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Posted 9/2/2008 5:16 AM


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Chrome web browser to launch in beta today
Google is launching a beta version of its own web browser. Chrome, which first appeared on an unofficial Google blog in the form of a comic book, will become available today in more than 100 countries, the company announced.

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Posted 9/2/2008 2:33 PM


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Download Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows:
http://www.google.co.uk/chrome/


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Posted 9/2/2008 8:45 PM


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Its the fastest out of Opera, IE and Firefox on my system. I just wished Roboform AI worked on it

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Posted 9/3/2008 1:17 AM


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I agree Access Denied. Google is pretty quick.

It seems to me that the address bar and favorites bar takes up less space in Google than they do in Ff or IE.

I just noticed that Google corrected my American spelling of favorites with the English spelling using a "u". I signed in to Tweaks using Ff and typed favorite and Ff didn't recommend a correction to the word, so it's not Tweaks making the recommendation, but Google. curious.




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Posted 9/3/2008 5:37 AM


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Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw:
http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic243740-59-1.aspx


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Posted 9/4/2008 1:14 PM


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After reading the above post by Ritchie and others I've uninstalled Google Chrome using Add/Remove Programs. When I start my computer Zone Alarm says there is an unknown program wanting to access the internet. Task Manager has Googleupdater.exe running. I suspect that is what is trying to access the internet. I can't find Google in My Programs or Add/Remove Programs, also nothing in msconfig. How can I stop this?



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Posted 9/4/2008 3:18 PM


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Click Start/Run,type CMD then press OK
At the command prompt copy and paste the following,then press Enter:
cd C:\Program Files\Google\Google Updater
Then copy and paste the following,then press Enter:
GoogleUpdater.exe -uninstall
Restart your computer when you've done.

If that doesn't work,open Task Manager,right click on GoogleUpdater.exe and select 'End Process'.
Then using 'Search' from the Start Menu search for and delete GoogleUpdater.exe


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Posted 9/10/2008 3:27 AM


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Google Releases Chrome Version 0.2.149.29:
http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic243850-59-1.aspx


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