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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 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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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 Confirms Chrome Updates Will Out Come Faster
Google Chrome is, by a pretty significant margin, the most popular desktop PC internet browser. With it having around a 66% market share, the next closest is Edge or Firefox with both sitting at around 10%. As such, with such huge market domination, Google is clearly keen to ensure that…
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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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Microsoft Edge Has a Crash Issue Involving Google Chrome
With the release of the new chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser only a couple of months ago, it has already started to gain a surprisingly level of traction with PC users. While still a long way behind the market share of Google Chrome, it has still managed (in such a relatively…
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Google to Introduce Less RAM Greedy Chrome Update
With the introduction of the new Microsoft Edge earlier this year, it’s remarkable that based on the prior (and rightful) criticism of it, how much the new Chromium-based web browser has improved. How much? Well, let’s just say that it has managed to make converts of many of us here…
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Microsoft Starts Rolling Out it’s Chromium-based Edge Browser
I think it’s pretty fair to say that while Microsoft’s Edge browser isn’t bad, it lacks a lot of the key features seen within its biggest competitors. Google Chrome being undoubtedly the largest! As such, since 2018, Microsoft has been working on a brand new version of it that would…
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Google To Test Chrome Play/Pause Button
Google Chrome It can be rather frustrating when you have multiple tabs in your browser open and one of them decides to start playing audio at you. Fortunately, identifying this was made a little easier following an update to the Chrome browser earlier this year. In a report via The…
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Google Releases Chrome 69 On 10 Year Anniversary
Google Chrome 69 Brings Major Material Redesign Along with the celebration of Chrome’s 10 year birthday, Google is releasing a new version of their browser. The latest version to get promoted to the stable channel is Chrome 69. Along with the usual host of bug and security fixes, Google is…
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Google Implementing Ambitious Spectre Fix For Chrome
Google Chrome Site Isolation Logical Step Last year, the theoretical bugs became reality. Dubbed Spectre, the new exploits allowed attackers unprecedented ability to attack users. Bypassing traditional protections, the new bugs opened up a new option for side-channel attacks. On top of system and hardware fixes, Google is rolling out…
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