#chrome

#chrome

For years, tech behemoth Google threatened to crack down on browser extension activity within its Chrome browser to improve security. Now, the company is making good on its threats and disabling browser extensions that don't comply with Manifest V3, its browser extension framework. Security experts, such as those at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), argue that Manifest V3 is not a viable solution for addressing real security concerns, including browser extensions that scrape users' browsing histories and sell the data to the highest bidder.

The feature expands on existing functionality already available in Chrome's Safety Check feature, which revokes camera and location permissions from websites you don't visit anymore. The company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows users receive a high volume of notifications, but rarely interact with them. Less than 1% of all notifications receive any interactions from users, notes Google.

Back in the mid-2000s, web browsers were struggling to keep up with the modern web. Google's founders saw the browser as critical ("our entire business is people using a browser to access us and the Web" as CEO Eric Schmidt recalled[2]), yet the incumbents weren't architected for rich web apps. In 2006, a small team of ex-Firefox engineers at Google - led by Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher - started sketching ideas for a new browser built for the "cloud era."

Chrome's new PDF editor allows for basic modifications like marking up, highlighting, and erasing directly within the Android browser, fulfilling simple document needs.

Vertical tabs are a highly requested feature that Chrome is finally adding, aligning with similar offerings in browsers like Firefox, Edge, and Brave.

When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign-in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically.