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Sites that don’t follow Better Ads Standards now paying price, apparently Google has started blocking ads on abusive sites they know so far in Chrome Canary and showing “ads blocked” notification in the address bar when users visit such sites and offer an option within the notification to allow ads on that site. We’ve seen …
Google Chrome introduced Global Media Controls UI in Canary, this can be enabled and seen in the toolbar when YouTube videos are playing
Some users while trying to run Chrome Canary 77 on Mac now seeing a white screen and unable to use the browser, uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version not fixing the issue, here is a workaround for broken Chrome to work on Mac until Chromium team pushes a fix via update. Given that you’re using …
Latest Chrome 76 beta released for Android brought a new UI for the downloads page. The revamped downloads page sports “My Files” and “Articles for You” sections. In former, you can track files you’ve downloaded so far from Chrome to your device where as in latter, suggested articles will appear for you which you can […]
Chrome Canary now offers controls in Picture in Picture mode to play previous and next tracks in a playlist on YouTube
It is misleading to say Chrome comes with a built-in ad blocker enabled by default, it is correct to say it blocks intrusive ads on a list of sites that are manually reviewed by Google team and marked as abusive. The ads on these sites could be annoying and also prevent you from leaving the …
We’ve covered Chrome Omnibox displayed recent searches first instead of most visited sites, the issue is still present in Chrome 75 and 76 versions and can be resolved by disabling Google Drive document suggestions in Omnibox. Do note this is a workaround, today, Chromium team member apologized for this and said the issue would be …
Since sometime, for now, Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers are displaying Media Controls Overlay if you use media keys while videos are playing, there is another development taken place, Microsoft worked with Google to bring YouTube album or video info to overlay. This can be spotted in latest Chrome Canary and Edge (dev and …
Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) displays media overlays for YouTube videos when you use media keys on the keyboard, here is how you can disable them with a nifty little app that works on Windows 10. Recently, more users noticing this in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers when they use multimedia keys on …
Google is working on to bring Picture-in-Picture API to Chrome on Android, a flag to enable the feature is already available in Chrome Canary App,
New Tab Customization menu version 2 in Chrome 77 Canary allows you to set solid colors as new tab page background and apply colors to Chrome interface,
Phishing sites often use addresses that look almost right: “go0gle.com” instead of “google.com”, or a digit in place of a letter. Chrome 75 added … [Read more…]