Microsoft is trying a new tactic to get people to use its Edge browser: a warning dialog box that interrupts the installation of other browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. “You already have Microsoft Edge — the safer, faster browser for Windows 10,” a dialog box reads after you launch an installer for another …
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The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL might not be the only things Google has in store for its Oct. 9 event. There have been leaks of an unreleased Chrome OS device, rumored to be a new Google Pixelbook. The mysterious device can be seen in the video below, which was posted by Chrome Unboxed. If you look closely at …
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Last Wednesday, a seemingly innocuous request appeared in Google’s Chromium codebase: “Add mappings for “Hamburger” and “Assistant” keys on Hammer/Wand/Whiskers and BRYDGE keyboards.” But that single sentence may have been enough to reveal a secret — Google may be planning to bring a new wave of high-end Chrome OS tablets to market. That’s because Brydge is the name of a …
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If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: A new version of the ad-blocking browser arrived Thursday that makes it as customizable as Google’s rival Chrome. Brave Chief Technology Officer Brian Bondy announced the new version, called Brave Core, on Reddit. There’s only an early version geared for developers for now, though, and …
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A Wi-Fi certification record appeared in the Wi-Fi Alliance’s database, indicating that an unnamed Samsung Chromebook has passed. The model number, XE525QBBI, places it as a Chromebook; for instance, the model number for the recently released Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 is XE521QAB. Enlarge Image The Wi-Fi Alliance certificate for an unnamed Samsung Chromebook, model XE525QBBI. Screenshot by Lori Grunin/CNET Spotted by About …
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Google is rolling out a dark mode to its YouTube mobile apps. Last year, it added the previously hidden ability to change YouTube’s background from white to black to YouTube on desktops and laptops. Dark mode is available now for iOS and is now rolling out to Android devices, XDA Developers reports. Here’s how to enable it on iOS: Launch …
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Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. There, he revealed the Chrome web browser publicly for the first time. It went well, to say the least. Google’s Chrome’s first browser icon Google Over the last decade, the …
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Google wants to fix one of the web’s oldest and deepest technologies: the uniform resource locator, or URL, used to give every website a unique address. “People have a really hard time understanding URLs,” Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineering manager on Chrome’s security team, said in a Wired interview published in conjunction with Chrome’s 10th anniversary on Tuesday. “We want to …
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For Chrome’s 10th anniversary, Google has given its web browser its first redesign in a decade. Get ready for a new look with lots of rounded corners and some new features. The new version keeps Chrome’s tabs on top for the personal computer version, a defining feature on the relatively bare-bones interface Google debuted on Sept. 2, 2008. But the …
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