Most modern web browsers make use of a password manager that stores usernames and passwords of websites and services in the browser so that the user does not have to enter them over and over again. Mozilla Firefox and Opera provide access to a password manager in the browser that can be used to manage [...]
Chromium Iron
The release of Google Chrome and its Open Source counterpart Chromium put Google for the first time in the position that Microsoft was in for the last ten years or so. Users are looking at Microsoft products with suspicion suspecting privacy breaches and data collection on large scales. This is especially apparent in Microsoft operating [...]
Google Chrome Backup
The amount of applications, tweaks and tips released for Google’s first web browser Chrome is increasing daily which can be somewhat attributed to the media coverage it received during the launch phase. The attention it receives is still surprising if you consider its mediocre market share of sub 1% of the browser market even with [...]
More Google Chrome Vulnerabilities emerge
It has been about a week since the initial release of Google’s long awaited browser which marked Google’s entry into the browser market. The launch created buzz especially on the Internet where blogs and news portals raced to be the first to post interface screenshots, tests and reviews about Google Chrome.
Even the mainstream media picked [...]
Google Chrome Nightly Builds Downloader
Google is releasing nightly builds of Google Chrome like crazy, up to 10 releases per day is a lot and it is hard to keep up with the releases because the nightly builds come without automatic update functionality.
Donation Coder user Dirhael developed a simple application that checks for new nightly builds of Google Chrome [...]
Google Chrome Anonymizer
Google Chrome is using a client id variable in the file Local State which can be found in the user data folder of the chrome installation which is unique for every Chrome user. Privacy advocates are already warning users that the id can be used to create exact user profiles of a user’s actions while [...]
Google Chrome Security Vulnerability
Now this did not take long. Only one day after releasing a first public beta version of Google Chrome researchers at Kaspersky discovered (Thanks Neil for sending the tip) a security vulnerability that combines a security flaw in Webkit, the browser engine used by Google Chrome, with a Java bug. Apple fixed the vulnerability in [...]
