Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Chrome.
Tracking cookies have been a hot topic for debate for years. Ever since advertising companies first used them to build up a profile of Internet users, privacy activists have been calling for something to be done about it. Most browsers now block these cookies by default, but the largest of all, Goo... Read more
3 years ago
Google’s engineers are revered in the browser industry. They have been some of the most ardent proponents of browser security features. Over the past few years, they have been working with teams behind browsers like Tor and Firefox, to bring about many of the changes we see in browsers today. ... Read more
3 years ago
The hack works even when users flush caches or go incognito. For years, Intewrnet users have used a variety of tools to defend against websites tracking them. For example, they use anti-tracking browsing extensions, or they enable private or incognito browsing sessions, or they just clearing coo... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has made it possible to synchronise passwords stored in Edge with non-Windows devices. To do this, it has released a Chrome extension and added more features to the Authenticator app for mobile devices. Like any modern browser, Microsoft Edge has the ability to store passwords. These p... Read more
3 years ago
Apple has released an extension for Chrome that allows users who store their passwords in iCloud to use them in Chrome. Windows users will also benefit from this. The first hints that Apple was working on such an extension came out a few days ago when Apple released the latest version of iCloud ... Read more
3 years ago
Google has shared its plans to eventually move away from using cookies for building user profiles for marketing. Instead, the company wants to use artificial intelligence to show users relevant ads. To this end, the company has built a new AI called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). Google c... Read more
3 years ago
Google is testing whether increasing the cache in Chrome can mitigate performance losses from a previous update. The company had decided to separate the cache for different websites for security reasons. Until version 85 of Chrome, Google used a single pool to store all browser cache. The browse... Read more
3 years ago
Researchers say that around 3 million people worldwide have been affected. Threat Intelligence researchers from Avast this week announced that they have found 28 extensions for the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers that contain malware. According to Avast, the add-ons presented thems... Read more
3 years ago
A group of industry leaders came together to announce the launch of Modern Computing Alliance. They include Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware, and Zoom. The mission states to drive silicon-to-cloud innovation. The mission says that the results will ben... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft Edge joins Firefox and Chrome in the fight against abusive add-ons. For years, Google and Mozilla have been trying to prevent fraudulent browser extensions from infiltrating their official repositories. These fake extensions can range from a nuisance to outright malicious threats to t... Read more
3 years ago
