Tootfinder

1/2 Neil Young, outdoor show, 2025/09/06. Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts/2025/deer-lake-park-burnaby-bc-canada-2b5bc4de.html
Show was super political, e.g.

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlist at Deer Lake Park, Burnaby
Get the Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlist of the concert at Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC, Canada on September 6, 2025 from the Love Earth World Tour and other Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

#heiseshow: Google-Chrome-Urteil, GPS-Störungen, KI-Überwachung
In der #heiseshow: Google darf Chrome und Android behalten, GPS-Sabotage nimmt zu und KI-Überwachung an öffentlichen Plätzen wird diskutiert.

»US-Gericht – Google muss Webbrowser Chrome nicht verkaufen:
Wegen eines illegalen Monopols bei der Websuche drohte Google die Zerschlagung. Doch nun entschied ein US-Gericht: Der Konzern muss künftig Daten mit Konkurrenten teilen - aber weder den Browser Chrome noch das Betriebssystem Android verkaufen.«
Viele sind von Google abhängig auch wenn oder weil es Open-Source Projekte sind. Deswegen sind nun sehr viele erleichtert.
🔊

US-Gericht: Google muss Webbrowser Chrome nicht verkaufen
Wegen eines illegalen Monopols bei der Websuche drohte Google die Zerschlagung. Doch nun entschied ein US-Gericht: Der Konzern muss künftig Daten mit Konkurrenten teilen - aber weder den Browser Chrome noch das Betriebssystem Android verkaufen.

When you tell Chrome to "save image as" it doesn't save it at the destination. It saves it in the Downloads folder and then moves it. That seems really dumb.

This whole article seems intentionally positioned to sew fear, uncertainty, and doubt. If an attacker is able to do this on your computer, then Chrome is just an implementation detail
https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-use-chromium-browser-spying/

I couldn't come up with a better way than this to minimize a Chrome app on autostart (KDE, Wayland, clean session)
(avoids setting a KDE window rule, which makes awkward opening the app in session)
google-chrome [arguments] & sleep 2; kdotool search --class [window class] windowminimize &

I'm now the proud owner of a 1979 Ford Thunderbird (my son paid for it but my name is on the title so it can be insured in my name)
#cars #ford #thunderbird

Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after launching the OS on low-cost laptops designed to compete with Google Chromebooks (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/717253/microsoft-windows-11-se-c…

Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE in October 2026. The OS was designed to compete with Chrome OS originally.

a bit physically relieved that we managed to avoid what would have been an extinction-level event for the web (the Mozilla search deal is also deemed fine now) https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/tech/google-antitrust-ruling-chrome-android

Google will not be forced to sell off Chrome or Android, judge rules in landmark antitrust ruling
A court will not force Google to sell off its Chrome browser or Android, a federal judge said in a court filing on Tuesday. The decision serves as a significant win for the tech company, which has avoided the most extreme possible outcome from a landmark antitrust case that determined the company was operating an illegal online search monopoly.

Chrome bleibt – aber der Wettbewerb beginnt erst jetzt
Das Gericht hat #Google nicht zerschlagen. Das ist ein großer Sieg für den Konzern. Der Browser #Chrome bleibt im Haus – und damit der größte kontinuierliche Zufluss an Nutzerdaten aus dem Google seine Such- und Antwortsysteme speist.

from my link log —
How Google Chrome V8 made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
saved 2025-08-04 https://

Some people are wildly off base and completely missing the point of what I’m doing. I downloaded Chrome only to install a mobile OS that protects my security. Once the web installation was done, Chrome was deleted immediately. This was a clear, intentional step.
The fact that some folks are threatening me not to use Chrome for this is beyond absurd. It’s like telling me not to withdraw cash from my own bank because the bank might somehow control what I do with that money. That kind of …

Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/google-chrome-adds-ai-…

Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers | TechCrunch
The feature will display a pop-up that informs consumers about the store's reputation for things like product quality, shopping, pricing, customer service, and returns.

Not only Gmail has been infested with bad AI, but also other Google products. Chrome has a "help me write" feature. You can [disable it in the AI innovations settings](chrome://settings/ai). Unfortunately the intrusive popup is still showing up in Gmail and I can't find any way to turn it off. (See image)
There's also a Chrome setting that allows better browser history search. I've wanted that for years so I've turned that one on for now. Maybe it's better than all the other Gemini crap?

A minha verdadeira surpresa é: só agora?!
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114976947994005648

If you're using Chrome, don't use VPN extensions like FreeVPN.One unless you don't mind it taking screenshots of every website you visit. (Use VPNs like Mullvad or Proton)
https://cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-extension-with-100k-i…

Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit
FreeVPN.One, a verified Chrome extension with over 100k installs on the Chrome Web Store, is taking screenshots of sites users visit.

1/2: Eeek!
https://blog.google/products/chrome/store-reviews/
Just me, or is this a horrifying prospect? The SEO wars and the Amazon homepage have taught us that businesses will do anything - ANYTHING, ethics be damned, to game their online reputations. This …

Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shopping and other popular review websites to provide people with helpful insights when shopping on e-commerce sites.Just click the icon to the left of the web address and you can access an AI-generated summary of reviews. The description will cover topics like customer service, product quality, shipping, pricing and returns, helping…

Google Chrome: Unterstützung für Android 8 und 9 endet
Google knappst dem Webbrowser Chrome die Unterstützung für die veralteten Android-Versionen 8 (Oreo) und 9 (Pie) ab.
https://www.

Chrome: Google unterstützt diese macOS-Version bald nicht mehr
Mit Chrome 139 wird es keinen offiziellen Support für Macs mehr geben, auf denen ein fünf Jahre altes Betriebssystem läuft. Die Hintergründe.
htt…

Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/google-chrome-adds-ai-…

Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers | TechCrunch
The feature will display a pop-up that informs consumers about the store's reputation for things like product quality, shopping, pricing, customer service, and returns.

When it was first released everyone in tech thought Google Chrome was made because Google is so nice and they care about the Web.
And then they thought Google Amp was made because Google is so nice and they care about the Web.
Now they’re thinking Google’s AI summaries are made because Google is so nice.

»Windows 11 blockiert Google Chrome aufgrund einer Sicherheitsfunktion:
Seit Kurzem sorgt #Microsoft's Familiensicherheitsfunktion für erheb­lichen Ärger bei #Chrome-Nutzern. Die #Kinder'sicherung b…

Windows 11 blockiert Google Chrome aufgrund einer Sicherheitsfunktion
Seit Kurzem sorgt Microsofts Familiensicherheitsfunktion für erheblichen Ärger bei Chrome-Nutzern. Die Kindersicherung blockiert plötzlich und ohne Vorwarnung den Google Chrome-Browser auf Windows-Geräten einfach komplett.

Interesting… but why is this at the browser level instead of OS level? 🤔 #Chrome…

Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may...

Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691718/google-android-chrome-address-bar-bottom

Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom
Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. The feature is already available on iOS Chrome.

Browser: Ecosia will Verantwortung für Chrome, aber ohne dafür zu bezahlen
In den USA könnte ein Richter bald entscheiden, dass Google den Chrome-Browser abgeben muss. Ecosia hat ihm nun eine Alternative zum Verkauf vorgeschlagen.

'free VPN'
Populaire Chrome extensie FreeVPN.One betrapt op spionage - TechPulse
https://share.google/sCf3TeMzgUdcOYxrP

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-b…

OpenAI, Perplexity browsers present direct challenge to Google Chrome's dominance
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.

Google darf Chrome behalten
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191977

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Osees:
🎵 Infected Chrome
#Osees
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kQGyTYt2txoZFpSV7yNJo

temporarily healed by neil young & the chrome hearts at jones beach, GA pit abandoned to post-hurricane high tides & return of venue's old moat. windswept mix in balcony, birds dislodged from stage roof flocking during loud tunes. 1st "long walk home" since '89 & "singer without a song" since '13.

Oh dear, yesterday, I installed google-chrome (AUR), and now I am not sure if, in my carelessness, I might've hit the jackpot. Is there a way to verify an already installed package or I should nuke my install? (Concerning the news in the link.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux…

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Xinzhang Chen, Hassan Ali, Arash Shaghaghi, Salil S. Kanhere, Sanjay Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00659 https://

Demo: TOSense -- What Did You Just Agree to?
Online services often require users to agree to lengthy and obscure Terms of Service (ToS), leading to information asymmetry and legal risks. This paper proposes TOSense-a Chrome extension that allows users to ask questions about ToS in natural language and get concise answers in real time. The system combines (i) a crawler "tos-crawl" that automatically extracts ToS content, and (ii) a lightweight large language model pipeline: MiniLM for semantic retrieval and BART-encoder for answer relevanc…

Obviamente.
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114796792303391141

Schnell installieren: Apple fixt Zero-Day-Angriff in WebKit
Google zufolge wurde eine WebKit-Lücke in Chrome bereits aktiv angegriffen. Apples Sicherheitshinweise enthalten dazu aber keine Angaben.
https://www.…

Anthropic releases Claude for Chrome, which lets Claude take actions on the user's behalf within the browser, as a research preview for 1,000 Max subscribers (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/anthropic-launches-a-clau…

Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome | TechCrunch
Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user's Chrome browser.

Schema sorted finally!
#11ty
Went for a modular set of includes in the end.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Browser: Ecosia will Verantwortung für Chrome, aber ohne dafür zu bezahlen

#UX designer: Carousels are bad from a usability perspective
Web dev: We have recreated the carousel from the classic research paper "don't use carousels" entirely in #CSS

Carousels with CSS  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Support scroll experiences with navigation buttons and markers with just a few lines of CSS.

Google will be allowed to keep Chrome but can no longer pay for exclusive search contracts. In busting Google's search monopoly, the court has cemented their web browser monopoly. I don't see how Mozilla survives this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-…

Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case
The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

Chrome (very good developers, some of the best, have not made any UX mistakes in the past 5 minutes) gives me a duplicate "Open in reading mode" context menu entry for some reason

In US v. Google, a judge rejects prosecutors' bid to make Google sell off Chrome but says Google is barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html

Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case
The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

"I feel like this is a sign that Chrome is completely losing its way — AI-generated slop from the browser layered atop AI-generated slop in the underlying web pages."
via @…

Is chrome really faster or is it preloading every single link you can click before even clicking?

“The court has a menu of options. Will it break up Google (by ordering it to sell the Chrome browser or even Android)? Make it share valuable data with its rivals? All of the above?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week for Antitrust Violations. Here’s What It Would Mean.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

The more I think about it the clearer it is that the introduction of Google Chrome in 2008 was when the Web started to turn sour.

Chrome für Android: Adressleiste lässt sich nach unten verschieben
Wer möchte, kann die Adressleiste des Chrome-Browsers auf dem Android-Handy nun auch nach unten verlegen. Das lange angekündigte Update ist nun verfügbar.

I hate it that without even noticing, I've somehow managed to agree to this option being on 😡 ->
How to stop Microsoft Edge from monitoring your Chrome browser history and settings
https://www.pocnetwork.net/tips/how-to-sto

How to stop Microsoft Edge from monitoring your Chrome browser history and settings | Poc Network // Tech
It shouldn't be surprising that any company might be interested in spying on you. Analytics is one of the many ways these companies thrive by learning everything they can about their customers. Including their browsing habits within other browsers, which is exactly what Microsoft Edge browser does. You'd think a browser would be limited to

Soderle, es ist so weit.
#Google #Chrome hat #uBlockOrigin endgültig gekillt.
Abgesehen davon, dass dieses Vorgehen den Browser bei mir ebenfalls killt, was ist jetzt die bevorzugte Lösun…

@… could you check Chrome and ideally Safari too?
If it's always 'no' then I guess we have totally wrong iso code mapping (we check for nb, nb-NO)

fresh neil young & the chrome hearts soundboard from glastonbury in june, so pro mixed that you can hear spooner oldham's B3 (mostly inaudible when i caught them last week) https://heads.social/@livetapes/114990531689500576

the web port of #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer can now operate on your local filesystem! (Chrome only)

Hmmm, I think Staples Canada site is F*ked up. Looking for a product, click on sort by price and it takes me to their packing & shipping page. Vivaldi, Chrome, Firefox all do the same thing.

OMG Google, you're desperate. What you just did is exactly *why* I just started to pay for Kagi.

Some ad industry executives express anger and disappointment at the US v. Google ruling, and say it will do little to alter Google's dominance of the ad market (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/angry

Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling 
The industry reacts to the ruling that Google will not have to divest Android or Chrome in latest antitrust development

heise | Goodbye Chrome: Warum Vivaldi der bessere Browser ist
Vivaldi ist eine clevere Chrome-Alternative: Der Browser bietet viele Funktionen und lässt sich flexibel anpassen. Und Werbe-Tracker blockiert er auch noch.

Saw this on Reddit; Russia offers asylum, reckon he'll go elsewhere?
Musk selling AI technology to China, while pulling out of America - Google Search
https://www.google.com/search?q=Musk selling AI technology to China, while pulling out of America&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I just realised I had been using Firefox long before Chrome was even a twinkle in Google's eye. 🦊
#Browsers #Firefox

»Perplexity – KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome:
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen - trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.«
Ein weiteres Argument um den Chrome Browser und seine Abkömmlinge NICHT zu nutzen, auch wenn Firefox nicht 101% optimal ist.
P.S. zB @…, ein Firefox Abkömmling, ist sehr Privatsphäre freundlich.
🌐

Perplexity: KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome - Golem.de
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen – trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.

Wow, yet another Thunderbird update.
It seems that Thunderbird, which ought to be rather stable by now, is getting updated more often than Chrome.
Either somebody is writing crummy code, not testing, or has a low acceptance hurdle for proposed "enhancements."

Kaffeemaschine in $hipsterstartupbude konnte bis vor kurzem mit Knöpfen bedient werden
Jetzt muss man qr Code scannen und in chrome verbinden. Anstatt die *vorhandenen Knöpfe* zu benutzen

SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen #vpn …

In US v. Google, a judge rejects prosecutors' bid to make Google sell off Chrome but says Google is barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html

Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case
The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

Saw some wild messaging from Apple in the Software Update app on an old MacBook — in fact the system was *not* up-to-date. Surfaced via a Google Chrome EOL message.
Got them switched over to the latest version of Firefox just fine 👀
The web should be for everyone (and not just on new hardware)

Of course, I don't know 'hardware', as you can tell from my technical description, but I have a sample from another tuning peg gear, and the peg and gear for testing, I get to Home Hardware and they have loose bolts of small dimension. I quickly learn that #6 is too large, #4 is too small and they have no #5's where the thread matches.
But you know what works? Do you remember those little chrome bolts with the hex-wrench heads that used to hold expansion cards in the ibm-pc? Perfect match, only 5mm too long, easily compensated by buying a matching nut and my 53-years owned pawnshop 5-string, my first banjo, is back in action!

My main concern here is how well this “new” spec be integrated? Will Chrome add support? Will Photoshop, GIMP and other tools support it?
Will end users like us use it day to day by replacing PNG or JPG?
Now don’t get me wrong this is a good thing and it comes with good features but remember JPEG-XL? I can’t stop thinking this is a tall order to popularise the newer version.
From: @…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks

I got this extension that binds keyboard shortcuts to play/pause and prev/next for YT Music tabs if they're open, downside is it only works on Chrome rn, FF version is available, but shortcuts in general are finicky atm.

Irgendwie wird mir im Browser seit Neuestem kein ALT-Text mehr angezeigt beim Drüberfahren über die Bilder und auch nicht nach Klick aufs Bild? Was is da los, kann ich das irgendwo umstellen?
Bei Chrome, Firefox, Opera - überall dasselbe 🤷‍♀️
#Fedihelp

The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which relies heavily on payments from Google (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/google-apple-and-mozilla-win-in-the-antitrust-case-…

Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost
Chrome stays. Payments stay. Exclusive placement goes. Some Search data goes.

I’m getting the distinct sense nobody at Google saw this. Or at least nobody with authority. So if you work there, forward it to your boss.
“My Request to Google on Accessibility”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Wow, C2PA Content Credentials working in the wild. In Chrome, anyhow. If you install this extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/c2pa-content-credentials/mjkaocdlpjmphfkjndocehcdhbigaafp and then visit a page on …

C2PA Content Credentials - Chrome Web Store
Verify and display manifests for images, audio and videos embedding C2PA Content Credentials.

Essentially what Apple is doing as well.
Fun times.
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/14/google-confirms-chromeos-android-merging-single-platform/

Google confirms ChromeOS and Android are being merged into ‘a single platform’
Google's Android head has confirmed that Chrome is being combined with the company's mobile platform after months of rumors.

Wie o wie helpt mij van deze krankzinnige vertalingen af (door Youtube? door Chrome?)

El querido "padrino del grunge", Neil Young, se hace presente con nueva música hoy también. El canadiense ya lleva 48 discos de estudio. Lo mšs reciente se llama «Talkin to the Trees» y estš acreditado junto a los Chrome Hearts.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6El5jxb

Sources: Perplexity talked with The Browser Co. and Brave about buying them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also discussed an acquisition with The Browser Co. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wild-chrome-bid-perplexity-hunting-bro…

Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the ...

Well this has been fun!
Experimenting building a chrome extension for detecting schema markup on a webpage.

Or, currently in Windows on Google Chrome v138.0.7204.101, temporarily add a DWORD value named ExtensionManifestV2Availability to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
and set it to 2, so you could start FeedBro and export your subscriptions ->
FeedBro no longer supported - Chrome desktop : r/rss

@… #HC24S — Over the past few days, I made and improved a PR adding Field Day support to the Open Source #MorseWalker #CW …

so, i ported #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer to webusb

It's astounding how Mozilla manages to consistently add shit to Firefox even at a time when people look for alternatives to Chrome. (Newest versions have started to force more AI crap into the UI.)

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Civic:
🎵 Chrome Dipped
#NowPlaying #Civic
https://civicivic.bandcamp.com/album/chrome-dipped
https://open.spotify.com/track/36LEkXspcKiMxUhiK1GL4g

Oh! #Tumblr is on a purge again, likely all these new age restrictions or such, because I've been warned against mentions of mathematics, showing chrome toggle switches being fondled on vintage computers or perhaps early 60s academic fashion, I don't know, I've requested clarification.

THE NEW ALBUM 'TALKIN TO THE TREES' BY NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS IS OUT NOW!

Sam Altman says OpenAI "totally screwed up some things" on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-news

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed criticism of GPT-5’s rollout, the AI bubble, launching a social network and brain-computer interface, buying Google Chrome, and more.

#Perplexity legt 34,5 Mrd. auf den Tisch und will Chrome – symbolträchtiger geht es kaum. #Google schweigt, Regulatoren schauen genau hin. Die KI-Revolution ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten, schreibt FAZ – aber wer rettet eigentlich das Web vor den Rettern?

heise | heise Update vom 13. Juni 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Nintendo Switch 2 im Test, Skoda Elroq und Ford Explorer verglichen, Sparen durch verringerte Netzentgelte, Chrome-Konkurrent Vivaldi

Developers Insight On Manifest v3 Privacy and Security Webextensions
Libor Pol\v{c}\'ak, Giorgio Maone, Michael McMahon, Martin Bedn\'a\v{r}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13926

Developers Insight On Manifest v3 Privacy and Security Webextensions
Webextensions can improve web browser privacy, security, and user experience. The APIs offered by the browser to webextensions affect possible functionality. Currently, Chrome transitions to a modified set of APIs called Manifest v3. This paper studies the challenges and opportunities of Manifest v3 with an in-depth structured qualitative research. Even though some projects observed positive effects, a majority expresses concerns over limited benefits to users, removal of crucial APIs, or the n…

Google begins rolling out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video, Canvas for planning, and PDF upload, plus AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/29/google-ai-mode-search-live-video-canvas/

Google AI Mode adding Search Live video, Canvas, PDF upload, and more
Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens), Canvas, and more.

You did what? I made this:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simons-schema-analyser/hkphgihmimhbmmgcjeahdcpgahebpjnd?authuser=0&hl=en-GB

Zoom has decided to globally claim the hotkey Ctrl-Shift-C. The one commonly used by software developers in Chrome and Windows Terminal.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Neil Young, neil young and the chrome hearts:
🎵 Talkin to the Trees
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung #neilyoungandthechromehearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OwAcjV6LxKFI3BYQxkidp

Perplexity should buy Chrome and then Apple should buy Perplexity. funniest possible outcome of a moronic DOJ-forced sale https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-is-reportedly-considering-the-acquisition-of-perplexity-ai-150012746.html…

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI
Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according...

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/

Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy Chrome
Why not offer a quadrillion dollars?

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Neil Young, neil young and the chrome hearts:
🎵 big change
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung #neilyoungandthechromehearts

I was having this weird issue with Chrome/Linux on some websites where the 'i'-s were missing 😄 The characters were there, they just didn't show up. With the Internet Archive website I narrowed it down to the Helvetica.otf font. I had installed Helvetica.ttf too, but it works fine with it. Curiously, there was no problem with Firefox.

Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/perplex…

So, it was good to learn it's chrome-extension:// and not extension:// if I want to pass an extension URL through a desktop shortcut or via command-line argument.

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really selling, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chatgpt-future
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Sam Altman: Never mind the launch mess — full speed ahead
After the GPT-5 furor, the OpenAI CEO is more determined than ever to build big and spend trillions.

Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-…

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.

Sources: OpenAI plans an AI-powered web browser with some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/op…