I’ve been following a conversation on the chromium-dev mailing list about adding some HTTP headers so that servers can shape traffic and “control DDoS attacks”. From what I can understand the general idea is to either send a new X-Chrome-Extension header with some token that identifies that the HTTP request has came from the extension …
The new HTML 5 video feature being used in capable browsers like Google Chrome is purely awesome. It amazes me that a feature this new works so well, although it does have some quirks, it’s still better than Adobe’s Flash player, and it’s improvement isn’t bottlenecked by Adobe or any single entity. I chuckle knowing …
Chrome hit the scene about 8 months ago (in July, 2009) and has shown quick adoption and fast usage growth. For the most part, those where windows users. In Google fashion, a beta has been released. What’s the difference between Google Chrome and Chromium? Chromium is what you’ll find in your repositories and for the …
Google Chrome for Linux isn’t out yet, but for the meantime the Open Source Chromium project is doing some nice things. Oh, and it’s really fast too. If you man chromium-browser, assuming you’ve already installed it from the PPA, then you may be tricked into thinking it has no options. I’ve only messed with a …
There is an all-out war on Internet Explorer 6.0 being waged. On the one side we’ve got developers that are tired of performing the voodoo needed to make anything function inside of that browser. The other side is usually people who don’t use the internet very often and typically think it’s a bunch of worthless …