German official wary of Google's Chrome browser

Internet surfers should approach the preliminary version of Google Inc.'s new browser, Chrome, with caution because its security is untested, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security said.

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It's as though Google doesn't want you to use its new Chrome browser. If you try to install the Google Toolbar on Chrome, it practically suggests that you switch browsers.

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News broke last week that the latest developer builds of Chrome include support for themes. And a few sites even found a couple of them that you can easily install right now using special links.

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Officially the new upgraded software will go on sale on October 22 to the general public. However, a pre-sale has begun today for all eager Microsoft early adopters.

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This Linux-based OS sounds exciting, but there's no need for Microsoft to get nervous until Google answers some important questions.

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Chrome OS, Google's newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines.

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In announcing its forthcoming Chrome OS open-source operating system for netbooks and other computers, Google is attempting to create the cloud computing future that it's predicting.

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It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.

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Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux Thursday--but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress.

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Nearly everyone around the TechCrunch office is a Mac user, and we've been waiting rather impatiently for Google to port over its Chrome browser since its debut (for Windows only) last September.

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The company announced Thursday that an update to Chrome's V8 Javascript engine, combined with a new version of the Webkit browser engine, should improve the loading speed of Javascript-heavy Web pages by up to 30 percent.

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Chrome is a great browser for Google's web apps because its JavaScript engine is optimized to run most of them as fast as possible.

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Apparently one of Google CADIE's first projects was to "narrow the gap" between the 3d real world and the 2d internet by creating a 3D version of Google's Chrome browser.

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Although it came out of beta last December, Google's Chrome browser has a new beta version that is faster than its "stable" version (and buggier too).

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Opening a new tab in a Web browser shows a lot of prime but empty real estate, and now the programmers behind Firefox are following their peers at Safari and Chrome in trying to make it more useful.

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Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.

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The range of useful modifications that you can make to get Chrome just how you want it is extremely diverse – made all the more expressive by its blindingly fast V8 JavaScript engine.

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Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode.

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Preliminary statistics from Net Application show that Internet Explorer is losing more ground in the internet browser battle. It's not really surprising as Firefox, Safari and Chrome are all gaining popularity.

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Microsoft Scrambles to Fix IE Vulnerability

After computer security experts began sounding the alarm about a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could leave computers open to hijackers, the software giant announced that would release a "fix" for the problem on Wednesday.

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Google vice president Marissa Mayer announced Google Chrome is coming out of beta in an interview with Michael Arrington at Le Web 08. The Google's open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs who can't offer the browser until it is in full release.

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Since its release a few weeks ago, curious developers have been sniffing through the source code for Google's new Chrome web browser.

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Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday.

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Remember Google Chrome's copyright-snaffling EULA? AT&T appears to be doing the same courtesy of a BellSouth ISP offering. Carl Meredith, a webmaster for a Bellsouth.net-hosted site, pointed out that BellSouth, an AT&T subsidiary, has just changed its Terms of Service (TOS).

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Chrome vs. IE vs. what Firefox will come up with

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Last week I said I would look at Google Chrome "from a developer's perspective." I should have specified what kind.

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