16 Jun 08 Chrome Hack – How to change User Agent String in Chrome!

Changing User Agent String with any browser is a useful hack that can be used to get free WiFi at Starbucks hotspots .

Here’s a real ghetto hack that involves changing the hex values of chrome.dll using a free hex editor.

Simply open the file and look for something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13.

Then change to something like this or any other user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

The result is shown below where the browser will act like an iPhone Browser.

This might actually be useful for testing applications for the iPhone browser.  Of course, you can do it in Firefox too but Google Chrome browser is probably closer to the iPhone’s Safari browser since it’s based on the WebKit.

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04 Jun 08 Google's Sergey Brin Hints Chrome will be on Android!

In a recent interview, Sergey Brin hints that Google’s new browser Chrome will be on the Android, another open-source operating system for cellphones from Google.

Although Google says they did not expect this and that the Chrome and Android were developed separately, I think Google will definitely be able to come up with a mobile version of Chrome to be used on the Android.

Why Chrome on Android?

Well, Android is a great way for Google to take control of the whole PDA/cellphone but having their own browser makes it even more lucrative for them.

The Google Chrome is made to execute Javascript and AJAX applications FAST , meaning if implemented on Android-enabled phones, the Chrome will be able to run faster than any other mobile browser.

Part of the reason stems from the fact that Javascript and AJAX are not supported well (or not at all) by most cellphone/PDA devices.  In fact, the only cellphone really capable of processing Javascript is the iPhone.

Another thing to think about is that a lot of PDA and cellphones nowdays can run any Java application. (JAD or JAR file)

By having the Google Chrome based on Java, Google could easily adapt Google Chome on mobile phones, Linux-enabled netbooks, and yes you name it buddy.

I am still not clear on the WebKit(The open-source browser Chrome is built on) but we will be getting to that next.

Happy Chroming!

Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event Tuesday. “We have not wanted to bind one’s hands to the other’s,” Brin said. But you can expect that to change now that both projects are public and nearing their first final releases.

“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.

And the brand name likely will follow. “My guess is we’ll have ‘Chrome-like’ or something similar,” he said.

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