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All modern web browsers support so-called push notifications. Websites may request permission to send notifications. When users accept, they may push notifications to the user’s system. Ideally, these are useful to the user. Maybe about a new post on the site, an auction running out, or about item availability in online stores. Most of the…
Announced last year, Google has now enabled real-time Safe Browsing checks in its Chrome web browser. Safe Browsing is a security component of the Google Chrome web browser. Its main purpose is to warn users about malicious websites or downloads. This includes protections against known phishing websites and malware. Google Chrome used a local list…
Under New Management is a new extension for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Its main purpose is to notify users when the owner of installed extensions changes. Here is why that is important: an entire ecosystem of companies exist that buy extensions to, usually, exploit the userbase and extract as much money as possible from…
Google Chrome has a hidden setting to enable scrolling on the tab bar. This guide explains how to enable the feature in the browser. When you open a lot of tabs in Chrome, you will come to a point where no tab gets added to the tab bar anymore. This is only a visual limitation…
The ability to create tab groups is a powerful feature that most browsers support. It allows you to group tabs together, which improves management of tabs significantly. Tab groups can be collapsed to reduce them to a single icon on the tab bar. Excellent if you need space on the tab bar for other tabs….
This guide explains how to remove all history entries of a specific websites from the browser’s Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. It should work in most other browsers as well. All web browsers record the websites that you visit while using them. The browsing history serves two main purposes: to…
Safe Browsing is a core security feature of Google’s Chrome web browser. The technology is also used by other browsers, often indirectly to improve privacy. Google revealed in a new post on the Chromium blog that it has optimized Safe Browsing checks in the Chrome web browser. The changes bring a performance boost to Safe…
At least for a year, some Chrome users reported that Edge imported data from their browser automatically. Back in May 2023, user Cerevox reported the issue on the official Microsoft Community website. Cerevox claimed that Edge imported bookmarks and passwords from Chrome automatically. In November, another user claimed that Edge imported favorites and browser data…
It seems like some companies have entered into the “adding the most AI tools into products” competition. Microsoft seems to be winning, with its pushing of AI into lots of its products. The company introduced Copilot Toolbar for Android recently, and many future Windows devices will even feature a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard….
This year has seen a fundamental shift on YouTube regarding advertising and adblockers. Not only is YouTube showing popups to some users who use adblockers, to get them to uninstall them or buy YouTube Premium, Google is also working on making adblockers in Chrome less effective. Without going into too many details. Chrome’s system for…