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Chrome Web Store Redesigned

If you have visited the Google Chrome Web Store today you may have noticed that Google redesigned the store completely. The layout of the page has been streamlined into a minimalistic listing of apps, extensions and themes. The page has three core elements. First the sidebar menu linking to application categories and extensions and themes [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Advanced Find For Chrome, Include Inflections In Search

All modern web browsers come with options to search the active web page for specific words or phrases. None as far as I know support wildcard searches or the inclusion of inflections. The Google Chrome extension efTwo Advanced Find on Page adds support for the latter to the Chrome web browser. Sometimes when I search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Hear Web Text with Google Chrome Speak

Google Chrome has just fronted a new extension called Chrome Speak; a text reader for web content on the Google Chrome search engine. This will read highlighted text out loud. Whether from sheer laziness, bad eyesight, or just a desire to have a text reader on your browser, it is an interestingly accurate feature. You [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google Chrome Tips Beta Extension

If you are a new Chrome user, or an old one who is now used to working with the browser in a certain way, you may be interested in tips to get the most out of the web browser. Maybe it is basic tips that can really help you improve your workflow, for instance by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Skype Update Removes Google Product Bundling

With Skype now being a Microsoft Division it was clear that some things had to change. There is still a lot of speculating going on in this regard. The Skype development team has released Skype 5.6 for the Windows operating system and an update for Skye 5.5 that removes the Google product bundling from the [...]

Categories: Microsoft

27 Out of 100 Chrome Extensions Insecure

Security researchers Nicholas Carlini, Adrienne Porter Felt, and Prateek Saxena reviewed 50 popular and 50 random Chrome extensions from the official Chrome Web Store for security vulnerabilities and discovered that 27 of the 100 extensions “leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker”. These 27 extensions account for a total of 51 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Security

Chrome Remote Desktop Beta Extension

I think it was last year when Google first mentioned that they would add remote desktop capabilities to Chrome OS and the Chrome web browser. Yesterday Google released a first beta version of Chrome Remote Desktop, an extension for the Chrome browser on the official Chrome Web Store. Google points out that the goal of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Webpage Screenshot, Edit, Save Screenshots In Google Chrome

I personally do not have the need for a web based screenshot solution like Webpage Screenshot for the Google Chrome browser. The core reason for this is that I use a desktop application – Snagit – for the task which allows me to take screenshots in any application and not only in Chrome. Sometimes however [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Change Default Browser, Quickly Switch The Default System Browser

One web browser is always the default system browser on a computer system. That’s the program that is launched when you click on links for example. The majority of computer users on Windows come into contact with multiple browsers. They got Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed by default on the system and download and install at [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Software, Windows

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