Linux

By Kevin Purdy When, on what, and how much? Google released Chrome OS' source code today, but one of Chrome's lead engineers, Idan Avraham, said a finished Chrome OS arrives "about a year from today." They took pains to note that Google itself won't be offering Chrome OS as a download to install on any syst...

By Gina Trapani Switch to the Dev Channel Release for Extensions (and More) Brave devotees to Google Chrome want to take advantage of its open development, and subscribe to the developer channel of early Chrome releases to get a preview of new features. Using Chrome's Channel Changer tool you can switch...

By Jason Fitzpatrick Windows and Linux versions received some minor tweaking. The updates to the Mac version include fixing a slew of keyboard commands and updating the way secure HTTP sites are displayed, to more clearly alert the viewer that the site has a bad security certificate.

By Jason Fitzpatrick Mac users, especially those who have adopted Snow Leopard, will be pleased to see that importing settings from Firefox is smoother, the search engine manager is now available in the Mac version, and there are a variety of Snow Leopard-specific bug fixes. Linux users got an improved bookm...

By Kevin Purdy Sept. 22: Chrome as Operating System? Preposterous! We pointed to a Doc Searls thought piece on how Chrome, Gears, and the Android system "delivers on Netscape's promise of the browser as operating system, with online-and-off webapps replacing desktop workhorses."

By Kevin Purdy Linux users are some of the first to tout (or demand) the benefits of 64-bit computing, and it looks like the devotion may pay off. CNET points to Chrome developer mailing list posts indicating that a 64-bit build of Chrome's open-source, development-stage Chromium counterpart is well u...

By Kevin Purdy We asked on Twitter what features users wanted to see in Google's Linux-based, web-focused operating system, due to be released in code later this year, then on sponsored netbooks in the second half of 2010. We've compiled ten must-have features that we'd like to see from Google's upcomi...

The Google Chrome developers have released a developer version of their browser for the Linux operating system. They warn you to NOT install this browser (for fear it might ruin your life). Of course like any good writer, I ignored their warnings and ...