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ASP.Net menu control not working in Google Chrome

ASP.Net menu controls breaks in Google Chrome and works fine in other browsers. Here is the hack to make it work in Google Chrome as well, if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("AppleWebKit") > 0) Request.Browser.Adapters.Clear(); Just add this code on your page load and the menu control will start working fine in Google Chrome as well. Also some times the hover menus don’t work on IE8 to make it work on IE8 you need to set “z-index” in DynamicMenuStyle property of the menu control. Hope this helps
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GOOGLE Chrome OS – Can it kill MICROSOFT?

Google has announced a new operating system project: Google Chrome OS. This is separate from Android, Google’s mobile phone OS. Chrome OS is a “open source, lightweight operating system”. It won’t be available until the second half of 2010, but the source code will be made available later this year. At the heart of the OS is Google’s Chrome browser. In fact, the operating system appears to be little more than a secure platform for the browser to run upon. Google says the following: “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re...
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Google releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Less than a month after announcing that version 1.0 of its Chrome Web browser is no longer a beta, Google has released an alpha version of Chrome 2.0. Available through Google’s Chrome Developer Channel, the updated browser brings many notable improvements over Chrome 1.0. The alpha version of Chrome 2.0 shows that Google continues to play catch-up with its elder siblings, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Updates to the Chrome browser include the addition of form autocomplete (one of the features most obviously missing from the initial release), full-page zoom, spell checking improvements,...
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IE losses share to others

Web sites saw visitors deserting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in favor of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome in December, according to Web analytics company Net Applications.Internet Explorer was used by 68.15 percent of Web surfers monitored in December, down from 69.77 percent in November and 71.27 percent in October, according to preliminary figures published by Net Applications on its Hitslink Web site Friday. IE’s share has slipped from around 75 percent since the start of 2008. Safari, Firefox and Chrome all profited from the slide...
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Google Suggests Gmail Users Dump IE

Google Inc. is pushing users of its Gmail  e-mail service to dump Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox. When users of IE6 reach Gmail.com, a “Get faster Gmail” message appears in the Web-based service’s menu bar. The message, in turn, links to a page on Google’s Web site that touts Chrome and Firefox 3 as being “twice as fast” at running Gmail. Last week, the Gmail site also displayed the message to users browsing with Microsoft’s IE7, but Google has since discarded that version of the notice....
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