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LifeHacker: Remains Of The Day: Touring Googleplex Edition [For What It’s Worth]

By admin • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Computers

Mozilla toys with Chrome-like tab isolation, Google takes us on a tour of Googleplex, and Mininova says adios to copyright-infringing torrents.

Googleplex in 200 Seconds
Quick tour of Googleplex, Google’s Mountain View headquarters. (video embedded here) [Google Operating System]
Multi-processor support coming for Firefox
Mozilla looks into multi-processor support for Firefox, meaning Google Chrome-like tab isolation (i.e., one tab crashing doesn’t bring down your whole browser) may be on the way. Unfortunately we probably won’t see it for at least another year. [Mozilla Links]
Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents
Looks like an effort to quickly clean up in preparation for a court appearance. Unless you’ve only been using Mininova to grab your Ubuntu distributions, this probably comes as bad news to many. [TorrentFreak]
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’
President and CEO of Forbes.com suggests a few ways he thinks Google should change, like showcasing professionally created content over user-generated content. He makes a few valid points in the article as a whole, but I’m not sure he understands a few very basic principles of search engines and the internet. If Google changed their search to follow his suggestions, we’re guessing most users would go elsewhere. [PaidContent]
Google Testing New Service Features On Chrome First?
TechCrunch suggests Google may push early service tests to Chrome browsers before others. [TechCrunch]
Tweecious
New Firefox extension automatically creates Delicious bookmarks from links you post on Twitter. [Firefox Add-ons]