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

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19 Sep 08 Google Chrome Short Hack - How to Backup History, Bookmarks with Google Chrome Backup!

Here’s a cool Chrome tool that you can use, it’s called Google Chrome Backup and it can basically save your profile (history, bookmarks, etc…) as a file and also restore from it.

Google Chrome (web browser) has just hit the world. Google Chrome backup is a small tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. The profile holds personal data like history, bookmarks, etc. Everything is done with one click. Latest version also supports Chromium, which modified version of Google Chrome, for portable use.

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17 Sep 08 Chrome Tips - Chrome Channel Switcher allows you to switch between Chrome beta and dev versions!

You can now download the Chrome Channel Switcher, which allows you to switch between the “beta” Chrome and “Dev” Chrome. The Beta Chrome are the stable releases whereas the Dev Chrome is updated as soon as a bug or security flaw is fixed.

This will help you to try out the latest fixes and features using the “Dev” mode.

Here’s how to do it from the Chromium Dev site:

Subscribing to the Dev channel

Download and run the Google Chrome Channel Chooser (http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-1.0.exe).

Click the circle next to Dev.

Click Update to save your choice.

Click Close.

In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome.
Note: On Windows Vista, updates from the About box require Service Pack 1. With 0.2.149.29 (the current release), on demand updates do not work in Vista SP1 if User Account Control is disabled.

Click Update Now to install the current Dev channel release.

Restart Google Chrome.

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17 Sep 08 Chrome Hacked - Mac and Linux Google Chrome available!

Although not the official version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux, the CrossOver Chromium is pretty much the Mac and Linux version of Google Chrome since it’s built on Chromium.

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.

Until Google officially releases their Linux/Mac versions, you can resort to downloading the CrossOver Chromium on your Mac and Linux.

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14 Sep 08 Chrome Hack - HOWTO create your own Google Chrome Themes using Chromium Theme Creator!

Here’s how you can create your own Google Chrome Themes using the Chromium Theme Creator:

Download Chromium Theme Creator Here

With this tool, to build the themes\default.dll file is far from a click.
A rewrite from scratch has been done, because I’ve lost (or almost) my previous source code, now I’m working on another computer. Since my notebook has its LCD display’s backlight damaged I couldn’t reach the previous source code. However this new one is written for Lazarus compiler.
First and foremost -> Requirements:
GoRC.exe by Jeremy Gordon
http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/
and
ResHacker.exe by Angus Johnson
http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
These files must be in the same directory where this tool is installed.

I believe you will need to download the open-source Chromium version first. (Not the regular Chrome browser for development)

Here’s how to use the Chromium Theme Creator:

How to use:
- When creating a new theme project, the PNG image files will be extracted into separate directories, you just need to edit them, and build with this tool.
Note that every project is kept in different directories.
New features:
- Authorship details inside the same theme file, now.
- Preview themes: This tool will show some images from the Theme file itself by dragging theme files and dropping over it in order to preview it and if you want you can replace default.dll in Chrome’s path and after that Launch it by clicking Apply button.

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06 Sep 08 Essential Chrome CSS Hacks?

body:nth-of-type(1) p{
   color: #333333;
}

For those of you who are web site designers/programmers, you need to realize first-hand that the Google Chrome is based on WebKit and therefore, it’s very similar to Safari, which is also built on the WebKit.

To get started, here’s a CSS hack I found for the Google Chrome that might help you get started.

Non-compliant selectors can be used and a valid way to target individual browsers. Chrome supports every selector, just like Safari 3.1. My recommendation is to use the body:first-of-type hack, the CSS hack/filter for Safari as a filter for Safari 3+ and Chrome. There should be no reason to target Chrome with the exclusion of Safari 3.1, but if you want to target both, filtering out Safari 3.0, I would try using:

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05 Sep 08 Getting Started with Chrome Development!

Getting Started with Chrome Development!

After pondering about where the Google Chrome download is and finding a version of it, I have finally found the Chrome Developer page, where you can get started with Chrome application development. (Thanks to post by Peteris!)

Here’s also a cool breakdown of relative path and what they do by Peteris:

Library	Relative Path	Description
Google Breakpad	/src/breakpad	An open-source multi-platform crash reporting system.
Google URL	/src/googleurl	A small library for parsing and canonicalizing URLs.
Skia	/src/skia	Vector graphics engine.
Google v8	/src/v8	Google’s open source JavaScript engine. V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd edition, and runs on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and Linux systems that use IA-32 or ARM processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.
Webkit	/src/webki	Open source web browser engine.
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)	/src/base/third_party/nspr	Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc like functions.
Network Security Services (NSS)	/src/base/third_party/nss	Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.
Hunspell	/src/chrome/third_ party/hunspell	Spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding.
Windows Template Library	/src/chrome/third_party/wtl	C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more.
Google C++ Testing Framework	/src/testing/gtest	Google’s framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.
bsdiff and bspatch	/src/third_party/bsdiff and /src/third_party/bspatch	bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files.
bzip2	/src/third_party/bzip2	bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.
International Components for Unicode (ICU)	/src/third_party/icu38	ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
libjpeg	/src/third_party/libjpeg	Library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format.
libpng	/src/third_party/libpng	PNG image format library. It supports almost all PNG features, is extensible, and has been extensively tested for over 13 years.
libxml	/src/third_party/libxml	XML C parsing library.
libxslt	/src/third_party/libxslt	XSLT C library.
LZMA	/src/third_party/lzma_sdk	LZMA is the default and general compression method of 7z format in the 7-Zip program.
stringencoders	/src/third_party/modp_b64	A collection of high performance c-string transformations (in this case, base 64 encoding/decoding), frequently 2x faster than standard implementations (if they exist at all).
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI)	/src/third_party/npapi	Cross-platform plugin architecture used by many web browsers.
Pthreads-w32	/src/third_party/pthread	Application programming interface (API) for writing multithreaded applications
SCons - a software construction tool	/src/third_party/scons	Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache.
sqlite	/src/third_party/sqlite	Software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
TLS Lite	/src/third_party/tlslite	Free Python library that implements SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and TLS 1.1. TLS Lite supports non-traditional authentication methods such as SRP, shared keys, and cryptoIDs in addition to X.509 certificates. Note: Python is not a part of Chrome. It’s used for testing various parts of Chrome browser, such as code coverage, dependencies, measures page load times, compares generated html, etc.
zlib	/src/third_party/zlib	zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered — that is, not covered by any patents — lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.