Some facts:

• It’s capable of running all the chromium extensions
• Has a social media sidebar for your facebook updates
• RSS feeds integrated in the sidebar
• Currently it’s only available for Windows

Following is a brief video of upcoming Flock:

Download and try Flock beta

TooManyTabs is a must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity! Users find TMT extra useful during online research and shopping. Following are some of it’s features:

• Birdeye view of all tabs open across all windows
• Preview of each tab (filled up gradually)
• Instant tab search upon opening
• Tab sorting by time, name and URL
• Tab count to warn you of tab overflow
• Allows “suspension” of tabs to a column and “restore” later to reduce overflow of tabs
• Provides a list of Recently Closed Tabs for guiltless tab closing

Download TooManyTabs

Now Google has introduced Chrome Frame , which is a new pluggin for the browser to provide troubled users a chrome experience inside Internet Explorer.Chrome Frame uses the latest versions of Chrome’s Webkit and JavaScript engines into IE. these updates are yet to come in actual chrome updates.A small description of how it works….

This Pluggin creates new frame inside IE which resembles the features of chrome or can be said is chrome itself. It is a lightweight pluggin but it needs to download around 10 Mb of data for chrome to run seamlessly.To target the Chrome plug-in for IE, developers simply have to insert a meta tag in their HTML code. If Chrome Frame isn’t found, the page will render just as it normally would in IE. The chrome Frame will work with IE 6,7 & 8 in all versions of Windows.

[via: Techcrunch]

Find the pluggin here

Home page

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/

Description

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. We invite you to join us in our effort to help build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web, and to create a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications.

Installation

Following is a step by step process to install Google’s Chrome browser (Alpha) on your Ubuntu machine:

1. First you’ll have to add, Google Chrome PPA to your software sources list. To do so go here and select your version of Ubuntu. Once you have selected your version you’ll see the PPAs as follows:

2. To add these to your software sources list, open software sources by going to System > Administration > Software Sources

In the following window click Third-Party Sources and add the following lines one by one clicking the Add.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

3. The next step in the process is to add the PPA keys for security. To do this open gedit and copy paste the following text and save it on your desktop with some name:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10

mI0ESaSPtAEEAK1nJtoDZ0ewpOOf0ET6Vp28LqO9mB4ubWjzXyRSbiha5pCvnnSIU1K+7Gzb
t3r0iUV9eKLUmf8pqfF/9kwsoqFqFSCjp+XjUzXsEChcGBWvyfGdTX8ClFfwNxSVLvGSqmdX
gZhs0F8tQB0lPWHGy3VvEt7wG/VHqpcOYpdNYRqxABEBAAG0IExhdW5jaHBhZCBQUEEgZm9y
IGNocm9taXVtLWRhaWx5iLYEEwECACAFAkmkj7QCGwMGCwkIBwMCBBUCCAMEFgIDAQIeAQIX
gAAKCRBam/O7Tl4XtV/2BACs/RTpEWB/NUlluJmp1e6iFoyyfbT+HOD3hg35aQMzbdcmijsA
iY9MvIfZ0YKWyqNUdGpDj5n0bUNO0IcvKBBkOn5o4CiBsMp4DJHdrgJU4S00nAJK00E8I/yA
v+x4C9uOacW3yrzSHs7Hv/vG6Z1Jh+1JrabK13hdhwOL8+aY6Q==
=3GDx
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Now, we have to import this PPA key. To do so, go to the Authentication Tab in Software sources window and click import key file. Now import the file that you just saved.

4. Reload the repository list by clicking Reload.

5. Now all you have to do is to click the following link to install chrome on your Ubuntu machine.

chromium-browser
chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-testsuite
chromium-testsuite-dbg
python-tlslite

6. Once you have installed the packages to start using chrome go to Applications > Internet > Chromium Web Browser

Following is how it looks:

I wanted to share with you a complete cheat sheet of Google Chrome’s shortcut as they might come handy and can enhance and enrich your browsing experience. Not that I use all of them but I do use some of them very regularly.

Google Chrome Shortcuts

About Pages

I hope this guide on Chrome shortcut will be helpful.

The post is my first post on the much hyped Google Chrome browser launched a couple of days back. Personally I feel it’s a useful piece of software and would have a lot of improvements going forward. If people are already calling it Firefox killer then I am sorry but that’s the most hilarious argument/assumption I have come across. There’s no comparison between Firefox and Chrome (some new kid on the block), even if it comes from the cradle of Google. This post is about the various about: pages available with Chrome as of today.

about:stats

This gives a detailed information on what the browser related stats are and are of no use to novice browser user.

Google Chrome About Stats

about:dns

Give some information related to the DNS and DNS prefetching.

Google Chrome About DNS

about:histograms

Google Chrome About Histograms

about:network

Google Chrome About Network

about:memory

Google Chrome About Memory

about:cache

Google Chrome About Cache

about:version

Google Chrome About Version

about plugins

Google Chrome About Plugin

about:internets

Shows tubes running on your machine. Doesn’t show on my Vista Machine (I guess coz the screensaver pipes is missing in Vista)

Let me know if you come across any new about page in Chrome.