Google Chrome Plugins and Themes

Many a times while surfing the net, it may happen that you have to click on a thumbnail image to make it appear larger. However, sometimes it is not just one click. There can be websites, where you find something interesting on the homepage and you have to click on the item and then click on the image to enlarge it. It essentially means that you have to click twice to see what the product looks like. Hover Zoom is one useful Chrome extension which will reduce the number of clicks as it enlarges the photos when you hover your mouse over them. Though it may seem a minute thing initially, if you could count all the clicks you make throughout the day, then you will find the amount of time you are wasting.

Working And Features Of Hover Zoom

The developers of this extension has developed it in such a manner that the extension works on any site which has direct links to image files ( Amazon, Baidu, eBay, Yahoo, Google+, Picasa web albums and many more). When you install the extension, you can see its icon in the URL input box. [click to continue...]

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME), the popular arcade emulator has been ported to Google Chrome browser via Native Client (NaCl). The emulator was earlier available through Apple’s App Store and allows users to play various classic arcade games which have been ported by loading a ROM file. However, many of the ROMs you need to play games are copyrighted. But there are many free games which can be played without copyright violation. [click to continue...]

Quite often, it is not possible to sit in front of your computer and read lengthy text. You simply do not have enough time to read it. However with dotEPUB Chrome extension, you can simply convert any web page into eBook which you can read on any epub compatible device such as e-readers, tablets, netbooks etc. The extension helps you to take a text from a particular website and generate eBook whose file format is .epub. After saving the webpage we you read the articles later on. You can also read them when you are not connected to the net. The URL is included in the file which helps you to find the original source when required. [click to continue...]

Google Books, which allows you to read books on the web have been made further enticing by Google, which has announced offline support for Google Books for users using Chrome or Chrome OS. This means that you can read books even if you are not connected to the internet. This feature makes Google Books a lot more usable and handful to users who have Chromebooks.

In a blog post, Xinxing Gu, Product manager of Google Books says that many a time it may happen that because of slow internet connection, users are unable to read eBook and fail to know what a character does. Now with the offline support of Google Books in Google Chrome, users no longer have to worry about slow internet connection affecting their reading. [click to continue...]

With Chrome 16, Google has come up with a new feature which allows you to set multiple profiles in Chrome. This helps you to share a computer or uphold separate Google individuality without logging out of the OS. In this article we will tell you as to how you can create multiple profile in Chrome. [click to continue...]

Search engine giant Google has announced the release of Chrome 16.0.912.63 stable for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame and one of the interesting feature of this version of Chrome is the ability to create multiple profiles for a single instance. Multiple user support is very much the same as that of Chrome’s Sync feature which allows you to access the same bookmarks, history, themes and preferences. But if someone else adds their own bookmarks or extensions, then they get synced as well and you may not want. Multi-user support enables you to share a computer and help you to maintain separate identities without the need to log off the OS. This feature will be helpful for SMEs and single-computer households. [click to continue...]

A study by security firm Accuvant has found to be most secure web browser among the top three browsers. The news has come at an important time for Chrome considering the fact that last week Chrome surpassed Mozilla Firefox to grab the second spot as the second most popular web browser. In the study, the firm says that both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer use state-of-the art exploitation technologies. The study also says Firefox lags behind in security without JIT hardening.

Comprehensive Security Of Chrome

The security firm also found that the Chrome’s plug-in security and sandboxing architectures are implemented in a more comprehensive manner which makes the browser very much secured against attack. While many security firms focus on parameters such as URL backlists and vulnerability report, Accuvant banks upon anti-exploitation techniques to judge browser security. [click to continue...]

When the Chrome web store was initially launched one of its major flagships application promoted in the store was the New York Times. This particular Chrome application was constructed using HTML5 and we found that this application delivered a better reading experience of the latest news and views across the globe. Check out our exclusive New York Times Chrome application to know what this application has in store for you. [click to continue...]

Many a time users might require changing their default fonts in a browser or increasing its size in order to better view it. There is a very simple way to do it. In this article we will tell you the ways as to how you can change the default font size in Google Chrome. [click to continue...]