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Coming Soon: Chrome's Link Preview in Pop-Up Windows

Chrome developers have adopted an option in the code base of the Blink engine to include an experimental "Link Preview" feature that lets you display a page preview window that shows up when you hover over a link or hold down a click on a link. The...

Jacob Enderson · 27 July 2023 · 99

Critical Security Vulnerability in Google Chrome

Google has released an update for the Chrome web browser during the night, which addresses at least one critical security vulnerability. This vulnerability allows attackers to smuggle in and execute malicious code. In total, the update includes fixes...

Alex · 17 May 2023 · 56

Is Chrome's Stop Button Useless?

You ever just want to yell stop it at your web browser when it's acting up. There is actually a button that's supposed to get the browser to do exactly that, the stop button. But if you've only ever used modern browsers, you might not even really hav...

Kelly · 17 May 2022 · 104

Microsoft's Pushy Web Browsers

Nobody likes pushy notifications from software, but I got to give Microsoft credit for positively turning this into an art form. Like when you go to install Google Chrome, Windows might hit you with zingers like, "That browser is so 2008," or, "'I ha...

Alex · 04 February 2022 · 107

Everything Is Actually Google Chrome

Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser by a wide margin. Well, let's just say you want to be a contrarian and use some alternative browser, maybe Vivaldi or Opera or Torch. Unfortunately, those browsers are all actually the same as Chrome...

Alex · 03 February 2022 · 117