Chrome Installers February 9, 2012
Posted by kevinbe71 in Browsers, Chrome, Development, Uncategorized, Web Development.add a comment
Typically web developers (and QA professionals) need to install and test with older versions of browsers to see what the end user experience will be like. I’ve amassed quite a number of browser installs for this reason but only fairly recently (Chrome 14) I discovered that what I was getting when I downloaded Chrome was the user profile installer rather than the system installer. If you’re curious to know what installs you have (and you don’t want to go back through all of your old installs installing them one-by-one) you can identify them with a hex editor (or even some text editors like Notepad++). Near the end of the “system install” binaries you’ll find &needsadmin=true&brand= while the “user profile” installs will have needsadmin=false&brand=. Just a little bit of useless information that someone may find interesting…
Incidentally, the URLs to download the offline versions of Chrome are:
System Install:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?system=true&standalone=1
User Profile Install:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1
Delphi Resurgence? February 9, 2012
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Seems like Embarcadero is doing good things with Delphi… Sales have been increasing 15% yearly with the most recently growth being 54%, so now Delphi sales have doubled compared to the level they were at prior to the purchase by Embarcadero:
http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_growth_2011.html
Happy 17th Birthday Delphi (well, for next week Tuesday anyway)
Pasting Text without Formatting in Google Chrome February 5, 2012
Posted by kevinbe71 in Browsers, Chrome.add a comment
I just discovered a handy shortcut in Google Chrome that I didn’t know existed… if you want to paste text without any formatting simply use Ctrl-Shift-V.
