{"id":34610,"date":"2011-09-23T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34610"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T08:43:06","slug":"chrome-14-ups-googles-browser-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/34610-chrome-14-ups-googles-browser-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome 14 ups Google’s browser game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s<\/a> rapid development pace shows no signs of slowing as it rolls out a new stable version of Chrome<\/a>, this time version 14.<\/p>\n

Unlike Firefox<\/a>, which also has an accelerated release process, Chrome appears to be benefiting from the high turnover, while Firefox seems to be suffering because of it.<\/p>\n

The big addition to Chrome 14 is Native Client, a new method of running C and C++ code inside the browser. Native Client includes a new sand-boxing technology which is designed to protect the browser and the user from malicious code.<\/p>\n

Although Native Client, or NaCl, has only now been included in a stable release, it\u2019s not a new technology, first being introduced three years ago.<\/p>\n

The idea with Native Client is to turn the browser into a more capable and rich environment for developing browser-based applications, including those designed for gaming. In particular Native Client is aimed at the 3D market and video editing where standard Javascript is not powerful enough.<\/p>\n

The sandbox included in Native Client restricts where and what an application can write. The sandbox also prevents the application from accessing code outside of the defined range.<\/p>\n

The Native Client is included in the browser using a plugin API called Pepper.<\/p>\n

While Google has touted Native Client as being a major leap forward for the web, other browser makers aren\u2019t as enamoured. Makers such as Opera and Mozilla feel that the move to Native Client is a step away from existing web standards, in turn undermining the cross-platform nature of the web.<\/p>\n

Either way Google is set on this new course and has already made it available for 32- and 64-bit processors. The company is apparently working on a portable version of Native Client for other platforms.<\/p>\n

For Apple users there are also a few changes in the latest release that makes Chrome 14 a worthy download. Among those are the inclusion of Lion’s “overlay scrollbars” which only appear when the user is scrolling. There is also initial support for full-screen mode.<\/p>\n

Speed-wise Chrome generally delivers on its promises with most popular benchmarking tools showing Chrome is among the fastest browsers around.<\/p>\n

Chrome 15 is already entering its beta version and Chrome 16 is in the development channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google continues its assault on the browser market with the release of Chrome 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":34628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[3806,35],"class_list":["post-34610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-chrome-14","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34612,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions\/34612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}