As seen at http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html Extensions for Google Chrome are Coming :-) Developing extensions for Google Chrome Chrome "Learn how Google Chrome makes it easy to write extensions using the web technologies you already know. This talk will cover the basics of the extension system (distribution/packaging, installation, updates), as well as the different APIs to enhance with the browser."

Google I/O offers 80+ sessions that present highly technical content on Android, Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX and many more. A subset of the content is currently available, providing you with a preview of what I/O has to offer. We'll be updating this session list so check back frequently.

Google Chrome Command Line Switches

While a lot of them are not interesting for the casual user, some are really interesting for us developers. I put at the top the most interesting one in bold, aka the one I use always.

From the source file chrome_switches.cc at http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc The list of switches is evolving so consider looking at source code to check for changes. Right click on Google Chrome desktop icon and use properties

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. This lightning fast browser has some interesting hidden page only available by typing some special URL in the navigation bar.                                     

1. about:version
2. about:memory
3. about:cache
4. about:network
5. about:dns
6. about:stats
7. about:histograms
8. about:plugins
9. about:internets
10. about:dns
11. about:crash

about:version

Show information about version of Google Chrome and its internal components.

 

about:memory

about:cache

 

about:dns

 

about:histograms

about:plugins

about:crash

This is how Google Chrome look like when it crash

about:internets

In previous versions of Google Chrome, this should have start the screensavers pipe on windows platform only.

Following pages are no more working in Google Chrome 3.x and 4.x

about:network

about:stats

Google Chrome Portable is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. It's designed to be simple and stylish. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can take your browsing experience with you. You just need a memory stick with 40MB of space

Download 3.0.195.27 Rv2

for Windows, Multilingual - 11MB download / 34MB installed

Or for the more adventurous the latest build

Download Google Chrome 4.0 Beta
for Windows, Multilingual - 11MB download / 34MB installed

From http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable

Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:

• 60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written,
• 23 developer builds,
• 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed,
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base,
• 48 external code contributors.
  

Note in the URL the usage of w00t that is used to express joy, particularly that felt during success or victory.

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html

A lot of people were already using Google Chrome DEV build on Linux (including me with a great stability even in 64 bits), the BETA state means even greater stabilities.

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