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Google Must Sell Chrome and, Perhaps, Android, for the US Department of Justice
In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 19, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked Google to separate itself from its Chrome browser, which it considers a key entry point for web search. This request is part of a broader set of remedies…
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YouTube Accused of Slowing Video Loading On Firefox
YouTube as most people are aware, is owned by Google who are behind Chrome. Naturally, as the owner of a website, you’d like your users to also be using your browser in this case Google would like YouTube users to be using Chrome. Now of course we have the right…
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34 Malicious Chrome Extensions Have Been Found With A Total of 75 Million Installs
34 malicious Chrome extensions have been found in the web store which in total could have around 75 million installs. Malicious Chrome Extensions As reported by BleepingComputer.com, a cybersecurity researcher, Wladimir Palant had analyzed the PDF Toolbox extension which has 2 million downloads on the Chrome Web Store and has…
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Steam to Drop macOS 10.11 and 10.12 Support
Steam has announced that they will be dropping support for older macOS versions Dropping Support for macOS 10.11 and 10.12 Today Steam has announced that they will be dropping support for macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and 10.12 (Sierra) from September 1st. Those still running these versions of macOS are encouraged…
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Amazon Could Be Planning a Web Browser
Amazon is a huge company and has ventured into many areas beyond its huge online marketplace including video and music streaming services, brick-and-mortar stores and many others though now it seems that Amazon may be looking into making its own web browser. Is Amazon Planning a Web Browser? Amazon has…
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Intel Super Resolution Revealed Competing With NVIDIA VSR
With the latest NVIDIA driver update, they released their Video Super Resolution technology designed to upscale video quality using the GPU and now Intel’s equivalent of this technology has been unofficially revealed. Intel Video Super Resolution This new tech whilst not yet officially supported is available for Chromium browsers using…
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Google Ends Chrome Support on Windows 7 and 8!
With official support now officially over from Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 it’s hardly any surprise that, sooner or later, third-party applications would also start to look to move away from the operating systems. There isn’t, after all, much point throwing resources at platforms that are effectively, from…
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Google Releases Controller Bluetooth Update as the Stadia Gets Shuts Down!
Yesterday marked the official demise of Google Stadia. The servers are shut down, the games are gone, and it is now officially an ex-platform. – While we could look to lament over the mistakes made with the Stadia (and there were certainly many) however, for owners there was a pressing…
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Google Confirms Chrome Support for Windows 7 Will End in Early 2023
Despite the fact that it has been nearly two years since Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7, it still remains a fairly popular choice for many consumers. In fact, the last market figures show that the operating system still has an overall Windows market share of just over 10%…
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Microsoft Edge is (Finally) the 2nd Most Popular Desktop Browser!
Back in January 2020, Microsoft announced the general release of its new Chromium-based Edge internet browser. With it basically looking to adopt a lot of the features from Google Chrome while gobbling up (at least in theory) significantly less memory, by all accounts the browser was and is excellent. –…
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Android Begins Rolling Out Chrome ‘Delete Last 15 Minutes’ Browser Feature
When it comes to clearing your browser history, there are many instances where users simply want to remove a certain portion of it rather than everything entirely. As such, when Google announced last year that they were looking to introduce a ‘delete last 15 minutes’ feature to Chrome (specifically their…
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Google Chrome Update Looks to Give a Big Performance Boost on Windows 10/11
Despite some better efforts from Microsoft following the launch of their Chromium-based Edge back in early 2020, Google Chrome is still, very firmly, the most prominent and dominant web browser around. With it currently holding around a 66% desktop market share, this leaves its 5 biggest so-called competitors fighting (without…
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Firefox Has Lost 46 Million Users in Just 3 Years!
There was a point around 10 years ago where Firefox was an exceptionally popular internet browser. Admittedly, at the time, it’s not as if consumers were exactly spoilt for choice with Internet Explorer still representing one of the most popular mainstream consumer options. And incidentally, and just for you whippersnappers,…
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Google to Face Lawsuit Over ‘Incognito Mode’ Allegations!
If you use Google Chrome (and we’re pretty sure most of you reading this do) then you’ll undoubtedly be familiar with the ‘Incognito’ mode function. In a nutshell, it’s a feature within the browser that allows you to search the internet without any automatic associations being made to any of…
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Google Chrome to End Support for Old AMD/Intel CPUs
With Google Chrome currently having a market share of around 66% with desktop PC consumers, it’s clearly (and by a huge margin) one of the most popular browsers around. If you are, however, using it on what could politely be deemed somewhat antiquating PC hardware, then you might want to…
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