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A browser developed by Google using the WebKit layout engine

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Are Chrome Developer Tools an adequate substitute for Firebug?

Are Chrome Developer Tools an adequate substitute for Firebug? I'm learning how to develop simple web apps using Django. The book I have recommends installing Firefox/Firebug. I'm used to Chrome and wanted to know if I need to switch or if Chrome…
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Chromebook - is it interesting for Programmers?

Google announced the chromebook yesterday (11 May 2011). While this is surely a nice thing, I have no clue whether it was interesting to buy one for a (non-javascript)-programmer. What do you think? Will there be, for instance, a Java IDE in the…
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Why do some websites showing 0 bytes in Chrome's developer tools

I am doing a page speed optimization for my website and studying how other websites do it. I noticed that some websites such as as Facebook or Ringgitplus show 0 bytes for some of their resources in Chrome's developer tools, Network tab, while the…
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What stops HTML5 and JS apps to perform as good as native apps?

From what I understand, HTML is a mark-up language, so is the content of XAML, XIB and whatever Android uses and other native UI development frameworks. JavaScript is a programming language used along with it to handle client side scripting which…
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How to open a desktop application through browser without a Java applet?

We run a cloud-based medical software, and a very important part of the program is bridging to an imaging software straight from our website, passing information through command line arguments. We pass a patient's name and ID through a Java applet,…
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When opening pdf's in browser, why is "inspect element" available and "view source" not?

When opening pdf's in Chrome and Firefox, the "view source" button is greyed out. "Inspect elemet," however, reveals HTML. Are the browsers simply downloading the file and generating html to display it?
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Why is Google blocking users from accessing their local file system in Chromium?

The question is based on this issue in Chromium. It is marked as Won't Fix. Do you see any reason to block a local html file from accessing another local html file located in the same folder?
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Google Chrome Extension Development for Dummies?

I want to get started writing extensions for Google Chrome. I am a long time C, C++, Delphi, etc. developer for many years with some Java skills. I believe Chrome extensions are written in C++ but perhaps some people have figured out how to do…
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Charging for chrome extension?

I have a chrome extension that I think is fairly useful. It's already been posted and is free. How can I start charging for it with the Chrome webstore? $.99 or some such.
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Why do browsers leak memory?

A colleague and I were speaking about browsers (using a browser control object in a project), and it appears as plain as day that all browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera) display the same characteristic or side-effect from their usage and that…
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Why is it impossible for Google to port V8 along with Chrome's codebase in C/Obj-C on iOS?

Google has given a reason that All apps on iOS have to run in the sandbox environment except for special apps by apple that get to tap into some private APIs. So Chrome on iOS uses whatever the UIWebView provides plus it might be doing its UI stuff…
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Is blocking java applets a necessary security measure?

Chrome 11 is now asking user permission to run both signed and unsigned Applets (yes, for signed applets the user is asked twice). Chromium team decided that this measure is needed even when the user is using an up-to-date JRE. Here's my bug report…
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How to handle large array operations in Javascript?

I have two Float32Arrays each one of which is 1.6*10^7 in length(floating point array). Using JS I retrieve them from server and add them element by element. My webpage stops responding and I get the following error message. Is there a way of…
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Does the MIT license allow me to make a product that's a front-end for another MIT-license product?

I've been struggling with timezones online for a few years now. Because I've had enough of it, I want to develop a Chrome extension that leverages moment.js so I can paste in a representation of a time and it will return the time in the user's…
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Which IndexedDB data structure for Chrome app?

I'm on the way to build a Chrome app, dedicated to fulfill shop/marketplace orders. The orders come from marketplace APIs like Amazon MWS. The data is stored only in the app (with backup). The system need also to work in a quick way if 50.000 or…
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