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Firefox 61 Tries To Be Faster By Guessing What You Want To Do
Firefox 61 Launches With Smart Features Attempting To Improve Speed I think it’s reasonably fair to say that most of us, at one point or another might have tried Firefox as an alternative web-browser. I think it’s also reasonably safe to say that the majority of us no longer are.…
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Google Chrome 66 Will Block Some Auto-Play Videos
Over the past couple of months, Google has been making some major changes to Google Chrome. The Chrome browser has been getting a number of changes to help boost usability. The goal is to improve the user experience when browsing the web. Last month, we got a built-in ad-blocker by default.…
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Google Chrome Launches Their Default Ad-Blocker
Google Chrome Ad Blocker Adverts on the internet can be a tricky subject. Many, be it websites, social media sites or video hosting channels require advert revenue to survive. We at eTeknix are certainly no exception. There is a point, however, when these adverts are downright annoying. In answer to…
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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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Chrome’s Upcoming Update Aims to Reduce RAM Usage
Google Chrome is undoubtedly one of the fastest browsers available right now, which is why it is also one of the most popular. However, it’s a well-known fact that Chrome can be quite demanding on our systems, particularly when it comes to RAM, which is why its creators have spent…
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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 50 Will Finally Drop Windows XP Support
One of the prices of great success is that they never go away even when you want them to. Microsoft has been dealing with this problem ever since they dropped Windows XP support back in 2014. Now, 2 years later and 15 years since launch, the OS is still very popular…
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Google Dropping Chrome Support for XP, Vista and OSX 10.8
Even when Microsoft dropped public support for Windows XP last year, many large organizations continued to pay for extended support. Not surprisingly, Google also continued to support Windows XP for their popular Chrome browser. That’s set to finally end though next year in April 2016; that marks the 2 year…
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Chrome Canary Makes Safer Browsing Easier
In the modern age of fears over internet and browser security, it seems the only thing you can rely on is a little indication on your browser that the site you are connected to is who it says it is and that your connection is secure. But is this always…
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Chrome Will no Longer Include “OK Google” Extension
Have you ever actually used the “OK Google” extension in order to search for something? If the answer is “no”, then you’re among the majority of Chrome desktop users. Since nobody is really getting some good use out of this eavesdropping feature anyway, Google has decided to remove it from…
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Google Changes how Flash Ads Work in Chrome
Despite helping pay for web content, auto-playing Flash ads have become the bane of internet users. While third party plugins have long offered the ability to control Flash elements, Google is now baking in the ability to pause auto-playing Flash ads right into Chrome. Starting with the latest Chrome Beta…
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Google Chrome’s Password Alert Extension Protects Against Phishing
Installing antivirus and other protection software is all well and good but nothing can really protect you from your own mistakes if you accidentally input your credentials in the wrong login box. Google wants to improve their users’ privacy in regards to phishing attempts with Password Alert – a Chrome…
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Google Chrome Version 39 Releases with 64-bit OS X Support
We hope you Mac users are ready for some 64-bit software computations from Google! Google Chrome version 39 has released today, with the new update including a number of large features for desktop users across all major platforms. Mac OSX users will now have browser support for 64-bit, with Google…
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New Update to Google Chrome features Built-in Password Generator
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of account security just getting better across the web. Google looks to be tackling the big password generators like Dashlane, LastPass and 1Password in their latest version of Google Chrome. The new Chrome Canary build see’s the company including an extremely useful password…
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Google Finally Unveils Stable 64 Bit Version of Chrome
Google made the exciting reveal of 64 bit Chrome for Windows 7 and 8 back in June. Since that reveal the 64 bit version has yet to be released to the public in a stable form, that’s until today. Today Google revealed the stable version of 64 bit Google Chrome…
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