Patched Your Chromium Yet?
If you happen to have a Chromium based browser on your system, and chances are that Edge is hanging around somewhere even if you haven't installed Chrome, Vivaldi and many others, you…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 9, 2021 | General Tech | 1
If you happen to have a Chromium based browser on your system, and chances are that Edge is hanging around somewhere even if you haven't installed Chrome, Vivaldi and many others, you…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 6, 2020 | General Tech | 0
Chrome's love of devouring available RAM is well known and the subject of more than a few internet jokes. There are a variety of reasons for this immense appetite and today we…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 10, 2020 | General Tech | 1
Are you tired of people downloading random files from the internet, running them and then complaining to you about how it isn't their fault the machine is now infected with something nasty? …
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 18, 2019 | General Tech | 0
Mozilla and Opera have already removed the four apps in question, two from AVG and two from Avast and now Chrome is following suit, for the same reasons. The applications in question…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 16, 2019 | General Tech | 5
Password reuse is common, according to this Google study it is a significant problem which affects hundreds of thousands of people and their many different accounts. There are tools such...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 18, 2019 | General Tech | 0
Chrome users are familiar with it's habit of devouring an impressive amount of system resources, generally preferring the taste of RAM but willing to chew up your CPU as well. David Flater,…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 10, 2019 | General Tech | 0
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Feb 12, 2019 | General Tech | 2
While the desktop version of Google Chrome has just been updated to 72, the next version, 73, will allow websites to bind JavaScript events to media keys. This means that...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 6, 2019 | General Tech | 5
Chrome developers are working to end one of the internet's long standing gags, that of Chrome munching every bit of RAM it can get it's hands on. The Chromium Gerrit project is…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 4, 2018 | General Tech | 0
There are two very interesting rumours about Microsoft circulating the intertubes today, both involving Alphabet's Chrome products. The most shocking is that they have finally internalized the fact that when people refer…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 30, 2018 | General Tech | 1
The new Pixel Slate has an impressive 12.3", 3000x2000, 293ppi touchscreen, powered by the UHD 615 GPU on the Core i5-8200Y. You will also find 8GB and a 128GB SSD, what you…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 23, 2018 | General Tech | 9
To cut straight to the chase, if you are browsing anonymously and log into one of your accounts, you are no longer anonymous; a seemingly obvious fact which is making headlines today. …
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 12, 2018 | General Tech | 8
Chrome's predilection for gobbling up vast amounts of RAM will soon increase to new levels but it is for a very good reason. Chrome 67 will offer a Site Isolation feature which…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jul 7, 2018 | General Tech | 5
I don’t think this should surprise anyone, but it’s good to report on none-the-less. There was a popular browser extension, called Stylish, that allowed users to customize the pages that they visit,…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 16, 2018 | General Tech | 3
Killing off autoplaying adverts in Chrome is a wonderful thing and has brought peace and quiet to many a browsing session, unless you are someone who likes to play games in your…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 14, 2018 | General Tech | 2
On Feb 15th Chrome will push out an update which will enable ad filtering on the popular web browser. They will not take this to the extremes of many ad blocker or…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 24, 2017 | General Tech | 0
Have you noticed your Chrome sessions are using a lot more CPU power now than they used to and you have installed the Short URL (goo.gl) extension recently? Congratulations, you are a…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 12, 2017 | General Tech | 2
The original issue dates back two years ago, when a serious security issue was discovered effecting all Norton and Symantec products which allowed an attacker to easily infect your Windows kernel without…
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