In the latest trending release from marketshare.net an interesting market share hit to IE and Safari took place in the month of November.
Here are some statistics from Jan 2009 to Nov 2009.
You can see that Opera is nearly flat for the year, while Chrome has had over a 150% increase in usage, and the biggest drops come from IE, and month over month [ continue reading... ]

I forgot my laptop at home today, so I was unable to install Chrome while I was at work. (yes, that’s an embarrassing story). But now I’ve gotten home and installed the RPM using zypper:
sudo zypper in google-chrome-beta_current_`uname -i`.rpm
After doing this, I launched Chrome using google-chrome and it put a smile in my face just knowing that it was in “beta”. Now lets hope [ continue reading... ]

Today Google has annonced that Google Chrome is now in Beta for Linux thanks to the continued work and testing from the Chromium Project.
You can see a funny comic about the release which was inspired by xkcd.com here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
You can download the .deb and .rpm packages from:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en&brand=CHFK
And the main google chrome page can be found here:
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en&platform=linux&brand=CHFK
Here is their official statement via e-mail:
Great job to all those [ continue reading... ]

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The newest release of the Chrome Unstable browser is upon us.. I’m not sure what fixes this build brings us, but I know we still don’t have basic features like plugins etc.
Here is more information if you want full change logs:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
I’ve made some rpm’s to make it easier for [ continue reading... ]