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Google has just announced that it’s making the Chrome Web Store available to the “entire userbase of Chrome” — all 160 million, according to the company’s latest numbers — and in 41 different languages no less, although those outside the current markets will apparently only have access to free apps initially. What’s more, it’s also now added in-app purchases to the mix — which it notes developers can add to their apps with “literally one line of code” — and it’s announced that it plans to “keep it simple” by simply charging developers a flat five percent fee instead of opting for some of the more complicated fee structures out there. As for how the Web Store has been doing so far, Google revealed that there has been 17 million app installs to date, although it provided few details beyond that.

Google makes Chrome Web Store available worldwide, adds in-app purchases and flat five percent fee originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 May 2011 12:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Early previews of a new update for the Boxee Box mentioned a couple of different version numbers, but now the company has settled on v1.1 for the software update (sorry, still nothing for PCs) it’s rolling out over the next few days with a slew of new features. VP of Marketing Andrew Kippen confirms the “huge browser update” he’d mentioned earlier is included with the following features: favorites, history, a better UI to show more of the picture and include more options, plus expanded HTML5 capabilities that should fix login problems for HBO Go. There’s no mention of iPad support, but the whole on screen display has been trimmed with a new seek bar for more precise FF/Rewind action, along with support for customized local metadata and NFO files, a new MLB.tv app and two new content partners including the worst TV channel ever and SnagFilms. One thing that’s been removed? Volume controls, which Boxee says “improves consistency” and makes it the same as any standard Blu-ray player. As usual, the update will be issued automatically, but if you just can’t wait you can force it manually, check the source links for details, more screenshots and a full changelog.

Boxee Box v1.1 update includes improved browser, playback controls and more originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 May 2011 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on February 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Now that Firefox 3 is approaching the home stretch it is important that Mozilla starts to throw in performance improvements to really make the browser purr. Over in our forum xpgeek pointed out that a Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) build of Firefox 3 had been created which greatly improved the performance of JavaScript in the browser. While PGO itself hasn’t yet landed in the nightly builds there have been some significant improvements to the JavaScript engine.

I’m sure what most of you care the most about are the facts, and so I’ve compiled the results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test for each of the different browsers. All of the tests below were performed on the same Windows machine, and the Firefox 3 nightly builds definitely came out on top. Here are the results sorted from best to worst (each one is hyperlinked to the full stats):

1. Firefox 3 Nightly (PGO Optimized): 7263.8ms
2. Firefox 3 Nightly (02/25/2008 build): 8219.4ms
3. Opera 9.5.9807 Beta: 10824.0ms
4. Firefox 3 Beta 3: 16080.6ms
5. Safari 3.0.4 Beta: 18012.6ms
6. Firefox 2.0.0.12: 29376.4ms
7. Internet Explorer 7: 72375.0ms

It’s important to know that every time you run the SunSpider Benchmark it conducts each test five times, and the result is the average of the five tests. So it is a rather thorough test, and definitely shows off the speed improvements that Firefox 3 is going to be bringing to the table.

What does this all mean for you? Depending on what browser you typically use you may not notice a huge speed difference, but the change will be the most noticeable on sites that use JavaScript heavily. With the Web 2.0 era upon us all JavaScript speed enhancements are welcomed with open arms.

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is expected to be released in the next few weeks, and you can expect to see these (and many more) improvements shining through!

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Until now, Mac users who like to live their digital lives on the edge have had to make do with Chrome’s dev channel while their Windows counterparts were flying by the seat of their pants with the Canary build. Well, be jealous so more OS X fans — you can now run your own untested, pre-developer build of Google’s web browser. The Canary release is updated at an almost alarming rate and frequently adds and drops features without warning. Sure, you could opt for the open-source Chromium, but then you’d miss out on niceties like built-in Flash and PDF support. Don’t get too freaked out though: Canary can run alongside your existing (and more stable) Chrome install. So, throw caution to the wind, embrace the crashes, report those bugs, and hit up the source link to download.

Chrome Canary comes to Macs for fearless browser enthusiasts originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 May 2011 01:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 10, 2007 by CyberNet.

It has been a pretty big week in terms of milestones. It’s not all that often that sites and applications are able to boast their millionth milestones, and so I thought it would be fun to point out all of the things that have happened in the last 7 days:

• Firefox hit 400 million downloads – This is big news for the browser who currently has the best shot at soaking up some of Internet Explorer’s market share. They’re currently getting hundreds of thousands of downloads per day!
• MySpace registers 200 million users – With a reported 230,000 new registrations everyday this number doesn’t come as a surprise. Of course you’ve got to ask yourself how many of these accounts were created for spamming purposes? [via Mashable]
• Wikipedia boasts 2 millionth English article – It’s hard to believe that after the first article was published back in January 2001 we are already at the 2 millionth article! What was the lucky article? El Hormiguero! [via Digg]
• My Opera breaks the 1 million member mark – The My Opera community site is a place with over 200,000 blogs, 3 million photos, and an extremely active forum. From what I’ve seen they’ve been doubling the number of registered users every year, and so their future is very bright. Plus the new Opera 9.5 will require a My Opera account if you want to have your data synchronized. [via Opera Watch]
• Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone – It took just 74 days for Apple to get 1 million of these bad boys out the door! [via Apple Press Release]

I can’t believe how many milestones there have been in the last week, but I guess that it a big indication that the Internet is booming. Hopefully these sites will continue to be successful!

And as a fun fact I had thrown in the image of what one million pennies would look like when stacked up against an average person. I got the image from the MegaPenny Project where they compare huge numbers of pennies to everyday items. See what one quintillion pennies look like when stacked up alongside the Sears Tower.

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