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Chrome’s New Update Broke Text Highlighting on Some Sites
A recent update to Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers introduced a bug with highlighting text. Many websites and web apps are affected, and will have to be updated to fix the new behavior. Chrome 131 changed how browsers handle text selection styles, specifically impacting the inheritance behavior of selection properties. This means you might not see highlighted text when you…
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Apple Found One of Chrome’s ‘Critical’ Security Flaws
On Tuesday, Google released a new update for Chrome, upgrading it to version 130.0.6723.91/.92 for Windows and Mac, and 130.0.6723.91 for Linux. When you install the update and refresh your browser, you won’t be greeted with a new UI or a handful of new features or changes. Instead, you’ll be running a browser that patches two security vulnerabilities found in older…
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Chrome’s Memory Saver Is Getting Upgraded
The Chrome browser has long been infamous for its excessive resource consumption, although Google has been experimenting with ways to reduce that. The latest Performance Controls feature might be the biggest step in that direction. Google Chrome has rolled out new updates designed to give you more control over browser performance and speed. A key addition is the Performance Detection…
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New tool bypasses Google Chrome’s new cookie encryption system
A researcher has released a tool to bypass Google’s new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser. The tool, named ‘Chrome-App-Bound-Encryption-Decryption,’ was released by cybersecurity researcher Alexander Hagenah after he noticed that others were already figuring out similar bypasses. Although the tool achieves what multiple infostealer operations have already added to their malware, its public…
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Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection
Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent. In a decision on Tuesday, a federal appeals court reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the case, saying the lower court should’ve reviewed Google’s disclosures and determined “whether a reasonable user reading them would think that he or she…
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