Features

• Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?

  By Preston Gralla | 15 June, 2010 03:49

  The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles.

• Google Chrome 5 Beta: The top five features

  By Ian Paul | 06 May, 2010 02:39

  Google recently launched the beta version of Google Chrome 5, the next iteration of the search giant's Web browser. New features include HTML 5 specifications like Geolocation and file drag-and-drop; expanded cloud sync capabilities; Flash integration; and JavaScript engine speed boosts.

• 5 reasons why Google Chrome will crush IE In browser war

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 05 May, 2010 06:43

  Google's Chrome browser is shining brightly, and it's not hard to see why. First, the stats: According to the latest NetApplications figures, Chrome now has 6.7 percent of the browser market--a stunning rise from zero prior to 2009. Competing browsers are either treading water or, as in the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer, in precipitous freefall.

• 10 most useful Google Chrome experiments

  By Howard Wen | 12 April, 2010 15:27

  When it comes to presenting graphically oriented programs through a browser, the usual go-to development platforms have been Adobe Flash and -- to a lesser extent -- Microsoft Silverlight. But other, more open technologies are starting to show promise.

• Chrome's gobbling market share, and here's why

  By Jared Newman | 02 March, 2010 04:02

  Google's Chrome was the only major Web browser to gain market share last month, eating away at Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.

• Chrome aims to steal some iPad thunder

  By Tony Bradley | 03 February, 2010 10:48

  Fresh off the unveiling of Apple's iPad tablet PC, we have a whole new batch of tablet rumors--this time regarding a Google Chrome-based tablet device. The Chromium Project, the core behind the development of the Chrome operating system. Has released a number of mockups and early concepts regarding what a Chrome-based tablet PC might be.

• Chrome gaining ground in a war without a winner

  By Tony Bradley | 03 February, 2010 06:27

  The latest browser market share numbers are out and, judging by the headlines, Google is crushing the competition with the Chrome Web browser.

• Google's Chrome tops Safari: Is Firefox next?

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2010 08:22

  Google Chrome hit a milestone over the weekend when it became the third-most popular browser after Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to metrics firm Net Applications. It controls just 4.63 percent of the browser market, but Chrome has made significant inroads against competing browsers, such as the former bronze medalist Apple Safari.

• The 10 best Chrome extensions for work and play

  By Julie Bort | 18 December, 2009 08:15

  Some of these add-ons for Google's browser will boost productivity and some are just plain fun.

• Building the Google smartbook dream machine

  By Mel Beckman | 07 December, 2009 22:15

  The netbook promises convenience and capability in a small, lightweight, and generally inexpensive package, and the concept of a smartbook goes even further: a handy-dandy combination of smartphone and notebook. Alas, most netbook offerings come burdened with a full-blown Windows operating system, which runs slowly on performance-limited netbook hardware and saps battery life. And Windows is not exactly smartphone-oriented.

• Google Chrome: The fast browser with slow adoption

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 31 October, 2009 11:18

  The launch of Google's Chrome browser a little over a year ago brought with it a mountain of hype and expectations, with some suggesting it could be as instantly disruptive and beneficial as Gmail was to the webmail market.

• Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

  By Preston Gralla and Michael DeAgonia | 14 October, 2009 05:06

  For browser fans, this is the best of times.

• The importance of browsers for business

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May, 2009 15:53

  Organisations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers on users’ PCs, but IT departments are finding they need to change that hands-off strategy.

• Google's Chrome 2.0 Is underwhelming

  By Preston Gralla, Computerworld | 26 May, 2009 01:20

  Google's upgrade of Chrome to 2.0 is exceedingly underwhelming --- there's so little new that if you blinked you'd miss the changes.

• Mozilla's Jetpack builds on Firefox's top strength

  By David Coursey | 23 May, 2009 00:55

  Ask people what they like most about the Firefox browser and the answer is almost unanimous: The add-ons. Though blamed for slowing browser performance, the downloads allow users to customize the Firefox experience. Jetpack, announced yesterday, hopes to make these extensions easier to create.