Windows Is The Only One Safe From An 18 Year Old Browser Vulnerability
The news from Bleeping Computer about the fact that there is a 18 year old browser vulnerability is rather depressing, though there is a tiny bit of amusement to be...
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Tag: Chrome
Quickly Stop Google Chrome’s Blue AI Box Ruining Your Search
It has been about two weeks since Google injected AI into the search results of many of their users, in the form of a blue box with AI powered results you need…
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How To Check If You Are In Google Chrome’s Cookie Phaseout Test
Google Chrome is testing a third-person cookie phaseout, adopting something many other browsers have offered for some time. Google is implementing it in a different way, which they believe will provide better…
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Edge Is Taking Over Chrome Yet Again
Edge has found a new way to usurp your browser of choice, at least if it is Chrome. There has been no official documentation of this change, nor did Microsoft...
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Hope You Didn’t Install The “Quick Access to Chat GPT” Extension
Guardio Labs detected a Chat GPT themed piece of malware pretending to be a Chrome Extension called "Quick access to Chat GPT". While you are playing with the so called AI, the…
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A Solution To Chrome’s RAM Addiction?
Google promised us Energy Saver and Memory Saver modes back in December and are finally making good on that promise in Chrome 110. It is being rolled out simultaneously to...
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Perhaps Today Chrome Will Let You Save To Your Network
Today should see the release of Chrome 110, though as of yet there is no sign of it. While most Chrome updates, and those of web browsers in general, go unremarked…
Read MorePodcast #690 – Arc A380 on sale in USA, LoTR Keyboard, Fractal Focus 2, LIVA One A300, iOS VPN fail
First of all, if you're here as a Josh Foodie Fan, turn back now. This week is very heavy on product reviews, though we do begin with our traditional Intel Arc news -…
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Chrome Changes It’s Sparkplug And It’s V8 Gets A Speed Boost
Microsoft has given up on trying to align it's Chakra and moved to Alphabet's V8 engine for javascript on Chredge but Chrome will have a speed boost thanks to a change in…
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Chrome 90 Will Utilize AMD and Intel Hardware Security Features
If you are running a Tiger Lake or Zen 3 processor on a recent version of Windows 10 you now have the option to enable chip level security on...
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Closed Captioning Comes To Chrome
Alphabet, or Google if you prefer, is expanding the closed captioning support they offer on YouTube, Pixel devices and many Android phones. As of the Chrome 89 and later, you can enable…
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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…
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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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