Hot on the heels of the wonderful NES.party comes Haukur Rosinkranz’s SNES.party, a site that lets you play Super Nintendo with all your buds. Rosinkranz is Icelandic but lives in Berlin now. He made NES.party a year ago while experimenting with WebRTC and WebSockets and he updated his software to support the SNES. “The reason […]
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Chrome rolls out for all users ‘not secure’ markers on unencrypted pages
Google officially announced version 68 of the Chrome browser today, formalizing its plans to fulfill its past pledge to mark all unencrypted (non-HTTPS) pages as “not secure.” This move comes nearly two years after Chrome announced its slow-burning plan to promote the use of secured (HTTPS) pages across the browser. In previous updates, the browser […]
View More Chrome rolls out for all users ‘not secure’ markers on unencrypted pagesWelp, Google is pausing its autoplay blocking feature
Google has been hyping its new autoplay-blocking feature for months. But it turns out the feature isn’t quite ready for primetime.
The search giant has quietly disabled Chrome’s autoplay-blocking feature for videos using the Web Audio API, whic…
Google Chrome just launched its best feature in years
Google just gave us a very long overdue gift: the ability to browse in silence.
That’s because Google Chrome will finally mute annoying autoplaying videos by default. The update, part of Google Chrome 66, launched today for the browser’s desktop and …
Google Chrome now mutes annoying videos that autoplay with sound
There’s good news for Google Chrome users, the latest version of the world’s most popular web browser has arrived with a new feature that prevents websites from automatically playing sound. That means that pre-loaded videos, and other content that involves sound, won’t blare out unless you specifically choose to enable it to. Aside from being […]
View More Google Chrome now mutes annoying videos that autoplay with sound7 ways to transform your Netflix account into a movie lover’s dream
Think you’ve perfected art of watching Netflix? Not so fast…
Sure, you may have found the coziest blanket to cuddle with on the couch and finally added everything you aspire to watch to your queue, but if you’re not using these handy Google Chrome extensions, you have yet to master the high-tech art of streaming.
While Netflix has made some much-needed improvements since streaming was introduced in 2007 — such as limited offline viewing and video previews — there are a lot of things the platform still can’t do ..without the help of Chrome, that is. Read more…
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View More 7 ways to transform your Netflix account into a movie lover’s dreamChrome, hero that it is, will start automatically muting autoplay videos
Google’s war on autoplaying videos in Chrome continues.
Chrome 64, released in December, gave users the ability to mute annoying autoplay videos on an entire site, not just one page. Chrome 66 is the next step.
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Google Chrome’s latest experiment lets your write songs in your browser
In case you needed another excuse to procrastinate today, Google Chrome just launched a new music experiment, and it’s pretty addicting.
It’s called Song Maker, a browser-based tool that lets you to compose songs with just a few clicks.
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Google Chrome update automatically fixes those ridiculously long links
Google Chrome’s Android app just got a small but extremely helpful update that makes it much easier to share links.
The latest version of Chrome will not automatically “clean up” unwieldy URLs before you share them so you know longer need to worry ab…
Chrome will soon mark all unencrypted pages as ‘not secure’
Google’s Chrome browser will soon flag every site that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. Starting in July, with the launch of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ and prominently highlight this in its URL bar. Over the course of the last few years, Google has strongly advocated for the use of HTTPS to help keep your browsing data safe from anybody… Read More
View More Chrome will soon mark all unencrypted pages as ‘not secure’Firefox’s Quantum update will block websites from tracking you 24/7
Mozilla’s speedy Firefox Quantum browser hit the ground running when it rolled out in November.
On Tuesday, Mozilla released an update to the browser, called Firefox 58. Its most significant feature: 24/7 tracking protection.
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Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
Google is going to start blocking certain ads in Chrome, the company announced earlier this year. But now we know exactly when: February 15, 2018 (via VentureBeat) is the go-live date provided by the company for introduction of its built-in enforcement of the standards established by the Coalition for Better Ads, of which it is a member.
This won’t block all ads on all websites –… Read More