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Google released Chrome 129 today for Android and desktop systems. The update fixes a few security issues and introduces new features and changes as well. One change in particular affects users of Chrome on Android: the automatic handling of inactive tabs. Once updated to Chrome 129 on Android, the browser will move inactive tabs to…
Security researchers have disclosed a vulnerability that affects all modern browsers. What makes it particularly worrisome is that it has been known for 18 years; that goes back to a time before Google even thought of creating Chrome. The details: In other words: the security issue allows the circumvention of security protections by malicious websites….
Google Chrome users who have extensions installed may soon have some or even all of their installed extensions disabled by Google. While all browser extensions may be impacted, it is ad blockers and privacy extensions that are impacted the most. One example: uBlock Origin, arguably the most loved and powerful content blocker available for browsers,…
Whenever there is an option to turn on a compact mode, I pick it. The main reason for that is that compact mode removes whitespace so that more content is displayed on the screen at the same time. Google is testing a compact mode for its Chrome web browser. An experimental flag was added in…
A report suggests that Google has sneaked code into Chromium-based browsers that is favoring Google-owned properties. Browsers like Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge appear affected. If true, it would give critics of Google’s dominance in web browsing a mighty powerful argument. Here are the details: Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers give *.google.com sites full…
Google released a new stable version of its Chrome web browser for all supported platforms. Chrome 126 is a security update first and foremost, but it makes non-security changes to the browser as well. The security update is available already. Google rolls out these updates over the course of days and weeks. Most Chrome installations…
Chrome 125 Security Update
Google is working on shutting down the old ruleset for Chrome browser extensions in favor of a new ruleset. The switch from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3 brings along with it a huge problem: extensions that are not updated will cease to work. While no one has counted the extensions that rely on Manifest V2…
Google has released quite a few security updates for its Chrome web browser in recent months. Besides the weekly scheduled security updates, Google has released updates to address 0-day vulnerabilities in Chrome. Today, Google released another security update for Google Chrome to address a 0-day exploit. The issue affects all desktop versions of Chrome and…
Google is working on removing support for third-party cookies in Google Chrome. Cookies continue to be of use, for instance to save preference or as session cookies. In an effort to make cookies more resilient to attacks, especially stealing, Google started to integrate Device Bound Session Credentials into Chromium. The main idea here is to…