Chrome will no longer use Windows Segment Heap going forward. Google has decided to end the experiment as Microsoft informed it won’t offer control over the heap type. Chrome is switching to PartitionAlloc for Chrome as the company felt it” seems to offers the desired memory savings “. Google has noticed significant memory gains with …
After adding a new interface to the Profile Picker, the Chromium team is now updating Chrome’s manage profile page by bringing the custom theme generator available on the new tab page in the customize menu. While the current interface allows us to assign a profile name and choose a profile picture, in addition to these, …
To address Tab overflow issue in Chrome, Google added Grouping Tabs and Scrollable tab bar features. Chrome lets you scroll through extraneous tabs that no longer fit in the tab strip through Scroll buttons. The feature is a welcome addition to Chrome for sure, but the way feature development is progressing currently hints that scroll …
Google Chrome comes with Software Reporter Tool and it reports potentially unwanted programs found on your computer to Google. Chrome has this functionality baked and offers the Cleanup tool in Settings to perform an on-demand scan for adware. The Chromium team is now testing an option to notify the user when the harmful software scan …
Media Hub in Google Chrome is getting better and better to control music. Till now, in addition to offering playback controls, the redesigned Global Media Controls allows us to enter the playing video in Picture-in-Pcture mode and select audio devices connected to play the music. To the latest, Google is offering a switch to toggle …
Chrome for Android has recently received a Safety check feature, after rolling out Enhanced protection to desktop, Google is planning to bring the same to Android as well. But the feature can be already enabled in Chrome for Android, here is how you can do that. To provide tailored and proactive protections to you and …
Both Chrome and Edge support running PWAs when you log in to your computer. But the option to control the web apps from running on startup hasn’t been offered in these Chromium browsers. Microsoft and Google have worked together to bring the “Start app when you sign in ” option to the App context menu …
Google is working on a new feature for Chrome’s New Tab Page that shows advertisements on shopping based on your browsing activity on Google services. Currently, the feature is behind flags in Canary and you can here see a glimpse of what coming to the new tab in Chrome. Is Google trying to turn New …
For the last 10 days or so, Chrome and Edge users including Brave started reporting they’re seeing debug.log file on the desktop. According to reports, it is created when they open PDF files in Chrome or Edge, or another Chromium browser. A bug was filed back in 2017 for the same, so the issue isn’t …
Google is bringing a slew of new features to address the tab overflow problems in the Chrome browser. Till now it has shipped grouping tabs feature with collapsing support to organize tabs. Chrome’s upcoming Tab Scrolling and “Tab Search” features may actually solve the issue for most users. What you need to know: Google to let …
Recently we reported Chrome is getting a new Profile Picker interface and Ephemeral profiles. Google is now looking to make sure resources are freed up when a profile’s last window is closed. Generally, this happens when Chrome is closed completely. If you use multiple profiles, when you use one profile, the non-active profile still consumes […]
After upgrading to Windows 10 May 2020 Update, version 2004, Chrome users reported that they’re noticing Sync pause and cookies got deleted after every restart. Then Google, with help of Microsoft tried to figure out the root cause, but they were not able to. A user in the bug thread able to successfully found the …