Even though it shared the source code for Chromium OS and is pushing ahead with its Google Chrome OS, the Mountain View-based search giant continues to focus on the evolution of the Chrome browser. Early adopters can now grab a new release of Google Chrome for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Build 4.0.249.22 has been made available for download through the Developer channel for Google’s open source browser, which serves releases that are a few steps ahead of those offered through the Beta channel, which in their turn outpace the Stable versions of the app. “The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.22 for Linux, Mac, and Windows,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, enumerating a few enhancements, “Disable --enable-user-scripts. NOTE: You can now install user scripts by navigating to them. You will have to reinstall your current scripts (they aren't migrated). Remove toolstrips API. Turn on HTML5 DBs by default.”
Although it is laboring to essentially cut the necessity for an underlining third-party platform when it comes down to running its Chrome browser, Google is continuing development efforts on top of Windows, Linux and OS X. After all, it is on existing versions of operating systems from Microsoft, Apple and the open source community that Google Chrome ha... (read more)
Will Microsoft slapping “7” on the rebranded Windows Mobile (now Windows Phone) OS be enough to counter Google’s Linux for mobile phones? It’s easy to expand the Microsoft vs. Google antithesis to Windows Phone and Android – proprietary vs. open source, paid vs. free, Windows vs. Linux, etc. Most would ... (
More and more open source pieces of software are compatible with the Windows operating system, according to statistics from the Geeknet network. Asked by Microsoft to deliver a perspective over Windows’ position in relation to the open source ecosystem, Geeknet revealed that, at the end of 2009, over 82% of open source pieces of software ... (
A new release of Microsoft’s visual programming language designed for building games is now available for download for customers running Windows. Just as the previous versions of the game development platform, Kodu is still cooking in the Redmond ovens. In this regard, Build 1.0.34.0 is labeled as a Technical Preview release, this even though when it announced the P... (
According to Google, Internet Explorer 8 comes in last place out of the world’s most popular five browsers in the race for JavaScript conformance. Christian Plesner Hansen, Google software engineer, is basing this conclusion on the results that IE8, Firefox 3.6, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4 and Safari 4 got in the company’s Sputnik JavaScript ... (
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