Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent addition of extensions and Greasemonkey scripts , you’ve likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your heart’s content. With that, however, comes the inevitable – browser crashes. While Google Chrome doesn’t have a safe mode in the same way the Firefox or Windows does, it does offer another option that provides the same functionality and can save you a whole bunch of trouble. Sponsor The folks over at the Google Operating System blog pointed out this tip today and we thought it was a worthwhile how-to for our readers. If you’ve found yourself in the terrible position of having a broken version of Chrome and you don’t want to uninstall and start over from scratch, you can instead launch Chrome using “incognito mode”, which disables extensions and allows you to disable your the bad apple extensions.
With Apple’s big secret product launch less than 24 hours away, we’re still looking for readers to comment below or email me with their predictions for what the Great Big New Feature in Apple’s tablet computer will be. What will make this Apple gadget unique and special beyond the iMac and iPhone? We’re looking for very specific details on what you think will wow us. Not just “a new way to read newspapers,” but a specific detail of how the inevitable New York Times app will rock our socks. The first person to email or post the correct answer gets — no, not a tablet, you’ll get written up here for your prescience.
When NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation, DX11 GPU this past October, it was clear that part, codenamed Fermi, was headed in the same direction as Intel’s “Larrabee”—i.e., a fully programable, many-core, through-put oriented processor with some graphics-specific hardware tacked on. If the latest rumor out of Taiwan is to be believed (in this case, it probably is) the similarities with the oft-delayed, effectively cancelled Larrabee product don’t end at “many-core and programmable”—Fermi is being pushed back another whole quarter. Originally slated to launch this past November, then delayed until CES, Fermi is already late. But if NVIDIA really is pushing back the Fermi launch until March 2010 (the company hasn’t responded yet to our inquiries), that will give AMD/ATI’s “Evergreen” GPU family some three quarters of uncontested DX11 leadership. A multi-quarter delay in the launch of a flagship product is always bad news under any circumstances, but this development strikes NVIDIA at a particularly awkward time.
