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Google Chrome may soon keep your back button from being hijacked

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

You’ve been there: Caught on a dodgy website, faced with a barrage of ads or suspicious content, and found yourself trapped — no matter how much you hit the back button.

It’s a sinister issue called “history manipulation,” where multiple dummy pages are inserted into your browser’s history to fast forward you to the page you were trying to leave.

The issue has been on the Chrome team’s radar since 2016, and now it could be a thing of the past in a future release of the browser, as spotted by 9to5Google.

In a series of published Chromium code changes, Chrome would flag pages that have been added to the back/forward history without the user’s intention, then skip them when the user hits the back button. Read more…

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Mozilla and Qualcomm are bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM

sudshr47 December 6, 2018

Microsoft is working with Google to bring a native ARM64 version of Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM and as Mozilla announced today, it, too, is working on bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM. The organization is doing so in cooperation with Qualcomm. Typically, to make any Windows 10 application […]

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Microsoft Edge goes Chromium (and macOS)

sudshr47 December 6, 2018

The rumors were true: Microsoft Edge is moving to the open-source Chromium platform, the same platform that powers Google’s Chrome browser. And once that is done, Microsoft is bringing Edge to macOS, too. In addition, Microsoft is decoupling Edge from the Windows update process to offer a faster update cadence — and with that, it’ll […]

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Microsoft’s next browser might be based on Chromium

sudshr47 December 4, 2018

Remember the browser wars? In 1995, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer and started bundling it with Windows in order to snatch away market share from the then-dominant browser, Netscape. It worked — in the early naughts, all everyone ever used for browsing was Internet Explorer.

But then came the alternatives: Firefox in 2004 and Google’s Chrome 2008. These browsers were faster and more advanced than Internet Explorer and they slowly chipped away at Microsoft’s browser market share, prompting Microsoft to essentially kill IE in 2015 and replace it with Edge.

Now, however, we may be near the point in which Microsoft throws in the towel and switches to a browser based on Chromium, Google’s open-source browser project upon which Chrome (and several other browser, like Brave or Opera) is built. Read more…

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Google Chrome will warn you before you fall for a phone subscription scam

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

Found yourself subscribed to a shady ringtone service? Even though it’s 2018? Google Chrome will soon stop you from falling into that trap.
In an upcoming version of Chrome, the browser will throw up a warning page when it suspects users could be unw…

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Chrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scams

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to you, sign you up for a mobile subscription that’s billed through your carrier. Starting with the launch of Chrome […]

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Google tweaks Android licensing terms in Europe to allow Google app unbundling — for a fee

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

Google has announced changes to the licensing model for its Android mobile operating system in Europe, including introducing a fee for licensing some of its own brand apps, saying it’s doing so to comply with a major European antitrust ruling this summer. In July the region’s antitrust regulators hit Google with a recordbreaking $5BN fine for […]

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Google’s Project Stream will be huge for PC gaming

sudshr47 October 1, 2018

Google announced Project Stream today, which allows Google Chrome users to stream video games.
Project Stream is a new video game streaming service that Google is testing, and you can test yourself if you’re lucky. To be clear: this is not a service …

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Google wants to make Chrome extensions safer

sudshr47 October 1, 2018

Google today announced a number of upcoming changes to how Chrome will handle extensions that request a lot of permissions, as well as new requirements for developers who want to publish their extensions in the Chrome Web Store. It’s no secret that no matter which browser you use, extensions are one of the main vectors […]

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Why experts are freaking out over the new way Google Chrome sign-in works

sudshr47 September 24, 2018

The internet has erupted over Google’s latest Chrome release — and not in a good way.

With an updated user interface, enhanced password manager, and a slew of other updates, you would assume the latest version of Google’s popular web browser, Chrome 69, would be eliciting some pretty good responses.

But security experts just shined a light on a controversial feature that came with the latest Google Chrome that previously wasn’t announced by the search giant.

A Google Chrome user recently pointed out on Hacker News that Google now forces you to login to your Google account on Chrome if you login to any other Google service using the browser. Logging out of a Google service will also force log you out of Google Chrome. Read more…

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Security experts say Chrome 69’s ‘forced login’ feature violates user privacy

sudshr47 September 24, 2018

A new feature in the latest version of Google Chrome that logs users into the browser when they sign in to a Google site has come under fire. Until recently, it was the user’s choice to log-in to the browser. Now, any time that you sign in to a Google site in Chrome 69 — […]

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Google Chrome teases surprise as it celebrates 10 years

sudshr47 September 3, 2018

It’s hard to believe but it’s been 10 years since Google launched its web browser Chrome as a challenger to the hell that is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Apple’s default Safari, and the open source Firefox.

And Chrome made sure to throw itself a little party over the holiday weekend, not only bringing cake but also teasing a surprise for Tuesday, Sept. 4.

In case you couldn’t tell…it’s our birthday. Plus, we’ve got a surprise for you this Tuesday#GoogleChrome pic.twitter.com/nkEEjFEHCB

— Google Chrome (@googlechrome) September 1, 2018 Read more…

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