Chrome extensions are great for customizing the web browser, but Google is cracking down to try to keep them from seizing more control than you want to give them. On Monday, the company announced a host of actions to keep extensions in hand: Google will let you restrict extensions that seek to modify web pages …
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If you want to step back from Chrome, the Vivaldi alternative browser just grew up a notch with the addition of cross-computer sync and other improvements in version 2.0. Vivaldi, with about 1 million people using it each month, doesn’t have anything like the visibility or clout of Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox or Apple’s Safari. But if you’re looking for …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Stacks are useful. Dark Mode is fun. The new screenshot tool and the more fully functional Finder are also welcome additions with MacOS Mojave, but my favorite new feature of Mojave is something tiny but hugely important: Safari favicons. I’m not the only …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. MacOS Mojave, out now, introduces a number of new features and enhancements to Apple’s desktop OS. Stacks helps you keep a tidy desktop. A system-wide dark mode looks cool and makes nighttime computing easier on the eyes. Also onboard is a new screenshot tool, an …
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Browsers keep track of the addresses of websites you’ve visited, something that’s very handy when you want to retrace your steps online. But a new browser extension takes the idea to the next level. The History Search extension indexes every website you visit and lets you search your history afterward. A free version keeps track of your 3,000 most recently …
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Mozilla released on Tuesday Firefox Reality 1.0, the first version of its web browser geared for three virtual-reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Google Daydream. The new browser uses voice control to sidestep the difficulty of typing while wearing a device that replaces your view of the real world, including your keyboard, with immersive computer-generated scenery. At best, …
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Google announced on Tuesday that its Family Link app has been updated with more teen-focused options, such as allowing them to turn off supervision, but letting parents know that they’d done so. Google launched Family Link a year ago, giving parents the ability to manage the active hours, available apps and phone time for kids’ Android — and later Chrome OS — …
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Google wants to make web addresses more readable, but apparently not everyone is happy with how it tried doing so. In the latest version of Google’s Chrome browser, released earlier this month, Google hid the HTTP or HTTPS prefix and stripped out website domain qualifiers like the initial “www” or “m,” which indicates a website geared for mobile devices. But Google …
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Another use for the fingerprint sensor on your MacBook Pro or Android phone: a password-free way to log into websites and web apps with the Chrome web browser. In the Chrome 70 beta, fingerprint web authentication is now enabled by default for Android and MacOS, according to an official Google blog post. (No word on Windows laptops or iOS devices yet.) …
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Microsoft has apparently reversed course on a Windows 10 test feature that sought to warn people from installing Chrome, Firefox and other browsers that challenged Microsoft’s own Edge. A new “fast-ring” test version of Windows, Insider Preview Build 17760, no longer interrupts the installation of rival browsers, a CNET test shows. Earlier this week, an earlier test version of Windows …
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