Tag: chromium

Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned

New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want

Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites

‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone

Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format

Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine

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Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution'

Format declared obsolete by Google Chrome team wins PDF support

This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected

Personal Tech

Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient

Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords

Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite

AI + ML

As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain

Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy'

Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds

Chrome and Edge on Windows can now join the fun

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Microsoft smartens up Edge for Business with screenshot blocking, logo branding, more

And real-time video translation for things like this: ¡Apestas, Redmond!

Opera sings sweetly with native version for Windows on Arm

Browser ditches x64 blues for a snappier tune

OSes

Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7

If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser

Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans

'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks

Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

In an industry that runs on hype, this might just live up to it

My God, it's full of tabs: Vivaldi's coolest new features shine on phones and cars

Opera founder's outfit continues to push the browser functionality envelope

Google polishes Chromium code with a layer of Rust

Mozilla-incubated systems language should make Chrome shine

Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium

And just for balance nixes version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well

Firefox 105 is here, and it's faster and more memory-frugal

If you love having thousands of tabs open, this might be one for you

Microsoft mistakenly rated Chromium, Electron as malware

Windows Defender update fixed the mess after a weekend of false positive weirdness

Chromium-adjacent Otter browser targets OS/2

See? Not everything old from IBM is being ignored

Scam, pyramid scheme, environmental disaster: Vivaldi boss shares his thoughts on crypto-coins

So not keen then?

Santa's sack is bulging with browsers: Vivaldi 5.0 arrives full of festive cheer

Keeping one's privates private

OSes

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

The days of redirecting microsoft-edge: links to a non-Microsoft browser are over

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Also: Engineers call for 'a diverse set of browsers across all platforms including iOS'

Citrix has built a browser, and lost a CEO

Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one's designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages

UK competition bods to keep tabs on Google, ensure 'Privacy Sandbox' doesn't distort competition

CMA claims to have taken 'oversight role' over removal of third-party cookies

Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser

Nú með þýðingarmöguleika

Vivaldi update unleashes the 'Cookie Crumbler' to simply block any services asking for consent (sites may break)

Plus: Browser sends Google's FLoC straight to the blacklist

Chrome and Chromium updated after yet another exploit is found in browser's V8 JavaScript engine

JS component seems to be focus of researchers and miscreants alike

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Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility

Software behemoths to spend 2021 fixing CSS pain points

OK, Google: Unshackled from Windows, Edge team is free to follow where Chromium leads

Microsoft's new browser dials up the release cadence

Chrome release cycle accelerated to four-weekly frenzy

Faster, Sysadmin! Install! Install!

Chrome zero-day bug that is actively being abused by bad folks affects Edge, Vivaldi, and other Chromium-tinged browsers

Install your updates pronto

Networks

Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion

That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned

Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November

'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably

OSes

Another Chromium browser for Linux? Microsoft Edge arrives in preview form, no love for Arm yet

One question: Why Redmond, why? Ah, you need to meet developers wherever they are...

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again

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Networks

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source