Posts Tagged ‘browser’

Reflecting on Chrome as browser hits third birthday

Posted on September 1st, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Google launched its Chrome Web browser on September 1, 2008—three years ago today. In the time since its debut, Google’s Web browser has attracted a considerable following and influenced other browser vendors. To celebrate the anniversary, Google has published an interactive HTML5 infographic that presents the history of the major Web browsers and Web standards.

Chrome’s contributions to the Web and browser design are significant. Google set the pace of development for modern browsers by being the first browser vendor to adopt a radically shorter development cycle and a release management strategy that emphasizes fast-paced incremental improvement. Chrome’s transparent update system and channel-based prerelease distribution model are being adopted by Firefox and could eventually be picked up by other browser vendors.

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Toolbars for everyone!

Posted on April 12th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

I’ve had opportunity to try out Conduit.com to create a toolbar for a client. Conduit’s toolbar is easy to assemble, just create an account and select which features you want to add. RSS feeds, an email notifier, and weather are a couple of the items I started with. Now that I’ve lived with my sample toolbar for a couple of weeks I’m hooked on the convenience – not that toolbar’s are new to my browsing habits – in fact, I’m very fond of the Facebook toolbar. But what I’m thinking is, why not make a toolbar just for me?

While the intention of Conduit, and others like them, is to create a toolbar for mass distribution to your audience, I may just build one for myself. Just me. That may be a side effect of making it so easy to build. Everyone can build their own, custom, personalized browser toolbar because they make it so easy. Toolbars for everyone!

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