New Chrome Protections from Deception
June 18th, 2019
Chrome was built with security in mind from the very beginning. Today we’re launching two new features to help protect users from deceptive websites. The Suspicious Site Reporter Extension will improve security for Chrome users by giving power users an easy way to report suspicious sites to Google Safe Browsing. We’re also launching a new…
Chrome 76 Beta: dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more
June 13th, 2019
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Find more information about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. Chrome 76 is beta as of June 13, 2019. Dark mode Many operating systems now…
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
June 12th, 2019
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions platform. We announced some of these changes last October, and have provided additional context on them today. These changes to the platform are being implemented as part of Manifest V3…
Taking Action on Deceptive Installation Tactics
May 30th, 2019
Privacy, security and transparency are at the forefront of all the work we do on Chrome. In October, we announced changes aimed at ensuring Chrome extensions are trustworthy by default, but the work doesn’t end there. As part of our commitment to transparency, we are announcing a new policy targeting deceptive installation tactics for extensions…
Weekly Platform News: Mozilla WebThings, Internet Explorer mode, GraphQL
May 24th, 2019
Šime posts regular content for web developers on webplatform.news. Mozilla WebThings provides complete privacy for user data If you, like many we surveyed, are also concerned about the security & privacy of you smart home check out @MozillaIoT‘s decentralized, open source solution for keeping your smarthome devices at bay—or learn more dropping by our Bay…
Google I/O 2019: What’s new with Chrome and the Web
May 8th, 2019
The web celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, and what an amazing three decades they have been. We’ve seen the platform go from powering simple hypertext documents, to one that enables rich, immersive, and dynamic experiences that are at the forefront of design. Looking forward, the world’s needs continue to evolve, and that motivates us…
Improving privacy and security on the web
May 7th, 2019
In 2008, we launched Chrome with the goal of building a speedy, simple, secure and stable web for everyone, everywhere. Ten years later, user experience is still at the core of everything we do. We’ve received consistent feedback from our users about the importance of transparency, choice and control when it comes to data privacy…
Chrome 75 Beta: low latency canvas contexts, sharing files, and numeric separators
May 2nd, 2019
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Find more information about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. Chrome 75 is beta as of May 2, 2019. Hint for low latency canvas contexts…
Data Saver is now Lite mode
April 23rd, 2019
Since we introduced Data Saver in Chrome, we’ve reduced users’ data usage by up to 60 percent. But now, the feature is expanding to provide more benefits in addition to data savings. Pages will now load faster, in some cases considerably faster, and use less memory. This is why starting today, we will be renaming…
Debugging Websites in Chrome for iOS
March 25th, 2019
Debugging web pages displayed in Chrome for iOS has always required building the project from source because the release version of WKWebView does not support Safari Remote Debugging. To help bridge the gap of missing developer support, we added the chrome://inspect page in M73 to locally view JavaScript logs. While building Chrome for iOS from…