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Chrome Begins Disabling uBlock Origin

If you’re a fan of uBlock Origin, don’t be surprised if it stops functioning in Chrome. The Google-owned browser has started disabling the free add blocker as part of the company’s plan to phase out older “Manifest V2” extensions, PCMag reported. On Tuesday, the developer of uBlock Origin, Raymond Hill, retweeted a screenshot from one user showing the Chrome browser

Chrome Adds New Features To Save Battery And Improve Browsing

Chrome posted information on The Keyword, written by Group Product Manager, Chrome, Mark Chang. It is a short post that focuses on Chrome’s new features that are optimized for your device’s battery and system memory. From the post: With the latest release of Chrome on desktop, we’re introducing two new performance settings so Chrome uses up to 40% and 10GB

Chrome to Give Users More Control over Audio

People who use Chrome as their go-to browser are about to get more control over the audio that autoplays on the websites they visit. Software Engineer Mounir Lamouri posted on the Chromium Blog information about “Unified autoplay”. Users watch and listen to a lot of media, and autoplay can make it faster and easier to consume on the web. However,

Turn Nearly Any Display into a Computer with the Google Chromebit

Google has been busy expanding its Chrome-branded line of products with the latest item being its new Chromebit. The Chromebit is somewhat similar to the Chromecast, Google's low-cost video streaming stick. Both devices are about the size of a candy bar, both devices connect directly to a TV or digital display thru an HDMI port. But the Chromebit is more

Lantronix Prints From Android and Chrome at CES

There are times when only hard copy will do but anyone who has tried to print from a tablet will know that it's not always easy. The main ecosystems from Apple and Google have their own printer strategies with AirPrint and Cloud Print respectively but support is spotty at best. Several printer manufacturers have gone so far as to create their

Philips Hue Chrome App

While researching the Philips Hue Android apps, I discovered that currently there is a single Hue app for Chrome. It's called Hueful and while it's fairly basic, it deserves a mention as (a) it's the only app on Chrome but (b) it shows that Chrome can support this kind of hardware-oriented app. Previously I would have discounted Chrome from being an

What Would You Rather See on the Internet?

All of us have had the experience of seeing a bunch of posts in our social media about things we would rather not see. Wouldn't it be great if something could just get rid of all the unwanted stuff for you? There's an app for that! It is called Rather. It lets you replace the stuff you don't like with