What will you do if you had some Chromebook pixels to spare, to show off? Well, Here is what Google did, they created a colorful display with a few of them, and showed off at the Google I/O conference. Here is the pic, courtesy of Engadget.com

Google Chrome is slowly making progress inside companies. Most IT departments make webapps that work only with certain version of Internet Explorer. If you are lucky, you will find some apps working with Firefox as well. But Chrome is not usually the preferred browser.

SAP’s recent announcement is a sign of the change that is happening. Or may this is natural. When your webapps run on latest web technologies that demand an excellent browser to support them, you turn towards the best. At the Sapphire conference this week, SAP launched SAP Fiori: a new suite of productivity web apps built for the modern web. The company said these new suite of apps work better on Chrome.

Sam Yen, SAP’s global head of design and user experience, explains, “SAP Fiori can be used on mobile devices and desktops using browsers that support HTML5. As a secure and cross-platform modern browser that’s always up to date with the latest web technologies, Chrome allows SAP Fiori apps to shine on any device.” 

Here is wishing good luck to the whole Chrome team, for their enterprise efforts!!

via Google Enterprises Blog.

Here is a Chrome extension for those who keep a lot of tabs open during their browsing sessions.  This one makes your open tabs an easy-to-manage list, complete with the option to search.

Features

Features of this extension, according to its developer:

- Open tabs filtering (searching), based on its title or its URL address.
- Super quick tabs navigation using the mouse wheel scroll, when Tabman is open and your cursor is over its window.
- Tabs switching using keyboard’s UP and DOWN keys! (when Tabman is open).
- Drag items to reorder your open tabs.

You will appreciate the efforts that the developer has taken to keep the extension simple, and easy to use. You can easily view all the open tabs by clicking the tabman icon on your toolbar. Once open, you can drag and drop those tabs in the list to re-order your tabs. You can close existing tabs from the tabman menu itself. You can even keep the tabman menu on the screen to avoid clicking the icon  each time you need the tabman menu.

Get it here!

via Lifehacker.

Ubuntu developers are pondering the idea of making Chromium the default browser for the next major release of Ubuntu, v. 13.10 code named Saucy Salamander.

“In a discussion on the subject at the current Ubuntu Developer Summit developers expressed broad support for the change, saying that they are “leaning towards” supporting such a switch” reports OMG Ubuntu. “Switching to Chromium will also allow Unity Web Apps to appear in so-called ‘chromeless’ windows. At present the Firefox implementation of Unity Web Apps opens in a ‘new tab’ rather than a chromless window).” they added.

Chromium, Not Chrome

If the switch happens, Ubuntu will ship with Chromium and not Chrome. Chromium is the open source version of Chrome. It is mostly Chrome, minus some proprietary code added by Google. There are a few features that will be missing and will need some additional tweaking to get working.

And for Ubuntu, they do not ship with proprietary code bits. And that is why the Chromium, and not Chrome as default browser. Users however can install Chrome on their Ubuntu computer and get all the features they want, and the regular updates.

Anyways, things are still in the discussion stages. Stay tuned for more updates!

Isn’t this the same negativity that Google CEO Larry Page talked about during the Google I/O 2013 keynote? Here is Microsoft’s parody of the latest Chrome “Now Everywhere” ad.

Do you think Microsoft has a point there?

via Joey-Elijah Sneddon