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Chrome Gets Faster 3D Rendering
The latest build of Google’s Chrome browser has introduced faster 3D graphics and improved textures and visual effects. The new Chrome 56, which has been rolling out since the start of this year, now supports the WebGL 2.0 standard, which is equivalent to OpenGL ES 3 which is used in…
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Google Chrome 57 Limits Background Tabs to 1% CPU Usage
With the growth in memory and processing power, it’s now common to have multiple browser tabs open. Despite our ever more powerful system, the growth in tabbed browsing can sometimes lead to dramatic performance issues and slowdowns. Last year, Google announced that Chrome would be introducing a feature to limit…
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Next Version of Chrome Browser Contains Always-On DRM
The next stable version of Google’s Chrome internet browser – Chrome 57 – will remove the option to disable Widevine DRM, making the plugin mandatory and always-on. Widevine is Chrome’s version of EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, which is a web video DRM system developed by the World Wide Web…
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Ex-Mozilla Engineer: Uninstall Third-Party Antivirus Software Now
A former engineer for Firefox developer Mozilla has advised PC users to avoid installing third-party antivirus software on their systems. Robert O’Callahan felt comfortable making this bold assertion following his departure from Mozilla last year. The reasoning for his extreme position is that antivirus programs, as well as being “slow…
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Firefox and Chrome Will Label HTTP Sites Insecure
With each passing day, it feels like there are more revelations coming out about spying by various nefarious actors. In an effort to make it harder on attackers, the industry as a whole is continuing the push to reduce HTTP connections and move to HTTPS. To help move things along…
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Google Chrome Employs HTML5 on Most Websites
Google has been consistently refining their Chrome web browser to provide users with a more enjoyable user experience without impacting on stability. This attitude has pay dividends and the browser easily eclipses other options when it comes to the market share numbers. Saying that, Chrome isn’t particularly lightweight and certainly…
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New Chrome Extension Does What Facebook Fails to Do
Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately in regards to fake news stories after they fired all their employees handling that and going back to an automated model – a model that continuously fails. A new Chrome extension has been born out of that and it deals with…
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Google Won’t be Building Ad Blocking into Chrome… Obviously
Google won’t be building an ad-blocker into their Chrome browser, which might sound crazy to some given that other browsers are already doing so, but Microsoft and Mozilla didn’t build their business on delivering ads in the same way that Google has done for many years. Google raked in $15…
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Windows 10 Pop Ups Discourages Users to Deploy Chrome Browser
Microsoft has received some criticism since the release of Windows 10 for different reasons including privacy concerns and integrated ads placed into the Start Menu. Some believed this situation wouldn’t happen again due to the negative publicity and upgrade promotion from older operating systems coming to an end. However, it seems…
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Google Chrome Now 15% Faster on Windows
According to the latest figures, Google Chrome is still the world’s most popular browser and currently has a dominant 54.41% market share. This is down to Google’s reputation, the amount of extensions Chrome supports and an extremely fast browsing experience. Of course, all the major browser companies work pretty hard…
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Windows 10 Family Settings Now Blocks Rival Browsers
Microsoft has revealed that it is to block rival internet browsers by default when Family Features filters are applied in Windows 10. The ban, according to Microsoft, is designed to protect children by preventing them from bypassing website blacklists. As a result, kids using Windows 10 under family filters will…
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Google Ending Support for Chrome Apps
When it comes to your browser, the added experience that comes from add-ons and apps. If you’re like me and use a few of them for Chrome then you’ll want to start looking elsewhere after Googles latest announcement saying that they’ll be ending support for Chrome Apps. Starting later in…
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Soon Chrome Will Wave Goodbye to Flash
Companies all over have become keen to dodge and even kill the Flash plugin, with companies often avoiding it due to the many (and we mean many) security flaws it seems to possess and creates with each update. Now it would seem that Google has had enough and will start…
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Google Is Trying to Protect Chrome from Quantum Computers
Right now, state-of-the-art encryption methods are most likely strong enough to keep private data, well, private, but things might change in the future if large quantum computers will actually become a reality. According to a Google software engineer named Matt Braithwaite, quantum computers can take advantage of certain quantum mechanics…
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Chrome Bug Makes Pirating Movies Easy
More and more Hollywood is having to battle pirates. Not the kind with eye patches and wooden legs but the kind that wants to see every movie and TV series online just hours after it releases in the cinema or on your TV, sharing it with everyone online without having…
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