[ad_1] Chrome still has a reputation as a battery hog, particularly if you tend to open many tabs, but Google appears poised to fix that. TheWindowsClub understands that an experimental feature in Chrome 86 will reduce energy use by shutting down unnecessary JavaScript timers and trackers when a tab is in the background, such as […]
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Apple’s new tools can help developers port Chrome extensions to Safari
[ad_1] When Apple detailed macOS Big Sur earlier this week, it spent a lot of time talking about how it redesigned the desktop operating system to make it look more modern. The company also touched on upcoming enhancements to Safari, such as faster webpage loading times and enhanced privacy monitoring. But the one feature that […]
Chrome will soon be less of a memory hog in Windows 10
[ad_1] Google has spent years trying to reduce Chrome’s notorious appetite for memory, and it’ll soon offer a substantial improvement for Windows 10 users. WindowsLatest has learned (via MSPowerUser) that a Google engineer recently revealed that a future Chrome release will use a technique from Microsoft Edge to lower RAM usage and theoretically boost performance. […]
Google’s latest Chrome extension helps you link directly to a piece of website text
[ad_1] Earlier this month, Google made it easier to find the information you’re searching for on individual web pages with the launch of highlighted featured snippets. Now, it’s building on that info-specific navigation with a new Chrome extension that lets you link directly to a piece of text on a page. As The Verge reports, […]
Chrome is getting more intuitive privacy and security controls
[ad_1] Google Chrome is also making it easier to manage cookies, and in Incognito mode, it will block third-party cookies by default. In its Privacy & Security section, Chrome is bumping the “clear browsing data” option to the top of the page, so you can clear your slate that much faster. A new safety check […]
Chrome will start blocking resource-demanding ads in August
[ad_1] Google has discovered that a small percentage of ads (0.3 percent) are using a disproportionate amount (27 percent) of the network data used by ads in Chrome. These resource-demanding ads can drain battery life, saturate already strained networks and cost money, Google wrote in a blog post. So beginning this summer, Google will cap […]
Chrome will soon group tabs together to save pack rats from themselves
[ad_1] Google is introducing a new feature to Chrome that will have you asking how you lived without it before. Starting with the next version of the company’s browser, which the search giant will begin rolling out next week, you’ll be able to organize tabs together into customizable groups. Google The feature works almost exactly […]
Android’s real-time captioning is coming to Chrome on desktops
[ad_1] You won’t need an Android phone to take advantage of Google’s real-time captioning before long. Techdows has noticed (via 9to5Google) that the latest Canary build of Chrome includes Live Caption support for media playing in the browser. You’ll have to enable the feature through an accessibility flag in the settings, but it should automatically […]
Google Stadia now supports surround sound on the web
[ad_1] Google has rolled out some key new features for Stadia on the web to compliment the 4K it introduced last month. You’ll now get 5.1 surround sound when playing on Chrome or other browsers, which should deliver better audio quality and the ability to better hear where your enemies are coming from. Stadia for […]
Google releases Chrome 81 with less intrusive ‘app icon’ notifications
[ad_1] The stable version of Chrome 81 has arrived for Windows, Mac and Linux after a couple of weeks of delay brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. As ZDNet notes, Google had to move some of the features it was supposed to ship with to future versions, but it still comes with a few notable […]