Category: Google Chrome

Users who installed the latest Google Chrome version now see a warning that uBlock Origin will soon stop working and it's time to find it an alternative. The browser will disable Manifest v2 extensions in the near future, and uBlock Origin is one of them.

Google Chrome has got a new option to show a performance issue notification for tab resource usage which you can enable with ease. The change is already available in Canary version, but soon it will land in the stable branch. The latter just updated to Chrome 127.

Google Chrome 127 is available in the stable channel. The release it focused on security. It improves the Ingonito mode by enabling HTTPS-First by default. Google is also starts killing Manifest V2 in flavor of Manifest V3, with the latter being not friendly to ad blockers. Finally, there are some changes to Safe Browsing. First of all, the browser will now ask a password for encrypted archives. If you specify it, Chrome will send the contents to Google to check the files for safety. Also, Enhanced protection now includes extra telemetry that checks some pages against a block list.

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.