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Better mouse control for games in the latest Chrome Beta
Thursday, August 23, 2012
For you game lovers out there, you’ll be happy to hear that today’s Beta release includes the
Pointer Lock JavaScript API
(a.k.a. mouse lock). This means 3D web apps and games like first-person shooters can remove your cursor from the screen and get access to raw mouse movement data, so you can pan the screen’s view to your heart’s content. You can play with this nifty WebGL
Quake 3 map viewer
to see it in action. Have fun!
Posted by Vincent Scheib, Software Engineer and Mouse Locksmith
A new apps list on Chrome OS
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
One theme we hear repeatedly from Chrome OS users is how much they enjoy the speed and simplicity of their
Chromebooks
. With this week’s stable release of Chrome OS, we’ve redesigned the
apps list
experience to make it easier to access your favorite apps and websites.
Notably, we made the apps list much more compact, so you can access your apps without interrupting your browsing experience. We also added a search box at the top of the apps list, which you can use like an
omnibox
to search the web, specific websites, or the apps on your computer.
This week’s stable release also includes visual improvements such as a redesigned
Cloud Print dialog
and the ability to add custom wallpaper (for example, a picture of your
cute little morkie
). You can now also save files directly to
Google Drive
, so you can access files later from any device, including Drive on iOS or Android. Under the hood, we’ve added audio support for USB and HDMI, additional sandboxing security features, and many more bug fixes. This is all part of our goal to make sure your Chromebook and Chromebox get better over time.
Still looking for a computer to bring back to school? Check out a Chromebook or Chromebox in person at a Chrome Zone near you, in a
Best Buy store
in the US or a
PC World/Currys
in the UK.
Posted by Xiyuan Xia, Software Engineer and Apps Connoisseur
An even more secure Flash Player for our Windows users
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
One of the great things about the web is that you can hop from page to page watching videos, playing games, or checking email without installing additional software that may pose a security risk to your computer. On the Chrome team, we’ve
made it our mission
to build a browser that helps protect you every step of the way, defending against pages that try to install malware or steal information without your knowledge.
Some of the most important things
keeping you safe
in Chrome are Safe Browsing, auto-updates, and sandboxing. Our goal is to improve each of these features, staying ahead of the bad guys to help keep you safe online.
With last week’s
Chrome Stable update
, we took a major step forward in security by bringing an even deeper level of sandbox protection to
Adobe Flash Player
on Windows. Since 2010, we’ve been
working with Adobe
to sandbox the Flash Player plug-in to protect users against common malware. Now, thanks to a
new plug-in architecture
, Flash on Windows is inside a sandbox that’s as strong as Chrome’s native sandbox, and dramatically more robust than anything else available. And for the first time ever, Windows XP users have a sandboxed Flash, making them much safer online.
Chrome OS has had this deeper Flash sandboxing from the beginning, Linux has had it since Chrome’s last stable release, and Mac support is on the way. Ultimately, this means a safer experience for you as you browse the web. We take the security of Chrome extremely seriously, so we’re excited to be delivering these enhanced protections, and we’ve enjoyed collaborating with Adobe on this effort.
Posted by Viet-Trung Luu, Software Engineer and Protector of the
Realm
Interwebz
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