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Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome
"Two years ago we launched Google Cast, an extension for Chrome that allowed you to show content from your favorite websites on the best screen in your home — your TV — using Chromecast. Whether watching your favorite show on Netflix, or sharing a photo slideshow at a family gathering, Google Cast makes it easy to extend the web to the big screen."
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Chrome is the most popular web browser of all
The others aren't even close. One time market-leader Microsoft Windows' Internet Explorer is a distant third.
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Google Chrome won't be allowed on Windows 10 S
Microsoft's newest Windows 10 edition is designed to allow desktop apps that have been converted to packages for the Windows Store. But a provision in the Store policies blocks desktop browsers like Chrome. Is it about security, or something else?
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"Particle" Chrome Extension Sold to New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware
A company is going around buying abandoned Chrome extensions from their original developers and converting these add-ons into adware.
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Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build
Google will reportedly debut a built-in ad blocking feature for its Chrome browser next year, and now we have the first concrete look at this addition to the web navigation software in action. In Chrome’s pre-release Canary app for Android, which previews and tests features coming later to the stable version, there is now a feature that allows users to toggle a built-in blocker for sites with intrusive advertising.
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Chrome will no longer autoplay content with sound in January 2018
Google today announced Chrome is going to war with autoplay. Starting next year, Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.
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Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is The Browser Built for 2017
The new Firefox is fast, it's secure, and it's full of clever little things that make web browsing better.
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HDR Video Playback Support is coming to Chrome for Android
The proliferation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video is the next step in improving video quality for all. HDR significantly improves the luminosity range and widens the color space, resulting in greater contrast and color accuracy. Android officially supports HDR playback support starting in Android 7.0 Nougat, though it’s up to individual devices to support a high color depth format and up to individual applications to support extracting HDR metadata from videos. It also requires a compatible display capable of producing the wider color space, of course.
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Google Chrome 64 Adds Parallel Download Feature to Accelerate Download Speeds
Google Chrome browser on Android is constantly getting better with new features being added each day. Google Chrome 63 recently rolled out to the stable channel and added support for Android Oreo‘s smart text selection feature. We also recently found evidence that the browser would soon support HDR video playback and a custom download folder, but we also discovered another feature that is rolling out to Chrome 64 and above: parallel download.
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Chrome will start blocking ads on February 15
In June, Google revealed that Chrome will stop showing all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that display non-compliant ads "starting in early 2018." Now the company has committed to a date: Chrome's built-in ad-blocker will start working on February 15, 2018.
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Malicious Chrome extension is next to impossible to manually remove
Extensions remain the Achilles heel for an otherwise highly secure browser.
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Google is making it Easier to Download all your Chrome Passwords
Export them to another password manager with just a few clicks.
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Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out
The browser you likely use to read this article scans practically all files on your Windows computer. And you probably had no idea until you read this. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Last year, Google announced some upgrades to Chrome, by far the world’s most used browser—and the one security pros often recommend. The company promised to make internet surfing on Windows computers even “cleaner” and “safer ” adding what The Verge called “basic antivirus features.” What Google did was improve something called Chrome Cleanup Tool for Windows users, using software from cybersecurity and antivirus company ESET.
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It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
Ever since it was first released almost a decade ago, Google’s Chrome browser has been the most consistent piece of technology in my life. I’ve gone through a legion of phones, laptops, and headphones, I’ve jumped around between Android, iOS, Windows Phone, macOS, and Windows, but I’ve rarely had reason to doubt my browser choice. Things have changed in recent times, however, and those changes have been sufficient to make me reconsider. After so many years away, I’m returning to Firefox, in equal measure pushed by Chrome’s downsides as I am pulled by Firefox’s latest upgrades.
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It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
Because everyone using Chrome for everything is a bad idea
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Google Brings WebVR to Chrome, All Major PC VR Headsets Supported
Google recently pushed out Chrome 66, the latest update to the company’s web browser. Unbeknownst to the VR community, Google also quietly included WebVR integration for OpenVR-compatible headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.
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Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too
The time has come.
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Mozilla is putting tracking protection front and center so you'll have more privacy online
An obscure but increasingly important browser privacy feature in Firefox is getting a big promotion. Mozilla developers accepted an update to the Firefox Nightly test version on Wednesday that makes tracking protection easier to discover, easier to use and more nuanced. Tracking protection blocks website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows your online behavior -- something that's useful for targeting ads to specific people but that can invade privacy.
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How a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 leaked Google Chrome tab data
Ever wonder how security vulnerabilities are found? UK based firm GraphicsFuzz explains how they came across a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 that they could exploit to see data from opened tabs in Google Chrome.
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China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
A Chinese software startup has become a laughing stock on Chinese social media after claiming to have developed China’s first fully homegrown browser only to be promptly exposed for copying Google. On Wednesday, the startup, AllMobilize Inc., unveiled its Redcore web browser to the public, boasting that it was the world’s first and only fully “made in China” browser and would come to smash the US monopoly on software. The company announced that in the latest round of fundraising it had raised a cool 250 million yuan ($36) from investors that included government agencies.
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