Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox makes its First Appearance in Canary

Chrome already doesn’t allow third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode. That’s not enough and to make the web more private for users, Google is planning to kill 3rd-party cookies forever. The company wants to put cross-browser tracking under control through a new initiative called ‘Privacy Sandbox. The feature bits made into Chrome 89 Canary …

Fix Chrome & Edge’s “An error occurred while checking for updates. Updater is currently running “

You may occasionally see an error with the Chromium browser that informs updater is currently running, refresh in a minute to complete the update. If you run pre-release versions of Chrome and Edge that are in development such as Canary, you tend to see this error more often, here is how you can fix that …

Trend Micro Antivirus blocks Edge 87 & Chrome from running

Recent versions of Chrome and Edge aren’t opening to some users. OfficeScan agent in Trend Micro security Product s blocking these apps and preventing them from running. This has been acknowledged by the Security vendor and promised they’ll release a fix soon. Meanwhile, if you’re using Trend Micro and affected, a workaround is available to …

Trend Micro Antivirus blocks Edge 87 & Chrome from running

Recent versions of Chrome and Edge aren’t opening to some users. OfficeScan agent in Trend Micro security Product s blocking these apps and preventing them from running. This has been acknowledged by the Security vendor and promised they’ll release a fix soon. Meanwhile, if you’re using Trend Micro and affected, a workaround is available to …

Here’s how to Update Extensions in Chrome and Microsoft Edge

New Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports Chrome extensions. You can install extensions in Edge from Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons Store. As of now, the latter contains a limited number of extensions. Contrary to Edge Add-ons Store, Chrome Web Store contains thousands of extensions. You can install themes and extensions in the Chrome …

How to Enable and use ‘Chrome Actions’ in Chrome 87 right now

Recently Google has released Chrome 87 with new features and performance and memory improvements. “Chrome Actions” is one such new feature that lets you do things right from the address bar without the need to visit the Privacy and Security Settings. Like Chrome 83, Google has decided to progressively roll out the feature including Tab …

Chrome to Show web pages Performance metrics w/o Web Vitals Extension

Google has released Web Vitals Chrome extension that shows Web Performance metrics for a page in Heads Up Display such as largest contentful paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. In addition to these, Chrome may natively display Smoothness metric as well on Android and other platforms. As of now, to know how a …