An Arm version of Google Chrome is currently in testing, as confirmed by an X user Pedro Justo, who spotted an ARM64 version of the browser in the Canary channel. It is an ARM64 version of Chrome built for Windows 11 Arm-based devices.
Google is bringing three new experimental generative AI
features to Chrome in its latest version. Aimed at for enhancing browsing experience,
the features will assist users in organizing their tabs, creating custom themes
and writing on the web, according to Google.
In the next few days, the features will be available to
users in the US first, on Mac devices and Windows PCs. Users can access them from
the ‘Experimental AI’ tab in their Chrome Settings. “Because these
features are early public experiments, they’ll be disabled for enterprise and
educational accounts for now,” says Google.
Starting with Chrome’s AI Tab Organizer - it is developed to provide
automatic suggestions and create tab groups based on a user’s open tabs. By right-clicking
on a tab, you will find the ‘Organize Similar Tabs’ clicking on which will
activate the option. “Chrome will even suggest names and emoji for these new
groups so you can easily find them again when you need them next,” Google adds.
Google is getting closer to removing third-party cookies by
making its Privacy Sandbox APIs generally available by default in Chrome, as a privacy-preserving
alternative. The tech giant is expected to phase out third-party cookies by the
end of 2024.
As Google expands the availability of Privacy Sandbox APIs to all users over the coming months, it confirms that 3% of Chrome users will remain unaffected during the process.
Google has introduced new privacy-focused APIs that will go
into effect on 24th of July. The news comes after the public release
of Chrome 115. As a result of new APIs being applied, third-party cookies
will be ultimately eliminated from Chrome by the third quarter of 2024.
More specifically, the change will come as Google’s ‘Privacy
Sandbox toolkit’ for Chrome will be gradually activated for developers, hence replacing
third-party cookies with API alternatives that grant better security.
Google plans to do an early test of the Privacy Sandbox tools with advertisers later this year, as well as disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in the first quarter of next year.
Google Chrome’s latest update is allowing users of MacBooks
to browse and watch videos for longer durations as a result of enhanced memory
compression and JavaScript timers. These optimization elements function to reduce
energy consumption without causing impact on long-term memory usage. The JavaScript
timers, in particular, have been developed to wake the MacBook’s CPU less
frequently, as well as remove obsolete timers.
The browser has been modified in a way that it can detect and bypass
Google is updating the latest version of its Chrome desktop browser,
Chrome 110, with new optimization features including Energy Saver and Memory
Saver modes. These will be available on Chrome 110 desktops for Mac,
Windows, and Chromebooks.
Announced by Google in December last year, the modes are
developed to enhance battery life and memory usage. The new Memory Saver mode
works by snoozing tabs that are not currently in use to free up more RAM space,
hence an improved browsing experience. While the Memory Saver mode is on, the
snoozed tabs will still be visible and can be reloaded at any time to resume activity.
There is also the option to remove specific websites, such as most used ones, from
Memory Saver to keep them running at their full capacity.
Google had been testing a new password-free secure login
feature ‘Passkeys’ since October and launched it earlier this week to its Chrome
Stable M108. Passkeys are a form of unique identity of a user without involving
passwords. They can be stored on computers, phones or even USB security keys.
Chrome users can now access Passkeys within the browser on both desktop and mobile devices that have Windows 11, macOS, or Android installed. Additionally, Android users can sync their Passkeys between their Android device and another device via a password manager directly or with support from a third-party, such as 1Password or Dashlane. Passkeys are designed using public key cryptography, which is what creates the cross-platform feature.
Google claims that the latest version of Chrome (version M99) is faster and more responsive on Macs than Safari. The company further adds that its browser is the fastest on M1 Macs, setting a record with a benchmark of around 7 percent more speed than Safari.
Google has been leading the world of technology in the 21st
century and has managed to even get ahead of Apple and Microsoft, two of the tech
giants. While Google has achieved great milestones, it overlooked one simple
and essential feature that was missing in its Chrome browser: the option to
take a screenshot.
Now developers at Google are reportedly working on building the screenshot feature. However, some Reddit users pointed out that the option to take a screenshot already exists in Chrome, except that it’s hiding in the developer’s area and is inaccessible to users. Moreover, it is quite basic in terms of its functionality as it does not offer tools to edit the snapshot taken.
Since Microsoft has been loading its Edge browser with the latest features from time to time, the company now claims Edge to be the best performer on Windows 10. In order to make its browser faster, the giant software maker rolled out a startup boost feature in March.
After that, users also saw another addition of sleeping tabs features in Microsoft Edge which is designed to enhance the overall performance of the browser. The company doesn’t stop here, in fact, is testing out a performance mode for Edge.
The Dinosaur Game on Google Chrome has been played by almost everyone who has opened their Chrome browser while having an inactive internet connection. The game lets you jump and duck over and under obstacles while waiting for the internet to be connected. Now Google has recently announced that it is bringing the game to iPhone devices, where it will be displayed as a widget.
The developers behind Google Chrome have recently been able
to reduce Chrome’s memory footprint of background tabs by up to 8% on Mac, or
just over 1GB on some systems in version 89, hence making Chrome’s latest version
smarter at using and freeing up memory on MacOS.
Tab throttling has been improved in the latest version of Chrome as a result of reduced JavaScript Timer wake-ups. Chrome now uses up to 5x less CPU, as background tabs don’t wake up the CPU as much, leading to longer battery life, which is up to 1.25 hours better.
Google has introduced a bunch of new features for Chrome OS,
including a very useful one for Android and Chromebook users, called Phone Hub. The
feature is meant to connect an Android phone to a Chromebook and will allow you
access to a number of options such as responding to text messages, checking your
phone’s battery life, setting up Wi-Fi hotspot, and locating a device.
Phone Hub will be displayed as a taskbar widget, that you can expand to view your recent Chrome tabs that you have been browsing.
In addition to that, Google is making its Wi-Fi Sync feature available on more devices. This means that you can connect to already configured Wi-Fi networks on your Android phone and other Chrome OS devices.
It is no surprise to know that the Windows Operating System stays ahead of all the other competitors in the market including the Mac OS. Apple’s Mac OS has always been the closest competitor to the Windows OS for quite a long time but was never able to be strong enough to challenge Windows OS in the global market share.
The latest revelation about Google Chrome has left people wondering about its more compromising properties. A recent report carried out for the analysis of Google Chrome has revealed that the main reason, why your system lags or performs slow processing, is because of the large amount of memory it consumes while running on your PC. When you run the Chrome browser on your system, your memory experiences load and this ultimately causes the processing to slow down and take the necessary amount of time for the execution.
Google Chrome takes a fair share of RAM because this is the kind of web browser that requires huge memory space and even better processors to function properly. It is a common practice among PC users to open one tab after another. Whether you use each tab for a different purpose or not, the other tabs will always be semi-independent on each other. Meaning, each tab uses a completely different processor than its siblings, hence adding to the memory load of the system. In case you leave or forget to close all the tabs in the Chrome browser, you will find a noticeable change in the speed of your system as lack of idle processors will cause your system to die down and respond slowly.
Google is testing a new feature for Chrome for iOS as a
security measure, with which incognito tabs can be locked behind Face ID in iOS
devices. Even though Apple has its own face recognition system for its recent
devices, some apps consider adding extra security by offering their own Face ID
support.
Google Chrome on iOS is getting Face ID support that will protect and secure incognito tabs 🤫🤐 pic.twitter.com/gnQmOzjdV6
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) February 11, 2021
The search engine giant announced the launch of the latest Chrome version back in late January. Chrome’s version 88.0.4324.150, apart from bringing in a list of impressive updates, also has improved security fixes for the users. Since the platform had been exploited by a vulnerability, Google incorporated enhanced fixes for it, as announced on Thursday. However, the company has not opened up about the CVE-2021-21148 vulnerability and is planning to reveal it once the majority of the users update to the latest version.
Apple had hinted the release of a new extension last week during
the iCloud Windows 10 app update, which listed “Support for iCloud Passwords
Chrome Extension” as a new feature.
The company has now officially introduced the extension, called iCloud Passwords. It is available for both Windows and Mac versions of Chrome, and will allow users to use passwords stored in their iCloud Keychain. As a result, juggling between Windows and Mac computers will become easier for those who use Chrome as their browser and iCloud Keychain in lieu of a dedicated password manager.
Google announced the launch of a new Chrome version in the coming week which will bring along improved support for the dark mode. Moreover, the company also disables the support for the File Transport Report (FTP) and Adobe Flash. The improvements in the dark mode will be on both the operating systems, i.e., Windows and Chrome. However, for the Chrome OS, the refinements are made to light and dark mode both as well as updated themes and better settings options.
According to the reports, Chrome 88 will also bring improved dark mode for Windows 10 where scroll bars will now appear dark in the dark mode. The dark scroll is however restricted to settings, history, new tab pages and bookmark of the new Chrome 88 currently.
Google recently introduced a feature allowing Chrome PWAs
(Progressive Web Apps) to be uninstalled directly from settings or control
panel. Now, the company is reportedly planning to hide the status bar in PWAs.
The status bar is a horizontally displayed box at the bottom of the screen that shows which program and website is running.
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