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DOJ Considers “Splitting Off” Chrome and Android From Google

Kellen October 9, 2024 26

Google issued a statement last night after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) shared an outline of demands it is considering following a judge finding that Google is a monopolist through how they distribute Google Search. The statement from Google talks...

Google Passkeys Now Sync Across Devices

Kellen September 19, 2024 3

A little over a year ago, Google began pushing passkeys on us through Google Password Manager on Android. The big idea around passkeys is that passwords aren't necessarily safe enough, but a passkey could be and they should be the future of securely logging...

Chrome Lets You Easily Unsubscribe From Annoying Website Notifications

Kellen September 12, 2024 1

The push to get you to subscribe to notifications from websites has slowed in recent years, but that doesn't mean certain websites aren't still trying to force them onto your web experience or that you may have accidentally clicked "Allow" and need a way to...

Chrome Gets 3 New Features: Synced Tab Groups, Suggestions, More

Kellen September 10, 2024 3

Chrome users, new features are on the way to help you manage life between multiple devices. For those of you who dominate Chrome on mobile, yet still need some of that access on desktop without skipping a beat, today's news should excite you. Here are 3 new...

Chrome on Android Gets New Address Bar, Shortcut Suggestions

Tim June 26, 2024 6

The Chrome team announced a big update for Android and iOS users this week, one that brings a total of five new features to improve the general experience when using the app. To sum it up what's new, searches for businesses should be easier with Chrome Actions...

Chrome on Android Gets New Floating Picture-in-Picture Feature

Tim May 29, 2024 2

Already live for users, Chrome has received a sweet new feature called Minimized Custom Tabs. When in select apps, such as Gmail, whenever you open a web link that opens a Chrome tab, you can minimize that page into a floating picture-in-picture, allowing you...

Chrome Getting Anti-Tab Clutter Feature on Android

Tim March 29, 2024 7

I'm always giving Kellen a hard time for how many Chrome tabs he has open. However, as time has passed, I find myself also having a lot of tabs open, not so much on desktop, but on my Android phone. The way Chrome works, at least for me, the browser seems to...

Google Chrome’s Safe Browsing Gets Real-Time Server-Side Checks for Bad Sites

Kellen March 14, 2024 5

When you visit dangerous websites on your computer or phone through Chrome, Google's Safe Browsing attempts to detect them and warn you before letting you proceed and jump "back to safety." Google says that they look at more than 10 billion URLs (and files)...