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Chrome 5 Dev Update Makes Bookmark Manager a Tab
Posted on 29. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Along with some improvements to Translate and Incognito modes, the Chrome 5 Dev update also changes the way that the bookmark manager is run. That’s because instead of it running in a windows as it has done traditionally, the Chromium folks have decided to make it run in a tab of its own. This is a good idea for several reasons, but here is a screenshot to explain what I mean because it does look a bit different:
The best part of this is that you can right-click on the bookmark of your choice, delete it, open in a tab, open it in a new window or even go into Incognitio mode in a new window if you want:
Seems like an intuitive feature, and with the impending release of Chrome OS on has to think that Google wants to eliminate any sort of windowing system that they can and keep tasks strictly in tabs. This is especially true for certain platforms like tablets, but it makes me wonder if they will eventually move things like the Task Manager into a tab as well.
I would assume that is the plan, since the whole idea of Chrome OS is to create a totally different type of operating system. That means creating something that is probably going to be based solely on tabs. Of course, I could be wrong but I think that in order for Google to differentiate themselves from other tablet/netbook systems, that is the path which they will take.
Seeing something like this further proves that. We will see more of this in the development version of Chrome browser as time goes on, because it’s the easiest way to get UI feedback for the time being.
If you’re interested in getting the dev channel for Chrome 5, go here.
New Chrome 5 Release For Mac Tackles Bookmarks
Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
A few hours ago, the Chrome browser team announced an update to the Chrome 5 version for Mac that’s still in the “development channel”. The main update? Functionality of bookmarks has been vastly improved. This includes bookmark copying, the creation of bookmark buttons and some cosmetic issues with the bookmark bar alignment that was just plain annoying. Also, some Autofill features were added to help with overall quality.
This is great news for Mac users, as although Chrome has not been out as long for Apple computers than Windows ones, they are moving closer to being comparable. Obviously having things such as bookmarks and Autofill working well goes a long way towards adoption of the browser. Even though Safari is still the majority on Mac, Firefox dominates on Windows and Opera still offers one of the the fastest browsers available right now, it’s still amazing what Google has been able to do with Chrome after only being in the browser space for about a year and a half.
So for you Mac users who want to be on the cutting edge of Chrome, join the dev channel here.
