Cross posted at the Google Code blog This year at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online we have organized a Developer Day on Oct. 10th full of Google information for game developers. It will feature hardcore technical information on Google products and platforms delivered by Google engineers and developer advocates. We’ll discuss the latest projects…
Tag Archive: Chrome Web Store
Getting your app discovered in the Chrome Web Store with new promotional assets.
Yesterday we made a small change in Chrome Web Store’s app upload flow: when you upload new apps and extensions to the Chrome Web Store, or edit one of your existing items, you’ll be prompted to provide us with new promotional image assets. We are asking you for these assets so that we can highlight…
The computer that keeps getting better…
One of the things that excites us about Chromebooks is that unlike other computers, the user experience automatically gets better over time. For instance, with this week’s latest stable release of Chrome OS, users may notice their Chromebooks now resume even more quickly – 32% faster in most cases. For those of you who like…
Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in the Chrome Web Store
When we talk Chromebooks with our developer friends, a common reaction we get is “I can see why my [insert-relative-here] would use it, but I need my PC for coding”. Over the last few years, browser-based coding has grown from a research topic to a viable practice. You can already find many development apps on…
Chrome OS – Not All Security Is Built In
Just a few weeks ago at the Google I/O Developer conference Google announced the official launch of the Chrome Operating System along with the first Chrome OS powered “Chromebooks” from Samsung and Acer which will be available for purchase June 15. Security Built In One of the key differentiators Google has touted for the Chrome…
Congratulations To Developer Contest Winners HootSuite and MyXMLia
A few weeks ago we decided to kick off our first ever (and definitely not last) contest to win free advertising on ChromeAdvisor.com. This contest was focused on developers of Chrome Web Apps in honor of the 2011 Google I/O Developer Conference that was held on May 10 and 11 and which led to some…
MyXMLia Chrome App Is A Better Way to Visualize XML
If you’re a web developer who spends a lot of time working with web services, XML based APIs, data exchange, and pretty much any technology that depends on data in XML (for the rest of us, that is Extensible Markup Language format, a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form), you probably feel the…
Chrome Web Store in 41 languages and In-App Payments
Since we launched the Chrome Web Store, we’ve been working on several new improvements. Today, we’re happy to share our progress towards making the Chrome Web Store available to all Chrome users worldwide and the availability of Google In-App Payments for web app developers. First, as we announced at Google I/O, the In-App Payments API…
My Favorite Chess on Chrome OS
Chess and computers have a long history. From Wikipedia: The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax. Before the development of digital computing, serious trials based on automata such as El Ajedrecista…
Preparing Your Taxes on Chrome OS
Image via Wikipedia It is that time of year again when we start receiving our W2 and 1099 forms and preparing to file our federal and state income taxes. In the past you might have gone to Staples or Office Depot and purchased this year’s version of TurboTax or similar tax preparation software. If you…
Editing a Text File in Chrome OS
Image via Wikipedia While I am optimistic about Chrome OS and think it has a lot of potential, I was somewhat frustrated with it when I attempted to do what I thought would be simple task, which was edit a text file. Actually it was an XML file which I guess is not your ordinary…
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Flash Player Update
We are currently updating Flash Player to 11.7.700.202 for Windows and Mac to all Stable channel (Chrome 26) users.
If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Anthony LaforgeGoogle ChromePosted: May 14, 2013, 5:00 pmDev Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 (Platform versions: 4100.7.0) for all platforms except Google Chromebook Pixel. This build contains a number of stability improvements.
Release Highlights:- Fixed several issues where File Manager panes were displayed blank. (239152, 239155)
- Improved trackpad performance on Cr-48 systems (238778)
- Fix to allow formatting a USB drive from the File Manager (239120)
- Fix to allow viewing content of external storage (236743)
- Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.7.700.202-r4
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).Known Issues:- With Acer C7 Chromebooks, when the system is connected to an external monitor and used in docked mode, the CPU usage goes to 100%.
Danielle Drew
Google ChromePosted: May 14, 2013, 4:48 pmDev Channel Update
The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and Windows
This build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how.
If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Anthony Laforge
Google ChromePosted: May 13, 2013, 7:30 pm -
