Chrome

Dell said it would join a growing market of thin-and-light Chrome OS laptops with the new Chromebook 11, but the system will initially be available only to educational institutions. The company did not provide specifications for the laptop, but in an email said more Chromebooks will be announced for “budget-strapped” small-and-medium business and consumers in Continue Reading →

Having come under fire over its relaxed attitude towards saved passwords in Chrome earlier in the year, Google is finally looking to do something about it. In a post to his Google+ page, Chrome tinkerer François Beaufort notes that the company will now ask users to authenticate themselves using a system password before they can Continue Reading →

Google is introducing the ability to control what its Chrome browser will show with a new feature called supervised users. Like Windows Phone 8’s Kid’s Corner, the feature’s aimed at families, and allows the owner of a device to block websites and set permissions in Chrome that determine the parts of the internet other users Continue Reading →

Google unveiled its Chrome Apps initiative recently to launch apps that exist outside of the browser and extend its reach into more of a platform, but it looks like the company has a whole lot more planned. Over the past few weeks, Google has been updating its developer version of the Chrome browser to run Continue Reading →

A new update for Chrome for iOS adds iOS 7 support, but there’s also a big flaw as discovered by UK development and design firm Parallax. It turns out that when you use the search/address bar in Incognito mode in Chrome, that history will show up when you return to standard browsing in Google’s mobile Continue Reading →

Google has announced the launch of Chrome Apps on Thursday in a bid to establish the Web browser as more of a platform in itself. The new apps are similar to what the Chrome Web Store already offers, but instead of launching in the usual looking browser, it launches sans address bar and navigations buttons, Continue Reading →

If you use Google Chrome, your passwords aren’t as private or secure as you think. While it’s convenient to have Chrome save your logins and passwords, anyone can see all your saved info with just a few clicks, simply by heading into Chrome’s settings. All you’d need to do to uncover a saved password is Continue Reading →

Remembering passwords for multiple websites is incredibly annoying but it still might not be a good idea to let Google’s Chrome browser remember them for you. Software developer Elliott Kember notes that it’s incredibly easy for anyone to see the passwords you’ve stored on Chrome as long as they’re using a computer where you’ve logged Continue Reading →

Google’s new Chromecast HDMI stick is a lot of things: it’s a simple new way to bring internet video to your living room after the company stumbled with Google TV, it’s a new platform for content creators like Netflix, and it’s an interesting extension of Chrome as a platform beyond the browser itself. That’s a Continue Reading →

Google has quietly rolled out its new conversational search feature in the latest version of its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux. Users that hit up the Google homepage will now see a small microphone symbol in the right-hand side of the search field, as well as at the top of any page containing Continue Reading →