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Chrome 5 for Mac Adds Translation, Other Updates
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Good news for all you Mac users: the newest update to Chrome 5 will offer the Translate feature that those of us on the Windows version have been able to enjoy for the past couple of weeks. If you’ve never used Google translate, you probably don’t know what you’re missing. I have a piece out there already that pretty much outlines what I’m talking about, and you can check it out here.
Here are the new updates to Chrome 5 Beta for Mac:
- Translate feature has been added
- Greater control over privacy (learn more here)
- Full screen mode by using Shift-CMD-F (Thanks Nick!)
- Forced reload, instead of using cache by using Shift+Reload
Already have Chrome 5 Beta for Mac? You will be automatically updated. If you don’t have Chrome 5, get it here.
With the news that Safari was the first browser successfully hacked at this year’s Pwn2Own competition, those of you out there who like using Apple products may want to consider giving Chrome 5 a try. An earlier version that is in stable release, Chrome 4, has yet to go down at the competition where hackers (they’re called “researchers” these days) try to compromise operating systems, browsers and mobile phones.
Apple comes out with great products. There is no doubt about that. But one big problem is that they aren’t nearly as ubiquitous as Windows products, and therefore have not been as susceptible to attack by those with malicious intentions. Unfortunately that landscape is changing. Check out this graph that shows the correlation between the prevalence of Apple stores and adoption of their products:
So while Apple has been building its own retail stores around the world they have increased their market share from 3.5% to almost 10% in a span of seven years. That means more Macs and more of them means the potential to attack them increases. As an example of how much work needs to done to protect Macs, Apple added data execution protection (DEP) to Snow Leopard which was something adopted by Windows in XP SP2 which came out in 2003.
So this post may have gone off on a tangent from its original theme, but I hope it has been informative nonetheless.
Chrome 4.1 Brings Translate to Everyone
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
The Chrome releases blog yesterday announced an update to Chrome 4, bringing the latest stable version to 4.1. While 4.1 has been out in beta for some time, everyone now will have the features on Chrome 4.1. What’s interesting to note is that now, like Chrome browser 5, Chrome 4.1 has Google translate built in. Prior to these features being inherent to the browser itself, you had to have the Google Translate Extension in order to use it.
What’s great about the translate feature is that you can also set the languages that it does not translate for. As an example, if you speak other languages than English, you can set the translate feature to be disabled if you so choose. This can be done in Options when you click on the “Under the Hood” tab and go to the” Change font and language settings” button.
I’ve written a more extensive post on how the translation feature works in Chrome browser, and you can check it out right here. This was a post I did that originally was for Chrome 5, but it fits the topic just the same.
There are a few other things that Chrome 4.1 brings to the table. Just like Chrome 5, content settings have been expanded. This means that users have more control over what they do or do not see while browsing the web. This gives you the ability to set exceptions for certain sites, as well as the ability to turn off cookies, image downloads and the ability to turn off JavaScript. You can do all this in Options when you click on the “Content settings” button in the “Under the Hood” tab.
If you already have Chrome 4, you will be updated to 4.1 via an automatic update. If you’re not using Chrome, go here. It will detect you operating system and allow you to download the appropriate version. So try it. You know you want to.
