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Accidental removed a password from Chrome’s saved passwords? An undo function is soon coming to your rescue. This is currently being developed, so it may take a while before you get it. Here are the details. The Code The CL says the following: Implement “Undo Delete Password” in Settings Page This change implements an UNDO […]

Google is preparing to distrust Symantec security certificates on Chrome. In a blog post today, the company detailed the plan to gradually roll this out. Chrome will drop Symantec certificate around October 23, 2018 when Chrome version 70 releases. Around the week of October 23, 2018, Chrome 70 will be released, which will fully remove […]

Tamagotchi is now available on Google Chrome as a new tab extension. It wants to help you be more productive by reducing distractions on your browser. Fewer tabs = happy Tabagotchi (a play on the word Tamagotchi, with Tab!) . More tabs = angry Tabagotchi. Tamagotchi Tamagotchi is a digital pet that was popular in […]

Pocket, my favorite reading app, has announced a new Chrome extension. They already have an extension to quickly save content to Pocket. The new one is a New Tab Page extension that will display curated content. The new extension, Pocket New Tab, adds popular articles from within the Pocket network. According to an email from Pocket, […]

Google Chrome is adding support for a popular Windows 10 feature called Action Center. The team is currently working on this, and we might see this soon on the Canary channel, behind an experimental flag. Action Center is a notification area, with actionable notifications, plus some additional controls similar to your notification try on Android. […]

We have seen plenty of rumors and Assistant sightings on Chrome and Chromebooks. Voice search has been part of Google Chrome’s new tab page for a long time. That is why a new flag and a few mentions in the code base about voice search on “local NTP” caught my attention. From the way it […]

The ability to mute tabs / websites was an innovative feature that Google Chrome added. Now, the team has improved this feature by moving it to the list of Site Settings. With this feature, you can permanently mute websites. According to François Beaufort: The Chrome team is currently experimenting with a setting to mute/unmute a […]

I use Chrome stable and Chrome Canary on my laptop. I use Stable channel for work, and Canary for other stuff (read life). Canary channel was created because you cannot run Stable version and Dev or Beta versions side-by-side. Looks like that is changing. Starting today, we will be able to run Chrome Stable / […]

Google has been experimenting with Chrome’s new tab page from the day one. When they launched Chrome, the new tab page with most visited website also was a new experiment. They continue to experiment with the new tab page, adding new features including the Google Doodle (We will soon see third-party doodles on Chrome). Lately, […]

Good morning, and here is your breaking news of the day. The Android edition of Google Chrome will soon support third party Doodles. Reading between the lines (literally!) this change has something to do with the recent Russian regulatory battle that Google lost. The Code The code change submitted today says this: Add support for […]