Sometimes the best advances are the simplest. Google Chrome is testing a feature to make it easier than ever to mute audio from websites. The new feature is available in Google Chrome Canary, a version of Chrome aimed at developers and early adopters. Google Chrome team member François Beaufort shared the news Friday in a …
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If you’re a Chrome browser user, you’ll start seeing fewer ads in 2018 when Google starts blocking ads that are more aggressive about getting your attention. Google makes most of its money from online ads, but it and other publishers are threatened by the growing use of ad blockers that stop browsers from showing ads. Blockers can be installed in …
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With Chrome 57, Google’s browser is less of a resource hog than it has been in the past. It achieves this efficiency by a new mechanism for throttling background tabs so they consume less power. Since updating to version 57 of Chrome, I have found I can let my open tabs grow to obscene numbers without it killing my MacBook …
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Online ads have gotten incredibly annoying, and Google is looking to do something about them. As more people turn to ad blockers, Google is reportedly planning to bake ad-blocking software into its Chrome browser. Will Google — the biggest ad network online — become a hero or a hypocrite? Thursday’s podcast also discusses Building 8, Facebook’s new lab for hardware …
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For quite some time, Google Chrome has had a reputation: great browser, terrible performance. In particular, if you’re a laptop user and typically keep more than a few tabs open, expect hits to not only overall speed, but also battery life. Google has acknowledged this in the past, and in fact promised to make reducing power usage a “top priority …
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The web has taken a beating in the smartphone era. But it’s about to start beating back. Explosive growth of the web, starting in the 1990s, connected the world’s population. In the last decade, though, we all started tapping app icons instead of web hyperlinks to chat with friends, share photos and buy products online. Now Google’s Chrome team and …
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