Chrome To Start Limiting Background JavaScript Timer Wake Ups
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…
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Chromium Cyber-Condom! Chrome Blocks HTTP File Downloads
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? …
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AVG/Avast Online Security And SafePrice Lose Their Chrome Finish
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…
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A Friendly Reminder About Password Reuse And Just How Pwned You Are
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...
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The Reaper For Chrome, Sanity At The Sake Of Security
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,…
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The browser giveth and the browser taketh away
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…
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Google Chrome 73 Getting Media Keys Support
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...
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Chrome browser is hungry!
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…
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Chrome plated Windows? Microsoft is making like a magpie
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…
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Chalk up another one for Chromebooks
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…
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Chrome’s anonym-ish incognito mode
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. …
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Spectre doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance on the new Chrome, nor will your available RAM
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…
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Mozilla, Opera, and Google Pull Malicious Extension
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,…
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Google versus the law of unintended consequences
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…
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Chrome offers a more peaceful web
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…
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Cryptonight mining with Chrome
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…
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Fool me once, shame on me … Chrome gives Symantec the cold shoulder
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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Firefox 51 and Chrome 56 Launch with WebGL 2.0
After quite a bit of anticipation, both Mozilla and Google have just shipped compatible implementations of WebGL 2. This feature was unlocked to the public in Firefox 51 and Chrome 56…
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