If you’re on Linux (say Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of Chrome like this:
Switch from Beta to Dev:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
Switch from Dev to Beta:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
That’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file and doing something with it.
Also, [...]

You know when you do a Google search and get all those extra url parameters that crowd things up? “ie” and “hl” and so on? I hate that, because I often copy and email Google urls, and I try to clean up the url by removing all those extra params each time.
You can fix this [...]

Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results:

Pretty cool. But I discovered an extra little tip. If you go to Google Bookmarks, you can find a bookmarklet [...]

Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said

Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, [...]

I’ve been using a preview version of Chrome for about a month and it’s been sooooo buggy. Until about a week ago. Suddenly things were running smoother, much like they did when I was on Windows.

Then, the tech blogs started swirling with rumors that Chrome for Mac would be released into Beta this week. I figured the rumor was solid, and it was. Chrome for Mac and Linux has, indeed, been released into beta.

I installed it but didn’t notice too much difference – because, as I said, things had been running more smoothly lately. What I like about Chrome is how much screen space you get because the Tabs are running in the, um, chrome above the toolbars and address bar – where normally you have a bunch of wasted space.

Chrome has lacked extensions, but that’s another new announcement today. Extensions have been launched into beta, as well. But not for Mac. That’s something Apple fanboys will still have to wait for.

Google released the Chrome browser on September 2, 2008. Now that Chrome has been out for about a year and it’s been almost six months since I last looked at Chrome’s market share, let’s take another peek.
For the last 30 days, here are my Google Analytics stats for mattcutts.com:

For me, 8.97% of my readers run [...]