Play Angry Birds Free from Google Chrome/Chromium

Are you happy that news of the day. Within the conference Google I/O had many surprises available to users: the new version of Android, Beta Music, Movies leases in Android Market ... And the best:

Angry Birds Free from Google Chrome and Chromium!

To access it only go to this link and download the extension. Then displayed on your home screen:

It has 2 versions. One SD and one HD. It works

Hotot, a twitter client for linux now for chrome

Hotot is a twitter client for Linux, a favorite of the community. Emphasizes its beautiful appearance and lightness. Has been programmed in python.

But for those who do not use linux because even they can have this great client as an application has been ported to chrome.

To install hotot in chrome or chromium only thing to do is go to this website and give the Install button. Then be open as a

Bluebird Chrome / Firefox 4 Themes

If you like Bluebird, you may also want a Chrome / Firefox theme to match. Below you'll find a theme that matches Chrome perfectly and a Firefox 4 theme which isn't a perfect match for Bluebird but looks great nevertheless. The Firefox 4 theme actually integrates quite well with other themes too.

Chrome / Chromium

For Chrome there's a theme that matches Blubird perfectly . However, to get the full experience, you may want to check the "Use system title bar and borders" option in Chrome settings ("Personal Stuff") tab.

Here's how it looks like:

DOWNLOAD Bluebird for Chrome

Firefox 4

Bluebird already looks great with Firefox 4 but you can use a theme called "QSQ" to get nicer buttons and a "more integrated" overall look - even though it doesn't matches the Bluebird colors perfectly.

Here's how it looks:

Download QSQ for Firefox 4.

If you want to be able to move the Firefox 4 menu (button) to the right but have a blue icon like in QSQ and not orange, install the Movable Firefox Button extension, move the menu button then disable the Movable Firefox Button extension.

Thanks to elavdeveloper for QSQ and Gabor Halaszvari for Chrome Bluebird!

It came time to the truth, Firefox 4 vs Google Chrome

No doubt Firefox 4 has signified a major milestone in the history of the Web browser by adding new features and improvements, but Is it enough to compete with the current Google Chrome?

User Interface: At this point I must say that Firefox also has opted for minimalism Chrome tax since its inception, a trend that also continued to Opera and Internet Explorer (in fact I find it more like Opera),

Use Google Chrome Built-In Flash In Firefox For (Probably) Less Crashes

I had some issues with Adobe Flash crashing very often using the latest Firefox 4 so I've searched for a way to fix this and found a topic on AskUbuntu which says to use Chrome's Flash plugin in Chromium so I though - why not do it for Firefox? - and it's actually working quite well for now.

Chrome uses a built-in Adobe Flash plugin which seems to work better then the regular Flash. But there's a catch: you must install Chrome (and keep it updated if you want further Flash updates) even if you don't use it.

Use the built-in Chrome Flash plugin in Firefox

1. Download and install Google Chrome (I for one prefer the unstable branch but I guess any version will do)

2. Open a terminal and copy / paste the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

3. Restart Firefox.

The exact same instructions above also work for Chromium (yes, using the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ folder even though it's for Chromium).

Note: I've tested this with the latest Firefox 4 32bit only (and Chromium 32bit)! It should work with older Firefox versions too though.

What other "tricks" do you use to improve Flash performance under Linux? Let us know in the comments!

Download Chrome OS Ready To Use Nightly Builds (For VirtualBox, VMware And USB Drive)

Hexxeh has made vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and USB drive images available for download so you can easily try out the latest Chrome OS nightly builds without having to compile it yourself.

In my test, using Chrome OS in VirtualBox was painfully slow because you can't enable graphical acceleration so it's best to use the USB images. But if you must run it in VirtualBox (if for instance you can't boot of an USB), it would be ideal to assign it around 2 GB of RAM. If you think that's too much for a OS-Browser, you'd be surprised how much RAM Chrome (the browser) uses for some people.

To use the Chrome OS .vdi in VirtualBox, download it from HERE, extract it, then in VirtualBox click on "New", enter a name and under "Operating system" select "Linux" and for "Version" enter "Ubuntu":

On the "Virtual Hard Disk" step, select "Use existing hard disk" and browse for the ChromeOS .vdi file:

You're now ready to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox.


Download vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and usb image nightlies.

Thanks to Chrome Story for the heads up!

How to Enable graphic acceleration on Chrome 10

This week has been published stable version of Chrome 10. This version allows the option to enable graphics acceleration, allowing the CPU is released from the work of rendering graphics such as images or videos, passing them to the GPU (Graphics processor card).

What should we do to enable this option? Just follow these steps:Key in about:flags in the address bar
Enable the following options:

Fix Pink / Red YouTube Videos Bug Using Flash 10.2 In Ubuntu

A lot of people are experiencing red/pink tint on YouTube videos starting yesterday. The cause seems to be a combination of Flash 10.2, a recent YouTube change and the users graphics cards and seems to be browser-independent (can occur in Firefox 3.x, Firefox 4 beta as well as Chrome / Chromium). Here are some solutions which will hopefully fix the red YouTube videos bug.

Possible fix 1:

Multiple users have reported that blocking the YouTube cookies solves the red YouTube videos issue. Unfortunately this means you won't be able to log in to YouTube.

Firefox: To block the YouTube cookies go to Preferences, on the Privacy tab click "Exceptions", under "Address of the site" enter "www.youtube.com" (or the YouTube domain for your country if you do not use YouTube.com) and click "Block".

Chrome/Chromium: go to Preferences, on the "Under the hood" tab click on "Content settings" and under "Cookies" click "Manage exceptions". Then add "www.youtube.com" under "Pattern" (or the YouTube domain for your country if you do not use YouTube.com) and under "Behavior" select "Block".

Possible fix 2 (64bit only):

64bit users who have installed Adobe Flash from the Sevenmachines Ubuntu PPA have reported they do not have the red/pink YouTube videos issue.

Possible fix 3 (disable Adobe Flash hardware acceleration):

Open a terminal and copy/paste the following commands:

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
sudo bash -c "echo 'OverrideGPUValidation = 0' >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg"

The following should be the same as the above fix, but since some users reported that only the below solution works for them, here is another way of disabling Adobe Flash hardware acceleration:

Right click a flash animation - this doesn't work with YouTube so you'll have to right click something like this site, then select "Settings" and uncheck the "Enable hardware acceleration box" like in the screenshot below:

Thanks to HenryKupfer for this tip!

Possible fix 4:

If everything else fails, you can try to either downgrade Adobe Flash player:

32bit:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_i386.deb

64bit:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

And then lock the Flashplugin-installer version in Synaptic and wait until YouTube / Flash 10.2 is fixed.

Or try the latest Adobe Flash Player 11 preview release (available only for 32bit).

Another solution is to enable HTML5 for YouTube and watch the videos without Flash. Unfortunately this won't work for all videos.

I've listed multiple solutions because I am not affected by this bug even though I use Adobe Flash Player 10.2. Are you experiencing the red YouTube videos bug? How did you manage to fix it?

Fixes thanks to Chimerarevo & Ubuntuforums | First screenshot via solomongaby @ AskUbuntu

Chromify-OSD: NotifyOSD Notifications For Chrome

Jorge Castro announced the release of a Chrome extension called Chromify-OSD that makes the build-in Chrome notifications use NotifyOSD. I'll make this post short because for some reason the extension doesn't work for me in either Google Chrome or Chromium.

Reading the bug submissions, it seems the extension doens't work with Gmail notifications. But in my test it also didn't work with TweetDeck (so that means it works with... what? I don't know other extensions that provide notifications in Chrome but anyway) but maybe you have better luck with it.

Please note that the extension will ask for access to "all data on your computer and the websites you visit". That's normal, it's the only way NPAPI extension can work (extensions that can access stuff outside Chrome - like NotifyOSD).

Get the extension @ Chrome Web Store.

Extension to block domains on the results of Google [Chrome]

Google announced today new extension that allows us block domains in results search. Thus we can further customize our results by eliminating sites we are not interested.

The operation is very simple, once installed, and every time I do a search, we will leave an item labeled "Block domain.com".

This allows us to block a certain domain results putting together a sort of blacklist for future

Use The Ubuntu Font With Any Website / Browser In Ubuntu

WebUpd8 reader TP has sent us a tip regarding a post he wrote about getting all the websites to use the Ubuntu font on your system (or whatever fond the user sets as the default Desktop font - this should work with any browser you use) instead of the font they have specified in the CSS rules:

I have never liked the way most websites look on a default installation or Live CD, it doesn't do anything to impress the new user. I feel this is largely due the fonts mess in Linux.

On my blog I have a detailed explanation of getting the Ubuntu font to be the default font used by web browsers to display websites. The experimentation was carried out on Maverick.

I was blown away by how beautiful websites looked when they used the Ubuntu font. The font was fuller and smoother.

-TP

Check out his post for more info and instructions on setting this up: Getting the most out of the Ubunt font. There are some screenshots too - see THIS Picasa Web album.

Thanks to TP for the tip!

Google stop supporting H.264 video codec in Chrome

As you read it, after all that has rained Google's web browser fails to support the H.264 video codec to focus on options open as WebM or Theora.

I read it and hard to believe, the truth: Google Chrome fails to support the H.264 video codec, almost de facto standard for high definition that supports most of the audiovisual industry and technology. The reasons for this move gives us the Mike

Adblock Plus reaches Chrome

If gentlemen love Chrome, Adblock Plus, one of the best and most beloved Firefox add-ons, comes finally to Chrome. Remember that Adblock Plus recently came to the extraordinary number of 100 million downloads.

So you know, down Adblock Plus and spend a beautiful days without the annoying advertising. But beware, do not use it here!

The Chrome Web Store Is Now Live

You've read about it many times, you've seen lots of screenshots but it was just a product of the future. Well, this time I'm not going to tell you anything except: Chrome Web Store is now live, so check it out for yourself.

Chrome Web Store

Oh, and probably the most interesting new Chrome web application is TweetDeck for Chrome (ChromeDeck) - check it out HERE.

Google Chrome 8.0 for Linux : new stable version, and sandboxing

The line of development of Chrome just to adopt Chrome version 8 within the channel of stable development. With it coming features like the integrated PDF reader -sandboxed- And support web application platform that Google is developing applications: Chrome Web Store.

Undoubtedly, in addition to critical bug fixes and not so critical of version 7 is a recommended update that will automatically

Download Google Chrome / Chromium Elementary Scrollbars [Extension]

WebUpd8 reader conorsulli just sent us a tip about an Elementary scrollbars extension he's made for Google Chrome / Chromium. Even though the scrollbars are especially designed for Elementary and other GTK themes based on Elementary, the extension will of course work with any GTK theme.

To use, extract the downloaded .zip, then drag and drop the .crx file onto the Chrome window.

Download Elementary scrollbars 4 Chrome @ DeviantArt

[Screenshot thanks to conorsulli]

Zeitgeist Extension For Chrome To Use With Synapse [.crx]

In the previous post about Synapse, I was telling you that the more Zeitgeist dataproviders you have, the more info Synapse will return. For instance, right now you don't have any results in Synapse, under "Internet". That's because you need a Zeitgeist web browser data provider (currently the Zeitgeist dataproviders BZR provides 2: for Chrome and Firefox).

With the help of Alberto (who sent me the 64bit .so files), I've packaged the Zeitgeist dataprovider Chrome extension in a .crx file so you can easily install it in Google Chrome / Chromium.

Using this extension, the websites you visit in Google Chrome / Chromium will show up in the Synapse  (and other applications that make use of Zeitgeist) search results.

Installation and usage

Before installing the Chrome extension, let's make sure you have everything required for it to work:

- For Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

sudo apt-get install libzeitgeist-1.0-0 zeitgeist-fts-extension

- For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: firstly add the Zeitgeist PPA, then

sudo apt-get install libzeitgeist-1.0-0 zeitgeist-extension-fts

Then, download the Google Chrome / Chromium Zeitgeist dataprovider extension:  32bit | 64bit

To use: extract the downloaded .zip file and you should find a .crx Chrome extension inside. Drag and drop this .crx file onto Google Chrome / Chromium and you should then be prompted to install it.

Chrome (Dev Channel) Allows You To Load Flash On-Demand

Here's a very useful feature that has been recently added to the Chrome/ium dev channel builds: an option you can use to set the plugins to "Click to play" (which is basically like a built-in Flashblock for Chrome). Using this option, Flash (and other plugins) content will never load until you click it.

This feature is very useful if you're using an old computer or a netbook/laptop running on batteries (since Flash uses a lot of the battery).

To enable "Click to play" you'll need the latest Google Chrome / Chromium dev channel; then go to Preferences > Under The Hood > Content Settings > Plugins and select "Click to play". Below this option, there's an "Exeptions" button you can use to whitelist/blacklist websites.

[via lifehacker]

Chrome Toolbox, add new functionality to Google Chrome

Chrome Toolbox is an extension released by Google itself, which adds a few interesting improvements to Chrome. The list of features is as follows:Click any image in the browser, we setearla as wallpaper, and view it in original size.
Drag any video (Flash or HTML5) to view in another window, and when it closes back to its original window.
Configure the behavior of the tabs, to close the tab with

Chrome / Chromium | Extension and Theme FIFA.com South Africa 2010

FIFA.com Chrome Extension enables us to keep updated with live results and statistics of all FIFA.com and  2010 World Cup.
Features
Live Scores (you can customize the equipment you want to go)
News
Schedule of matches
Standings
Share events on FB, Twitter and / or Buzz
There are more than 32 custom themes to dress your browser (Chrome / Chromium) for your favorite football team