Neowin News Feed for: Chrome

Internal Microsoft Scroogled video leaked, takes a few stabs at Chrome

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:12:04 +0100

After Google released a new ad for their Chrome browser yesterday, a Microsoft-flavored parody appeared warning users that Google uses Chrome to track its users and server them ads. Read more...

Torch Browser 25.0.0.3256

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:02:19 +0100

Torch Browser is based on the Chromium technology platform, giving it fast browsing capabilities. With Torch, you can share sites you like, download torrents, accelerate downloads and grab videos Read more...

Microsoft adding Pointer Events support for Blink-based Chrome

John Callaham — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:48:37 +0100

Microsoft has announced it is adding support for its Pointer Events web standard to Blink, the engine that will be used in future versions of Google's Chrome web browser. Read more...

Google: Chrome now has 750 million active users

John Callaham — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:57:22 +0100

During today's Google I/O keynote, the company announced that its Chrome web browser now has 750 million monthly active users, with 300 million new users added in the last 12 months. Read more...

Study claims IE10 blocks nearly all malware on Windows 8

John Callaham — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:08:03 +0100

A new study from NSS Labs claims that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 web browser had a 99.96 percent malware block rate while running Windows 8, putting it at the top of the browser list. Read more...

Microsoft finds malware that targets Facebook profiles

John Callaham — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:54:13 +0100

Microsoft has announced that it has detected a new malicious browser extension that tries to hijack Facebook profiles through the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Read more...

Epic Citadel HTML5 demo launched; IE browsers are left out

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:01:28 +0100

Epic Games has launched a version of its free Unreal Engine 3 demo, Epic Citadel, for HTML5 browsers. However, the demo won't work on any Internet Explorer browsers due to its lack of WebGL support. Read more...

IE10 claims 6.02 percent of web browser share in April

John Callaham — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:09:14 +0100

New data from Net Applications shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 gained market share in April, going up to 6.02 percent, while IE's overall share dipped very slightly. Read more...

Google releases beta of Microsoft Office document viewer for Chrome 27 Beta

John Callaham — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:55:18 +0100

Google has launched a public beta of the Chrome Office Viewer, a new Chrome browser extension that lets users view Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files inside the beta version of Chrome. Read more...

Forrester: Internet Explorer still top browser in the workplace

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:24:08 +0100

A new report from Forrester: states that Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the most used web browser in the workplace, commanding a 40.2 percent market share. Read more...

Lunascape 6.8.3

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:26:08 +0100

With Lunascape, the three most popular rendering engines (Trident, Gecko, WebKit) have been integrated in a single browser. Yeah, that's right. Lunascape = IE (Trident)＋Firefox (Gecko)＋Chrome + Safari Read more...

Leaked code shows that Google Now may come to search

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:57:13 +0100

Google Now was one of the flagship features announced in Android 4.1 and goes head-to-head with Siri. Google may be looking to introduce Now into Google search, according to some leaked code. Read more...

Comodo Dragon 26.2

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:00:31 +0100

Comodo Dragon encompasses all of the best features of Chrome. It includes an important feature every user needs to use the Internet in total safety today - Strong security and privacy. Read more...

Comodo Dragon 26.1.3.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:15:21 +0100

Comodo Dragon encompasses all of the best features of Chrome. It includes an important feature every user needs to use the Internet in total safety today - Strong security and privacy. Read more...

SRWare Iron 26.0.1450.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:44:17 +0100

Iron is a clone of Google Chrome based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome without the critical points that concern users´ privacy. Read more...

Torch Browser 23.0.0.3001

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:47:40 +0100

Google ditching WebKit engine for Blink in Chrome

John Callaham — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:34:52 +0100

Google has announced that future versions of its Chrome web browser will use Blink, a new rendering engine that's based on Chrome's current WebKit engine, which has been used since Chrome started. Read more...

Internet Explorer market share up in March; IE10 up to 2.93 percent

John Callaham — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:23:31 +0100

Internet Explorer gained a tiny bit of the overall web browser market share in March 2013, rising to 55.83 percent. IE10's own share was up slightly to 2.93 percent. Read more...

Comodo Dragon 26.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:00:56 +0000

Comodo Dragon encompasses all of the best features of Chrome. It includes an important feature every user needs to use the Internet in total safety today - Strong security and privacy. Read more...

Turn your favourite sites into a game with Google's Chrome World Wide Maze

Andy Weir — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:46:25 +0000

Ever wanted to turn your favourite website into a giant maze around which you can roll a ball and collect gems for points? Of course you have - and now you can, with Google's Chrome World Wide Maze! Read more...