Look for IT over here

Google, in competition with Internet Explorer and Firefox, is set to release their own browser tomorrow - named Chrome.

The good news is that the beta release of the browser will be open source. It promises to be complete, yet simple.

Google have have released a comic book telling you about the new browser. In typical Google fashin, it is innovative and works quite well. Better than just a simple web page full of text.

One thing I have found intersting is what I’ve read about the tabbed browsing. I have found with other browsers that when you close a tab, the moemory that it uses is not reclaimed fully and there is a it of fragmentation (or bloating of memory). Chrome claims to fix this …. according to the comic book.

Let’s see how it gos.

Here’s a easy way to keep your firefox extensions backed up. You know all those cool ones you’ve found or discovered by accident and you’d probably have trouble getting them all again after you reinstall Windows?

It’s called FEBE.

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Keep your Firefox extensions after Windows install

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Record and replay your web activities with iMacros , a free extension for Firefox.

This powerful tool has countless applications. You can use it to fill in forms that stretch across multiple pages, to automatically log into a site and perform specific activities, or even to extract data from a site and save it as a CSV file. It’s particularly useful for web developers looking to test the performance and functionality of their sites. Macros can be edited, controlled with JavaScript and combined with other extensions such as Greasemonkey.