Info Pioneer

Dear Google Chrome, I always wanted to use you as my primary browser but felt lazy doing so because you weren’t supporting some of my favorite Firefox extensions. Also, while I know that it is possible to use any search engine from your “smart” address bar, I was more comfortable with the Firefox approach that allowed me to switch search defaults with a click. My system has a fairly decent configuration – a fast processor and plenty of RAM – but it had become slow over time and hence I had no option but to rebuild the computer. I reinstalled Windows 7, Microsoft Office (their 2010 release is the best ever), Adobe Creative Suite (am still on CS3) and a host of other useful software. Internet Explorer (with Bing) was installed by default but since IE is still far from awesome, I had to make a choice between Firefox, Opera and you (Google Chrome) as the primary browser. This time, I dumped my good old friend (Firefox) and choose you instead. Feeling happy? Oh Chrome, you’ve come such a lo...

Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome You are trying to open a web page in Chrome and all it gives you is this error message – “DNS Error – cannot find server.” You hit F5 to refresh a page but the error persists. You then open an alternate browser, like Firefox or IE, and the website loads up without any problem. So its a Chrome specific issue and has nothing to do with DNS Servers or your Internet connection. The support page on the Chrome website suggests that you clear your browser cache, delete the cookies and scan your computer for malicious software to fix the issue. Well, that may not fix your problem because the issue is not “malware” but a built-in Chrome setting that’s possibly preventing certain websites from opening up in Chrome. When you visit a webpage (like a search results page), Google Chrome will pre-fetch the IP addresses of all websites that are listed on that page. Since the browser has the IP addresses of all the links in advance, DNS pre-fetchin...

Hitwise weekly search data seems to suggest that, for the first time, more people in UK searched for Google Chrome than Internet Explorer. And this is not just happening in the UK. The global figures from Google Trends also show that worldwide traffic for the search term “google chrome” overtook “internet explorer” during that same week. Google also launched Chrome for Mac and Linux and that probably generated plenty of interest in the Google browser worldwide.