Tootfinder

Google Chrome erhält drei nützliche Produktivitäts-Features
Google kündigt drei neue Funktionen für Chrome an, die bereits vor einiger Zeit eingeführt wurden und mit Chrome 145 auf breiter Basis verfügbar sein sollten.

@… has a nice writeup about the differences between Chrome extensions and WebExtensions https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-a-webext

What is a WebExtension, and how is it different from a Chrome extension?
Building cross-browser extensions is easier than it used to be, but still tedious.

I bet if you were a power-user of it, you could back in day tell what new features Photoshop 5 had over Photoshop 4.
Try finding anyone who knows what new features are in Chrome 144 over Chrome 143.

61 European alternatives to Google, X, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, DropBox, Google Drive, WhatsApp, and other popular services https://www.xataka.com/basics/61-alternativas-europeas-a-google-x-gmail-chrome-maps-dr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Wilco:
🎵 Hell Is Chrome
#Wilco
https://kodiakoma.bandcamp.com/track/cover-wilco-hell-is-chrome
https://open.spotify.com/track/5i6yX6mDvIEDnQiNeW6LPy

Chrome: Google kappt Support für älteres macOS
Das vor weniger als fünf Jahren erschienene macOS 12 alias Monterey ist bei Googles Browser bald raus. Sicherheitslücken bleiben bestehen.
https://www.

Just a web #browser, please
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Just-a-web-browser-please-11143198.html

"Aus Ärger über #Firefox #Chrome zu nutzen ist wie in der Kneipe aus dem Klo zu trinken weil einem das Bier nicht schmeckt." 🤣
Quelle:

Over 500,000 VKontakte accounts hijacked through malicious Chrome extensions https://therecord.media/500000-vkontakte-accounts-hijacked-chrome-extensions

Google launches Gemini AI features in Chrome for iPhone and iPad, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/googles-gemini-ai-comes-to-chrome-on-iphone…

Google's Gemini AI comes to Chrome on iPhone and iPad
After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad.

heise | Chrome ausreizen: Datenschutz verbessern, an Vorlieben anpassen
Chrome ist umstritten, aber weiterhin populär. Unser Ratgeber zeigt, wie Sie den Browser datenschutzfreundlicher konfigurieren und sich vor Tracking schützen.

damn, youtube is down, been a while since i saw that happen

It feels strange to not be able to participate in all these technology switching activities. But I/we (we = family) never used WhatsApp, never had any streaming service (not for film, not for music), no Chrome or Edge, no password manager, etc
I must use MS things at work, but am one of the very few employees who not use the web applications, have autosave turned off, and insist on using the legacy version of software as long as possible
Is this a

»Einfach nur einen Webbrowser, bitte:
„Just the Browser” ebnet den Weg zu schlanken Webbrowsern am Desktop. Nervender Ballast wird binnen Sekunden aus Chrome, Edge oder Firefox entfernt.«
Ich muss mir dies mal in Ruhe am Wochenende ansehen, ob dies nun wirklich nützlich ist oder andere Browser dies schon längst umsetzen.
🌐

Einfach nur einen Webbrowser, bitte
„Just the Browser” ebnet den Weg zu schlanken Webbrowsern am Desktop. Nervender Ballast wird binnen Sekunden in Chrome, Edge oder Firefox deaktiviert.

Google details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a "User Alignment Critic" model that vets AI agent's actions (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/gemini-chrome-agentic-security/

Google explains Gemini in Chrome’s agentic browsing security, protections
With Gemini in Chrome and the upcoming availability of agentic capabilities, Google is detailing how the browser will protect against threats.

Apple and Google have released several software updates
to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users.
On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser,
-- noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it. 
Unusually for Google, the company provided no further details at the time.  But on Friday, Google updated the page to say that t…

Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks | TechCrunch
Apple released patches for all of its flagship devices to fix security flaws under attack. Google also updated Chrome to remediate one vulnerability exploited in the attacks.

from my link log —
HTML5 genetic algorithm 2D car thingy.
https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
saved 2021-03-10 https://dotat.at/:/4M01I.html<…

Still having issues with a 3D print, already cleaned printer, lubed vertical screws, used IPA on chrome and carbon rods, thoroughly cleaned build plate, cold pulled nozzle, dried filament… I think it might be this specific batch of filament having issues

[1/?]
So this happened while I was up a mountain:
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/
But the post didn’t have a demo. Last night I made one:

Chrome OS: Google hat intern ein Ablaufdatum
Google hat Chrome OS intern ein Ablaufdatum verpasst. Der Ersatz, das auf Android-basierende Aluminium OS soll zudem in diesem Jahr noch nicht abheben.
https://www.

Browser-Addon "Google Scholar OA Status" by Lukas Wallrich
https://github.com/LukasWallrich/gs_oa_status
"A Chrome extension [also working in Edge] that displays open access (OA) status badges on Google Scholar search results, helping researchers quickly identify …

Äh... das uBlock-basierte AdNauseam funktioniert jedenfalls nicht mehr. Vivaldi wird, falls es das doch noch nicht haben sollte, Manifest V2 Support und damit funktionierendes uBlock verlieren. Komischer Schritt zu einer komischen Zeit, Herr
@…

Want to get rid of unwanted stuff in your webbrowser - like telemetry or #ai
There's a git project for FF, Chrome and Edge and a website:
https://github.com/corbindavenport/jus

Natürlich ist eine #KI in deinem Browser bequem. Vor allem auch für den Daten- und Werbekonzern, der so noch viel mehr Einblick in dein Innenleben erhält.
#DNIP #Google

Like #OCTRANSPO itself, the travel planner is not working. I have been living at my current location for over five years so I KNOW there is a bus just across the street. Just wanted to confirm the start times for tomorrow and then how badly it figured out the transfer point.
Failed in Vivaldi, failed in Chrome so it isn't browser related. Firefox it just barfed.

Google baut einen ganz neuen Browser und eine neue Art von Web-Apps
Hauseigene Konkurrenz für Chrome? Google stellt mit Disco eine neue Art von Browser vor, der Informationen aus offenen Tabs in interaktive Web-Apps verwandelt.

And yes, yes Vivaldi did have the fix out even before Chrome (albeit unannouced).

Einfach nur einen Webbrowser, bitte
„Just the Browser” ebnet den Weg zu schlanken Webbrowsern am Desktop. Nervender Ballast wird binnen Sekunden aus Chrome, Edge oder Firefox entfernt.
https://www.heise.de/…

This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…

The final indignity: I clicked the button to tell Mozilla why I was uninstalling and it launched Edge to fill out the form instead of my default browser (Chrome).

Logged into Google using Chrome at work and found it's become a Kakfa-esque experience where I had to log in five times before I realized what was going on with "profiles" I've never asked for. Reminds me of the time I did a shoot-out of ten visual recognition APIs and I got demos of the others done in 20 minutes each but Google Cloud Compute took two hours because it trashed my Python #google

Lies.
#CSS

Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: its ability to perform multistep tasks is noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/

I Let Google's ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn't Quite Click
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that's the idea.

Like the “AI” cited, I too judge people derogatorily who use vanilla Chrome as their default browser.
Do better.

the url doesnt have any working wayback machine crawls and now im depressed

I know it's a silly thing, but I really enjoy streaming my Xbox Series X on Linux 😎
#gaming #Xbox #Linux

Google Chrome: Schnellerer Wechsel von Safari auf dem iPhone
Auf Mac und PC kennt man das Feature: Mit einem Klick werden Browser-Infos übernommen. Google setzt das nun auch auf dem iPhone um.
https://www.

Petition to rename #Windows to Chrome/Windows

Introducing Just the Browser https://blog.corbin.io/post/805641962529177600/introducing-just-the-browser

Introducing Just the Browser
Modern web browsers are increasingly focused on features beyond the core browsing experience, many of which just end up as distractions. Chrome gives you coupon codes while shopping. Microsoft Edge...

Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website at chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz

Working on a website for a while until you look at it in chrome and it's horrible and you remember your dark mode plugin has been messing with it to make it look sane and dark. 😆
Gotta remember to turn these things off for the sites you're developing.

@… We wanted to wait for those that actually fixed the bug to announce, i.e. the Chrome team. They have done so now:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/…

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

I tried streaming the Green Day opening performance at the Super Bowl - Peacock doesn't support Firefox, natch. Chrome only. 🙄 I do like the fact that Peacock let's you watch from the beginning of the game and doesn't just provide a real-time feed because I'm only watching the performances.

What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.
(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, …

Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.
— by @…
🦊 https://

Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.

(from friends in the EU)

(from friends in the EU)

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @… web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.
DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who…

Several Android apps have made sounds in the last few weeks while all sounds have volume at zero (ringer, text, media, etc)
I gave volume override permissions only for alarms, CGM, and PagerDuty
I didn't love that an embedded video in Chrome played a sound when my low glucose alarm went off, but I can accept that some wires got crossed there
But Lyft making a sound when there's no volume override actively in effect? Absolutely not.

Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
\(^-^)/

Euer Browser nervt mit KI-Assistenten, Shopping-Vorschlägen und ständigen „Mach mich zum Standard"-Popups? 😤 Der US-Journalist und Programmierer Corbin Davenport hat genug davon – und eine elegante Lösung entwickelt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11143193

It’s amazing how you can make #FreeTube so simple and distraction-free!
⭐ #FreeSoftware

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

“Live Region Support”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/live-region-support.html
Just about to publish, Chrome updated, I re-tested, and my results for dynamic descriptions went sideways. So, I dunno, QA that for me?
Won’t it feel good to correct me? You know…

Live Region Support
This post does not discuss whether live regions are good, nor is it a post about the best way to use them. This post only covers how they are exposed to the audience who experiences them — screen reader users. Written by a non-screen-reader user. If you’re here because your…

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.
✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

So, I guess no one has any idea how to fix Wayland vs. Chromium?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

Australian artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain has created 'Slop Evader', a browser extension search tool for either Firefox or Chrome that evades AI slop by using the Google search API to only return content created before ChatGPT's first public release on November 30, 2022: https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Masta Ace Incorporated:
🎵 Sittin' on Chrome
#MastaAceIncorporated
https://craftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sittin-on-chrome
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6iuGWVZVvNDylillKqrL

Weiterleitungen sind okay. Weiterleitungs-Ketten sind böse. ⛓️
Oft leitet Seite A auf B, B auf C und C dann endlich auf das Ziel.
Jeder Sprung kostet Zeit und Lade-Geschwindigkeit. Für den Nutzer fühlt sich die Seite langsam an, für Google ist es Budget-Verschwendung.
Mit der kostenlosen Erweiterung "Ayima Redirect Path" (für Chrome/Firefox) sieht man sofort, wenn man auf einer URL landet: Gab es Sprünge?
Manchmal liegt Performance-Optimierung nur einen Klic…

Whether you like or dislike Chrome, the fact that ChromeOS is "just a web browser" is a positive. I don't want to see them mess that up. Putting Android on these things seems like a bad idea.
#AluminiumOS #Google

Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/anthropic-releases-opus-4-5-with-new-ch…

Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch
Anthropic has launched Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model, with new integrations into Chrome and Excel.

Fun fact, real chrome tapes smell like chalk!
[This post brought to you by my latest ADHD-fueled obsession.]

Reminder: If you still have to use #Twitter for business purposes, install the FREE 'Control Panel for Twitter'.
It blocks ads, display posts in chronological order, hide suggestions or promoted posts, etc. Works for Windows Edge/Chrome/Firefox & iOS/Android.

Run 'Control Panel for Twitter' via Microsoft Edge and get rid of all the Twitter BS like 'For you'
If you hate all the recommended stuff from Twitter and want to customize its app for Windows 11, you need this free extension.

The WebSerial specification is on of those web APIs implemented only in Chrome so far; Mozilla have revised their standards position from "harmful" to "neutral" when they established the mechanism addon-gating, but are merely open to patches.
But an add-on, "WebSerial for Firefox" already fills the gap well. The caveat compared to any Mozilla sanctioned approach is that it needs a local helper, but that is well managed through the native-messaging-hosts me…

GitHub - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial: WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser
WebSerial API Polyfill for Mozilla Firefox browser - kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

I’m done with my #Mac storage cleanup.
I deleted:
- cache for two Adobe apps that have been uninstalled months ago (After Effects and InDesign)
- cache and apps for two browsers I haven’t used in months (Chrome and Arc)
- cache for a Mail account that I haven’t opened in years
As a result, I cleared 227Gb of local storage and deleted 370,000 files.
Kind of crazy how much bloat accumulated from so few apps.

For those of you tolerating Liquid Glass and the quite horrific Safari redesign on mobile/tablet: Kagi’s Orion browser actually seems to be an awesome full replacement. No complaints so far. Easy access to tab management, no weirdly hidden buttons or menus you need to tap multiple times to see fully. As a bonus, it has built-in filter support as well as several great Firefox and Chrome plug-ins. And Kagi’s search is optional. In fact you have more search options than in Safari.

Scheiße, ich kann beim #DiD oder #DuT nicht mitspielen …
Kein Ami-Streaming, X, WA, FB, Chrome, Google-Suche (zumindest nicht, solange ich bei DuckDuckGo was finde), Microsoft. Von Apple und Adobe komme ich nicht weg.
#Filmfriend

The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…

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…

It has been 19 years since the launch of Firebug v1.0.
It’s hard to overstate how critical this Firefox extension was. Before 2007, tooling was scarce. Firebug introduced the DOM inspector, live CSS editing, and the network monitor—features that laid the groundwork for the advanced performance tooling we rely on today in Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Happy Anniversary, Firebug. 🎂

Wir sind in einer Zeit, in der Anbieter mit ihrer "AI-Abwehr" die eigenen Seiten so kaputt machen, dass ich weder mit Firefox noch Chrome drauf komme. Selbst mit abgeschaltetem JS/Werbeblocker. Interessanterweise funktioniert es im tor-browser, also offenbar IP-block oder sowas. So wollt ihr Geschäfte machen?

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.
Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115950900357164051
Do you use Chrome? Follow @… to be…

Nur. Ein. Browser. 🤬
Als wenn sie eine einzige Fachanwendung haben, deren Komplexität auch nur im Ansatz an ein Tausendstel dieses Browsers heran reichen würde.
(Quelle: https://heise.de/-11088687)

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri
Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI...

@… @… I’m amazed you have the energy to engage with them… I’ve recieved a mere taste of that when recommending Vivaldi to people (Aaargh!! Chrome! Evil!!! — although FWIW my preferred browser is still Firefox)
And I agree that FOSS-bros are…

Le navigateur Chrome ne devrait plus être utilisé. #ia #surveillance https://dnip.ch/2026/02/13/vogt-am-freitag-staubsauger/

WebKit Bug 277290 AX: Scrolling containers inoperable with keyboard (July 2024, critical):
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277290
I’m betting if we can convince the Google Chrome team that this is preventing uptake of CSS carousels they’ll dispatch an engineer to fix i…

Oh, fuck... YouTube stops lagging in FF if you install the ChromeMask extension that pretends to be Chrome to the site. How low is that?!

Avoid using Chrome as Google is evil.
Yeah, but first Apple, give us a fucking browser that actually works on every fucking site out there.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Landrose:
🎵 TOTAL CHROME
#Landrose
https://landrosesounds.bandcamp.com/track/total-chrome

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

Just saw how various websites are using 50 GB total in Chrome. A big culprit is every site with an embedded YouTube video seems to have its own copy of 313MB of YouTube crap. It's partitioned for privacy purposes and I'm guessing nothing is de-duping that storage. I wonder if every site has to download it too?

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- CASteer: Cross-Attention Steering for Controllable Concept Erasure
Gaintseva, Oncescu, Ma, Liu, Benning, Slabaugh, Deng, Elezi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09630 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/114159563689274183
- Emergent morphogenesis via planar fabrication enabled by a reduced model of composites
Yupeng Zhang, Adam Alon, M. Khalid Jawed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08198 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/115015041244278094
- DiffusionLight-Turbo: Accelerated Light Probes for Free via Single-Pass Chrome Ball Inpainting
Chinchuthakun, Phongthawee, Raj, Jampani, Khungurn, Suwajanakorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01305 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114788643017213587
- Beyond Inpainting: Unleash 3D Understanding for Precise Camera-Controlled Video Generation
Dong-Yu Chen, Yixin Guo, Shuojin Yang, Tai-Jiang Mu, Shi-Min Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10214 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115904260738523976
toXiv_bot_toot

I'm running into a really annoying render bug with the latest Kubuntu, which now uses Wayland. Anyone else seen this issue, and know how to fix it?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

Chromium apps scaling wrong in Wayland / Kubuntu 25.10
I just installed Kubuntu 25.10 for the first time, on a fresh laptop install. 25.10 defaults to Wayland now. Now, Chromium-based apps (Chrome, Signal, and Slack so far) are showing mis-scaled; th...

A Google bug report apparently leaks the planned Android desktop interface, showing a taller status bar, a new mouse cursor, Chrome extensions, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/

Android’s full desktop interface leaks: New status bar, Chrome Extensions, more [Video]
A Google bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker today has inadvertently leaked the Android desktop interface for the first time.

Well, the site I complained earlier about blocking me using ad blockers then allowed me to see their site is doing it again. I checked and I actually whitelisted them so it isn't ad blocking. They are running scripts that detect ad blockers. Did I use Chrome? NO, I prefer Vivaldi.
I have zero problems seeing ads. You can show multiple ads without a problem. I have a problem with their invasive scripts grabbing all the data about me and my device.
They block me and it doe…

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
https://srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l

Every aspect of this is a product failure. Best Buy bears the brunt of the blame, particularly for the ridiculous set of login choices. But Chrome failed, 1Password failed, Windows Hello failed. They all failed at being a humane, usable product.

Phia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115933745141491485
Periodic reminder that despite relentless Chrome propaganda, a lot of innovation in web browsers comes from Mozilla and Apple.

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Chrome Hoof:
🎵 Circus 9000
#ChromeHoof
https://chromehoof.bandcamp.com/track/circus-9000

Oh. Its proprietary!?
#browser #firefox #vivaldi #mozilla