Articles by Venkat Eswarlu
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Google Fixes the PDFs Issue in Chrome 80
A fix for PDFs issue in Chrome 80 stable is about to roll out, Chrome team found sending PDF full URL to Google for checking is causing the issue
Brave browser adds Native Wayback Machine 404 Support
Brave Software has baked Wayback Machine’s 404 detection system into its Brave desktop browser with a new 1.4.95 update to deal with 404- page not found and 14 other errors. If you now land on a broken web page in Brave, you’ll be allowed to look up for an archived page stored by Wayback machine. …
Firefox 75 removes https:// and WWW from URLs in address bar results [Megabar update]
Mozilla has dropped https:// and www prefixes from URLs in address bar results in Firefox 75, http:// will still be displayed
UBlock Origin v1.25 introduces First-Party Tracker blocking Exclusively for Firefox [Not available in Chrome]
Popular AdBlocking extension, UBlock Origin has received a new update (v1.25) to protect Firefox users against CNAME Cloaking or First-Party tracking or DNS delegation or DNA aliasing. The Extension brings the feature to Firefox by utilizing Mozilla’ WebExtensions DNS API, since there is no such comparable API available for Google Chrome, hence Chromium browsers may …
Microsoft Edge v82 enables Chrome’s Similar or Lookalike URL Suggestions

Google Chrome has Lookalike URLs warning protection in place to caution and make users navigate away when they visit sites that contain URLs similar to popular sites. The suggestion says is this your intention to visit that particular site such as Google.com and warns “The site you just tried to visit looks fake. Attackers sometimes …
This Tool creates URLs to find Specified content in Chrome [Scroll to Text Fragment]
A few months back we’ve reported Google will introduce Scroll to Text Fragment feature with a Chrome release, the related Chrome Platform Status page confirms the feature is enabled by default in Chrome 80 on desktop and Andriod, which is not half true. The Text Fragments feature will be available to some via finch experiment […]
Chrome for Android adds “copy image” option to Context menu

The ability to copy an image found on web in Chrome browser on Android to system clipboard isn’t a native feature or not built-into the browser, Chromium team is now making this possible for the user by offering a new context menu option with name “Copy image” which you could observe if long press on …



