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Google is testing new tab size options for Chrome

3 weeks

I’m a big fan and user of Tab Groups, but there comes a point when even this becomes overloaded, meaning the quest to improve tab management is never finished. Google is still working on the problem and is currently testing ...

Google Chrome is dropping support for some really old CPUs

by Surur

4 weeks

In a policy document, the Chromium development team has announced that they are dropping support for all x86 CPUs which do not have a minimum of SSE3 (Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3) support, starting in Chrome 89. This ...

QR Code web page sharing now generally available in Google Chrome

by Surur

1 month

Google has now rolled out the general availability of web page sharing via QR Codes in Chrome 88. The feature has been available behind flags for a while now, but is now available to all 70+% desktop users who use Google Chrome. T...

You can now sync your passwords between your iPhone and Windows 10

by Surur

1 month

Apple has just made a big hole in their walled garden by launching a browser extension for Chrome and Edge which allows users to sync their website passwords from Safari in the iPhone and Mac to Chrome or Edge on Windows 10 and ba...

Google Chrome on Android is getting a Read Later feature

by Surur

1 month

Google has been working on a Read Later feature for Android for some time, and the feature has now shown up, without a flag, on Chrome Canary for Android. The feature lets you “bookmark” articles you want to read later...

Tip: How to make sure you don’t lose your Chrome Tab Groups

by Surur

2 months

Google Chrome’s Tab Groups is a great way to deal with tab overload and organize your browsing, but you are always at risk of losing all of that organizing work of you accidentally close your browser. (There are 47 open tabs...

Chrome developers explore addressing performance issue by expanding browser cache

by Surur

2 months

Google’s Chrome developers recently addressed a security issue by partitioning your browser cache by website, rather than a single unified heap. Google Chrome engineers Josh Karlin and Shivani Sharma explained the issue with...

Google Chrome developers tries a new way to free up RAM better

by Surur

2 months

Google’s Chrome browser is a well-known RAM hog. We reported in June that Google was going to try Microsoft’s Segment Heap technology to reduce Chrome’s RAM usage by a 1/3, but in the end, Google abandoned this a...

You can now uninstall Chrome PWAs from the Windows 10 Settings Menu

by Surur

3 months

Microsoft has been pushing for some time to make Progressive Web Apps work as close to regular native apps as possible. One of Microsoft’s innovations has been to let Windows users uninstall Edge PWAs from the Windows 10 Set...

Chrome to work better with Windows 10 antivirus apps

by Surur

3 months

Google is working on a patch for Chrome which will make it work a bit better with antivirus apps on Windows 10. In a new commit on the Chromium Gerrit, Bruce Dawson, a software engineer at Google, explains an issue Chrome is havin...

Google extends Windows 7 Chrome end-of-support by 6 months

by Surur

4 months

Windows 7 exited Microsoft support in January this year, but a large number of companies and home users have still not upgraded to Windows 10. Google was planning to itself exit Chrome support for Windows 7 on the 15th July 2021. ...

Your Chrome browser has just had a big update

by Surur

4 months

We post regularly about Edge updates, but the vast majority of our readers use Chrome, and would be happy to hear that Google has just pushed out a big update to the browser. Faster, with longer battery life. Google says the brows...