Chromium

OpenAI Would Totally Buy Chrome From Google, in Case Anyone Was Wondering

What red-blooded tech company wouldn't want a huge install base and the advantage of self-dealing?

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Apr 23

A Cat Covered in Toxic Chemicals Is Terrorizing Japan

The city of Fukuyama is on "cat watch" after a feline fell into deadly hexavalent chromium and escaped into the night.

Health Thomas Germain Mar 13

Samsung’s Internet Browser Makes Its Way to Windows, but Good Luck Trying to Install It

Samsung’s browser sure looks and feels a lot like Chrome, though, on its store page, Samsung itself seems confused which is which.

Tech News Kyle Barr Nov 29

Microsoft Edge Just Passed Apple Safari as the World’s Second Most Popular Browser on Desktops

Google's Chrome still holds a dominant lead, with Firefox in fourth place.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 3

6 Best Browser Alternatives to Google Chrome

Enhance your privacy and speed up your system with these top browsers.

Gadgets Phillip Tracy May 2

Seriously, What Is Going On With Microsoft Edge?

Microsoft is sending Edge users weird messages when they try to download Chrome, and it's not OK.

Tech News Phillip Tracy Dec 2

Like Google Chrome, Chrome OS Will Transition to a Four-Week Update Release Cycle

Google said it plans to sync the two release cycles in the third quarter of this year.

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jun 12

A Cloud-Based Google Chrome Sounds Neat, but Consider Upgrading Your Hardware Instead

As I sit at my desk typing this blog, I have 15 Chrome tabs eating up 790MB of memory. I also have 17 Microsoft Edge tabs open, which take up 535MB of memory. Aside from those two extra tabs on Edge, I have the same webpages open, yet Chrome is hogging more memory. Complaints about…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Apr 28

Why You Should Ditch Google Chrome For Microsoft Edge

The odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might just…

Gadgets David Nield Mar 29

Syncing up With Chrome, Microsoft Accelerates Edge’s Release Cycle to Every Four Weeks

Taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up the release schedule for its Edge browser and will issue updates every four weeks instead of six weeks, the company announced Friday. If reading that gave you déjà vu, that might be because Google issued a similar announcement last week in which it stated that it’s…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Mar 13

Google Might Be Tinkering With a Dual-Screen Chromebook

One screen? Pfft. In the past few years, we’ve seen plenty of dual-screen laptops and even some folding phones. Now, it would appear that Google is also experimenting with a Chrome OS gadget that has two touchscreens and a trackpad. The device, which is codenamed “Palkia”, was first reported by 9to5 Google. Palkia is described…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 21

You Can Check Out a Beta of the Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge Right Now

Today, Microsoft is releasing a stable beta of the new Chromium-based version of Edge, its first-party browser intended to rival Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Developer and Canary builds of the browser have been available for months, but we’re told this beta is a more a polished version intended for wider release. I spoke with Microsoft’s…

Tech News Alex Cranz Aug 20

Here’s Why Some Websites Can Still Tell You’re In Chrome’s Incognito Mode

The whole point of Incognito Mode on Chrome is to maintain some level of privacy on the internet—meaning, sites don’t know when you’re on them, and as a nice bonus, you can sometimes get around pesky paywalls. That said, web developers and publishers have since wised up, prompting Google to recently try and make Incognito…

Tech News Victoria Song Aug 12

Google Sticks Another Knife in Flash’s Corpse

The killing blow to multimedia software Flash made contact with its skull in 2017, when maker Adobe announced that it would begin Flash’s “end-of-life” phase and stop updating and distributing it by the end of 2020. Flash—which nerds of a certain age cohort may remember from sites like Newgrounds or files like “annoying.swf”—has been riddled…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 31

Google: No, Of Course, We’re Not Slowly Killing Ad Blockers

A few months ago, Google announced changes were coming to improve privacy, security, and performance with regard to Chrome extensions. In particular, one change didn’t sit well with ad blocker developers, who claimed Google was looking to diminish their efficacy. At the time, at least one company threatened to pursue filing an antitrust complaint. Yesterday,…

Tech News Victoria Song Jun 13

Google Brings 2FA Fingerprint Support to Its Web Browser With Chrome Beta 70

Chrome just celebrated its 10th birthday earlier this month, and even though it’s not quite the super fast and lightweight web browser that made people fall in love with it a decade ago, Google hasn’t stopped trying to cram new features into Chrome. In the newest version of the Chrome 70 beta, Google hopes to…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Sep 14

How to Install Chrome OS on Your Windows Laptop

Eager to try out Chrome OS, but not ready to ditch Windows entirely? Thanks to the latest software package from Neverware, you can have both. By installing the company’s CloudReady software, you can turn your Windows laptop into a Chromebook, and it’s also possible to set up a dual-boot system using both operating systems. First,…

Gadgets David Nield May 26

That Famous “School Bus Yellow” Color Used to Be Very, Very Toxic

You can recognize the bus in this picture, even though it is distorted, because of that iconic color. It was chosen in 1939 and used all over America. Later, people found out that while the shade was great, the chemistry left something to be desired. Here’s how school buses got covered in poison. Dr. Frank…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 9

Google Is Forking WebKit to Create a New Rendering Engine For Chrome and Opera

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be called Blink. That is, admittedly, super-nerdy news, but it’s important. Google claims that WebKit has been slowing down the way it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 4

Early Chrome Build, Canary for Mac, is Now Available

After knocking around on Windows since last August, the Google Chrome Canary pre-dev build is now available for Macs. In the words of Google, “it automatically updates more frequently than the Dev channel, and does not undergo any manual testing before each release. Because we expect it to be unstable and, at times, unusable, you…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 3

Chromium

OpenAI Would Totally Buy Chrome From Google, in Case Anyone Was Wondering

A Cat Covered in Toxic Chemicals Is Terrorizing Japan

Samsung’s Internet Browser Makes Its Way to Windows, but Good Luck Trying to Install It

Microsoft Edge Just Passed Apple Safari as the World’s Second Most Popular Browser on Desktops

6 Best Browser Alternatives to Google Chrome

Seriously, What Is Going On With Microsoft Edge?

Like Google Chrome, Chrome OS Will Transition to a Four-Week Update Release Cycle

A Cloud-Based Google Chrome Sounds Neat, but Consider Upgrading Your Hardware Instead

Why You Should Ditch Google Chrome For Microsoft Edge

Syncing up With Chrome, Microsoft Accelerates Edge’s Release Cycle to Every Four Weeks

Google Might Be Tinkering With a Dual-Screen Chromebook

You Can Check Out a Beta of the Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge Right Now

Here’s Why Some Websites Can Still Tell You’re In Chrome’s Incognito Mode

Google Sticks Another Knife in Flash’s Corpse

Google: No, Of Course, We’re Not Slowly Killing Ad Blockers

Google Brings 2FA Fingerprint Support to Its Web Browser With Chrome Beta 70

How to Install Chrome OS on Your Windows Laptop

That Famous “School Bus Yellow” Color Used to Be Very, Very Toxic

Google Is Forking WebKit to Create a New Rendering Engine For Chrome and Opera

Early Chrome Build, Canary for Mac, is Now Available

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

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The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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