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Chrome Beta Brings Fixes for Windows Battery Drain Bug

Rewind back to the middle of July and amid the balmy British summer Google Chrome came under heat from Windows users for consuming as much as 25% more battery than other browsers.

24 September 2014
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You Can Now Run Android Apps on Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux

Google may need to take their time in bringing select Android apps to the Chrome Web Store — needing to ensure compatibly, stability, and an integrated experience — but the community has no such speed bumps standing in its way.

19 September 2014
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This Hack Lets You Run Any Android App on Your Chromebook

It's barely been a week since Google announced the first crop of Android apps to run on Chrome OS. Now, a hack that allows virtually any Android app to be installed has been detailed.

17 September 2014

Chrome OS Will Soon Let You Access Dropbox, Amazon S3 and More from File Manager

Chromium developers have been working on letting third-party filesystems and cloud storage services integrate with the Chrome OS file manager for well over a year.

15 September 2014

Google Brings ‘Chrome Metro Mode’ to Windows 7 Users

Windows 7 users can now play with the Chrome OS-style Windows 8 Metro Mode in the latest Chrome Canary builds, a feature previously exclusive to Windows 8.

5 September 2014

Recent Code Shows Intel Broadwell Chromebook in Development

A Chromebook using Intel's upcoming new 'Broadwell' processor line has been spotted in Chromium code commits, suggesting a device based on it is on the way.

29 August 2014

Chrome ADB Shell Brings Android Debugging To Chromebooks

A new project by well known Android developer Koushik Dutta brings the Android Debug Bridge (adb) to Chrome and Chrome OS.

25 August 2014

Chrome Dev Now Hides ‘Bell Icon’ from System Tray on Windows

The latest developer channel update to Chrome now hides the 'bell' notification icon from the system tray of Windows and Linux when no notifications are present.

18 August 2014

Offline? Chrome Will Soon Let You Load Websites from Cache

Google Chrome will soon allow you to read certain webpages without an internet connection. How? By loading them from the cache when connection issues arise.

18 August 2014