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Google abandons plans to hide full URL in Chrome

1 day

For more than a year now, Google has been fighting to simplify the URL bar in Chrome, first hiding the http/https part of the URL, and then hiding the full URL, and only showing the domain name. With many malicious sites using spe...

Google is added submenus for Tab Groups in the Chrome History menu

by Surur

2 days

Tab groups is one of Chrome’s greatest UI innovations, but the company has been moving rather slowly on rounding out the needed feature set for the feature. The latest feature the company is working on is saving the names an...

Google is working on a more lavish PWA installation UI

by Surur

2 days

Like Microsoft, Google is working on making the PWA experience as close to that of traditional apps as possible. Currently, the company is working on an improved PWA installation experience in Chrome, as can be seen in this screen...

Google Chrome ‘Send to your device’ feature can now bypass your system notifications

by Surur

1 week

We posted a month ago that Google was revamping its Send tab to your device feature, working to replace the native system notifications with an internal notification that would show up in the toolbar. That work has now progressed,...

Chrome for Windows 10 is crashing due to user data corruption, here are some workarounds: Update – Now w...

by Surur

3 weeks

Over the last few days multiple users have been reporting issues with Chrome suddenly crashing on Windows 10, often preceded by pop-ups originating from their extensions. One user reports: Seemingly out of nowhere ~15 minutes ago,...

Google is testing a new feature that will allow users to follow websites directly in Chrome

by Pradeep

4 weeks

You can follow a website by subscribing to its mailing lists, notifications, and RSS. Google is now experimenting with a new feature in Google Chrome web browser that will allow you to follow a website directly in Chrome using th...

Google is revamping the Chrome ‘Send to your device’ feature

by Surur

1 month

Google Chrome has a neat feature where you can send a page you are currently viewing to other devices where you are signed in on. The link will show up as a notification, which you can then open in your browser on the second devic...

A developer is trying to fix a bug which makes it more difficult to migrate from Edge to Chrome

by Surur

1 month

A developer has discovered a bug in Chrome that would likely have frustrated many users over the coming months when trying to migrate from Edge to Chrome. It turns out that, once Google tries to import favourites from Edge, the br...

Google is updating the Chrome Global Media Control

by Surur

1 month

Google and the Chromium developers are actively working on the Global Media Control in the Chrome browser, and have posted on the Chromium Gerrit on a number of improvements that are on the roadmap. Google recently introduced a mu...

Google Chrome adopts Microsoft and Intel’s Hardware-enforced Stack Protection

by Surur

1 month

Google has announced that they have adopted a new exploit protection scheme developed by Intel and Microsoft to protect their Chrome browser. The feature uses Intel’s Intel’s Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), ...

Microsoft appears to have disabled Google’s FLoC in the Edge browser

by Surur

2 months

When asked directly if Microsoft support Google’s FLoC user profiling technology Microsoft has been far from clear cut, merely saying they intend to follow whatever standard the web eventually settles on, while promoting the...

Google highlights new Chrome features to improve your productivity

by Pradeep

2 months

Google recently posted a blog post to highlight several new features added to Chrome browser to improve the productivity of users. Read about the new features below. Link to highlight: Instead of copying the link from the address ...