said yesterday. Chrome increased its share by 0.4 of a percentage point in October, according to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif. -based Net Applications, ending the month with a 3.6 percent share.[22] According to the most recent data forwarded by the Aliso Viejo, California-based Web metrics firm Net Applications, with 0.4 of a percentage point increase in its Web-browser market share in October, the Google Chrome ended the month with a 3.6 percent share of the browser market.[23]
Overall, the October figures reveal that a monthly downturn in IE helped the other browser's to gain market foothold. Other than the Chrome, Firefox gained 0.3 of a percentage point to end up with 24 percent share for the month; while Safari gained 0.2 of a percentage point to end the month with 4.4 browser-market share. The increase of 0.4 of a percentage point for Google's Chrome happens to be its biggest increase thus far for the Windows-only browser which was launched in September last year.[23] NetApplications shows Chrome with only a 3.58 percent market share at the end of October, compared to 24 percent for Firefox and 65 percent for IE. But remember, Chrome only launched a year ago, so that is a fast ramp by any standard. Google is signaling with this award (which was previously won by the teams which created Gmail, Google Maps, and AdSense) and this figure that it is dead serious about Chrome.[24]
Around half of that lost market share has gone to Mozilla's Firefox (19.6% rising to 24.07%) with the rest going to Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome.[25] The latest leap by Google's Chrome has helped it inch closer to the third-ranking Apple Safari browser; which is behind the top rankers - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla's Firefox.[23] Google's browser is closing on Apple's Safari for the No. 3 spot, which is behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox.[22]
While it still lags behind Internet Explorer and Firefox, Google Chrome's simplicity, speed and functionality has attracted many users. "As with every release, this new beta comes with many speed improvements," Google said in a statement on its blog.[13] A new release of Google Chrome 4.0 is now available for download, full build string 4.0.223.16. Loyal to a Cloud-tailored mantra of simplicity and performance, Google has kicked up a notch its open source browser, revealing the first Beta development milestone of version 4.0.[16] The latest build improves performance by 30% since the current stable release of Chrome and by 400% since the very first stable release, as measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests. Both companies are going head-to-head when it comes to browser speed, JavaScript performance, and startup times, but no official speed tests have been done yet to compare the two new beta releases.[5] Windows: The latest beta release of Google's Chrome browser ups its dynamic page building speed by quite a bit.[8]
Fresh on the heels of Firefox's latest beta, Google has also just released a new beta build of their Chrome web browser.[5] Google has released the first beta of Chrome 4, the latest version of its increasingly popular web browser. For those wondering if they've banged their head and woken up in 2018, don't adjust your sets.[18]
Google's Chrome 4 web browser is now in Beta. Chrome 4 has been in the dev-channel cycle since August and has one key differentiating feature over its predecessors in the Chrome 3 browser series, bookmark syncing.[26] Chrome 4.0 also adds the ability to accommodate extensions, but it's not enabled in this version. This is another feature which has left Chrome behind competing browsers, but its other innovations are what draw users to it. Speaking of other innovations, Chrome 4.0 introduces other significant features, although it's not clear whether they'll arrive in the beta or stable versions. One such feature is Google's Native Client, which allows JavaScript applications to take advantage of the PC's processor through a secure mechanism.[15] According to Google, the new beta is also 30 percent faster than the browser's current stable version and 400 percent faster than the first stable version of Chrome.[27] Google says the latest developer build of Chrome is thirty percent faster than the browser's current stable version.[1]
The bookmarks will be uploaded. As users do this to multiple devices, Chrome will ask users if they want to merge bookmarks. To see this action, check out this video demo. Google also claims it boosted performance scores on Chrome by 30 percent since its current stable release, according to Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core tests.[3] "We've improved performance scores on Google Chrome by 30% since our current stable release, as measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests, and by 400% since our first stable release," claim Google software engineers Idan Avraham and Anton Muhin on the Google Chrome blog.[18] "We've improved performance scores on Google Chrome by 30 per cent since our current stable release''' and by 400 per cent since our first stable release.[28]
More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday's release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows.[29] Version 4.0.223.16 is Windows only, Google informed, giving no indications as to any future plans to offer Chrome 4.0 for users of Linux and Mac OS X platforms as well. In this regard, early adopters looking to start test driving Google Chrome 4.0 Beta will need to do it on Windows XP SP2, and SP3, Vista RTM/SP1/SP2 and Windows 7.[16] Google said a Mac beta version of Chrome is a priority. "Our goal for this Friday is to be able to count our Mac P1 M4 release blocker bugs on one hand (we're in the 20s now)," said Chrome programmer Mike Pinkerton in a Google Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status on CNET News.[29] Shankland also tracked down some news on the upcoming Chrome Mac Beta. The team working on it has been instructed to fix all their high-priority bugs by the end of the week, and it looks like getting the Mac version out is near the top of Google's to-do list.[9]
Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16.[29] The app is available now for download via the beta channel. Google is pushing bookmark sync as the major innovation of this latest version. The feature lets users sync their preferred sites across multiple systems in a matter of seconds.[27]
Google has announced that Chrome 4.0 has hit beta stage, an update which adds more speed and better bookmark functionality. Now users who have Chrome installed on a number of computers ''' say at home and at work ''' can sync their bookmarks so there's no need to re-visit and save your favourite sites for each and every machine.[28] Chrome OS is of course based on the Chrome browser and I can see Google leveraging the same kind of sync XMPP engine on the desktop to sync and backup a whole lot more than just user's bookmarks.[26] Now any Chrome users can use the feature with minimal effort. To activate it and get the bookmarks synced in seconds, users need to click the wrench menu on the right of the Chrome browser tab, select "Synchronize my bookmarks" and sign in with their Google account identification.[3] Google Chrome dev build users might already know the feature from previous developer builds where it had to be enabled by launching the Google browser with the enable-sync parameter to enable the menu item and the feature.[4]
Speed is a big deal for Chrome and Google's forthcoming Chrome Operating System, which will be the Linux-based launching platform for the Chrome browser and Web applications. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has praised Chrome OS for its speed versus other OS'. Google Chrome team members had other reasons to celebrate their progress with the browser, which launch in September 2008.[3] The new OS will run web applications "in the cloud," a radical change from current OS offerings where many applications are still installed on the computer's hard drive itself. With Chrome (the browser's) ability to synchronize data in real-time between computers, it's easy to see how a cloud OS could operate. It wouldn't matter which machine you used, your data would be available, stored in the cloud, synchronized, and all accessible upon login to your Google account. That prospect is either amazing or terrifying depending on your trust level when it comes to Google. Perhaps it's even both.[5]
Not just quickly, mind you, but immediately. This is possible because XMPP is what's known as a "real-time" communication protocol - the same one that powers Google Talk, the company's IM service. The use of this sort of technology hints at how Google plans to make their Chrome web browser the core of their upcoming netbook operating system, Google Chrome OS.[5] "In particular, as web applications we use every day become increasingly dynamic, browsers like Google Chrome need to be able to construct and change elements on web pages as fast as possible.[13]
If Google Chrome is not your thing, but you like the concept of bookmark syncing, you can also get the same functionality on other popular browsers.[1] Google has added bookmark syncing to Chrome in its latest beta. The beta for Chrome 4 will let you see the same bookmarks in every instance of the browser that you use, so long as you'''ve synchronised them.[30] Google has just released the latest beta version of its Chrome browser.[14]
One of the ways Google recognizes and rewards project teams is its Founders Award, presented periodically by Larry Page and Sergey Brin for large-scale, game-changing achievements. This being Google, the prize is something more than a plaque and an autographed picture of Al Gore. As the company announced Monday, the latest honorees are the members of the team behind the Chrome browser, which has amassed more than 30 million active users in its first year, and for their efforts, they'll divvy up a multimillion-dollar stock bonus (and maybe some cake).[17] Maybe it still is, but Google is now fighting that perception in a very public way. Today, it announced that the Chrome Team won a Founder's Award for their achievements so far, and for the first time revealed how many people are using the Chrome browser: 30 million active users.[24]
Early adopter users use the Web more than late adopters. Firefox's first 30 million users were probably a lot more like Chrome's current 30 million users, but today Firefox has more than 330 million users and most of them are not power users, they're "regular people".[24] Try Chrome side by side with Firefox or IE in 10 Web pages and say with a straight face that you notice a huge difference in speed. Of those 30 million users, a large portion are people like me and you technorati who mess around with kind of thing as a hobby.[24]
Chrome is an early adopter, power-user, geek elite browser like Firefox was 5 years ago. Almost all of their 30 million users users are in the "heavy web users" category and each one will account for a large amount of _usage_.[24]
Let's start with the 2-point gain for Safari. One thing is clear: this isn't about PC users switching to Safari; it's about the general hysteria around the iPhone 3GS lifting all things Apple, while potential PC users waited for Microsoft to introduce Windows 7 before deciding whether or not to buy a new PC. The 3-point gain for Chrome is about the growing netbook phenomenon, and the agnosticism of netbook makers for both operating systems and Web browsers -- including the eponymous Chrome operating system which, whether Steve Ballmer likes it or not, is Microsoft's first real rival in the netbook market. Microsoft is expecting a bounce in those numbers once the effect of Windows 7 has manifested itself at retail, but the howls of pain felt by Vista users trying to upgrade to Windows 7 has probably dampened any consumer enthusiasm Microsoft might have drummed up with it's "Windows 7 was my idea" ad campaign.[21] The browser numbers, on the other hand, reflect significant sample sizes and timelines against which trends can be compared. Microsoft is lucky it still has business users in the thrall of its enterprise license agreements, because the trend among consumers is growing clearer by the day, and where browsers are concerned it's not good for Microsoft. It's not so much Mac that Microsoft should fear as much as Chrome, which is built for the Web, allows retailers to sell netbooks at lower prices while maintaining margins, and has a much prettier logo.[21]
Unfortunately for the Apple web browser, Google's Chrome is gaining faster. Compiling data from more than 160 million visitors to its worldwide network of sites, web metrics firm Net Applications has released numbers for the month.[31] Considering that Google is ranked #1 on the web; the Chrome Browser is growing in popularity very fast. It is the most secure web browser; hackers don't like playing in the "sandbox".[24]
Chrome's version allows you to log-in to your browser with your Google account details and synchronise bookmarks across multiple machines in real-time - which means a bookmark added to your work machine will appear instantly on your home PC.[18] To sync your bookmarks across multiple locations, just download the beta version of Chrome on each computer you use, and repeat the steps outlined above. When you add, delete, or edit your Chrome bookmarks on any device, those changes will be updated across all your computers.[1] "Once you've activated Google Chrome bookmark sync on each of your computers, any changes you make to your bookmarks will appear on all synced computers in just a few second (For those of you who are curious, this bit of magic is made possible by the same XMPP -based servers that power Google Talk )," the company says. Google also says that this version is faster.[2] "Once you've activated Google Chrome bookmark sync on each of your computers, any changes you make to your bookmarks will appear on all synced computers in just a few seconds," said the web giant in a blog post.[12]
'''You can keep your Google Chrome bookmarks synchronised and up-to-date across the multiple computers you use, without needing to manually recreate your bookmarks every time you use a different computer,''' said software engineers Idan Avraham and Anton Muhin in a post on the Google blog.[30]
The ability to sync bookmarks is likely to make Google Chrome that much more popular. It has already seen significant growth in its global user base from 3.4 percent to 3.6 percent from September to October this year.[13] Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Google Chrome 4 Beta debuts including bookmark sync.[26] Google Chrome's bookmark sync has come a long way since I last looked at it.[32]
Google is leveraging the XMPP servers it uses for Google Talk to make the magic happen. That's pretty clever since the first word in IM is "instant." While the new bookmark sync feature is welcome, it's only part of the puzzle.[32] While Bookmark Sync is the most interesting feature to debut in the new beta, there are some notable speed improvements to mention, too.[5]
Once you've downloaded the Chrome beta, you can access the new feature by clicking on the wrench icon on the far right side of your browser window.[1] Once again lifted from Opera Link, which was implemented in Opera years ago. There is nothing innovative about this from Chrome. Its nice for all browsers to have a bookmark syncing ability. Sadly this feature is not available in the linux builds of chromium yet but I welcome this feature when they get round to it.[5]
Microsoft's browser has lost 3 percentage points in the last three months, and 9 points in the last year. Chrome's increase of 0.4 of a percentage point was its largest since Google launched the Windows-only browser in September 2008.[22] You can sign up for the beta releases here, and download the beta build here. Google made a video for the release (something that they nearly always do now), which we have''embedded''below. In a last comment, Google points out the this beta version of Chrome has sped up by a shocking 30%.[7] Google is claiming the Chrome 4 beta is 30 per cent faster than the current release, and 400 per cent faster than the very first version of Chrome. It may seem just yesterday that Chrome 3 was released, and that'''s because it was - or six weeks ago, at least.[30]
Users that currently have a Chrome beta channel release installed can update using the built-in update function by clicking 'Tools', selecting 'About Google Chrome' and clicking the 'Update' button.[11] To download the latest build of Google Chrome beta, head over to the Chrome beta site here.[5] Ahead of the November 2nd launch of Google Chrome 4.0 Beta, version 4.0 was offered exclusively through the Mountain View search giant's developer channel. This is no longer the case.[16] One aspect of Google Chrome's evolution that is also characteristic of version 4.0 Beta, is the added horsepower introduced by the Mountain View search giant.[16]
Google has three main releases for Chrome, dev, beta and stable channel. The move into the beta channel for Chrome 4 means it's getting ready for prime time.[26] Google inexplicably gives a fresh version number to every new release of Chrome, even it it'''s just a tiny upgrade.[30] For the Chrome-using slice of the world, get ready. Google is releasing a new build of Chrome that is its fastest release yet.[7]
Chrome 3.0 was released in September offering 25 per cent improved performance on the previous release, HTML5 capabilities and a redesigned New Tab Page. Browser market share figures from Net Applications released this week show that Chrome is the fourth most widely used browser in the world with 3.6 per cent of the market.[12] Opera's Speed Dial is far superior to any similar offering from other browsers, while Chrome's clone was infuriating to start with (the pages I want always there on my front page are not always the ones I visit most for example). It might have a small market share but it's a strong product nevertheless.[18]
I just feel that most people making comparisons of Chrome vs Firefox's market share are really not taking into account the leverage Firefox had by coming out when it did. Don't get me wrong, it's a great browser, but it's success also has a lot to do with that often neglected fact.[24] Firefox claims 330 million users under 24% market share. Thats 13.750 million users per 1%, making for a 1,375,000,000 total user base. I know these numbers (particularly browser %'s) should always be taken with a grain of salt though just emphasizing that.[24]
When you start introducing more competitors, shifts seem less dramatic. 30 million users in a year is nothing to scoff at. If Chrome had come out first and had as much time on the market as Firefox has, I have no doubt it would easily outnumber the amount of users Firefox has at this time.[24] Chrome has added 30 million users in 14 months compared to Firefox which has added 30 million new users in the last 8 weeks.[24]
Even more, you can now sync your bookmarks across multiple computers. Chrome, recently found to have an install base of 30 million, has long been known for its jet-fighter speed.[7] In addition to a number of bug fixes and speed improvements, the latest beta release adds the ability for for users to synchronise their bookmarks between multiple computers.[11] "The Beta Channel is being updated to 4.0.223.16 which is our first Beta release for 4.0. This release includes many bug fixes and for the first time Bookmark Sync is enabled.[16] The latest Windows beta build now offers bookmark sync, which by itself may not sound glamorous.[32] Bookmark sync appeared in the Chrome for the developer build in August, but the average user doesn't subscribe to that channel.[3]
To synchronize your bookmarks on all your computers, you need to activated by clicking on the wrench icon in your Chrome browser, then select "Synchronize my bookmarks", then click "Merge sync."[14] Google is directly integrating the sync into the browser and leveraging the power of the Google cloud to do it. This narrows the gap between desktop and cloud computing and brings Chrome into the Google online services fold. Browser sync also give us a very early preview of what Google has in store from Chrome OS, it's netbook operating system.[26] I don't think google is quite different from MS. Chrome is good and I sometimes use Chrome, but there are no reason to change to Chrome if you don't have any specific problem with the current browser which most people usually don't.[24] I have both Safari 4 and Chrome installed on my Windows machine. Overall, I much prefer Safari as it's more of a full featured browser. I do like Chrome's search bar that's used for both URLs and searches. That's both a great idea and a good use of space.[31] I see a few comments saying "still using FF and Safari" etc. Why the heck are you? Fair enough if your on a Mac and don't want to beta test the current version but if you're on Windows then what's the deal? It's the fastest and most stable browser for Windows, I've been using it for 14 months intensively for both work (along with FF) and home and its been almost flawless throughout.[24] I may still use it occasionally but as of now I've got my favorite browser back in operation on mac os 10.6. Safari 4 beta! I loved tabs on top. It saves quite a bit of screen space and I have yet to find a browser that has such a small menubar that is still as usable as safari 4 beta. I'll probably stick with Safari until Apple gets off their pompous ass and releases Safari 4 with the option for tabs on top.[31]
Even if one were to include Safari on iPhone OS, it would do no more than delay the inevitable a little longer. There are just too many Windows users looking for alternatives to IE. Apple isn't really interested in getting people to use Safari for Windows anyway, but rather getting them to use Safari for the Mac.[31] With the vast bulk of Safari's users on Macs-Safari for Windows accounted for less than a third of a percentage point last month-Apple's browser gains are directly linked to Mac sales, and that platform's performance, percentage-wise, against the dominant Windows operating system. Both Microsoft and Mozilla again made strides in moving users to their newest browsers.[22]
As to what sort of data that could be, Google can't provide any official confirmation just yet. They did say that you could imagine that "this type of infrastructure could be extended to other types of user data such as passwords" in the future. We'll speculate that it will eventually include those passwords, your browser history, and whatever favorite websites appear as thumbnails on the New Tab page. If Mozilla's Weave Sync prototype can handle those sorts of tasks already, there's no reason to believe that Google couldn't do the same.[5] While having browser sync is not a new idea, delicious has been doing it for years and there have multiple add-on efforts for Firefox to include synchronization, Google's approach is a little different.[26]
For web browsers, Internet Explorer still represents more than 60 percent of the market. That would be great for Microsoft, if it weren't for the fact IE is down about 10 percent from a year ago and Firefox is up about 5 percent.[31] One often overlooked reason that any not-Mozilla browser is succeeding right now is that Mozilla pushed the industry towards standards compliance from 2000-2004 when Firefox was released. It was Mozilla's effort that broke open the IE-only world of websites and that was no short-term task at all. It took years and years of outreach to Web sites and developers and a slow grind up to a few percent of the market to push the top 1000 or so sites to not be totally broken in not-IE browsers.[24]
Based on WebKit and released just over a year ago for Windows, Google's Chrome is now at 3.57 percent, up from 3.17 percent in September. [31] The security of Google Chrome will only lead to the creation of the most secure Operating System on the market when Chrome OS is released early next year.[24] Google Chrome development is moving along full speed ahead. Why is this news? Well let me tell you. Early last week, Google developer Anthony LaForge ( no not Geordi, he's working on the warp core still. ) issued a 'Code Yellow' alert halting all Google Chrome release until some critical bugs could be fix.[20] More details about the release can be found in a post by Google Engineering Program Manager Jonathan Conradt on the Google Chrome Releases Blog.[11] The ever innovative company, Google recently granted a Founders' Prize, a multimillion-dollar stock bonus, to the team that developed Google Chrome and is willing to extend the same offer to the rest of the engineering community.[19]
I am an early adopter of Google Chrome all the way from day one. It is simply the greatest browser I have ever used.[24] Chrome is very light and very fast browser so i think that's the reason behind the popularity of google chrome.[24]
By the end of the week, not only was the Code Yellow lifted, but Google also managed to issue two dev-channel releases for the Chrome browser.[20] There is a perception that Google's Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers.[24]
And, as with all Chrome updates Google has once again felt the need for speed. As Google explains on its blog : "This new beta comes with many speed improvements.[28] The new beta will also come with speed improvements, Google said, and 30 per cent better performance than the current Chrome 3.0.[12]
If that sounds like a reasonable trade for more dynamic page speed and bookmark syncing, Chrome 4 Beta is a free download for Windows systems only. Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.[8] Activate bookmark syncing on each of your computers, and Chrome will automatically synchronize any changes to your bookmarks across all your machines. It's made possible by the magic of XMPP, which also powers Google Talk.[9] I'm wondering if there will be a way to manage or add bookmarks from within Google Docs. It would be a simple way to get at or manipulate bookmarks on a computer that doesn't have Chrome installed.[32]
You no longer need to manually recrete your bookmarks every time you use Chrome on a different computer.[14] We're talking about syncing with other computers with the Chrome browser installed, allowing you to take your bookmarks, well, anywhere.[10] The beta for the lastest Chrome browser includes bookmark synching and is 30 per cent faster than the last version.[30] Chrome was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2 2008.[13] I use Filehippo.com for my main freeware updates and was surprised to see this story. Why? As the first version 4 of Chrome was released back in August, and my wife has been running it on her Vista laptop since then, as her default browser.[18]
Sony and others are considering bringing Windows 7 computers with Chrome browser pre-installed instead of IE, and Chrome OS is going to be released within weeks for $100 ARM based laptops that will dominate the laptop market.[24] The official Google release notes say the browser is only compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista, although it installed perfectly on Windows 7 64-bit machine.[18]
The bookmarks will still be stored in Google Docs and not in Google Bookmarks, apparently because of the way bookmarks are stored in the web browser.[4] Browser and search history are likely desirable bits of data too, but Google offers the option to provide the search history, regardless of browser. Although Google didn't mention this in their blog post, I noticed something interesting when I performed an initial sync: Google is also leveraging Google Docs for the bookmark data.[32]
Any changes will be replicated across any computer that you'''ve activated bookmark sync on. The pair explained: '''For those of you who are curious, this bit of magic is made possible by the same XMPP-based servers that power Google Talk.'''[30] If you have multiple computers signed in to Google, adding a bookmark on one computer adds it to the other in a near-real-time fashion.[32] The popular Xmarks extension has been around for quite some time and expanded beyond just supporting bookmark synchronisation in Firefox on different computers to synchronising bookmarks across multiple browsers as well.[15]
Opera has had support for synchronization for years now (Opera Link), only it isn't restricted to synchronizing bookmarks, but history and custom searches among other things too, even between the different versions of its browser (mobile, desktop). I find it amazing that Opera, as solid a browser product as any other and a pioneer of a lot of browser ideas like this one, is consistently omitted in news reporting, not only here but elsewhere too.[18] @John: If you don't feel like waiting, check out Opera v10 for Mac. It has the original Speed Dial and Opera Link (bookmark sync) and custom search shortcuts and 'Quick Find search from the address bar' that were "borrowed" bit-by-bit by lesser browsers.[24] I can import all my bookmarks from Safari to Opera quite easily, but I can't figure out how to automatically sync Opera bookmarks to Safari. If I could sort this 1 issue out Opera would be my browser of choice on the mac.[24]
Then again, Safari on Mac is way better than Safari on Win (which is really good though, but it lacks OS integration and thus addon support, unlike Safari on Mac), so I'd prefer seeing a graph of browser market share on the Mac.[31] I don't care whether Safari or Chrome gains market share. They are both based on WebKit, i.e. practically identical from the perspective of a web-author. Therefore any growth for WebKit makes it more worthwhile for a website to support WebKit, rather than just Internet Explorer. End-users, they get to choose which UI around WebKit is their favorite (Safari or Chrome).[31] Internet Explorer is slowly losing market share to its biggest rivals, Apple and Google, for reasons as disparate as they are significant. Internet Explorer is slowly losing market share to its biggest rivals, Apple and Google, for reasons as disparate as they are significant.[21]
@Keith the 30M figure comes from Google, the market share figures come from Net Applications.[24]
Net Applications pegged Chrome usage at 3.6 percent in October up from 3.2 percent to 3.6 percent in September. Yeaah it's small, but that's why Chrome Frame is so important to Google.[20] WebGL is another significant addition - it does the same as Native Client, but with hardware-accelerated graphics. Together, these two innovations have the potential to dramatically improve web-based applications - something Google is banking on for its Chrome OS.[15]
With Chrome Frame, Google's addressable footprint is (theoretically) as big as IE's. No, we don't quite know at this point how many people have downloaded Chrome Frame, but the opportunity is still large for Google.[20] Back in August, I had some issue with the bookmarking syncing feature which wasn't really well integrated with either Google's online services or with Chrome itself. That was months ago, and Google has since improved the whole process.[26] According to Stephen Shankland at CNET, Google is reworking the extensions interface for Chrome, so that feature is disabled for now.[9]
Add a new feature and add a +1 to the release version is the policy with Google.[18] Google's strategy to date has been a somewhat traditional volume licensing play, working with hardware and carrier partners to spread Android far and wide as the mobile operating system of choice, rather than following Apple's lead with a complete hardware and software design like the iPhone. Almost two years later, the software is rounding into form with the release of several phones this year along with the pending release of the Motorola Droid, which runs Android 2.0 on Verizon's network. This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.[33]
Chrome's rate of growth, plus the imminent release of a Mac version, as well as one for Linux, leads inexorably towards Chrome passing Safari, most likely by year's end.[31] I'll TRY Chrome, when GOOG gets off its tail and ships a stable version, but I continue to be most impressed with Firefox 3 (Mac); I prefer it even to Safari.[31] I tried the Mac version of Chrome and it's missing a lot of functionality that Safari has, especially apparent in Chrome's lack of support for contextual Services and lack of any Apple Event support.[31]
Recently Portable version of chrome was launched, Portable Google Chrome 3.0 ( http://inforids.e-for-download/ ) & thats really good. [24] Once installed, click the "wrench" menu (yes, the one with the wrench icon) in Google Chrome and select "Synchronize my bookmarks" from the menu that appears.[5]
Chrome has neither to a full extent (okay speed, okay rendering and a few extensions released just recently), plus it has Google's evil eye spying on you all the time (unless you patch it, but that's a different story).[31] "If Chrome had come out first and had as much time on the market as Firefox has, I have no doubt it would easily outnumber the amount of users Firefox has at this time[24] In the last three months, Chrome has gained 1 percentage point, or 62% as much as Firefox has increased in the same time.[22] Not that I'm a particularly good data point, considering my employer, but I just switched from Firefox to Chrome as my default browser, and couldn't be happier.[24] I've been using the daily builds of Chromium for months now and I've hardly bothered using Firefox at all. I could see Chrome/Chromium picking up a few percentage points in the next few years when the major distributions switch to it as their default browser. I think that's pretty inevitable; to me, Chromium is so self-evidently superior in every way that I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen.[24] I have been using Chrome for more than a year and I cannot live without it. It is relatively very fast compared to IE and Firefox. I tested IE and Firefox last week just for comparison and they cannot beat Chrome.[24] There is no reason why anyone should be using the headache that is Firefox or heaven forbid, IE. Chrome is simple, and a heck of a lot faster than any other alternative.[24]
Firefox, Chrome, and to a lesser extent Safari, all gained ground thanks to another downturn by IE in October.[22]
According to a new set of stats from Net Applications, Chrome is gaining on IE (though very marginally).[20] The figures come from visitors to sites which use Net Application's web application services. While that represents only a sample of the entire Internet browsing audience, it's large and diverse enough to give a reliable overall picture, particularly with such a clear and continued trend. In most cases where a user changes their browser, they are starting from the default option, Internet Explorer, and then switching to a rival. If they try a different browser and don't like it, they'll usually switch back quickly enough that it makes little difference to such figures.[25] Microsoft's share of the Internet browser market has fallen by almost a tenth in the space of one year. Monitoring firm Net Applications has just released its browser statistics for October.[25] The share of the Microsoft IE, which lost 9 points in the last year and 3 percentage points in the last three months, dropped by 1 percentage point during October to end up with a 64.7 percent share.[23] The problem with Safari is that the Windows version just never caught on. After more than two years, its market share is yet to reach a third of 1 percent.[31] Regarding market share by version, after jumping to 18 percent in the month after release, Snow Leopard increased to just 21 percent of OS X users for October, with plain-old Leopard accounting for 50 percent of the user base.[31] Unlike Linux, the iPhone OS is steadily increasing share, and with the introduction of the iPhone in China and the U.S. holiday season, iPhone OS may break half a percent by the end of the year. To put that number in perspective, it's about a 10th the market share of Mac OS X.[31] At 0.37 percent in October, and combined with 0.07 percent for the iPod touch, iPhone OS now measures 0.44 percent of total OS market share. While that may seem insignificant, it's a little less than half what Net Applications reports Linux as having.[31]
Gauging browser share is a black art, at best. They're US-skewed, which would be like tabulating OS market share in Redmond and extrapolating globally. (Plus, they've been demonstrably dishonest in the past, as you can see from the linkfugly).[24] Apple's browser ended the month at 4.4%, up just 0.2 of a percentage point; Opera dropped to 2.17%, losing 0.02 of a point. Both browsers appear destined to be also-rans in the market share race.[22] Sure, but Chrome has more market share, is faster, and is growing more quickly. Opera is great though, I have Opera on both my computers.[7]
Chrome has as much of the browser share on my, decidedly non-tech, site as Netscape 4.[24]
I have been using Chrome from its initial days and now its part of my online life. As a web developer, I feel to get decent applications on Chrome other web development standards need to be compatible this browser.[24] I'm still using Firefox for web development because Firebug is still indispensable, but for everyday browsing, Chrome is just so much faster.[24]
I have to say, I've grudgingly replaced Firefox with Chrome at work. I love Firefox's plug-ins, but it's become so bloated that it's practically useless to me (due in large part to the plug-ins, I suspect). Its biggest advantage is also its biggest weakness.[24] Admittedly I haven't work with Firefox on the extension/plugin aspect so I can't really compare, but what I've found with Chrome seems pretty awesome.[24]
Chrome just doesn't work very well yet and lacks a lot of features that people like.[24] I don't know how many people use Chrome and I don't care. It's the best browser, and so I use it.[24] My biggest reason that I don't use it as my default browser is because I like to have my bookmarks synced to my iPhone and my mac mini via Mobile Me.[24] For now, the Sync feature is only synchronizing browser bookmarks, but the framework behind Sync is ultimately designed to handle the synchronization of other kinds of browser data as well.[5] The bookmark synchronisation feature was originally introduced in mid-August by Google Software Engineer Tim Steele in a post on The Chromium Blog.[11] What users are really going to notice, however, is the built-in bookmark syncing, a feature previously available in bleeding-edge development builds.[8] Established in 2001 and read by over 250,000 users world-wide, infopackets features the latest in headline news based on MS Windows, Internet, and technology trends.[25] When your internet connection ebbs & flows, other browser will only slow down, but the new Turbo feature in Opera will kick in to give you a ~3x rendering boost. Btw, it's great for pruning those ugly flash-heavy sites.[24] How is that relevant in this context? We're talking about browser features, surely the amount of 'muscle' a browser has matters in that context, not the amount of users? When it comes to the former Opera can comfortably play along with 'the big guys'. When it when it never gets credit where credit is due, then it will have a hard time improving on the latter.[18]
Pushing for a design feature is a far cry from designing an entire phone, contracting with a manufacturing partner to build it, and working the distribution channels to get it to market. That would be "a fundamental shift" in Google's business model, Rubin said, and one the company does not seem prepared to make at this time.[33] "We're enabling other people to build hardware." Now, Google has played a role in designing phones that have emerged with Android, such as the G1. Google advocated the infamous hinge design on the G1 based on its desire to offer a phone with a five-row keyboard, Rubin said. That design was not popular with reviewers, however, and Rubin joked that perhaps that's why Google shouldn't make its own hardware.[33]
Recently, we announced that we're starting to ramp up hiring for positions across the company, continuing our investment in the future as we imagine it. That future is shaped by small teams of creative people who want to make a difference. We're on the hunt for these kind of people ' let us know if you think you're one of them." The Founders Award comes in the wake of Brin's recent revelation that he was displeased that the Chrome team has not yet created a stable build for Chrome running on Macintosh machines.[3] The Chrome 4.0 beta is also 30 percent faster from the current stable release.[3] Specifically, Chrome's performance has improved by 30%, based on Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core tests. That is compared to the most recent stable release. It's actually improved by as much as 400% since the first stable release.[2]
Have you tried opera 10.1 for the mac yet? It's super fast, and most pages render perfectly and much, much more stable hen chrome.[24] I tried the mac version of chrome and I was impressed with its performance. I was very unimpressed with its overall usability.[31] Sound good? Go ahead and download Chrome 4.0 Beta. This beta version of Chrome is also notable for what it leaves out: extensions support.[9] In the slightly less nebulous world of Chrome, the firm has popped out a new beta, promising "a few new treats and cool tricks".[34] If you've only got the one machine, or would prefer your home surfing not to be reflected on your work machine, the new beta still promises a 30 per cent speed increase over the most recent version.[34] The download has to be performed manually and given it is a beta release may still have some glitches. For those who use a computer at work, a desktop at home and a laptop on business travel, such a facility will prove invaluable.[13] Users wanting to continue using the latest extension API are advised to use the latest Dev channel release. As this is a beta channel release, use in production environments and on mission critical machines is not advised.[11]
Google has been using that 30 million active user number since July.[24] Now, 30 million is certainly a big number, but it is still a tiny fraction of Internet Explorer or Firefox (which has 330 million users ).[24]
Internet Explorer users can download the Windows Live Toolbar to store and sync bookmarks with Microsoft's online storage service, SkyDrive.[1] Windows 7 Upgrade Woes Mount: Endless Reboots and Product Key Problems Microsoft message boards are active with users complaining of upgrade problems related to Windows 7. Consumers Won't Pay $120 for Windows 7 Upgrade We've gotten used to free or cheap software, so Microsoft should offer some deals for its newest OS.[1] OS X was at 5.26 percent for October, up from 5.12 percent in September so much for Windows 7 hurting the Mac.[31] While that's something of a plateau, it will be interesting to see how adoption between Snow Leopard and Windows 7 compares. A week after the official launch, Windows 7 is at 3 percent, up from 2 percent a week ago based on those using early release versions.[31]
Now that I've upgraded with Windows 7 and IE probably fixed some bugs, I am still a loyal Chrome supporter.[24]
I'm not a Chrome user, but I welcome the pressure this puts on FF to add bookmark synchronization.[5] Because the user experience of Chrome is far superior to Safari, especially for power users. As a web developer, it's even better.[31] Safari now stands at 4.4 percent, up from 4.24 percent in September, and 2.87 percent last year, and that's great, but not as great as Chrome.[31] Going by the most recent trends, there are indications that the Chrome will outdo the Safari in February next year.[23]
Doesn't seem logical to pretend you know how stable of a platform chrome will be. It is fast though but then so if Safari.[24] I am growing tired of the instabilities of ff and safari (pushing too hard in dev?) and hope to get a more stable platform with good performance out of chrome.[24]
Essentially, bookmark syncing will allow Chrome to do just that sync bookmarks. [10] Well, one new treat/trick, it seems, in the shape of bookmark sync, which allows bookmarks and subsequent updates to be mirrored across multiple machines.[34] Because the new Sync feature uses an XMPP connection to synchronize the changes, changes made on one computer are synchronized immediately to another.[5] The newsletter contains links to our latest IT news, product reviews, features and how-to guides, plus special offers and competitions.[30]
Firefox is pretty darn great all around but features in Safari keep me using it for GP.[24]
Firefox is a mainstream browser which means it has hundreds of millions of non-geek users. These "regular people" don't spend 24/7 online. They will account for a smaller amount of _usage_ each.[24] 30 million is certainly a big number & thats will take much of the share of browsers market.[24] We had to make our codes compatible to Chrome as the number of Chrome browsers is by no means to be ignored.[24]
The benchmarks are not exactly good, Sorry, but Google's V8 benchmark suite does not provide as good a "real world" test as WebKit's Sunspider benchmark suite'''the reason you see "negligible real world" difference between the browser versions.[31] As the article states it took Mozilla 7 years to reach version 3.6 and Google a year and a bit to version 4.[18] According to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, the good times are set to roll again for Google. An announcement early this year also suggested that Google was set to intensify acquisitions and hirings.[19]
A click on the Synchronize my bookmarks link will display a small popup window displaying a Google Account form. [4] Overall, Safari 4 is more appealing to me. In my opinion, this has more to do with the Windows world either disliking or distrusting Apple in general and loving everything Google.[31]
Funny how 3.6% is "strong" for a google product but any market share under 50% for microsoft products is weak. [24] For October, OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 continued to make incremental gains in market share, as did Safari.[31]
FF has been pretty decent so far except for the occasional crash/hang (probably due to all the apps i run), but generally a nice browser. Presently use both Safari and FF. [24] It's a bit of spiced up figureGoogle might have also included users who use chrome once in a blue moon.[24] I've been using a variant of Chrome for awhile now, it's fantastic only still waiting till plugins are made public, so far there are only a few dev. plugins but are of little or no use.[24]
I love Chrome, but i think if it supports more plug in (add on) like firefox, it'''ll be much more better.[24] Sure I miss Firefox's plug ins but I guess speed and stability in the context of browsers are a priority.[24]
The new Synchronize my bookmarks option is located in the Tools menu of the browser.[4] Firefox users can download the Xmark add-on that allows you to synchronize your bookmarks and passwords.[1] Opera users can get in on the syncing action through Opera Link, which stores bookmarks, speed dial entries and more.[1] Just use Opera Link to sync your bookmarks and typed history and custom searches to the cloud. From my iPhone, I go to http://link.opera.com to access them.[24] If you've already set up Sync on another computer, you'll then be prompted to confirm that your different sets of bookmarks should be merged together.[5]
Google generally doesn't reveal user numbers for anything, so this is significant. [24] Clearly they are trying to get new users on board by constantly changing the version numbers.[18]
The initial, and Windows-only release was 14 months ago. They said they were hard at work making a Mac version happen but that it was proving more difficult than they'd at first thought.[24]
Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine continued to make small gains on rivals Google Inc and Yahoo Inc in the U.S. Internet search market in July, according to the latest data from research firm ComScore. [19] The other big change users might notice is that extensions are disabled in the latest beta build, as the developers are said to be reworking the add-on framework.[8] For ordinary users Firefox is f. It depends Firefox is awesome for me as web dev.[24]
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