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Control your web browser privacy in five easy steps

, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [2]

There’s an abnormally large amount of attention being payed to so-called privacy here at the start of 2012, and Google’s “Do Not Track” button has fired up the stove for further fanning of flames here in late February. There’s a lot of ways to “protect” yourself in the connected, mobile, and communicative world of today, but none is better than this: just keep away from the keyboard. What I’m saying is that should a person want to have total and complete severance from tracking on the web, there’s only one way: stop using it. For everyone else in the world that wants to be realistic, here’s five steps that will lead you to glory.

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Google agrees to “Do Not Track” Chrome button

, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [12]

Google will add a "Do Not Track" button to its Chrome browser, the search giant has conceded, after being challenged to put its software where its mouth is over online privacy. The new system will allow surfers to avoid having their viewing habits used to tailor advertising and more, as part of an industry-wide shift to make privacy controls more visible. The decision follows several high-profile criticisms of Google's approach to user privacy, as well as the Obama Administration's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights being revealed. Read The Full Story

Adobe and Google to bring Flash Player to Linux

, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [9]

Adobe has announced that it, and Google will be partnering to bring Adobe Flash Player to Linux users. The move has been talked about in the recently released roadmap from Adobe for Flash runtimes. The duo plan to work closely together on the development of a single modern API for hosting plug-ins within a browser. The goal is to replace the current Netscape API that Flash Player uses. Read The Full Story

Chrome for Android’s Pichai promises major improvements ahead

, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

In an interview with CNET, Google's Senior VP and head of Chrome, Sundar Pichai, made some exciting promises on the future of Chrome for Android. The beta browser optimized for the mobile Android platform was released just two weeks ago and is available only for Android 4.0, but has already reached 500,000 downloads. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome Password Generator tosses logic in the trash

, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [14]

There’s a feature coming out in a future version of Chrome (either the browser or the OS or both) which will generate a password for you, one “impossible” for a human to remember, and sync that password across your Chrome account. The reason this method is terrible, I must explain, is that unless this generator also creates a password as long as the system will let it, it’s actually just as easy for a machine to crack as one you’d be able to remember on your own, without Chrome’s help. This system is made supposedly to keep human password crackers at bay, but the developers at Chrome don’t seem to be taking into account that these humans generally don’t use their knowledge of you to crack your secrets in the first place.

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Chrome for Android won’t ever get Flash

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [9]

Chrome for Android may have set its sights on being the default browser on your Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, but you'll have to make do with no Flash Player support if you give in to the new beta's allure. Having announced that its Flash Player mobile plans were over back in November, Adobe has confirmed that Chrome for Android does indeed arrive too late for a plugin of its own. That's despite Android 4.0 already having Flash Player support in the native browser. Read The Full Story

Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 ICS Review

, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [15]

Google has presented its first iteration of the web-centric brand name it uses for both a web browser and an operating system, Chrome, here on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This beta version of the app which now appears mostly to be a web browser is able to work with each other iteration of Chrome you’ve got open on all devices. It does this with a simple “Devices” interface which shows tabs each browser has open – the rest of the experience is centered around tabs as well, all with the aim of bringing you a speedy and simple internet browsing experience.

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Chrome Beta revealed for Android 4.0 ICS

, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [18]

Android has been working with a web browser without a name for quite a while now – it’s actually called WebKit, but before now they’ve never had a name-brand browser out of the box: this is all about to change with Google’s own Chrome browser, releasing today. Chrome is Google’s desktop-based web browser and operating system (there’s two Chromes, this one being a sort of mashup between the two) being used by millions of individuals around the world, this release being the Chrome team’s first jump into the mobile world. This release is a pre-release sort of situation, as the Beta tag implies, and works for all Android devices with version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higher installed upon them.

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German government recommends Chrome browser

, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [5]

The most common web browsers in most countries are Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. While in the US, our government doesn't recommend specific software for security when you're online, in Germany it's a different story. Germany's federal office of information security, known by the German initials of BSI, on the other hand, often recommends software to German citizens for the security. Read The Full Story

Firefox flirting with half-baked Chrome launcher rival

, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [4]

If you're a fan of the Firefox Web browser, you know that things haven't been going too well over Mozilla. The Firefox browser has been bleeding users to other browsers like Google Chrome to the point that it is actually dropped in rankings for users. The Firefox team over at Mozilla is intent on getting the users back and its daily builds show they are playing with new features, even if those features have apparently been pulled already. Read The Full Story

Chrome browser gets WebRTC baked in for Skype challenge

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [1]

Google has released a dev-version of Chrome supporting WebRTC, the integrated real-time audio and video communications system that could see VoIP, video conferencing and even streaming gaming baked into the browser. "Instead of relying on custom, OS specific, proprietary plug-ins," the Chromium blog says of developers, "they can now easily build and maintain their apps using a few simple JavaScript APIs and have the browser do the heavy lifting." Read The Full Story

Google improves Gmail offline feature for Chrome

, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [5]

Google today released some new updates to its Gmail offline Chrome app, which it first launched last August. The HTML5-powered app lets users access their Gmail even when they're offline. Perhaps the biggest improvement in this update is a new settings page that lets you choose how many days of email you want synchronized for offline viewing. Read The Full Story
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