如果您在Win7 或其他使用雅黑的系统下使用Chrome，也许会希望网页中文字体也统一使用雅黑来显示。

然而国内许多网站直接指定了宋体作为页面字体，而 Chrome 自身又缺乏较好的字体偏好设置，使得有保留有宋体的 Win7 里 Chrome 会用不喜欢的点阵宋体来显示页面。

如果您希望在 Chrome 里干掉宋体，不妨试试用这个ForceMicrosoftYaheiFont扩展（下载地址：chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ojlocjfaheiilmgjdgnoehhdigfedhjl）来强制让 Chrome 使用微软雅黑/文泉驿微米黑（而不是点阵宋体）显示网页。

安装即用，不像Stylish 之类全能样式扩展那样需要额外费心设置，由于是指定 CSS，而非 JavaScript 遍历 DOM 修改样式，所以不占扩展进程，无须等待页面载入并修改重绘，不增加额外开销。

缺点和其他浏览器强制字体一样，webfont 和定义了衬线体的网页会失效。

iPhone/iPod Touch的硬件动作传感器可以感知方向，并做出定向调整。iPhone 4的陀螺仪则支持更多动作感知功能，比如跟踪方向、速度和旋转等。

但IE、Chrome、Safari、火狐等浏览器并不能感知方向。Google Chrome有望改变这一点，该浏览器将支持定向功能，可以告诉浏览器内的应用用户把持设备的方向。

Chrome将知道方向

来自CNET的消息称，即将推出的Chrome定向功能对移动游戏尤其有用。比如，倾斜设备可以把设备变成一个方向盘，或者让游戏中的桌面倾斜，让大理石球滚动起来。

开发者已经在为Chrome OS和Chrome网络应用商店（Google网络版应用商店）开发网络应用。目前开发者已经开发了不少游戏，从简单的纸牌游戏到街机风格的休闲游戏，其中包括iTunes里面的《植物大战僵尸》和《乐高星球大战》。

Chrome网络应用商店是Google在Google I/O开发者大会上宣布的，Google称这个工具可以方便用户查找应用，并帮助开发者陈列和销售应用。

Google押宝网络应用

Google认为网络应用才是计算的未来，而非本地应用。分析人士也做出了类似预测，称云计算很快将成为移动产业（其中包括平板电脑）中的颠覆性力量。移动网络应用有可能获得更多用户，包括那些使用普通功能手机上网的人们。光着一点就足以让开发者对网络应用充满期待。

目前本地应用仍然非常流行，因为它们可以利用手机内置功能。

随着在定向功能方面的进展，Chrome OS将可以运行那些利用设备自带功能的应用和游戏，在此之前，只有本地应用才可以做到。

要想和本地应用分庭抗礼，网络应用还需要克服一些其它障碍，比如在速度和性能方面的提升，访问设备的传感器和硬件组件，以及发送推送消息等 。

但不管怎么说，一个可以辨别方向的网络浏览器是一个良好的开端。

Many Internet observers quickly pointed out that in bidding to buy ITA Software for $700 million, the company was looking to mark new territory on the Web, entering a vertical where it lacked a strong presence.

That would be flight information software, a subsegment of the expansive online travel sector populated by the likes of Orbitz, Hotwise, Expedia, Priceline, Kayak and even Microsoft's own Bing Travel, the product some folks believe Google seeks to challenge with ITA's technology.

Hitwise's Heather Hopkins said July 7 she saw Google getting into the travel space with its search engine back in 2006.

This her blog post from March 21 of that year proves her call.

That was before Google owned YouTube, launched Google Apps for businesses and racked up $23 billion per year in online advertising and amassed a $25 billion war chest of cash.

Now that Google has moved on ITA, Hopkins' latest data poll shows gaming is ripe for opportunity. This new table shows the top 20 downstream industries visited after Google in June 2010:

Note that after Travel, Games is the next vertical market on the list, though it currently only garners 3.42 percent of Google's clicks. Hopkins noted:

It may have taken four years since our initial analysis for the acquisition but what does clickstream data tell us about Google's next potential foray? Games. After Travel, the next biggest downstream industry from Google.com is Games and Google does not yet have a presence in that industry. Stay tuned...

People love gaming, and are increasingly tapping into online games. Just ask Facebook, which offers such titles as Zynga's Farmville and Mafia Wars, which millions of users play on the social network.

It makes complete sense that Google would want a cut of this action because it would keep users' eyeballs in Google's network of Web services, seeing more ads.

There are some signs Google is heading in this direction. Some saw Google's move to buy On2 for compression technologies as a sign that the search engine had gaming in mind.

Google has expressed great interest in fostering games as Web applications procured through its forthcoming Chrome Webstore and played in its Chrome browser.

In fact, games were the primary apps Google demoed in its Chrome Webstore debut at Google I/O in May. Moreover, new evidence suggests Chrome is getting orientation capabilities to provide an application information about which way a computing device is being held. This is useful for mobile games.

The gaming rabbit hole goes deeper. Note that after Games in the HitWise list is Television, which the company will cover with Google TV later this year.

When you consider that Google TV will let consumers access Web apps from the Chrome browser, you can easily imagine Google TV users playing games procured from the Chrome Webstore on their big-screen TVs.

So, yes, I don't think getting into games is a stretch at all for Google.

Chrome 5 has been updated to version 5.0.375.86 and if you have been running stable version of Chrome in the past, this is the version that is on your computer now. The big news is that the integrated Flash player is now enabled by default. The new version also fixes five security holes.

If you have played with developer versions, however, you may have noticed user interface changes in the most recent updates and especially Chromium 6.0.477.0. It is still labeled as a developer release and not a beta version, indicating that more changes are on the way. Some time ago, the Chrome (Chromium) developer team noted that it would soon become apparent why it is already working on version 6 and why the currently developed Chrome is not just a 5.x upgrade. It seems that Google feels that the GUI streamlining  is significant enough to justify the step up to Chrome 6.

Google describes the changes as “a fresh coat for Chrome”, which are implemented at a time when we have seen Apple and Mozilla streamlining their user interfaces in order to deliver a more nimble browser experience to their users. Chrome 6 now shows symbols in the URL bar as soon as you begin typing. Chrome tries to figure out what you are looking for and will offer several options – search queries, URLS, search results in your favorites or your browsing history as well as an option to send the query directly to your search engine. Every option is marked with a symbol.

SSL sites are shown in green color and with a “lock” symbol. Despite a controversial discussion, the http:// URL prefix is now gone for good. The missing http:// may be a bit confusing at first, but Google claims that “the hostname [is now] more prominent and the URL more readable, and provides more visual distinction between regular and SSL websites (which keep their “https://” prefix).” When you copy and paste a URL from the Omnibox, the http:// prefix is still included.

Gone are also the Stop and the Go buttons. In place of the Go button (which was placed to the right of the URL bar) you will now see the star icon to bookmark a page or edit an existing bookmark.

We have not noticed any Java Script speed improvements in SunSpider, but it appears that version 6.0.447.0 runs about 5% faster in Google’s own V8 benchmark (v5) than the preceding 6.0.437.3.

Chrome has recently been dinged over its lack of hardware acceleration features, which were previously planned to be integrated but canceled earlier this year. Microsoft, which has a fantastic integration of hardware acceleration in its current IE9 Platform Preview 3, takes advantage of this scenario and uses every opportunity it has to mention that IE9 is actually faster in some web applications than Chrome. Even if these claims are true, they are virtually irrelevant at this time as such applications are still extremely rare.

Interestingly enough, Google has recently admitted that Chrome has a performance issue with <video> and <audio> tag integration and future enhancements will definitely focus on more speed. “Currently we do everything in software (decode and rendering), whereas Flash uses hardware acceleration for part of the rendering,” the developer team wrote in its most recent (May 27) web platform status update. “This results in <video> having a nontrivial overhead over Flash, especially on low-end CPUs (e.g. netbooks). We are looking into what we can do, including utilizing the GPU, to improve performance.”

安装很简单，和普通扩展没有任何区别，安装好之后会出现一个nod32的图标，点击下，就会出现nod32的注册码，相当方便，只是不知道这个插件会不会被河蟹呢。

ESET Key Finder

为了验证这一扩展的真伪，我们找来了NOD32杀毒软件安装一下，将该扩展提供的用户名和验证码复制到NOD32的“输入用户名和密码”中，能顺利进入下一步，之后的安装过程都非常顺利。

输入从该扩展上复制下来的用户名和验证码

安装完毕，打开NOD32也没有提示需要注册，所有功能都能正常使用，也能顺利进行病毒包更新等操作。

验证码正式能正常使用

对于Chrome扩展公开NOD32验证码的行为，作为用户可能会很高兴，但是如果我是ESET的员工的话，恐怕就高兴不起来了。

除了附件拖放之外，使用 Chrome ＋ HTML5 还可以让打开Gmail 的速度大幅度提升，TechnologyReview的EricaNaone 和 Adam de Boor 在一次讨论中谈到将通过一款 Chrome 扩展程序实现 Gmail 的速度大幅提升，Boor 甚至希望最终能实现在 1 秒钟之内启动 Gmail。

很显然，HTML5 将会让 Web 应用更加接近于本地应用程序，我们希望真正的 HTML5 时代尽快到来！

从目前公布的Web Apps 早期开发文档看，所有其他的 浏览器都不能支持，因为 Web Apps 采用的是 Chrome 特有的打包方式，即Chrome 扩展的打包方式。也许正是因为这个原因， Mozilla （Firefox 的开发团队）在第一时间以 “A Open Web App Store” (开放的网络应用商店) 做出回应。

我把 Web Apps 的开发文档和 Chrome 扩展开发指南做了对比，发现其中少了几个重要的部分，比如 packaging （打包），autoupdating (升级)和 hosting(提供安装)。第一反应是，那只是初步的文档，将来会加上。但是，今天我和几个 Chrome 爱好者在最新的 dev 版 Chrome中偶然发现一个出错信息，而这个出错信息说明 Chrome Web Apps 将是封闭的，而且只能通过 Chrome Web Store 发行。

菲利斯称，戴尔正在数款笔记本和平板电脑原型机上测试Chrome OS的性能，“戴尔将于何时推出预装Chrome OS的设备，还要看测试结果及市场接受程度如何。”他还表示，Chrome OS是一款“性能良好”的操作系统。

作为全球第三大PC商，戴尔正试图减少对PC业务的依赖性，并大力进军IT服务、智能手机及平板电脑市场。戴尔大中华和南亚区总裁闵毅达(Amit Midha)本周早些时候表示，戴尔平板电脑Streak有望于今年7月在美国上市，年底前在中国市场销售。

闵毅达当时还透露，戴尔正就在其笔记本电脑上使用Chrome OS等事宜同后者展开商谈，“IT产业每隔两、三年，就会出现独特的技术创新。新技术层出不穷，我们希望走在新技术应用的前沿……因此在Chrome OS、Android或其他新技术上与外部厂商合作，无疑将有利于戴尔成为新技术应用的领先者。”

戴尔CEO迈克尔·戴尔(Michael Dell)周四表示，谷歌Chrome OS在戴尔产品上的运行效果良好。谷歌去年7月宣布，将推出基于其Chrome浏览器的PC操作系统，该产品基于Linux内核，所有PC厂商可免费使用。谷歌当时还表示，Chrome OS开发计划已经得到了惠普、宏碁及联想等主流PC厂商的支持。多数业界人士认为，Chrome OS将直接威胁微软Windows业务。

挑战微软Windows

菲利斯周四表示，谷歌Chrome OS及Android平台将在个人计算机产业中扮演重要角色，原因就是这些产品可方便用户随时上网，故而将对消费者很有吸引力。Chrome OS正式发布后，将首先在上网本上市向微软Windows发起挑战。目前在全球所有PC机中，约90%运行Windows操作系统。

对于戴尔正测试Chrome OS性能一事，微软拒加置评。谷歌在一封电子邮件声明中没有作出直接回应：“目前谷歌Chrome OS技术团队正与大量科技公司合作，目的是使Chrome OS能够给用户带来更佳体验。”

闵毅达本周早些时候还表示，今后数月内，戴尔将在中国市场发布一款新型智能手机。该手机可在TD-SCDMA网络中使用，届时戴尔将与中国移动共同推出这款新手机。据悉，该产品为全功能3G手机，并内置了收看电视节目功能。戴尔去年正式进军智能手机业务领域，并在中国市场发布了Mini 3手机。

业内人士表示，戴尔作为传统的PC厂商，对于 PC的依赖程度超过了惠普和宏碁等竞争对手，为了实现多元化的发展，获得更多额利润增长点，戴尔目前正在跨入智能手机市场，并将技术和服务作为新的发展重点。不久前戴尔已经发布了采用Google Android操作系统的Streak平板电脑。

戴尔方面表示，Chrome操作系统基于开源的Linux内核，其计算机启动速度和互联网访问速度都非常的快，推出基于Chrome操作系统的设备在互联网访问上具有很大的优势。而Google方面很早就表示，将利用Chrome操作系统让更多的用户访问自己的网络，并使得Google的广告服务获得更好的效果。预计首个Chrome操作系统设备将在今年年底之前推出。

Stephen J. Felice表示，Chrome操作系统和Android操作系统一样都具有相当大的潜力，在PC平台上Chrome和Android终将获得重要的地位，尤其是高速上网和“永久在线”概念对于不少消费者还是颇具诱惑的。另外Chrome操作系统融入更多Google的网络搜索、浏览器和应用程序服务，Google希望凭借自己高度整合的产品对抗微软的Windows操作系统，尽管微软Windows操作系统目前仍然统治者全球90%以上的PC。

微软方面对于该消息目前还没有任何回应，而Google方面仅在电子邮件中声明，Google的Chrome操作系统团队目前正在和各大技术厂商进行合作，希望推出更多与众不同的高性能设备提供给中端用户。