Chrome upgrades HTTP to HTTPS, if available
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.
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Google tool automatically makes videos of webpages
Google has developed a new tool that allows web designers to create a sample video of a website easily. The tool, called URL2Video, uses machine learning to see which elements are important to highlight.
URL2Video looks at elements like images, videos, fonts and colours to capture the style of a... Read more
Google experiments with shortened URLs
A new way of shortening URLs in the address bar of the Chrome browser has been found in the developer version. Websites would no longer show the full URL in the address bar but would be shortened to the original domain name.
It is not the first time that Google explores such a feature in Chrome.... Read more
“Dangerous URLs are increasingly slipping past email security.
Although email providers do their utmost to detect dangerous URLs, they are less and less successful in doing so. The number of unblocked e-mails with links to dangerous websites rose by no less than 125 percent in the past quarter. This is what Mimecast says in the latest edition of its Email Secur... Read more
Mozilla Firefox will soon be blocking even more tracking methods
Mozilla has announced a series of measures to address the harmful effects of adtracking. To this end, the company today announced its new Firefox Web Browser Privacy Policy. It also contains a lot of information about the new tracking policy of the browser.
This is a Wiki document in which the compa... Read more
Google wants to get rid of the URL completely
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), the online addresses that are a bit like one of the most important ways of surfing the Internet, have an important problem. Because they have a complex structure, malicious people can easily exploit them. Google wants to do something about that.
Now it is easy for a... Read more