chrome

Chrome/ium is a great web-browser, but doesn't quite properly integrate with GTK+2/+3 (specially from its scrollbars point-of-view).

If you're using GNOME 3 (with Adwaita GTK+3 theme) or, you just like Adwaita's thick scrollbars, take a look and install "Adwaita (GNOME 3) scrollbars", but, keep in mind that this Chrome/ium extension works great in Natty, Maverick, etc (with any GTK+2 theme).

We have seen, in the last weeks, many comments and opinions about keeping or ditching the new Chrome logo, and, now we are sure, Google Chrome will keep the new carton-ish logo.
But that is not all with today's release of Google Chrome 11 stable, a challenging and innovative feature has been included in this release: speech input through HTML.

We are used to, in Ubuntu, that every release should (and actually does) bring a decent amount of innovation and creativity in fields like user interface, new features, real-estate optimizations, etc.

One quite interesting project that generates much attention and appreciation in Natty Narwhal is "Ayatana Overlay Scrollbars", fancy functional way to get high-quality scrolling, more screen space and a modern UI.

The problem is that, in Ubuntu 11.04, are "heavy" applications that don't use this scrollbars (Firefox, Chromium, etc).

After its open-source brother, Chromium 11, received a new logo, Google Chrome has just been pimped with a flatter carton-ish logo.

It seems to be a re-branding logo for Chrome/ium, although the colors, shape and proportions are almost the same in both cases.

This new icons are only for the development version, which should be stable/current in the near future if we look at Chrome/ium's release cycle.

A month ago we announced the launch of Chrome/ium 9 and , just now, Google has released Chrome 10 (open-source Chromium 10 will follow soon).

So, what's new in this release?

Browsers capabilities are growing every day and, as we all witnessed, Chromium, Firefox 4 BETA and Google Chrome have receives hardware acceleration, which is a must in term of a decent rich media content browsing experience.
Although Chrome/ium have hardware acceleration built-in, is not turned on by default (why, o, why???).

Shortcuts are ways to get faster to our interest, so, it's always productive to have handy shortcuts, especially in a browser.

Here are 5 easy to use Chrome/ium shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Shift+B -> toggles the Bookmarks Bar on/off
• Ctrl+D -> bookmark your current page
• Ctrl+J -> summons the Downloads tab
• Shift+Esc -> opens the Task Manager, from there you can close high-usage tabs/processes
• Ctrl+Shift+T -> re-open the most recently closed tab

Notify-OSD is the default notification framework in Ubuntu, smooth, sexy, but doesn't support everything out-of-the-box. What I mean is that important things, like browser messages, are left behind.
Chromify-OSD is an extension that uses notify-osd notification framework in order to deliver notifications in Chrome/ium.

Install it via Chrome Web Store by searching "Chromify-OSD" or grab it from here.

1, 2, 3 and start! Just kidding!
A few days ago Opera 11 beta has been released, Mozilla Firefox has reached version 4 beta 7, Google Chrome (made possible by Chromium) version 8 and Chromium (open source software) version 8.
We've ran some tests (acid3 test and FishIEtank from Microsoft).
Keep in mind that we used the default Adobe Flash Player (not 10.2 beta version with reduced cpu usage, etc).