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Ever encountered long winded article which makes you feel like you do not want to read?
Enter TLDR; Chrome extension, a browser extension made by Recognant which can summarize any article for you. The extension works well with English language article, but upon my inspection, it can also works well for Malay language article.
A must have extension for those who just want to browse through articles at a glance.
Google Chrome for GNU / Linux and Mac has finally arrived! However it is only an early version for developers and lack features that would make it usable in production environment.
Missing features from early release of Linux & Mac Google Chrome are :
So if you are just an average user, do not download this release just yet! Instead, wait for a few months for a much more (?) BETA release to be available.
The developer channel release was made in order to elicit responses and bug reports from users to prepare for a more stable BETA release.
Changing user-agent in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer may be an easy task for most of the people as it only requires you to change certain settings in the browser option or in the registry.
However changing Google Chrome’s user agent might not be as straight forward as it has no obvious way to alter it through the browser’s interface.
Fortunately, Digital Inspiration website has written a guide on how to change Google Chrome user-agent string, you can refer directly to their article – How to Change User Agent String in Google Chrome Browser
Looks like I’m the last person to write about Chrome, the latest browser from Google. This is because I do not own a Microsoft Windows machine to test Chrome early on.
I’m sure you can find a lot of great reviews floating around the internet about the latest lightweight browser, so I will not waste your time by rehashing those information here.
What actually caught my attention is the “Create Application Shortcut” found in Chrome, a functionality similar to Mozilla Prism which I’ve reviewed a while back in my blog. This would enable users to create Desktop shortcuts of their favorite Web Application without relying to external application like Prism anymore, everything can be done neatly within a single interface.
With Chrome, Javascript execution (read: ajax’ed website) felt a lot more faster while using much less memory, it looks like this new browser is going to give Mozilla a run for its money.
p/s: Eagerly waiting for Chrome to be available on GNU/Linux platforms.
Read Googlebooks Chrome Comic for more insight about Google Chrome