25 Jun 08 Google Chrome Stats – Is Chrome fading away?

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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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10 Jun 08 Google Chrome Wordpress Blog Theme!

Believe it or not, now you can get the Google Chrome Theme for your Wordpress blog . We might even consider trying this new theme for this blog.

A lightweight theme based on the highly coveted Google Chrome browser.
Common Features

2 columns fixed width

Widgets ready

Gravatar ready

Works on Wordpress v2.5 and above

Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari

XHTML & CSS Validated

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10 Jun 08 Chrome Tips – How to Install Greasemonkey scripts for Google Chrome!

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06 Jun 08 Essential Chrome CSS Hacks?

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 Jun 08 Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts for Chrome Developers

Here’s a couple keyboard shortcuts for helping you to work faster on the Chrome browser:
(I personally find that these shortcuts are great for Chrome developers)

JavaScript debugger: Alt+`, or select “Page (icon)|Developer|Debug JavaScript”
JavaScript console: “Page (icon)|Developer|JavaScript console”, or use the Show Console icon at the bottom left of the Element inspector
Element inspector: Right-click on the page, and select “Inspect Element”. You’ll have to navigate the tree control in the left-hand pane, but you should eventually be able to find the part of the page you’re seeking by watching what gets colored on the page as you hover in the DOM tree.
Memory tracker: Shift-Esc or “Page (icon)|Developer|Task manager” gets you the dynamic memory, CPU, and Network usage of all currently running Chrome components. Clicking on Stats for Nerds at the bottom left of the Task Manager or browsing to about:memory gets you a snapshot of the memory details of all running Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari instances.
Create a shortcut: Ctrl-D (like Firefox) or click on the star icon to the left of the address bar
Rearrange tabs: just drag them where you want them to go
Add a Home button: “Wrench (icon)|Options|Basics|Home page|Show Home button on the toolbar”

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05 Jun 08 Google Analytics now tracks Google Chrome!

I guess this isn’t breaking news but Google Analytics now track Google Chrome. We will be showing you some fun stats on this blog, so hold on as we take some screenshots for you.

Clicky continues to track Chrome usage in the 2-3% range across its 45,000 sites. Use of Chrome among TechCrunch readers is much higher: 6.23% since Tuesday, making it the fourth most popular browser among TechCrunch readers after Firefox, IE and Safari.

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04 Jun 08 What is Google Chrome Built On?

For those of you who have been wondering why Google named Chrome, I was wrong that it had anything to do with Firefox but I did find out that Google uses the same open-source WebKit used by Safari browser used on Macs and iPhones.

WebKit is basically an open-source browser you can download and build a browser yourself. (using a compiler of course)

Now, for anyone to make the current version of Google Chrome from the WebKit, you can’t because there’s no download page for Google Chrome’s open-source packages yet. (Yes, it’s open-source but it’s not open-source until you can actually download the source code)

I am sure Google is needs time for beta testing before they provide the public with open-source of Google Chrome but I am too eager to wait.

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