So far we’re pretty smitten with Google’s Chrome. It’s certainly not without its faults, but for version 1.0 of a browser it’s pretty sharp. We’ve compiled a list of 10 things we’d really like to see added or tweaked. Some come from other browsers, and some are just improvements on some of the existing features. Google, we hope you’re listening.

1. Profile roaming between multiple browsers. This may be a pipe dream, but if Foxmarks for Firefox has proved anything, syncing up your bookmarks between multiple machines is awesome. Doing the same with passwords, settings, and history would be even better. Considering Google already has a way for your browser to send data back to the mothership, and a hosted Web history service of its own, a little sync using my Google account doesn’t seem that hard does it?

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Mozilla has asked internet users everywhere to get involved designing the next generation of browsers. So far it has three ideas on the table: a next generation browser dubbed Aurora, better ways to visualise bookmarks and browsing history and a new mobile version of Firefox. It has posted videos showing early versions of the Aurora browser, designed by Adaptive Path.

“Today we’re calling on industry, higher education and people from around the world to get involved and share their ideas and expertise as we collectively explore and design future directions for the Web,” said the organization.

“You don’t have to be a software engineer to get involved, and you don’t have to program. Everyone is welcome to participate.”

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Microsoft is adding birthday reminders and several other new features to its Windows Live Calendar service.

The online calendar, which still is in beta testing, also got a new user interface and some more options for printing, Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday.

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Firefox 3, the recently released open source browser from Mozilla, has claimed that over 8 million copies of the software were downloaded on Download Day. The company stated early that their goal was to surpass the initial release of Firefox 2, at 1.6 million downloads in 24 hours, and hit 5 million downloads. The goal of the marketing campaign is to set a Guinness World Record for most downloaded software in a single day.

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Late Wednesday evening, a Mozilla spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews that the day the final edition of Firefox 3.0 would be made available to the general public, will be this upcoming Tuesday, June 17.The time the final edition goes live was not disclosed, although the organization said it will be converting its headquarters in Mountain View, California, into “Camp Firefox” where invited guests and employees will celebrate its efforts to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded piece of software in a 24-hour period. That celebration is set to begin in the early evening, Pacific time. continue

In the span of a few minutes in San Francisco today, Steve Jobs stuck a needle in big balloons hanging over Google and Microsoft. By announcing and taking the wraps off MobileMe, Jobs and Apple did what Google and Microsoft have tried but have failed to do: Define the cloud, and turn it into a broad-based, software-as-a-service offering for anyone. It has potential to integrate work and life, documents and images, PCs and phones.

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After a number of companies have had plenty of time to mark their territory in the web-based document market, Adobe has finally tossed its hat into the ring with Acrobat.com. Adobe pitches the site as an online space to “share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others,” so I gave it a run-through to see if I could use it to impress my editors.

Acrobat.com is in open beta for anyone to try out. Its main landing page serves as a sort of dashboard to the five current loosely related components or applications of the site: Adobe Buzzword (which we looked at when it launched last October), Adobe ConnectNow, Create PDF, Share, and My Files. The entire site is designed in Flash, including all the applications.

Going down the line of Acrobat.com’s applications, Buzzword hasn’t changed much since we looked at it. It’s a halfway-usable word processor, though extremely low on formatting options. Buzzword’s Flash-based nature, however, also throws out all the text conventions and tools that users may be used to from their OS. Mac OS X, for example, offers a rich set of text manipulation and selection controls, as well as a system-wide spelling and dictionary tools; none of these are available in Buzzword.

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Google just released a new browser plugin that lets users experience Google Earth from directly inside a webpage. The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily incorporate Google Earth into their applications, just like what they did with Google Maps a long time ago.

The downside is that nobody has the plugin yet, so any representation of Earth you put on your website is instead displayed as a box telling your users to install the plugin (but this is a common and acceptable practice). The install is easy and fairly unintrusive — basically a couple clicks and browser restart. In Firefox at least (I haven’t tried installing on IE yet), the browser restart shouldn’t be necessary (Microsoft’s Live Earth does everything it needs to without one).

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Ulteo Virtual Desktop (Beta) allows you to use Linux applications on the Windows(TM) operating system.

Ulteo Virtual Desktop is a full Ulteo system that runs seamlessly on Windows and offers a large choice of Linux applications, including the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client, OpenOffice.org office suite, multi-IM software such as Kopete and many others.

It also offers all Ulteo features that are already available with the Ulteo Application System. This includes automatic system and application updates from the Internet and document synchronization accross all your user’s Ulteo systems.

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Mozilla Corporation on Friday released Firefox 3 RC1, more or less the final form of this iteration of the popular open-source Web browser. RC stands for Release Candidate and represents a stage in which the browser’s features are complete and the code is stable enough for public testing. Barring any serious bugs, RC1 will become the official release version of Firefox 3, which is planned for June.Firefox 3 offers significantly improved speed and memory usage.

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