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It’s been just over 2 months since the release of Google’s Chrome web-browser (released September 2) (links about Chrome: Google’s Chrome page: Wikipedia.org Chrome page: my posts about chrome). Since then there has been a way for mac and linux users to sign up for more information because Googles claimed it’s “still in development”. [...]

I’ve previously forgotten to mention that as of September 25, 2008 Webkit now fully passes the Acid3 test.  You can read more at a blog post on the Surfin’ Safari Weblog at blog.webkit.org.  I’ve included screenshots below demonstrating this ability.  To learn more about Webkit read this page, to get updates as to Webkit improvements [...]

Today CodeWeavers (makers of the popular “CrossOver Mac” which allows you to run Windows apps on Mac without Windows) released a free CrossOver for Chrom(e/ium)… it is technically “chromium, the open-sourced project for Chrome, but it’s still the same app, I haven’t yet tested it, but this should do for mac users who want to [...]

In this weeks installment of Security Now! with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, covered the security (and to an extent the performance), it’s interesting that I love Chrome, And so have many others, but Steve Gibson doesn’t so much share theat opinion.  Take a listen for yourself at twit.tv/sn161 and see more about security at Steve [...]

The Acid3 test (here) tests a browsers Javascript rendering ability in terms of being standards-compliant, for a reference Webkit scores 100, Opera scores 83, Firefox 3 scores 71, IE 7 scores 12, but you just get a mess (seen here), and Google Chrome (which uses the Webkit rendering engine (don’t confuse this with the browser [...]