Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks
Vivaldi and others line up behind Opera to request a rethink
Software07 Oct 2024 | 17
Chrome
Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
Browser becomes more proactive about trimming unneeded permissions and deceptive notifications
Security12 Sep 2024 | 11
Rock Chrome hard enough and get paid half a million
Google revises Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program with higher payouts for bug hunters
Security29 Aug 2024 |
It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0
Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem
Research09 Aug 2024 | 39
Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin
Will you see the Lite?
Applications06 Aug 2024 | 97
Chrome adopts app-bound encryption to stymie cookie-stealing malware
Windows users now get macOS-grade secret security
CSO31 Jul 2024 | 4
BROADER TOPICS
Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update
Happy Sysadmin Day
CSO29 Jul 2024 | 13
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage
OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation – asking for a friend in Brussels
Applications12 Jul 2024 | 46
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings
Security28 Jun 2024 | 24
Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls
Because if there's one thing it really needed more of...
Software26 Jun 2024 | 2
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests
All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate
Research23 Jun 2024 | 34
Google's Privacy Sandbox more like a privacy mirage, campaigners claim
Updated Chocolate Factory accused of misleading Chrome browser users
Security13 Jun 2024 | 8
Google borrows from Android to make ChromeOS better
'Large portions' of droid tech stack going into laptop OS plumbing
OSes12 Jun 2024 | 7
PC makers hopeful that Chromebook refresh cycles about to kick in
Kids can be rough despite efforts to keep budget computers out of landfill
Personal Tech11 Jun 2024 | 15
Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest
Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near
Applications31 May 2024 | 77
Not even Chromebooks can escape AI PC craze: Google to inject Plus laptops with LLM juice
New models will come with a year of Gemini Advanced, too
Personal Tech28 May 2024 | 5
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities
Security24 Apr 2024 | 10
Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee
Cloud Next Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s
Security10 Apr 2024 | 33
Google bakes new cookie strategy that will leave crooks with a bad taste
Device Bound Session Credentials said to render cookie theft useless
Security03 Apr 2024 | 27
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds
OSes26 Mar 2024 | 16
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs
Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant
Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it
Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 16
Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands
Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware
Applications07 Mar 2024 | 22
Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7
If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser
OSes06 Mar 2024 | 49
Worried about the impending demise of Windows 10? Google wants you to give ChromeOS Flex a try
Hello, Mr. Frying Pan, meet Mr. Fire
Personal Tech15 Feb 2024 | 61
Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments
I'd buy that for a $0.00000001
Applications13 Feb 2024 | 105
Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format
Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
Applications03 Feb 2024 | 75
Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
Updated What goes together better than Redmond and respecting people's preferences? Everything, really
OSes30 Jan 2024 | 56
Native Chrome arrives fashionably late to the Windows on Arm party
If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all?
Software29 Jan 2024 | 15
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 92
Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms
Google accused of tracking you even when you think it won’t
Personal Tech29 Dec 2023 | 44
Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature
DOM-XSS attacks have become scarce on Google websites since TT debuted
Security21 Dec 2023 | 16
Google pencils in limited third-party cookie purge for January
One percent of Chrome users will experience the web as if using Firefox or Safari
Personal Tech14 Dec 2023 | 19
How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators
Opinion Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case
Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 129
What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work
Special report Manifest V3 transition deemed 'far from terrible' and yet not great for content filters
Personal Tech18 Nov 2023 | 97
Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox
Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur
Software02 Nov 2023 | 26
Google - yes, that Google - testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy
Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay
Software23 Oct 2023 | 26
Google's third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 ... for 1% of Chrome users
And in full swing starting Q3
Personal Tech12 Oct 2023 | 11
CISA adds latest Chrome zero-day to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Chrome’s second zero-day of the month puts fed security at 'significant risk'
Security03 Oct 2023 |
Google doubles minimum RAM and disk in 'Chromebook Plus' spec
Some may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP
Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 24
EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox
Google says Topics warning is anti-innovative fearmongering
Personal Tech30 Sep 2023 | 81
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 51
Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up
Updated Exploit observed in the wild against codec lib in browsers, apps
Patches12 Sep 2023 | 9
Google opens up Chrome 117 Developer Tools box, drops in a few spanners
Web devs, rejoice: Finally something is happening in the quiet and steady world of JavaScript
Devops17 Aug 2023 | 8
Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
Interview Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads
Security11 Aug 2023 | 25
4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises
Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech'
Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 41
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans
'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks
Software03 Aug 2023 | 32
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
OSes18 Jul 2023 | 239
AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks
Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web?
Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 7
Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details
WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more
Applications11 May 2023 | 7
What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere
We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to
Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 8
Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard
Logowatch As blue check marks start showing up in Gmail
Security03 May 2023 | 40
Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams
The 1990s are back, baby
Applications02 May 2023 | 53
Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing
Remember next time Redmond begs you not to install another browser
Security26 Apr 2023 | 36
Appeals court spares Google from $20m patent payout over Chrome
Chocolate Factory can afford some staples now, or?
Security19 Apr 2023 | 8
Chromebook expiration date, repair issues 'bad for people and planet'
Updated US PIRG slams Google for selling schools short-lived, repair-resistant kit
Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 110
Google crams more AI into search as Apple, Samsung sniff around Bing
Mountain View may have nothing to fear, though – Microsoft's browser is still the underdog
AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 6
Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again
Manifest V2 will die another day
Personal Tech01 Apr 2023 | 26
Google euthanizes Chrome Cleanup Tool because it no longer has a purpose
Times have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself)
Security11 Mar 2023 | 4
Google Chrome fights the power drain (again)
Battery usage optimization comes to Apple MacBooks
Software28 Feb 2023 | 6
Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page
Monopoly giant can't stand it when anyone else has a monopoly
Applications23 Feb 2023 | 184
What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue
Exclusive Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari
Applications17 Feb 2023 | 40
Biting the hand that feeds IT
