Abhishek Deshpande

Tag: Google Chrome

  • My Must have add-ons list for Browsers

    Wish you all a very Prosperous Happy New Year,

    There are a couple of resolutions on My plate for this year. More writing is one of them. Every new day starts with Browser, So starting this year first blog post regarding Browsers.

    Its often asked what’s your favourite browser. I prefer to use Chrome and Firefox simultaneously. Firefox for mailing and development purpose. And Chrome for social and surfing purpose. Its nothing like chrome is bad for development, just that I started development with Firefox before chrome was born. Thus Development still goes on with Firefox.

    So here is the List of Browser Add-ons / Extension for our favourite Browsers.

    #1 – LastPass
    Password manager that makes your life easier for generating, storing, sharing a password. For mobile, you might need a premium account. Rest is free for desktop apps.

    #2 – uBlock Origin
    An Open Source Adblocker to give you better surfing experience. Neutrality and Transparency are always important, with uBlock Origin, everything is transparent on Github.

    #3 – Grammarly
    I remember the comment from some distant relative of Mine in 2008, to improve grammatical mistakes. Grammarly is Addon that helps me now.

    I can’t imagine a browser without above three add-ons. What are your must-have add-ons for a browser? do share in comments or tweet me @fitehal

  • More on Chrome

    Google launched Chrome Day before yesterday, Looks are fine, Gears make the Speed great yet this is week 1 of chrome in Market so many more things are yet to come. currently no long list of feature is present but whatever is there is nice. first thing what i tried on chrome was about:config ,General configuration panel for browser. well Blank page remain there. so config panel remain hidden yet. but few tricks like about:memory gives you the task manager in chrome showing tasks in Chrome.

    about:network
    Shows many reports about your connected network. Which site is being accessed and many others

    about:plugins
    Some thing called plugin, An additional utility to browser like ActiveX Plug-ins, Google Gears 0.4.17.0,BitCometAgent , Microsoft Office 2003, Google Update etc are there.

    about:version
    Words suggests its all about Chrome version we have on our set.
    What I get
    Google Chrome
    0.2.149.27 (1583)
    Official Build
    Google Inc.
    Copyright © 2006-2008 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

    about:stats
    Must be some statistics ?? But its secret.

    about:cache :
    Really lovely stuff I like, Show all the cache stuff links over here !!

    That’s all yet I found, waiting for Google Chrome’s Official blog to launch. hope we get more info about this upcoming browser !!

  • Google Chrome : NEW OPEN SOURCE browser

    At last Google entered the Open source market, its Beta Launch today yet to launch. Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser with little components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox. this browser will also include JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8 to gear up the performance . The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features Called ’omnibox’ and many up coming features with it.

    But I think Google was promoting Mozilla’s Firefox Via Adsense and other matter, how suddenly they are launching there own new browser??

    I looked the Images of Chrome doesn’t fascinate me at all. but who know some good things are there like Comedy they launched before App launch. I think this is a start of war against Microsoft products specially image from Chetan’s Blog made me think. Well I am waiting for launch.