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Google’s Spam Report Extension For Chrome

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Now you can improve the search results in Google more easily by reporting spam websites to Google by installing the newly released “Google Webspam Report” extension in your Google Chrome browser. While Google folks are very proud that they have released such an useful extension for the users, the majority on the users front are of the opinion that Google should release such an add-on for the Firefox browser too (including me Smile).

The extension is considered as a pretty useful for the most webmasters and Google users, who really hate the spam websites on the internet. Of course, you can report any website for spam from this page include within the Google webmaster tools. You need to be logged into your Google account to report the sites for spam (both via the extension and via the GWT).

Google report spam in search results

Upon installing this extension, will add a “Report spam” link beneath the all the pages in the search results.  Clicking on which will directly take you to Spam report form.

Google spam report form

Install Google Webspam Report in Chrome.

[Download] Google Chrome 6 (Stable) Offline Installer

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Google Chrome has recently celebrated it’s second birthday and it’s has been a great journey so far for the most simplest browser in the world. Google is all proud to release Google Chrome 6 stable version of the browser. The latest version available as of the time when this post is written is 6.0.472.53.  Stable version of the Google Chrome 6 can be downloaded now from Google.com/chrome.

Google Chrome 6 poster

Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 includes the following new features and updates:

  • New Updated User Interface
  • Form Autofill
  • Extensions and Autofill data Sync
  • http:// will not be shown in the address bar
  • “Go” button Chrome_go_buttonhas been removed
  • Increased speed

Screenshots:

Google Chrome 6 screenshot

Settings comparison: Google Chrome 5 Vs Google Chrome 6

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Download Google Chrome 6.0 Full Offline Installer:

Even though this new version can be easily downloaded from the Google chrome online installer which automatically downloads and installs Chrome on your Windows and Mac, at times offline installer is what you want to use it on the other computers without needing to download again and again.

We have found a link for the Google Chrome 6 (Stable) standalone offline installer which is 19.52 MB in size. Use the direct download link included below to download it.

Google Chrome 6.0 Offline Installer

How To Download Google Chrome Standalone Offline Installer

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Google Chrome Offline Installer

Google Chrome, the lightweight browser from Google has become very good alternative for browsers like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and its market share is continuously increasing booting other less popular browsers.

The problem that many users raise against Google Chrome is regarding the installation of the browser. When you want to download Google Chrome, all that Google gives you is a small file called “Google Chrome Installer” which then connects to internet and downloads the installer package online and automatically installs the stable version of the Google Chrome on your computer.

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But do you guys know that Google offers a standalone offline installer which you can download and install on any computer that has no internet connection ?

Tip #1 :

If you want to download the standalone installer for the official Google Chrome stable version,

Download Google Chrome Standalone Offline Installer

Tip #2:

If you want the standalone offline installer for the latest Dev version of Google Chrome, follow these steps:

1. Find the latest dev version of the latest release from official Google Chrome Releases blog, find the latest version number mentioned there (in the screenshot, it is 5.0.375.55).

Note down the last 5 digits of the version number (xxx.xx format). In this case, it is 375.55

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2. Paste the above 5 digit number that you copied in the above step in place of “xxx.xx” in the following link:

http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/xxx.xx/chrome_installer.exe

[ In the above case, the link will be http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.55/chrome_installer.exe ]

3. Type the link in the address bar and press enter. You can now download the standalone offline installer of the latest Dev channel release version of Google Chrome.

Turn Off New Geolocation Feature In Google Chrome

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The latest beta (developer) version of Chrome, Google Chrome 5.0.375.23 Beta (Official Build 45690) is coming with a inbuilt geolocation feature that lets any website know the location of your computer once you allows access to track your physical location.(See the screenshot below).

Geolocation in Chrome
Well, this may be useful in many ways for websites that offer services based on your location, like Google Maps for instance.This feature gets activated when you click the small little circle at the upper left corner of your browser in Maps.

However if you are worried about your privacy, you shouldn’t allow access at the first place.If you have allowed access initially and later want to rollback and deny access to Google maps to track your location, you should follow the following steps:

Turning Off Geolocation In Google Chrome:

1. Click on the wrench chrome tools menuand click Options.

2. Go to Under the Hood tab

3. Under Privacy, click Content settings

Chrome options under the hood

4. Go to Location tab in the Content Settings

5. Choose “Do not allow any site to track my physical location”.

Chrome Content Settings

6. Close the settings windows.

That is it, Chrome won’t track your location to websites from now on, hope this small tutorial has helped you.For more tutorials and updates from us, you can subscribe to Techrena RSS feeds via email.

RSS Subscription Extension For Google Chrome

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Unlike most of the other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera, Google Chrome doesn’t automatically gives a quick way to subscribe to RSS feeds in a web page with a single click.

If are very much used to the other browsers then you might be feeling inconvenient in Google Chrome due to lack of this quick RSS feeds subscription feature.

Well, if you are just worrying about this missing RSS subscriptions support, you should look at this great extension “RSS Subscription Extension” developed by Google.

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.

Also the extension has 4 predefined web-based feed readers (Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines, My Yahoo).However you can add any web-based feed reader of your choice to this list.

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Here’s how any website offering RSS feeds will look like after installing this extension.Observe the RSS icon in the Omnibox.

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Download RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome

How To Auto Refresh A Web Page In Google Chrome ?

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If you have following our blog posts regularly, you must have read about the post we have written on ‘How to Auto Refresh a Web Page in Firefox’ using ReloadEvery add-on for Firefox.

Now let’s see how the same feature can be implemented in case of Google Chrome browser.

By saying auto refresh or auto reload, what we mean is that the page should automatically refresh itself at regular intervals of time.

Thanks to ChromeReload extension for Google Chrome, developed by nick.lothian.The extension when installed provides the users with options for selecting various time interval for auto-reload.

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The reload interval may be from 5 seconds to 30 minutes or you can specify your own time interval in seconds if you want to enter custom reload rate for the web page.

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Download ChromeReload extension for Chrome.

New Comodo Dragon Internet Browser Based On Chromium

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Comodo Dragon Internet Browser: One More Chromium Browser

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Comodo Dragon is a Chromium technology based free browser set to offer fast and safer browsing experience to the internet users.

Comodo Dragon, of course has similarity with Google Chrome as it’s also based on Chromium technology.But it doesn’t support Chore extensions, make a note of it.

Features:

  • Improved Privacy over Chromium
  • Easy SSL Certificate Identification
  • Fast Website Access
  • Greater Stability and Less Memory Bloat
  • Incognito Mode Stops Cookies, Improves Privacy
  • Very easy to switch from your Browser to the Dragon
  • Has privacy enhancements that surpass those in Chromium’s technology
  • Has Domain Validation technology that identifies and segregates superior SSL certificates from inferior ones
  • Stops cookies and other Web spies
  • Prevents all Browser download tracking to ensure your privacy

We have downloaded and checked the latest version 1.0.0.5.Here are the screen shots of the browser:

Comodo dragon browser screenshot

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The installation file size (DragonSetup.exe) is larger than most  of the browsers (Opera – 9.5 MB, Firefox – 8 MB, Chrome- 12 MB) except Safari (28.3 MB).

If you are fine with Chrome, it’s ok.But if you want to have one just another browser like Google Chrome, just grab the Comodo browser from the below link.

DOWNLOAD:

Comodo Dragon Internet Browser(version 1.0.0.5)

GreaseMonkey Gets Official Support For Google Chrome

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If you are an enthusiastic fan of  GreaseMonkey user scripts in Firefox browser and haven’t switched to Google Chrome for the only reason that Chrome doesn’t support GreaseMonkey user scripts, well probably you need to think again.

Either you have missed our elegant tutorial on how to enable GreaseMonkey user scripts in Google Chrome, or you haven’t been following the news off late.

Well, Google Chrome 4 now officially supports GreaseMonkey, according to Chrome official blog.If you still use an older version of Chrome, may be it’s the right time you should update your browser to the latest version.

Google Chrome Greasemonkey According to Aaron Boodman, Software Engineer in Chromium project, (who is also incidentally the original author of Greasemonkey Firefox add-on),  as of now there over 40,000 scripts available on userscripts.org alone.Keep in mind that Google Chrome may not yet support all the user scripts, he expects that 15%-25% of scripts may not work in Google Chrome browser.That’s understandable since Chrome is no Firefox and that most of the scripts are written for use on Firefox.Install Greasemonkey scripts normally as you do in Firefox and enjoy the browsing in your own style.