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Ryan Whitwam - Mon, Oct 09, 2023
Modern browsers like Chrome make it a snap to open links in new tabs, and that's led to many a cluttered window. The next version of Chrome might ease the burden with automatic tab organization. Simply tell your browser to organize your...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, May 09, 2023
A new study has confirmed something we've basically known subliminally all along—that our internet browser tabs correlate with stress and information overload.
Spring might not just be relegated to merely deep-cleaning your home. A...
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Mark Tyson - Mon, Mar 06, 2023
Microsoft is preparing a new AI-powered upscaling technology for distribution as part of its Edge browser experience, dubbed Video Super Resolution (VSR). The technology behind VSR sounds a lot like NVIDIA’s recently enabled RTX Video...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 09, 2022
We've been hearing for years (literally) that Google is working to make Chrome less of a memory hog. Maybe not in those exact words, but Google has pushed out an updates on numerous occasions with optimizations designed to make the browser...
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Nathan Wasson - Thu, Nov 10, 2022
Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Zimperium have discovered a botnet made up of web browsers infected by malware. The malware in question is known as Cloud9 and takes the form of browser extensions. When installed, these browser...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Oct 25, 2022
Researchers at the cybersecurity company Guardio have uncovered a campaign that has stealthily injected malware into the chromium-based browsers of over one million victims. The campaign makes use of browser extensions distributed through...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 06, 2022
It's been several days since Google began rolling out an important security update for its Chrome browser, but even so, there's no guarantee that it's been applied on your system yet. Given the acknowledgement that the patched flaw is one...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 20, 2022
One of the perks of using Chrome is a wide assortment of browser extensions at your disposal. Including themes and apps, there are over 200,000 of them in the Chrome Web Store. There's strength in numbers but as it turns out, having so...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 14, 2022
We are fast approaching the end of an era. In just one more day, Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer, ending a long run that began way back in 1995. When that happens, the desktop IE 11 app will cease to function as it has up...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 25, 2022
Google has begun rolling out another update to its Chrome browser on all the major desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, and Mac) and there are at least 32 reasons why you should apply it sooner rather than later. That's the number of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 04, 2022
Do you remember what you were doing towards the tail end of 2004? One thing you might have been doing was navigating the web with Firefox version 1.0, which emerged in November of that year and would later become a hugely popular...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 15, 2022
Google is pushing out an emergency patch for its Chrome browser on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac to protect against a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. Applying the patch updates...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 22, 2022
Internet Explorer is going into retirement this summer, and lest anyone may have forgotten or didn't take Microsoft seriously, the Redmond outfit is sending out a new wave of notices to Windows 10 users. Those who still don't take the hint...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 07, 2022
If you wait long enough, your software programs, utilities, and operating system will all take the initiative to apply any applicable updates, depending on how you have things configured. Even if you rely on automatic updates, though...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Feb 17, 2022
More than 22 years ago, almost everyone knew that the world was ending when the clock ticked to the year 2000. A general panic ensued as people expected planes to fall out of the sky and nukes to launch due to dated software and hardware...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 25, 2022
After more than a year of testing, Google is abandoning plans to replace support for third-party tracking cookies with the "Federated Learning of Cohorts," otherwise known as FLoC, basically an algorithm that sorts people into groups with...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 10, 2021
Digital privacy advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is telling Chrome browser users to beware of Google's plan to transition extensions to Manifest V3, which Google touts as being "more secure, performant, and privacy preserving...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 06, 2021
Which do you prefer when browsing the web—raw speed or a combination of security and privacy? Generally speaking, modern browsers deliver the whole kit and caboodle, which is the way it should be. That said, Microsoft is testing a new...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 12, 2021
Coping and pasting content from the web is about to become a whole lot more flexible, courtesy of some new APIs (application programming interfaces) Microsoft and Google are working on for their respective browsers. Once in place, Edge and...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 19, 2021
There was a time when a surefire way to get us to roll our eyeballs all the way to the back of our heads was for Microsoft to tout the sheer performance of its Internet Explorer browser, and then later its Edge browser. Not anymore...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 06, 2021
If you have not given it a test drive yet, Microsoft's retooled Edge browser is pretty good. As it should be, considering it is based on Chromium, the same underlying platform that power's Google's own Chrome browser. Edge also just got a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 18, 2020
Have you updated to the latest version of Google's popular Chrome browser yet? You should, because as far Google is concerned, this month's update delivers the biggest performance gain in years, the result of several tweaks and...
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