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The Mute button that appears for videos in Picture in Picture Window in Chrome if you’ve Experimental Web Platform features enabled, can no longer be seen in PIP mode in Chrome 78. Francois Beaufort who works on Picture-in-Picture Web API has recently removed the Mute and “Skip Ad” buttons. With Chrome 73 on desktop, Google […]
Chrome starting version 76 onwards, runs Audio in a separate process on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Google has moved the Audio from browser process to a separate process and you can now notice “Utility: Audio Service” running in Chrome Task Manager when video or audio is playing in the browser. With the system audio …
Recently, we’ve covered Microsoft implemented battery life-extending solution in Chromium browser which is now available behind a flag in Chrome and Edge browsers, yet another contribution from MS, the “Reveal Password button” has been landed in Chrome 78 Canary and now shows you the password you’ve typed in the password field when you click on …
Google adds a 14 day cooldown period for Flash decpreciation message after it is dismissed
The downloads served over the insecure connection on HTTPS websites to be treated as mixed content and blocked by Chrome browser. The change has been rolled out 50% to Dev and Canary users, but as of now, it has been put on hold. Google is looking to block insecure downloads “initiated from secure contexts as …
Google Chrome now alerts if the browser detects the credentials you type while signing into the non-Google website has been leaked or part of a data breach. The company which recently has updated Password Checkup extension in Chrome Web Store now seems to have integrated the extension into browser and is available behind a flag …
Microsoft after moving to Chromium started working on improving device battery life. Based on their initial test results, disabling media caching to disk causes less disk activity during the media playback, by keeping the disk less active power consumption will also be decreased, which automatically results in power savings. MS knows how to improve battery …
Google Chrome which already doesn’t render FTP URLs, but downloads them instead in the browser when visited, no longer going to support FTP in Chrome 80 stable and Google is planning is to drop FTP related code and resources from Chrome 82. The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) which is used by websites to upload and …
With Avast or AVG antivirus installed, latest Chrome Canary now shows an info bar on startup with the message”you are using an unsupported environment variable: SSLKEYLOGFILE. Stability and security will suffer.” We always surprised why Google Chrome hasn’t had any issues with Avast in the past or present, which users greatly experience with every major …
You may no longer see Extended Validation Certificate (EV Certificate for short) indicators for websites in the URL bar in Chrome and Firefox browsers. The next Chrome 77 will get this change and the browser will show EV information in the Page Info dialog, Mozilla to follow Google and to remove the EV indicator from …
Google Chrome Canary now can auto change New Tab Page background with a new image every day if you enable “Refresh daily” switch in Background collection in NTP customization menu v2. Current Chrome Stable offers customize button in New Tab Page to let you upload and set a custom image as NTP background or you …
If you realized Google just fixed the loophole in the Chrome that prevents sites from detecting incognito mode, sites got clever and started using other methods to detect Private mode in Chrome 76. Chromium team itself aware of the fact that it is still possible to detect Incognito using File System API with Quota and …