Sometimes you don’t want to leave traces on your computer of some site you visit. Google Chrome’s incognito windows are made just for this. Visit a website in an incognito window, and when you close the window, the browser has no record of you having been there. Of course, you probably knew that. What you [...]
Google Chrome 5.0.342.8 has been released to the Beta channel on Windows. There’s not much to report because most of the features were released previously in Chrome 4.1. This release does have an option in the Under the Hood section to let you disable automatic translations. Now that all Beta users are on the same [...]
When reading the last tip about restoring closed tabs, you might have wondered if you can just get the browser to always start up where you left off. This would save you the trouble of re-opening your windows and tabs manually. It turns out you can do this easily. Open the Tools menu and select [...]
If you’ve ever accidentally closed a tab with something important in it, or shut down the browser only to realize you needed one more bit of information about the webpage you were reading, despair not. Google Chrome remembers the last ten tabs or windows you’ve closed, and lets you restore them. You can get at [...]
Google Chrome is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Incognito – When you don’t want your website visits to be recorded in your browser history, you can browse in incognito mode. (A handy feature for planning surprise gifts and birthdays!)
Darin Fisher talks about the recently upstreamed Chromium WebKit API. The API is a critical step in our path to becoming completely integrated into the WebKit project. Like the other WebKit APIs, ours is a veneer which shields developers (including many of our own) from the internal details of WebKit (named WebCore). Darin talks at [...]
Since we released Chrome for Mac in beta last December, we’ve been busy adding new features. Today, after some incubation in the developer channel, we’re happy to make some of these features more widely available. The new beta release of Chrome for Mac offers extensions, bookmark sync, and more. With this new version, you’ll be [...]
Layout Tests are the tests we inherit from the WebKit project and are a very important part of the Chromium’s testing infrastructure. Pam Greene talks about what they are, how to run them, how to debug problems within them, and even touches on how to write your own. She also covers advanced (but easy to [...]