2025-09-16 06:07:20
For me, if they say I have to use Chrome I extend a middle finger, delete the site if bookmarked and go elsewhere.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/08/chrome-mask-make-firefox-appear-as-chrome-with-a-single-click/
Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/google-chrome-silences-those-pesky-no…
Now I lay me down to sleep
I hear the sirens in the street
All my dreams are made of chrome
I have no way to get back home
-- Tom Waits
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.
Chrome: Google bohrt automatische Ausfüllfunktion auf
Google erweitert die Autofill-Funktion im Chrome-Browser. Neben Daten wie Name und Adresse sollen Nutzer weitere Informationen nicht mehr eintippen müssen.
https:/…
PSA (i don't use Chrome so haven't tested)
https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-140-make-is-it-harder-to-install-ublock-origin-but-it-is-still-possible/
So what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)
En général je recommande pas mais je n'ai pas trouvé d'équivalent en app ou sur #Firefox extension.
Chose plutôt bien fait sur #BraveBrowser #chrome
Me? Over 95% of what I do is NOT in Chrome.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/09/you-can-still-install-ublock-origin-in-google-chrome-140-but-why-bother/
#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.
🔊
just crashed a chrome tab with STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN (a windows error code that, afaict, means "the stack canary was overwritten") by doing A Lot Of WebUSB Requests
AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…
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…
@… thanks for the sipeed nanokvm usb video! I've got one on order and looks like it's gonna be great.
As far as browsers: Safari's webkit and Chrome's blink have diverged quite a bit now, so they are a separate engine really; Firefox's Gecko is the only fully separate one in a browser you'd want to use right now, but Ladybird and Servo are both things that are coming along.
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
TIL `hyphens: auto` does not add hyphens for capitalized words (in English at least).
extraordinarily (wraps with hyphen)
Extraordinarily (no wrap no hyphen)
Adding `word-break: break-word` breaks the capitalized word, but still no hyphen 🤨
Demo (applies to Firefox and Chrome, working in Safari): https://codepen.io/zachl…
"und, was hast Du heute so gemacht?" – "mich von chrome auf edge umgewöhnt."
#dienstrechner #büro #IT
Chrome notifications is something I don't want or use so no big deal for me.
https://flip.it/7ev2YE
Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li
I guess it's a good first step https://toot.cafe/@tomayac/115309411832537447
But I've also been waiting for *years* (`prefers-color-scheme` was introduced in 2019), for:
- light/dark-mode `theme_color`
- light/dark-mode `background_color`
- light-dark-mode `ic…
added a WebUSB platform device capability descriptor to #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer so now it pops up a prompt like this if you plug it in and Chrome is running
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Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks
""One year from now, with the release of #Chrome 154 in October 2026, […] Chrome will ask for the user's permission before the first access to any public site without HTTPS.""
https://s…
It's not Easy: Applying Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Malicious Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
Ben Rosenzweig, Valentino Dalla Valle, Giovanni Apruzzese, Aurore Fass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21590
People actually use Chrome??
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/115227265814572838
'free VPN'
Populaire Chrome extensie FreeVPN.One betrapt op spionage - TechPulse
https://share.google/sCf3TeMzgUdcOYxrP
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://
me: "that's weird. chrome://flags no longer loads, did I break something?"
also me: "oh. this is firefox."
Idk who needs to hear this, but don't use Google's Chrome browser.
Some easy to use, fast and compatible alternatives are Firefox (cross-platform) or Safari on macOS/iOS.
Also more esoteric browsers based on Firefox like LibreWolf or the Tor Browser; I can't vouch for these as I don't use them personally.
(Whatever you do, don't use Brave, it's made by a bigot homophobe with money from Peter Thiel.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/21/phased-out-google-confirms-bad-news-for-all-3-billion-chrome-users/
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Browser: Ecosia will Verantwortung für Chrome, aber ohne dafür zu bezahlen
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…
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
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/4]:
- CAG: Chunked Augmented Generation for Google Chrome's Built-in Gemini Nano
Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu, Aditya Karnam Gururaj Rao
I don't know what the fuck is happening to software. Start Chrome on a new phone and it crashes, log in to a new Gmail account and it shows a “500 error" banner for 2 seconds. Open Google calendar, switch to the weekly view and the events are displayed as GIGA NARROW UNREADABLE BOXES.
YouTube on iOS? For months had a problem where sometimes the UI has the wrong colors, probably because of the dark mode thing.
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- CAG: Chunked Augmented Generation for Google Chrome's Built-in Gemini Nano
Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu, Aditya Karnam Gururaj Rao
It turns out that if you launch Zen, Twilight, Firefox, Safari, iCab, Edge plus its three prereleases, Chrome plus its Canary version, and SeaMonkey (under Rosetta) all at once you can make Sequoia run terribly on a M4Pro/24GB MBP.
So much for the “faster laptop“ /s
#IWeep6Colors
“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
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IR/new
[1/1]:
- CAG: Chunked Augmented Generation for Google Chrome's Built-in Gemini Nano
Vivek Vellaiyappan Surulimuthu, Aditya Karnam Gururaj Rao
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Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts:
🎵 Big Crime
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung #TheChromeHearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I0Ls0Yaq9z7sYU3EFOcSh
TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
@archer@techhub.social
Chrome tabanlı olmasında ısrarcı değilseniz Mullvad ve Librewolf'u da öneririm.
Chrome mal wieder kurz angeworfen... Adblock Origin funktioniert nicht mehr
F*ckt Euch, Google!!!
Vivaldi is pretty good! I like to keep all my “logged in to Google” browsing quarantined from my personal browsing, just because I have to use GSuite for work and I am a salty old curmudgeon, and Vivaldi is my “Google stuff” browser. It renders pages like Chrome, but it spies less and it sucks less. Would recommend. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115231022612195148
Hello Fedi tech support desk, I wonder if you can help.
Next week I will need to join a Teams meeting from my Linux laptop.
How well does this work using the Teams web interface? Will I need to run Chrome or will Firefox or (at worst) Chromium do the job?
And do I need to sign in to Microsoft dot com first, or can I just rock up with the Teams call details and enter a name and things will just work?
#Teams #Linux #Microsoft
Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10/09/accel-22-million-kernel-ai-agents
TIL I learned from a colleague about Chrome's `badidea` and `thisisunsafe` override to bypass its HSTS warning...
I'm now imagining the product meeting where this was decided upon:
PM taking a massive drag on a bifter: "How about if we made it an easter egg..."
SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen #vpn …
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-…
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
I don't care if he's fuckin' Pol Pot as long as I get a browser out of the deal that isn't Chrome in a trenchcoat. We're rapidly losing Firefox. The entire world being beholden to Google for access to all web data is more important to stop than one developer's wrongthink.
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
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: Tell me everything you know about Belkov's One Nine Seven computer.
ORAC: You suggested I spared you the technical details.
AVON: Oh, don't sulk, Orac. I have a little more time now.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/277 B7B4
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.
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 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.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Catherine Wheel:
🎵 Chrome
#CatherineWheel
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vNHkJiZZtKm4x8ESkfM4Q
#ct3003 mit einem Video über #KIBrowser:
#Chrome kriegt #KI
Does anyone else have a weird thing happen when using Chrome (I have to for work) where if you're not scrolled just far down enough on a page, it doesn't let you click on things? Until you've scrolled down? It's a new type of bullshit for me
Got bored. Made this. #CSS
only just put together that, for a time in 1980, nico's group was a duo of john gilmore of @… & cheetah chrome of the dead boys?! https://heads.social/@livetapes/115273
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox
Shaoor Munir, Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq
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.
ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
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
A Ford Oil Bath Air Cleaner Under the Hood of a Classic Car
#photo #photography #cars #transportation
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 is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/
My answer is NO to AI in a browser. All I want is for a browser to go to the URL and render the page. A search site to provide me a list of sites that meet my query, not a hallucination of a list. The page that is edited by a person presenting real information and not AI slop.
And yes, I do use AI at times at work. I use it to quickly find documents, but I will do the review to see if they are relevant.
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.
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/
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Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks