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Google Chrome fans have been looking forward to some add on or extension that can allow them Easy Download of YouTube videos. TechNama is going to help them by sharing a software that will solve this need of the Chrome users. Since Google don’t allow such extensions or add on officially, the software is available in the unofficial version and the download link is given at the end of the post.

The YouTube Video Downloader for Google Chrome allows the users to download YouTube videos in FLV, MP3, 3GP, MP4, 720p and 1080p FULL-HD video qualities directly from the YouTube website. The option to download the videos is given just after the embed link on the YouTube page as shown in the picture below.

Give it a try and let us know your feedback.

Download Easy YouTube Downloader Extension

I have been a fan of Firefox and i got a slight shock today when i came across the fact that Google Chrome is the fastest browser while my favorite Firefox 3.5 grabbed the second position. Even though the Firefox team claimed to come out with the fastest browser when they were releasing the Firefox 3.5 but it seems they missed on few things that Google implemented successfully in Google Chrome.

According to detail tests carried out by PC World, the average page opening time for Google Chrome tested against ten websites is 1.699 while the average page opening time for Firefox is 1.762, a close second.  The other competitors including Internet Explorer 8 and Safari 4 gave an average page opening time of 1.833 seconds and 1.964 seconds respectively. The worst thing is that Opera 10 beta took the last position in the ranking.

Anyways, i am still going to stick with the Firefox since the difference between Google Chrome and Firefox 3.5 was not big enough to convince me to change my web browser.

For those tech enthusiasts who want to know as to how this tests were performed, below is the brief methodology as shared by PC World:

In our browser speed comparison, we pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3.5, Chrome 2, Safari 4, and the public beta of Opera 10. We used pages from a set of eight popular Web sites in our testing: PC World (of course), Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, The New York Times, eBay, and Wikipedia’s English-language home page. To ensure that we measured the page-loading times as accurately as possible, we recorded our testing on video for review later on.

We performed all of our testing on a Gateway P-7808U notebook running a clean installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1; we reinstalled the operating system before testing each browser. For each browser, we cleared the browser’s cache and then loaded each page in our test suite. We repeated the process ten times per site per browser to ensure accurate results, to factor out fluctuations in network traffic, and to build a sufficiently large sample size to identify trends. In addition, we threw out the two best and the two worst scores for each page load test to further reduce the influence of fluctuations and to produce more consistent results.

Some browsers will report that a page has finished loading even though parts of the page haven’t yet appeared. We didn’t base our determination of when a page was loaded on the browser’s opinion. Instead, we relied on whether all visual elements of the page were loaded and ready to use. For example, on Yahoo’s home page, we judged the page to be ready when all of its graphics and images were loaded.

Lately Web Browsers are becoming the most important software’s in our computers since all the applications are shifting from our hard disks to the web. The concept of cloud computing is further increasing the importance of web based processing and less reliance on our local data. Even MS Office has decided to go online and offer its services on the web.

In such a world where things are shifting to web, the usage of browsers is bound to increase. Therefore we also need a powerful software to enable us to take a backup and restore our browser in case it crashes. Backup and Restore process of web browsers has been made easy by the FavBackup. FavBackup is a simple solution for you to backup and restore web browser settings and other data on Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 systems. FavBackup is fully portable and hence does not require installation.

FavBackup current version supports the following browsers:

* Internet Explorer 8
* Internet Explorer 7
* Internet Explorer 6

* Firefox 3.5
* Firefox 3
* Firefox 2

* Opera 9

* Safari 4
* Safari 3

* Google Chrome 3
* Google Chrome 2
* Google Chrome 1

I was specifically looking for Opera 10 but i think its current version does not support it. The future version are expected to add it as well.

The FavBackup is simple to operate as it displays a list of options and browsers upon startup. We are displaying four Screen shots which explain the whole backup process and let our users see the different options that the FavBackup offers. I must add here that it gives a lot of flexibility to the users and they can choose between complete backup of their multiple browsers and then restore them fully or in a limited manner. They can choose to restore only cookies and bookmarks in Google Chrome and Plugins in the Firefox 3.5.  Carefully look at the screen shots below as they are shown in the order of actual steps in which our user will run it.

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I am a fan of Firefox and hence i rarely try other browsers. However, i have all three famous browsers installed on my laptop i.e FireFox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. My default browser is of course Mozilla Firefox. However, there are some Technology Geeks out there who need to switch between different browsers all the time as per their needs. For all such people, life has been made easy by BrowserTraySwitch, a free software that allows you to switch between different browsers with just a single click.

According to the developer of the software,

BrowserTraySwitch is a super tiny little system tray utility (only 90k) to help you quickly change your default browser. Just right-click to change your default browser – after that all launched files and urls will open in the selected browser. Want to just launch a specific browser once? Use the left click. The icon of the tool shows the currently selected default browser. Double-click to launch the current default browser.

Download BrowserTraySwitch and enjoy.

[via Mouser Software]

Google has announced the beta release of its famous browser Chrome for Mac and Linux. The beta version is only available in Developers channel (to read about google release channels click here), which is a test bed of Google for developers and testers but not for main stream public. The Google itself is not promoting the download of  beta version of Chrome for Mac and linux by general public since its performance is not stable.

However, if you are ready to take the risk, you can download the Google Chrome for Mac and Linux through this link. Mind it! its your own gamble and hence you should not make it a reason to get disappointed with the upcoming public beta version of Chrome.  According to the tests conducted by some developers, they found the Chromium to be showing constant development in its new releases. It has become more stable with every new update and the beta version  is performing far better then expectations. However, it might still crash.

The Google Chrome is fast capturing the browser market and taking share out of Mozilla and Explorer.

Download Google Chrome for Mac and Linux here

To Read Google Annoucement for Mac and Linux click here