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About a month ago, some additions to the code in Chromium (the open source browser behind Chrome) suggested that the long-fabled "GDrive" may be on the verge of actually launching.

A week later, user-facing proof started appearing. Then earlier today, sharp-eyed social media consultant, Johannes Wigand, spotted something interesting during a presentation at a Google-sponsored event: something that sure looks a lot like Google Drive.

And it is.

The new RockMelt browser builds on Chromium by directly integrating FaceBook and Twitter...plus spiffing up Google searches and stashing everything...

The Chromium: "As part of Google's initiative to make the web faster, over the past few months we have released a number of tools to help site owners speed up their websites."

Tech Drive-In: "I am a webkit fan and Chromium and Google Chrome are among my most favorite browsers. But since they both are actually the same in more ways than one, I decided to give a shot at a 'different' webkit based browser called Midori."

Flock has undergone a major evolution in the last year. From the Swiss-Army knife of social media to a slimmed down browser that tackles Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube only.

Even more shocking, the project has dumped Firefox for Chromium. Was the switch worth it?

Social media and networking-oriented web browser Flock has become somewhat schizophrenic today: the official website’s front page features the stable, Firefox-based version, but the new beta has a completely different underlying browser: Chromium, the open source web browser that powers Google Chrome.

Tech Drive-In: "This is something I always asked myself. How is Google Chrome different from Chromium.

Apart from the logo, there is hardly any difference visually between the two. So I decided to dig further. Here are some of the interesting facts you should know."

Chromium has been posting some conceptual screenshots of what the Chrome OS may look like. The Chromium site is full of reminders that the UI is under development and that "designs are subject to change", but I suspect that we'll see many of these ideas incorporated into the final builds of Chrome OS.

SilverWav's Journal: "I have a large html file (9MB, 20k records in a table). FF takes 30sec to open it, Chromium takes 5secs.

The filter on it uses js and is very fast in Chromium (10sec) but in FF > 5min :("

Bugs are a reality of software development, and a pain for both coders and users. Security bugs are a particularly nasty variety, and in an effort to kill as many as possible, Google is now coughing up cash for catching Chrome and Chromium glitches.

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