FAQ for Chrome for Android – 13 things you need to know about Chrome for Android

“After a lot of hard work, I’m really excited to see us launch Chrome for Android Beta today,” said Sundar Pichai, Google SVP of Chrome and Apps, in a Google+ post. “We set out to bring the full capability of desktop Chrome to Android and rethink the browser from the ground up for phones and tablets with a touch interface.” Chrome for Android Beta is now available for free through Google’s Android Market. It requires phones and tablets to be running Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalized web browsing experience with you wherever you go, across devices. Well, you may also have some questions about Chrome for Android. Here I listed some FQA for you to know more details on Chrome for Android.

Is Chrome for Android Beta open sourced?
Due to the ICS schedule, deriving from Chromium, Google currently has not started the project of open source for Chrome for Android. As more functions to be inserted in the future, Google would make Chrome for Android open source in steps.

Will Chrome for Android upgrades synchronously to the Chrome browser?
Yet not. Google is currently considering how to branch Chrome, which means that in the future there might be Chrome for Android Stable, Chrome for Android Dev, or even things like Chrome for Android Canary.

Will Chrome for Android update automatically?
Yes. Set automatically update in Android Market.

What is the difference between Chrome for Android and Android browser?
Chrome for Android provides faster, safer and more stable browsing experience just like your PC Chrome browser. It also supports more HTML 5 techniques.

Does Chrome for Android support expanding and web application?
Currently no. The Chrome Web Store is also not supported. Google has no plan for this yet.

Which Flash version does Chrome for Android support?
The Chrome for Android doesn’t support Flash for Adobe has claimed to stop developing portable Flash products. Google will adopt HTML5 for more powerful networking and cooperate with Adobe for the future network standard.

How to hide Omnibar address bar?
Currently the Omnibar address bar couldn’t be hidden. Google would monitor customers’ hobbit to decide how to handle Omnibox.

What’s the similarity between Chrome for Android and PC Chrome?
Both of them are based on the same source code, while Chrome for Android would take advantage of PC Chrome browser.

Does Chrome for Android support Canvas hardware accelerating, WebGL and Native Client?
Chrome for Android currently supports only Canvas hardware accelerating, not WebGL and Native Client.

What User Agent does Chrome for Android adopt?
Google adds CrMo to recognize mobile Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android-4.0.3; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/IML74K) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) CrMo/16.0.912.75 Mobile Safari/535.7 on Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 Galaxy Nexus, and Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android-4.0.3; en-us; Xoom Build/IML77) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) CrMo/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7 on Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 Xoom tablets.

Will Google continue to improve the default browser of Android?
Both Chrome for Android and the default Android browser derive from Chromium. Google would keep evaluating them to adjust the developing process.

Does Chrome for Android also adopt SandBox technology?
Currently the single tag page has no sand box, and supports no Safe Browsing.

Is it true that Chrome for Android operates only on 4.0 OS?
Yes.

Hope this FAQ list would help you.

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Lady Gaga Stared a Commercial for Google Chrome with her New Single “the Edge of Glory”

Lady Gaga builds one of the world’s largest fan bases by using the web to talk directly and openly to her community. And just a few days ago, Google released a Chrome commercial, staring Lady Gaga and her Little Monsters, singing and gyrating their way through her latest single “The Edge of Glory”.

This 91-second film celebrates Lady Gaga’s special and unmediated relationship with her fans, the Little Monsters. The ad is intended to illustrate the power of the web and its creative new modes of interaction, which is exactly what Google wants to showcase for Chrome.

The entire project, from Lady Gaga’s shoot in New York City on May 8^th to shipping materials to the television networks for air, took 10 days. Several hours after the release of her latest single “Edge of Glory” on May 9th, fans began uploading videos to YouTube, making the song their own by dancing to it, singing it and playing it with all kinds of instruments. Lady Gaga then posted a message on her website asking for more videos to be used in the film project. Then hundreds of videos were uploaded from fans. Editors in the editing room were putting uploaded videos into the film in real time as fan videos streamed in. The film was completed on May 18th in time to air during Lady Gaga’s performance on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and to also live on the web forever.

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Google announced two brand-new ChromeBooks on Google I/O Developer Conference 2011

Chrome stars today’s conference of Google I/O, including new Chrome version, optimized Chrome App store and Chrome OS. Chrome OS, being the focus of today, gets more attractions, but regretfully no new Chrome OS released. Instead, two new Chrome notebooks are released during the conference.

Sunda Pichai, vice present of Google said the Chrome notebook CR-48 received great popularity, which means more and more business clients starts to accept Chrome OS. For this year, Acer, Samsung and Intel would become new partners of Chrome OS, and the future Chrome notebooks would be called as Chromebook.

Sundar Pichai made a live demo of Samsung Chromebook and Acer Chromebook. 12-inch Chromebook from Samsung marks 8-second start-up and 8-second stand-by, with 2 colors for users’ preference. 11.6-inch Chromebook from Acer features 8-second start-up as well but 6.5-hour stand-by.

These two pieces of Chromebook will cooperate with American local carriers so as to launch the Wi-Fi version and 3G version, but the contract price of the 3G version Chromebook has not been announced yet. As for bare version price, Samsung Chromebook prices at $429 and Acer Chromebook prices at $349. Both of this two will be put into the American market on June, 15, 2011 and later in another six countries in Europe.

 In addition, Sundar Pichai also demonstrated a piece of PC based on Chrome OS. This product is Samsung branded and with a name Chromebox. But the detailed specifications of Chromebox remain unknown.

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