New Chrome fires up geolocation ability

“The geolocation feature is now available in Chrome 5.0.375.25 (Official Build 45690).” With those words, posted Thursday at the bottom of a Chrome issue tracker item , the developer version of Google’s browser catches up to Firefox with one important new component of the Web.

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Conquer space, blast zombies, play a Flash classic: iPhone games of the week

Looking for five minutes of fun? Then look elsewhere, because this week’s new iPhone/iPod games are likely to consume considerable chunks of your time. You’ve been warned! Babylonian Twins — The Quest for Peace in Ancient Iraq : If you like running, jumping, puzzle-solving platform games (I know, are there any other kind?), you’re sure to get a kick out of Babylonian Twins–a gorgeous, charming platformer with one of the most interesting backstories I’ve ever read.

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Greasemonkey comes to Chrome

p Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too. /p div class=”cnet-image-div image-large float-none” style=”width: 610px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100201/greasemonkey_in_chrome_flickr_image_size_2_610×330.png” alt=”" width=”610″ height=”330″ / p class=”image-caption”Google Chrome 4 and above now natively supports many Greasemonkey scripts./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)/span /div p In a a href=”http://blog.chromium.org/2010/02/40000-more-extensions.html”blog post Monday/a, Aaron Boodman, the developer of the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, announced that Chrome version 4 and later will support most of the JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts without any additional tweaking necessary.

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Chrome 5 debuts more settings options

p Google updated its Chrome browser’s developer’s builds to version 5 for a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Google-Chrome-dev/3000-2356_4-10958229.html”Windows/a and a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Google-Chrome-dev/3000-2356_4-10962684.html”Mac/a today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Google was expected to push version 5 out to the public before the end of the month. Unlike the more recent versions of developer’s build 4.x, the developer’s builds of Chrome 5.x seems to be starting off to a rough start

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Chrome 5 debuts more settings options

The last deal before Christmas

div class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 270px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20091223/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_270×128.png” alt=”" width=”270″ height=”128″ / p class=”image-caption”Today only, download Grand Theft Auto IV for just $7.49–its lowest price ever./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Valve)/span /div pWell, here we are at the end of “100 Days of Deals”–what a long, cheap trip it’s been.

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The last deal before Christmas