13 Nov 08 Quick Tip - How to Open Hotmail in Chrome!
Here’s a quick hack although many of you probably know this:
1. Visit Hotmail.com
2. Login
3. The resulting page says that Hotmail cannot identify your browser (Typical MS style, if you think it’s better than your own, pretend it doesn’t exist! Try ignoring Firefox now!). Near the bottom of this page is a link which says “continue anyway” or something on that mood. Click on that and you are good to go. And use the new 0.4beta of Chrome for better performance.
28 Oct 08 How to Start Chrome in Incognito Mode using Javascript!
Well, it looks like our previous hack on how to start Chrome in Incognito Mode fails in Vista, but here’s an alternative Javascipt version you can save as XXX.js and make it work using Javascript:
//Chrome_Incognito.js - start new chrome incognito(sort of)
var liWait=175; //wait ms (double on older pc)
var oSh=new ActiveXObject(”WScript.Shell”);
oSh.Run(”chrome.exe”); //start chrome
WScript.Sleep(liWait);
oSh.Sendkeys(”^+N”); //start new incognito window
WScript.Sleep(liWait);
oSh.Sendkeys(”%{Tab}”); //go previous(first) browser window
WScript.Sleep(liWait);
oSh.Sendkeys(”%{F4}”); //close first browser window
19 Oct 08 Chrome Hack - How to Launch Google Chrome straight into Incognito Mode!
Here’s a simple Chrome hack that will allow you to launch Google Chrome straight into Incognito Mode:
If you would like an icon on your desktop to open straight into incognito mode create a new shortcut with this as the target “C:/ blah blah blah /chrome.exe -incognito”.
(Thanks Ryan for the tip!)
06 Oct 08 Chrome Hack - How to Make Chrome Dance!
Here’s a fun hack that will force your Google Chrome to dance for you, copy and paste the following code in your address bar:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);
25 Sep 08 Google Chrome Stats - Is Chrome fading away?
| Week starting | Aug. 24 | Aug. 31 | Sept. 7 | Sept. 15 | Net Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE | 72.39% | 71.03% | 71.24% | 71.48% | -0.91% |
| Firefox | 19.54% | 19.78% | 19.35% | 19.42% | -0.13% |
| Safari | 6.27% | 6.67% | 6.95% | 6.73% | 0.45% |
| Chrome | —– | 0.67% | 0.85% | 0.77% | 0.77% |
| Opera | 0.74% | 0.75% | 0.70% | 0.68% | -0.06% |
| Netscape | 0.77% | 0.83% | 0.67% | 0.66% | -0.11% |
Here’s some interesting stats on the Google Chrome. It seems like it’s getting stable around 0.70%, not bad considering Opera is at about the same.
Will Google Chrome fade away?
In short, I don’t think so, but it’s definitely going to take another year or two before Chrome takes a bigger share of the market. With AdWords and Google’s super-big audience, I think Chrome will slowly convert IE users.
Chrome’s slow slide may be because of Google’s low-key promotion, Vizzaccaro said. “The only marketing effort I’ve seen from Google is in sponsored links on search results for ‘browser’ or ‘browsers’ search terms,” he said. “On Google, Chrome is naturally the top sponsored link. On Yahoo, it was second. And on Windows Live, I couldn’t even find it in the first five pages of organic results.”
25 Sep 08 Chrome Security Alert - Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos
Here’s a security alert for Google Chrome, it seems like some kind of memory leak problem with the Enter key:
*Google Chrome Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos.*
*Version Affected:*
Chrome/0.2.149.30
Chrome/0.2.149.29*Severity:*
High*Description:*
The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based
denial of
service which can be triggered remotely.The vulnerability triggers when
Carriage
Return(\r\n\r\n) is passed as an argument to window.open() function. It
makes the
Google Chrome to generate number of windows at the same time thereby
leading
to memory exhaustion. The behavior can be easily checked by looking at
the task
manager as with no time the memory usage rises high. The problem lies in
the handling
of object and its value returned by the javascript function. Once it is
triggered the pop
ups are started generating. The Google Chrome browser generate object
windows continuously
there by affecting memory of the resultant system. Probably it can be
crashed within no time.
User interaction is required in this.*Proof of Concept*
http://www.secniche.org/gds*Links:*
http://secniche.org/gcrds.html
http://evilfingers.com/advisory/Google_Chrome_Carriage_Return_Null_Objec
t_Memory_Exhaustion_Remote_Dos.php*Detection:*
SecNiche confirmed this vulnerability affects Google Chrome on Microsoft
Windows XP SP2 platform.The versions tested are:Chrome/0.2.149.30
Chrome/0.2.149.291*Disclosure Timeline:*
Disclosed: 22 September 2008
Release Date. September 24 ,2008*Vendor Response:*
Google acknowledges this vulnerability and “fix” will be released soon.*Credit:*
Aditya K Sood*Disclaimer*
The information in the advisory is believed to be accurate at the time
of publishing based on
currently available information. Use of the information constitutes
acceptance for use in an
AS IS condition. There is no representation or warranties, either
express or implied by or with
respect to anything in this document, and shall not be liable for a ny
implied warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or for any indirect
special or consequential
damages.
25 Sep 08 Chrome Hack - How to use Google Chrome in Dual Pane/Split Window Mode!
Here’s a cool Javascript Bookmarklet someone made to enable “dual pane/split window” browsing mode in Google Chrome.
To get Dual pane feature in Google Chrome, drag and drop the Chrome Split Browser bookmarklet to your bookmarks tab. The next time you want to browse in a dual-pane split browser mode, click on the bookmarklet and enter the websites you want to surf. Thanks Chrome Plugins.
25 Sep 08 CCleaner supports Google Chrome!
If you don’t want to deal with privacy issues on the Google Chrome, you can always use a proxy or the Iron browser. But if you don’t like the hassle of using those, you can get the latest version of CCleaner, which now supports Google Chrome.
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
Download CCLeaner for Google Chrome
via GB
25 Sep 08 Google Chrome without Spyware = Iron
Here’s a German version of Google Chrome without all the features that send people’s surfing info back to Google. I can see that some of Chrome’s embedded featured that send back personal data back to Google can slow down your browsing slightly, although not that much.
For those of you who want complete privacy, you can try this Iron browser.
The “Iron” browser is based on the “Google Chromium” source code, but “Iron” does not send any user specific data to Google anymore and it does not contain a unique user ID. Iron is a product of “SRWare” - a german software company. In Iron the following Google Chrome features have been deactivated:
- no alternative error messages, when having entered a wrong URL
- no sending of collected data to Google, if Iron has crashed
no unwanted Google updater
via metaparadigma, Iron
19 Sep 08 Behind Google’s Chrome Intentions and Outcome…
We all want to know what Google is thinking and what their goal is with this Chrome browser. Personally, I thought Google did a great thing by making it open source. For god sakes, you can now basically create your own browser based on the Chromium and maybe even add your family album as Google gadgets plugin. (or whatever)
The same thing can be said of Firefox, of which some companies have took advantage and even made a Web Browser-based SQL database browser called Kirix Strata. (It’s built on the Gecko, the open source engine behind Firefox. You can find details here.)
By open-sourcing it, Google’s already ahead of the competitions like Microsoft while Mozilla is also open source and has been proving itself in the open-source world for years.
I think in 2-3 years, Google can easily blow the market away from everybody not because Chrome browser is awesome right now, but because it will be 5-10 times more awesome by then. Knowing the number of people who work on the Google search engine as a mass collaboration of engineers to build a highly scalable search engine system, I think this Browser market is already in their hands as they have proved once before with GoogleMaps overtaking YahooMaps with its itsy bitsy pixel mapping technology. (although Yahoo now has the same technology, their maps are almost identical to Google except StreetView and some other features, which make GoogleMaps better.
We will keep a keen eye on how this all turns out, stay tuuuuned by subscribing to the blog!
