Tag Archives: Chrome

Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex. The new version of Chrome OS, designed for businesses and schools, is designed to run on old PCs and Macs. The operating system can be installed “within minutes,” according to Google’s blog post. Google told me that Chrome OS Flex will look and feel identical to Chrome OS on a Chromebook — it’s built from the same code base and follows the same “release cadence.” It did caveat that some… Source link

Google has announced new features to Chrome that can help you find information and get things done easily while navigating the web, the company said in a blog post. Few of these features are available to the public instantly but others are only available in the beta version.  Here are the key features that Google introduced for its Chrome browser. Journeys The Journeys feature of Chrome groups together your search history based on topic or intent. (Image: Google) With Journeys rolling out,… Source link

Google today announced a couple of updates to Chrome that bring, among other things, a new way to resume your past searches in the browser. This new feature, dubbed ‘Journeys,’ is now rolling out to Chrome on the desktop and will smartly group past searches by topic. The browser will automatically highlight this new experience when you start searching for a related term, or you can head diretly to the new Chrome History Journey page once it’s enabled on your browser. Image… Source link

Huge news from Google HQ: the company is changing the Chrome web browser logo for the first time in eight years. And it’s stunningly—well, not all that different. To be fair, the new logo is clearly different to the previous one, when viewed side-by-side anyways. It’s brighter, cleaner, and Google has taken the design equivalent of a 10,000 LED light to the front of the logo to eradicate any hint of shadow. That may not be the exact logo you end up seeing on your device, however. Google is… Source link

Chrome is changing its logo for the first time since 2014, and if you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see what’s different. Elvin Hu, a designer for Google Chrome, offers a first look at the logo’s redesign in a thread on Twitter, as well as some of the thinking behind the ever-so-subtle changes. Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today. Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the first time in 8 years. The new icons… Source link

The new Chrome logo, at right, is brighter and has a larger interior blue circle. Elvin Hu/Google … Source link

Regular readers will know that I’ve been on a campaign for a few years now to try to make Google Chrome better. I’ve been tweaking settings, streamlining the installation, installing extensions, deleting extensions, and I even paid for a service to try to make it more usable. The results were mixed, to say the least. What I needed was something that basically allowed… Source link

A while back, Google said that it was on board with the idea that cookies–the little pieces of software code that websites use to do all sorts of things like keeping you logged in, to letting an advertiser know when you’ve clicked on their ad and then made a purchase–were bad. At least, the third-party kind–the ones that track your activity across the internet. Those types of cookies would be blocked in Chrome by 2023.   Except, because Google–like every advertising platform–uses… Source link

When Google announced a plan to block digital tracking cookies from its Chrome web browser two years ago, the advertising industry and regulators worried that the proposal would further entrench the search giant’s dominance over online ads. The outcry eventually forced Google to delay its rollout by nearly two years to late 2023. On Tuesday, Google said it was scrapping its old plan and offered a new way to block third-party trackers in Chrome with an online advertising system called Topics…. Source link

As we’re all a bit more mindful of what we share these days, it has forced the likes of Google to be more upfront about what it does and doesn’t know. Location History is supposed to be turned off by default but some other stuff might be being collected. It’s a good idea to check anyway and the best way to do that is through the Google activity area. How to check my Google activity Tracking is actually meant to make internet life easier by knowing what you… Source link