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We’re happy to announce that WebGL is now on by default in Google Chrome’s beta channel , with some shiny new demos to show off what the technology can do. WebGL is a 3D graphics API for JavaScript that developers can use to create fully 3D web apps . It is based on the OpenGL ES 2.0 API , which …
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Since we launched the Chromium project over two years ago , we’ve been hearing a lot of feedback from IT administrators who want to manage and configure Google Chrome. Of course, we were eager to do what we could to help them get Chrome deployed inside their organizations. Today, after talking …
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Chrome Developer Tools ' Scripts panel provides a graphical JavaScript debugger and allows you to set breakpoints in the JavaScript source code. However, setting breakpoints in the source code does not always work well, especially when the application is large and you are not familiar with the …
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s already been a full year since we launched the Google Chrome extensions gallery. It’s been a busy twelve months: The gallery has grown to over 8,500 extensions and 1,500 themes. A third of Chrome users have at least one extension installed. Over 70 million …
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Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScript applications - often by more than a factor of two! This will give …
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Since this past March , we’ve been working closely with Adobe to allow Flash Player to take advantage of new sandboxing technology in Chrome, extending the work we’ve already done with sandboxing for HTML rendering and JavaScript execution. This week, we’re excited to roll out the initial Flash …
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This is part of a series of blog posts that provide tips and tricks on how to create better web apps as well as insights behind the technology of the Chrome Web Store - Ed. Web development sure got fun recently, right? Local storage, notifications, new form controls, geolocation, inline …
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We have discovered compatibility issues between Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET). EMET is used to deploy and configure security mitigation technologies, often for legacy software. However, because Chrome already uses many of the same techniques (and more …
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Today we are kicking off a series of blog posts that provide tips and tricks on how to create better web apps as well as insights behind the technology of the Chrome Web Store - Ed . Looking at building a web app for the Chrome Web Store ? The browser landscape has changed a lot recently and …
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The V8 benchmark suite contains a number of pure JavaScript benchmarks that capture the areas in which a JavaScript engine has to perform well to support the well-structured, maintainable, and high-performance web applications of tomorrow. These benchmarks have been useful for us when optimizing …
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