One of the best browser till date: Google Chrome 9

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You may have noticed but your Chrome browser has been automatically updated. If not, click on the tools icon followed by "About Google Chrome" .Google released Chrome 9 this week.  

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Some of the  features are Chrome Instant search, a speed enhancer that loads Web pages as you type a URL. Other notable upgrades include WebGL support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, as well as access to Google's new Chrome Web Store.

Google Instant 

This feature will automatically load webpages as you type the URL in the addressbar. The option is turned off by default. You can turn it on by Option-Check "Enable Instant for faster searching and browsing". 

WebGL

By far the most compelling feature of the newly released browser is the integration of WebGL in the browser. WebGL support brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser without the need for additional software. Google's Body Browser, for instance, uses WebGL to employ a computer's GPU to speed up rendering of 3D graphics. Chrome is the first browser with this technology which should be soon available on Firefox and IE. Definitely a technology to watch.

Chrome WebStore 

The store offers a collection of free and commercial Chrome applications, extensions and themes. The Chrome Webstore  is now here for quite some time yet appeals masses with its over 100s of free and paid apps.  Though few of the web apps are optimized speciafically for chrome, many others can be used with their full potential for Firefox and safari. You can download web app, open it as new window or create shortcuts on desktop. Windows users can also pin web app to start-menu or create a quciklaunch icon for the webapp for quick and easy access. Chrome WebStore 

Cloud printing

With this feature you will be able to print from devices that cannot directly communicate with Printers. Cloud printing Allows printing from any app on any device, OS or browser without the need to install any software.When released later this January, the support was limited for Windows OS only. To put it simply you will be able to print Google docs  or any other document from your smart phone.

WebP files 

WebP is new image format that offers better compression for images over the web. This implies that image file size will substantially reduce resulting in faster download rate while the picture quality is maintained.You can download the image converter from here: WebP files

Overall, Chrome 9 adds some compelling upgrades while retaining the speed and simplicity that makes Google's browser so compelling. 

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Firefox, Chrome to add "Do Not Track" tools soon

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Firefox and Google Chrome browsers are getting tools to help users block advertisers from collecting information about them. This is similar to "Do Not Call" feature available on phones.

Mozilla is reportedly exploring putting anti-tracking features on its popular Firefox browser so that users can keep their online activities from being monitored. The bad news?  Mozilla recently rejected a more powerful privacy protection tool under pressure from the advertising industry.

Alex Fowler, a technology and privacy officer for Firefox maker Mozilla, said the "Do Not Track" tool will be the first in a series of steps designed to guard privacy. He didn't say when the tool will be available.

Google Chrome users can now download a browser plug-in that blocks advertisers - but only from ad networks that already let people decline personalized, targeted ads. According to Google Inc., these include the top 15 advertising networks, as rated by the research group comScore, a group that includes AOL Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Google itself.

The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser, which is still being developed, will include a similar feature, though people will have to create or find their own lists of sites they want to block.

Google and Mozilla, however, are developing tracking-protection tools that will work automatically - once people decide to turn on that privacy feature, that is.

Microsoft, Google and Mozilla's promises of stronger privacy comes on the heels of government complaints that online advertisers are able to collect too much data about people in their quest to target ads.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission recommended the creation of a "Do Not Track" tool that would invite consumers to restrict advertisers from collecting information about them, including the websites they visit, the links they click, their Internet searches and their online purchases.

Google product managers Sean Harvey and Rajas Moonka said the new Chrome tool will allow for more permanent ad blocking. Before, opt-out settings were typically stored through small files known as cookies; when users clear cookies, however, the opt-out settings get erased, too. Another benefit is that the new tool allows users to opt out of all participating ad networks at once, rather than one at a time.

Google eventually hopes to develop a similar plug-in for other browsers as well, Harvey and Moonka added.

Thus the dilemma of Web browsers caught in the crossfire between their audience, Internet users and regulators seeking to protect user privacy, and their revenue, online advertisers who want more information on users’ preferences.

source: ibnlive.in.com, socialtimes.com

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