Chromium Blog: June 2014
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These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.
Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.
The goal is to
fix all broken links on the web .
Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
A daily crawl of more than 200,000 home pages of news sites, including the pages linked from those home pages. Site list provided by
The GDELT Project
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20181021043141/https://blog.chromium.org/2014/06/
In 2010, we created packaged apps to fill a missing link between extensions and hosted apps . They look the same as a hosted app to the user, but under the covers, they are more like traditional extensions. Over time, we realized that a clearer separation between the Chrome browser and apps was necessary, both for security reasons and to conform to user expectations. We launched the next generation of Chrome Apps, a new version of packaged apps, last year to address those issues, and today we're announcing the deprecation of legacy packaged apps.Updated 04/09/2015: The legacy packaged app deprecation schedule has been revised. In August, all existing legacy packaged app listings will be removed from the Chrome Web Store’s search and browse functions. Existing legacy packaged apps can be updated until Chrome stops loading them in February of 2016. migration tutorial , and contact us on the chromium-apps forum or our G+ page with any questions.Updated 03/22/2016: The legacy packaged app deprecation schedule has been revised. Existing legacy packaged app listings will be removed from the Chrome Web Store's search and browse functions in late 2016. Chrome will stop loading these apps soon thereafter.
[Cross-posted from the Google Developers Blog ] Coming to a Screen Near You for some details on everything we’re doing to make your TV the place to be.
Help more users find your Google Cast app
Google Cast SDK developer console to let you upload your app icon, app name, and app category for Android, iOS and Chrome. These changes will help your app get discovered on chromecast.com/apps and on Google Play.developer.android.com/tv and developers.google.com/cast for the SDKs, style guides, tutorials, sample code, and the API references. You can also request an ADT-1 devkit to bootstrap your Android TV development.By Dave Burke and Majd Bakar, Engineering Directors and TV Junkies
The web is a rich computing platform with unparalleled reach. In recent years, mobile devices have brought the web to billions of new users and introduced many new device capabilities, screen sizes, input methods, and more. To help developers navigate this brave new world, we built Web Fundamentals , a curated source for modern best practices. Today, we’re making it even easier to build multi-device experiences with the Beta release of the Web Starter Kit .fundamental to the platform: useful no matter which framework you choose or which browser your users run. We have articles about responsive layouts , forms , touch , media , performance , device capabilities , and setting up a development workflow . Articles cover both coding and design. For example, the article on layout design patterns explains both the usability tradeoffs between different layout options and how to implement them. The performance section complements PageSpeed Insights , an auditing tool that encourages instant (<1 second) mobile web sites.Web Starter Kit is a lightweight boilerplate with templates and tooling. Web Starter Kit gives you responsive layout, a visual style guide, and optional workflow features like performance optimization so you can keep your pages lean and fast.contributors . Our source code is available on GitHub, and we welcome contributions and feedback. Looking ahead, we’ll be adding new content and working with the web development community to refine our advice. Please file an issue or submit a pull request to help us capture web development best practices.
Extensions are a great way to enhance the browsing experience. However, some extensions ask for broad permissions that allow access to sensitive data such as browser cookies or history. Last year, we introduced the Chrome Apps & Extensions Developer Tool , which provides an improved developer experience for debugging apps and extensions. The newest version of the tool, available today, lets power users audit any app or extension and get visibility into the precise actions that it's performing.
Today we’re announcing the addition of 64-bit support to Chrome, with two brand new 64-bit Dev and Canary channels for Windows 7 and 8 users, giving a faster and more secure browsing experience. To try it out, download the 64-bit installer from our Canary or Dev download pages. The new version replaces the existing version while preserving all your settings and bookmarks, so there’s no need to uninstall a current installation of Chrome.core principles of speed, security and stability:
Speed : 64-bit allows us to take advantage of the latest processor and compiler optimizations, a more modern instruction set, and a calling convention that allows more function parameters to be passed quickly by registers. As a result, speed is improved, especially in graphics and multimedia content, where we see an average 25% improvement in performance.
Security : With Chrome able to take advantage of the latest OS features such as High Entropy ASLR on Windows 8, security is improved on 64-bit platforms as well. Those extra bits also help us better defend against exploitation techniques such as JIT spraying, and improve the effectiveness of our existing security defense features like heap partitioning.
Stability : Finally, we’ve observed a marked increase in stability for 64-bit Chrome over 32-bit Chrome. In particular, crash rates for the the renderer process (i.e. web content process) are almost half that of 32-bit Chrome.
We encourage all our users, especially developers, to give the new 64-bit Chrome a spin, and we’re looking forward to hearing your feedback so we can make 64-bit Chrome work great and bring its benefits to our Beta and Stable channel users.
