Tag: Chromium

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Chromium team defies Apple with Blink-based browser

Chromium team defies Apple with Blink-based browser

Google's Chromium dev team is about to go against Apple's rules for iOS browser development. This week Apple Insider reported that Google's Chromium team is working on developing a new browser for iOS based on Blink, instead of using Webkit as mandated by App Store policies. The Google Chromi... Read more

date1 year ago
Microsoft 365 is about to work much better on ChromeOS

Microsoft 365 is about to work much better on ChromeOS

Google and Microsoft are finding ways to work together while still competing on many fronts. ChromeOS is getting much better support for Microsoft 365. Microsoft and Google are the two tech giants who compete most viciously for dominance in the consumer computing, cloud, search and apps world. ... Read more

date1 year ago
Google brings Rust support to Chromium

Google brings Rust support to Chromium

The move aims to simplify development while delivering a safer browser experience. This week Google announced that the Chromium project is going to support third-party Rust libraries from C++ in Chromium. In fact, Google is actively pursuing adding a production Rust toolchain to their build syst... Read more

date1 year ago
Google ends support for JPEG XL in Chromium

Google ends support for JPEG XL in Chromium

Google will phase out JPEG XL from Chromium. The format has been supported from February 2022 onwards, but Google reportedly sees too little interest in the ecosystem to continue maintaining the standard. Chromium M110, an upcoming version of the browser backend, will not support the JPEG XL for... Read more

date1 year ago
Google patches critical vulnerability in Chrome

Google patches critical vulnerability in Chrome

Google is deploying a Chrome update to address a critical vulnerability actively exploited by hackers. According to a blog post published by Google on Friday, the flaw was discovered in Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux. Google's experts are working on fixing the problem, which will be released ... Read more

date2 years ago
Microsoft puts an end to Internet Explorer

Microsoft puts an end to Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer will no longer be available on modern Windows versions from Wednesday 15 June onwards. Microsoft is putting an end to the browser. Most Windows 10 users will be redirected to Microsoft Edge, the modern variant of Explorer. For them, Internet Explorer is no longer available. Use... Read more

date2 years ago
Chromium streamlined its code and Root DNS traffic plummeted

Chromium streamlined its code and Root DNS traffic plummeted

Industry oberservers have known for some time that Chromium-based browsers generate a lot of DNS traffic. Due to the browser code, Chromium-running machines would do DNS queries to try to determine if input into their omnibox is a domain name or a search query. Now, a cleaned-up version of the Chro... Read more

date3 years ago
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