Category: Google Chrome

Disabling third-party cookies in Chrome will become optional. After years of testing, Google has abandoned its plan to disable third-party cookie tracking by default in the Chrome browser.

Google has updated Chrome's policy on handling files that could be risky or unfamiliar. The browser will now prompt users to explain why they are downloading a file flagged as "malicious."

Google is working on a new feature called Unrestricted WebUSB that allows trusted sandboxed web apps to bypass security restrictions in the WebUSB API.

Google has released Chrome 126 to everyone running the stable version of the browser. It features a new "Extract text from PDF" option in the integrated PDF view, a new option to search with Google Lens for anything you see on the screen, the ability to fine grain tune Memory Saver, and "Reactive prefetch" for embedded resources to speed up their loading. Also, there are a number of improvements made to its Dev Tools. The latter includes the ability to emulate PC slowdown.

You can turn on parallel downloading in the Chrome browser, so it will significantly reduce the time it spends on big files. A huge file will download faster if you split it into smaller parts. This is what the new Parallel Download feature in Google Chrome does.

Google is about to start removing support for Manifest V2 Chrome starting June 3. The removal was planned to be done in January 2023, but the deadline was pushed back several times.

Last week Google released Chrome 125, a major release and the first one with native ARM64 builds. Besides, there is now in-depth executable file scan that runs automatically, an extra warning for add-ons installed outside of the Web Store, and a few more changes.

Recently, users of Windows 10/11 who use Google Chrome have reported seeing pop-up ads promoting Bing on the right side of their browsers. While some initially thought it was malware, it was actually part of a new Microsoft campaign. Now the company is rolling out it to more languages and regions.

Google had initially announced that it would test third-party cookie blocking for 1% of Chrome browser users. However, the company has now decided to delay a wider implementation of this feature.

After updating Google Chrome to version 124, you could already noticed changes in font rendering. The font used in tab titles, menus, bookmarks, and some other interface elements has become bold and a bit blurry on some devices. While you can tolerate the bold font, you won't be happy to see the blurry captions. Thankfully, it is easy to fix this issue.