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Remember the Pwn2Own competition in which Chrome was the only browser left standing? Well, Firefox—along with almost every other popular browser—was exploited on the first day.

Chrome now has Extensions. Similar to Firefox add-ons, Chrome extensions are small widgets that sit on your toolbar and extend the functionality of your browser. There are hundreds of extensions currently available for Chrome, including a Gmail notifier, ad blocker, Google Wave notifier, ChromeMilk (Remember the Milk widget), and Chromed Bird (the Chrome equivalent of Echofon, [...]

People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.

The developer channel builds of the Google Chrome web browser have finally added support for Jumplists for readers running Windows 7—meaning nearly instant access to private browsing mode.

The latest developer builds of Google Chrome enable extensions by default, add support for skins, and even improve compatibility with Windows 7.

Google’s web browser made portable! This is the portable version of Google Chrome, called Chromium. All you have to do is unpack and run and all program settings are saved in ”Chrome” folder while user settings go in “Profile” folder.

Google Chrome Portable Now With Auto-Downloading Action and Wrist Laser! (Update 0.4.154.29) That last bit is a lie, sorry. But it really does download Chrome from Google’s servers so you don’t have to have a local install.

You can already switch on private browsing in Firefox with Stealther, but in the wake of IE8′s InPrivate Browsing and Google Chrome’s Incognito mode, Mozilla is set to incorporate their own private browsing mode with Firefox 3.1.

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.