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After the desktop, Google is adding the ‘Safety check’ tool to Chrome on Android. Recently, Google introduced redesigned security and privacy settings for Chrome on the desktop, along with them, Chrome received a built-in tool to check browser security and update status. Chrome on Android now receiving the Safety check feature in Canary. The tool …
Google is now rolling out the new features it announced last month to Chrome browser along with new ‘Extensions’ Menu, here is how to disable the Extensions menu if you don’t like it. Chrome users now started to receive redesigned privacy settings, Safe check, and a new Extensions Menu that appears when you click on …
New Microsoft Edge does not contain ‘Set aside tabs’ feature from Microsoft Edge legacy, now you can add it to the new Edge and Chrome browsers by installing an extension available on Chrome and Edge add-on Stores. The previous version of the Edge browser allows you to set all open tabs aside by clicking on …
This may be a coincidence or intentional after row over Google removing some malicious Chrome extensions, there is now an ‘Extensions Checkup’ experiment in Chrome stable, which when enabled, warns users that some extensions can affect users’ privacy and Chrome performance. Despite Google policing extensions on Chrome Web Store, somehow, malicious extensions skip its radar …
Google has released Scroll to Text fragment extension for Chrome on Chrome Web Store and is now available for download. Recently Google integrated Scroll to Text Fragment feature into Chrome browser (available in new Microsoft Edge also). The Text fragment makes it easy to generate and share a link to a particular piece of text …
Firefox and Chrome browsers have a privacy flaw where the user typed search terms are sent to DNS servers of ISPs, even when Private browsing mode or Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is used or DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is enabled. Mozilla with the upcoming version Firefox 79, offers a preference for users to control and …
PWA developers started to update their Apps to support showing app shortcuts on Android and jump lists or tasks on the Windows taskbar. Progressive Web Apps are the future. You don’t need to create separate apps for multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac, and Android as creating one PWA will serve the purpose and users …
After updating to Windows 10 May 2020 Update, some users noticed they’ve been signed out Chrome and sync has been paused whenever they restart Windows. Google is aware of this issue since Windows 10 2004 is in the insider stage and is currently investigating the root cause to fix the problem. There are reports on Reddit …
Google Chrome now supports saving PDF forms, the PDF Viewer offer options on toolbar to download original and edited documents. Google Chrome comes with a built-in PDF viewer that lets you view PDFs in your browser. Chrome displays PDF forms without any issues, but If you download a PDF after filling the form fields, you’ll …
Scrollbars and forms controls of the websites that support dark themes by using Prefers-color-scheme media query to appear darker as well in the Chrome browser in the dark mode. The dark mode is everywhere. It has been enabled and offered on Apps, Websites, and Operating Systems on devices. When a user sets the Operating System …
The latest Chrome Canary version 85 is now showing captions in real-time for a video or audio that is playing in the browser. We’ve reported Android’s captioning feature present in Pixel phones and selected other Android models, is coming to Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. The feature is now working. To test …
Soon, If you install Google Chrome on 64-bit Windows, it will be installed into C:Program Files directory instead of C:Program Files (x86). Google is making the required changes to the Chrome installer for this to happen. Google and Microsoft always recommend users to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit for Chrome and Windows for better security …