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""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…

🇺🇦 #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

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

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.

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.

Ein Browser für ChatGPT: OpenAI gibt Chrome-Konkurrenten Atlas für macOS frei
Wer ChatGPT beim Surfen nutzt, muss bislang noch viel zwischen Tabs wechseln und Inhalte kopieren. Das soll mit Atlas der Vergangenheit angehören, sagt OpenAI.

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.

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/

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…

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

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…

@… 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.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google Chrome: Angriffe auf Sicherheitslücke laufen, jetzt aktualisieren
<…

@archer@techhub.social
Chrome tabanlı olmasında ısrarcı değilseniz Mullvad ve Librewolf'u da öneririm.

Beim Testen von #Atlas von #OpenAI: Nein, in ChatGPT Atlas kannst du Chrome Extensions nicht direkt installieren oder nutzen. Atlas ist eine eigenständige Browserumgebung mit eigenen Funktionen, unterstützt aber keine direkten Chrome-Extensions.
Und dann noch eine Fehlermeldung bei der Aufforder…

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

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.

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

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

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

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?!

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…

Google Chrome silences those pesky notifications | TechCrunch
The company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows users receive a high volume of notifications but rarely interact with them.

Chrome mal wieder kurz angeworfen... Adblock Origin funktioniert nicht mehr
F*ckt Euch, Google!!!

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:/…

Got bored. Made this. #CSS

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)

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

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.

Chrome notifications is something I don't want or use so no big deal for me.
https://flip.it/7ev2YE

Sigh, load average of 50, bots requesting every eversion of every page on my personal wiki, user agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.114 Safari/537.36"

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

I'm torn as to whether this is a good part of the job, but today I once again ran into a limitation of Safari and thus also Chrome on the iPhone. After quite some time, I discovered the cause. Tomorrow I'll work on the workaround. #webdev #safari

Chrome now has a bug where if a web page pops up "log in with Google" it happens in the browser UI, not in the web page UI. And it freezes things up enough so Ctrl-W no longer works to close the tab while the "log in" dialog is displayed.
Good jerb! I suspect this is related to some monopolistic practice of Google favoring their proprietary, privacy-invading login system in their browser.

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

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream.

Lies.
#CSS

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

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

Hmm, WebGUI von mastodon.social kaputt?
Sowohl Safari als auch Chrome auf dem Mac wollen nicht?

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.

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

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
@…

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

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Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks

I'm still using Chrome and Google's built in search widget on android 12. Anyone got better alternatives I can use?
I find the widget really helpful but "AI Mode" is annoying me haha. Using proton pass btw.
#android #degoogle

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.

me: "that's weird. chrome://flags no longer loads, did I break something?"
also me: "oh. this is firefox."

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

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

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

Somehow, through browser changes, distro hoping, and Windows re-installs, I had forgotten how to enable one of the best hidden features of Mastodon. I thought I was going crazy and was imagining having it before, or it was just something available only on Chrome.

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…

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 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).

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

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.)

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

Ok, dann teste ich mal den #Helium #Browser.
Ist zwar #Chrome bzw. #Chromium, aber testen kann man ja mal.…

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/

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser …

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

I am unsurprised at the breakdown so far:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/115548550635430577
Granted, the plethora of Chromia are splitting the vote, but even added together it’s not close.
Also, this is not scientific and may not reference reality. …

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

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…

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI
Google has integrated Gemini into Chrome, while Perplexity and Opera have launched AI-native browsers too.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Chrome:
🎵 Eyes in the Center
#Chrome
https://purplepyramid.bandcamp.com/track/chrome-eyes-in-the-center
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wCnRgtN0Zjipn357U9rnV

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Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts:
🎵 Big Crime
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung #TheChromeHearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I0Ls0Yaq9z7sYU3EFOcSh

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...

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

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

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…

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/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

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…

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

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

Exclusive: Accel strikes $22M deal to help AI agents access browsers
It's leading Kernel's seed and Series A rounds.

A Ford Oil Bath Air Cleaner Under the Hood of a Classic Car
#photo #photography #cars #transportation

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

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Sycoo, Flume, Chrome Sparks:
🎵 Ripple
#NowPlaying #Sycoo #Flume #ChromeSparks