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72 'Chrome' stories November 2012 - November 2023

PSA: Update Chrome on Mac, as security flaw is being actively exploited

Ben Lovejoy Nov 30 2023 - 3:55 am PT

If you use Chrome on Mac, it’s strongly recommended to update it immediately, as a security flaw discovered by Google is being actively exploited by attackers. It could potentially allow personal data to be extracted from your Mac (the same issue also affects Chrome on Windows and Linux).

Google says it is aware of at least one real-life case of the exploit being used by a bad actor …

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Safari’s bottom nav bar on iPhone is coming to Chrome

Zac Hall Aug 23 2023 - 11:37 am PT

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Apple broke the internet, or at least some people’s muscle memory, when it moved the search bar on Safari in iOS 15. Fast-forward a couple years, and now Chrome is adopting the same design change.

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New iPhone browsers on the way without WebKit; Apple prepping Safari for competition

Ben Lovejoy Feb 7 2023 - 6:48 am PT

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Apple wins UK Safari appeal due to gov mess up

We may soon see entirely new iPhone browsers available, as both Google and Mozilla anticipate the end of Apple’s insistence that all iOS browsers use the same WebKit engine as Safari.

This will enable new versions of Chrome and Firefox to offer greater feature differentiation, and for the first time allow them to aim for faster performance than Safari …

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PSA: Time for Mac users to do an emergency Chrome update (for the 8th time this year)

Ben Lovejoy Nov 28 2022 - 5:43 am PT

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Google has issued an emergency Chrome update for Mac users, to fix what the company refers to as a “high-severity” security vulnerability …

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How to clear cache on Mac in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox

Michael Potuck May 23 2022 - 12:00 am PT

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Looking to tidy up the browser on your Mac or fix some issues you’re seeing with websites? Read on for how to clear cache on Mac, as well as history, and cookies in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.

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Automatic live captions come to Chrome on Mac for videos, podcasts, and more

Ben Lovejoy Mar 18 2021 - 5:56 am PT

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Automatic live captions of videos, podcasts, and phone calls was a headline feature of Google’s Pixel smartphones last year, but thanks to a new Chrome update, the same accessibility option is now available on Macs.

Simply update to the stable version of Chrome 89, and you can simply toggle on the feature, which turns speech into text in a privacy-protecting way …

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PSA: Update Chrome for Mac, as security flaw has been actively exploited

Ben Lovejoy Feb 5 2021 - 4:46 am PT

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If you use Chrome for Mac, you’ll want to be sure it’s updated today: Google has just fixed a vulnerability that was being actively exploited by North Korean hackers …

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You can now change your default iOS browser to Firefox or DuckDuckGo

Ben Lovejoy Sep 17 2020 - 5:16 am PT

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If you’ve updated to iOS 14, you can now change your default iOS browser to either Firefox or DuckDuckGo if you wish. Both browsers have been approved by Apple to take advantage of the new option to change your default web browser from Safari. (Google’s Chrome had already been approved.)

Both browsers claim that the switch will further boost your privacy protections …

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Google working on dark mode for Chrome, but has problems to solve first

Ben Lovejoy Dec 10 2018 - 6:03 am PT

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Google is working on adding support to Chrome for dark mode in macOS Mojave. Although the new feature is available now as an early beta, Google has a number of problems to solve to make the new feature work …

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Chrome 66 for Mac rolling out with saved password export & media autoplay restrictions

Abner Li Apr 17 2018 - 6:12 pm PT

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Following iOS this afternoon, Chrome 66 is rolling out today for Mac with several user-facing features and policy changes. This includes new media autoplay behavior, a passwords export feature, and other security changes.

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Google Chrome for iOS adds support for exporting all of your saved passwords

Chance Miller Apr 17 2018 - 3:28 pm PT

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After rolling out early support for the feature on Android and desktop last month, Google today has updated Chrome for iOS with support for exporting passwords. The feature comes as part of version 66 of the app…

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Ulysses and Chrome updated with Drag and Drop, other iOS 11 enhancements

Chance Miller Oct 19 2017 - 12:06 pm PT

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A month after the public release of iOS 11, apps continue to be updated with support for the new features in Apple’s latest operating system. Today, popular writing app Ulysses and Google Chrome were both updated with support for new iOS 11 functionality…

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Chrome for iOS officially adds new Safari Reading List-like feature with version 57

Chance Miller Mar 14 2017 - 1:27 pm PT

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We reported last week that Chrome for iOS would soon gain a new Safari Reading List-like feature, and today that feature is officially rolling out. Google has updated Chrome for iOS to version 57, bringing with it a new “Read Later” functionality.

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Google Chrome for iOS gaining new Safari Reading List-like feature

Chance Miller Mar 9 2017 - 4:18 pm PT

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Earlier today, Google pushed the stable version of Chrome 57 to Mac, Windows, and Linux users. This means that Chrome 57 for iOS is next around the corner and one of the features that will arrive as part of that update is a Reading List feature similar to that of what’s currently support in Safari…

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Chrome 56 for iOS adds a QR code scanner via 3D Touch, redesigns iPad tab switcher

Ben Schoon Feb 2 2017 - 6:03 am PT

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Just a few days following the debut of Chrome 56 on the desktop, Google has started pushing the same new version to iOS users. While not a major update, this new version does bring along a couple of useful features, including a handy QR code scanner.

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Google has open-sourced Chrome for iOS

Ben Schoon Jan 31 2017 - 11:48 am PT

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Since its launch, Google’s Chromium project has been a desktop-only matter, but that changed in 2015 with the addition of the Android version. Following that, only the iOS version of the browser wasn’t open-source. However, that’s changing today as Google has announced that the code for Chrome on iOS has been moved into the Chromium open-source repository.

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Chrome for iOS now highlights AMP articles for instant page loading

Zac Hall Jul 27 2016 - 1:38 pm PT

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Google’s official iOS app has supported AMP articles in search results since late May, and today Google is highlighting support for AMP articles in its Chrome browser for iPhone and iPad. Accelerated Mobile Pages appear in search results and load nearly instantly as these articles are optimized for faster load times.

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Google Chrome experimenting w/ native Mac OS X push notifications, here’s how to enable it

Jordan Kahn Apr 6 2016 - 9:35 am PT

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Google is experimenting with bringing native Chrome notifications to Mac users via integration with Apple’s built-in Notification Center in OS X. For now the feature is hidden as Google continues development, but there’s a way you can already enable it…

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Chrome 49 comes to iOS as Google Drive updated w/ folder color support, more

Chance Miller Mar 9 2016 - 4:13 pm PT

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In addition to releasing the first developer preview of Android N earlier today, Google this evening has rolled out updates to a pair of its iOS apps. Both Google Drive and Chrome for iOS have been updated with a few new features.

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How-To: Make Gmail the default mail app in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on Mac

Jeff Benjamin Feb 26 2016 - 8:23 am PT

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I’ve never been a fan of the stock Mail app in OS X, so I generally find myself relying on Gmail inside of Chrome for all of my email needs. In fact, I don’t have any email accounts configured inside of the stock Mail app at all. With this in mind, I always get frustrated when I inadvertently click a mailto link inside of a browser window. Doing so forces the Mail app, which is set as the default mail client in OS X, to open without purpose.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could configure Gmail to play the role of the default mail client inside your browser of choice? In this video tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it is to configure Chrome, Safari, and even Firefox to use Gmail as the default mail client.
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Chrome for iOS updated to be ‘dramatically faster’ with 70% fewer crashes

Zac Hall Jan 27 2016 - 8:20 am PT

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Google’s Chrome browser for iPhones and iPads is getting a whole lot faster and more stable today with its latest update. That’s because Chrome is now using Apple’s WKWebView rendering engine on iOS. Google says this update will reduce Chrome’s crash rate by 70% so the browsing experience will see fewer interruptions for various reasons.

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New LaCie + Seagate drives bring USB-C, style, and high SSD/HDD capacities

Jeremy Horwitz Jan 5 2016 - 8:41 am PT

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Following its annual tradition, Seagate has announced a new collection of stylish, premium-priced drives in time for the 2016 CES, most now featuring USB-C and USB 3.1 connectors. Three of the drives carry Seagate’s LaCie branding; one is a handsome but Seagate-branded model.

The apparent flagship in the series is the LaCie Chromé ($1,100, shown above left), a 1TB SSD featuring a 10GB USB 3.1 interface with “up to 940MB/second speeds for intensive applications.” Described as “a trophy for tech connoisseurs,” Chromé is a Neil Poulton design that holds a boxy chrome SSD enclosure on an angle atop a circular pedestal. Additional models are discussed below…

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Chrome for iOS adds 3D Touch shortcuts, better hardware keyboard support

Zac Hall Dec 1 2015 - 8:47 am PT

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A few weeks ago we noticed that Google has started testing pre-release versions of Chrome through Apple’s TestFlight beta distribution service, and today the version in testing then has been released to everyone through the App Store. The latest version of Chrome for iOS takes advantage of Apple’s new pressure sensitive iPhone 6s displays and offers even more hardware keyboard shortcuts that will benefit iPad users.
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Google Chrome leaves OS X cats out in the cold

Cam Bunton Nov 11 2015 - 4:43 am PT

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Google has announced in an official blog post that its Chrome browser no longer supports a number of older Mac OS X versions. Google initially prepared users a few months ago that a move away from these platforms would be coming by the end of this year. Today is that day, and Google Chrome will no longer get software feature or security updates on the following Mac platforms:

Mac OS X 10.6 – “Snow Leopard”
Mac OS X 10.7 – “Lion”
Mac OS X 10.8 – “Mountain Lion”

On the Mac side, it’s essentially everything before Apple moved to its California-inspired version names (or anything with a cat name). The company also announced that it’ll be ending support for Windows versions XP and Vista, so it’s not just older Mac users who will no longer get updates. The reason behind the end in support is simple: Apple and Microsoft don’t actively support those platforms any more, and so Chrome will no longer actively support them either. This doesn’t mean Chrome will no longer work, it just means it won’t get any more security or software updates on machines running these versions of the OSes.

If you’re still running one of the aforementioned software versions, Google encourages you to upgrade to a more modern OS, since there are now security risks (however small) attached to using them. If you’re not sure which version of Mac OS X you’re running, you can find out by simply clicking the Apple logo in your top toolbar, and clicking ‘About this Mac’.