On November 12th, 2025 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft employs various schemes to stop Edge users from switching to Chrome, and the latest includes financial rewards...
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On June 5th, 2025 with 40 comments
BrianFagioli writes: Google is flexing its engineering muscles today by announcing a record-breaking score on the Speedometer 3 benchmark with its Chrome...
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On March 31st, 2025 with 29 comments
The Certification Authority/Browser Forum "is a cross-industry group that works together to develop minimum requirements for TLS certificates," writes Google's...
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On February 11th, 2025 with 46 comments
Google's Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better...
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On January 2nd, 2025 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered dozens of attacks that involve malicious updates for Chrome...
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On September 17th, 2024 with 52 comments
Google is updating the post-quantum cryptography in Chrome, replacing the experimental Kyber with the fully standardized Module Lattice Key Encapsulation...
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On September 11th, 2024 with 23 comments
Google is adding some new features to Chrome that aim to help users organize and keep track of their browser tabs across both desktop and mobile devices. From...
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On May 31st, 2024 with 86 comments
Google has published an update on the deprecation timeline of so-called Manifest V2 extensions in the Chrome web browser. Starting this June, Chrome will...
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On March 26th, 2024 with 20 comments
Google is releasing an optimized version of its Chrome browser for Windows on Arm this week, the search giant has announced alongside chipmaker Qualcomm. From...
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On March 15th, 2024 with 163 comments
Microsoft has been pushing Bing pop-up ads in Chrome on Windows 10 and 11. The new ad once again encourages Chrome users (in bold lettering) to use Bing...
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On January 30th, 2024 with 143 comments
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the...
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On December 22nd, 2023 with 39 comments
Google's Safety Check feature for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the internet to see if any of your saved passwords have been compromised, will now...
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On November 2nd, 2023 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. While prototyped, it was only at...
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On October 24th, 2023 with 149 comments
Downloading Chrome using Microsoft Edge is already a nightmare filled with banners and stop-gaps, and nothing seems to be stopping Microsoft from adding even...
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On October 18th, 2023 with 25 comments
Google is making a few changes to the way its search and address bar -- known as the omnibox -- works in the Chrome browser. The changes are individually...
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On August 30th, 2023 with 106 comments
An anonymous reader writes: I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing...
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On August 13th, 2023 with 13 comments
"Teams across Google are working hard to prepare the web for the migration to quantum-resistant cryptography," writes Chrome's technical program manager for...
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On April 16th, 2023 with 13 comments
Bleeping Computer warned this week about compromised web sites "that display fake Google Chrome automatic update errors that distribute malware to unaware...
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On April 16th, 2023 with 29 comments
"Earlier this week, Google released an emergency security update for the Chrome browser due to a vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild,"...
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On February 27th, 2023 with 19 comments
Google Chrome's giving its page zoom feature a boost, which should make it more helpful for people who have difficulty reading the smaller screen on a phone....
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On January 4th, 2023 with 71 comments
Computers using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will no longer get the latest version of Google Chrome, beginning with the latest version, Chrome 110, which will be...
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On December 1st, 2022 with 13 comments
Google researchers say they have linked a Barcelona, Spain-based IT company to the sale of advanced software frameworks that exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome,...
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On September 6th, 2022 with 15 comments
Google has released Chrome 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a single high-severity security flaw, the sixth Chrome zero-day...
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On August 18th, 2022 with 9 comments
Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now game streaming service to support 1440p resolution at 120fps in a Chrome or Edge browser. GeForce Now members on the RTX...
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On July 24th, 2022 with 10 comments
"Google has released security updates for Google Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux, addressing vulnerabilities that could allow a remote attacker to...
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On May 28th, 2022 with 10 comments
This week Google began a rolling release for stable Chrome version 102 "with 32 security fixes for browser on Windows, Mac and Linux," reports ZDNet:
Chrome...
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On May 1st, 2022 with 28 comments
Hot Hardware warns that on Tuesday, the Stable Channel for Chrome's desktop edition "had an update on April 26, 2022. That update includes 30 security fixes,...
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On January 12th, 2022 with 32 comments
Google says that its Chrome browser will soon block internet websites from querying and interacting with devices and servers located inside local private...
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On May 26th, 2021 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Thousands of Google Chrome extensions available on the official Chrome Web Store are tampering with...
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On April 21st, 2021 with 62 comments
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Google late Tuesday shipped another urgent security patch for its dominant Chrome browser and warned that...
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It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. -- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein
