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Chrome 77 arrives with new performance metrics, form capabilities, and Origin Trials

Google today launched Chrome 77 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes new performance metrics, form capabilities, and Origin Trials. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome’s built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. With over 1 billion users, Chrome is both a browser and a major platform […]

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Google’s Safe Browsing service gets its own Chrome extension

Google today released the Suspicious Site Reporter Extension. As its name implies, the extension lets users report suspicious sites to Google’s Safe Browsing service. Google also highlighted that Chrome recently started warning users about sites with deceptive URLs. Google’s Safe Browsing service provides lists of URLs that contain malware or phishing content to Chrome, Firefox, […]

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Paid browsers are the future, and Firefox might offer a better deal than Chrome

Mozilla Corporation The future of the internet may lie in premium web-browsing services, and it looks like Mozilla could be handling that shift better than Google. As we reported earlier, Google’s recent move to block ad-blockers in Chrome, save for G Suite Enterprise subscribers, indicated an overall push for “pay-for-play” web browsing. And while the […]

Gears & Gadgets

Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome

Edge-on-Chromium’s homepage. Neowin Edge-on-Chromium’s more Windows-like settings page. Neowin Edge-on-Chromium’s dev channel about page. Neowin Edge-on-Chromium’s canary channel about page. Neowin Some early screenshots of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser have leaked to Neowin. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft seems to be working on a development cycle that’s similar to that of Chrome, with pictures of both a Canary […]

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New Chrome feature aimed at preventing websites from blocking Incognito Mode

PhotoMIX Ltd./Pexels A new Chrome feature, to be included in future versions of Google’s browser, is expected to finally address a fairly well-known loophole that allows websites to detect and block the use of Incognito Mode browsing. According to 9to5Google, Google’s efforts to implement a fix for the loophole were spotted on Chromium Gerrit’s source […]

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Report: Microsoft is scrapping Edge, switching to just another Chrome clone

Enlarge Getty / Aurich Windows Central reports that Microsoft is planning to replace its Edge browser, which uses Microsoft’s own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine, with a new browser built on Chromium, the open source counterpart to Google’s Chrome. The new browser has the codename Anaheim. The report is short on details. The […]