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Google has been hard at work to establish Manifest V3 as the new and only set of rules for Chrome extensions. Report suggest that Google has shifted the process into a higher gear and is disabling classic extension support for more Chrome users. The effect is the following: any extension that is not compatible with…
Google is apparently testing a new privacy feature in Chrome that blocks third-party cookies by default in the browsers Incognito mode. While that is great that Google is introducing the change, most Internet users may want to take matters into their own hands instead. Why not block third-party cookies altogether? Yes, there is a tiny-tiny…
Browser extensions are great. They improve usability and functionality on the Internet. From blocking ads and tracking over creating screenshots to improving password management or games. All extensions come with a manifest file. This file defines rights and permissions. One of these sets the websites the extension is designed to run on. This can be…
Google plans to roll out an automatic picture-in-picture mode in Chrome 134. The browser will be released next month. When it does, Chrome may continue to show video content on certain sites when the user scrolls away from the video content. This feature works for the most part identical to that of Mozilla Firefox, which…
If you still use Google Chrome, then you may have noticed that the browser displays a Google Lens entry in the address bar. It is still rolling out I guess, but more and more installations get this. With Google Lens integration, Chrome users may run searches for anything that they see on the page. So,…
Google released a new stable version of its Chrome browser today. The new version is a security and feature update. As far as security is concerned, users no longer have to worry about 17 security issues, as Google patched them in the new release. Three of the publicly disclosed one are rated high, which comes…
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…