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  1. TarasBuria
    Statcounter: Edge falls below 10%, Safari continues climbing by Taras Buria The first day of a new month means it is time for Statcounter's latest findings. The May 2023 report is now available with details about the most popular browsers and their market share changes. Click here to learn how Statcounter gathers its data. To no one's surprise, Google Chrome is still the number one go-to browser on most platforms. Its desktop variant holds a 66.02% share with minor fluctuations from month to month. In May 2023, Chrome lost 0.2 points. Apple's Safari, the only non-cross-platform desktop browser, is cementing its new place after taking over Microsoft Edge in April 2023. Safari's customer base increased from 11.89% to 12.79%, further gapping Microsoft Edge. The latter once again dipped below the 10% mark and reached a 9.91% share (-0.98 points). According to Statcounter, Edge is not the only browser having problems with increasing its market share. Firefox continues bleeding customers, and in May 2023, its share decreased from 5.59% to 5.28%. For reference, in July 2022, its market share was at 8%. Opera is the fifth most popular desktop browser, with a market share of 4.02% (+0.9 points). Finally, the honorable mention goes to Internet Explorer and its 0.45% share. Google Chrome - 66.02% (-0.2 points) Apple Safari - 12.79% (+0.9 points) Microsoft Edge - 9.91% (-0.98 points) Mozilla Firefox - 5.59% (-0.31 points) Opera - 4.02% (+0.9 points) And here is the mobile side of the market, where Google, Apple, and Samsung hold over 93% of users. Interestingly, Google Chrome lost a notable chunk of customers during the last three months. Safari, on the other hand, is experiencing a continuous spike. Google Chrome - 61.09% (-0.67 points) Apple Safari - 27.81% (+0.81 points) Samsung Internet - 4.97% (+0.14 points) Opera - 1.8% (-0.09 points) UC Browser - 1.54% (-0.17 points) You can find more information on the official Statcounter website.
  2. Copernic
    Google Chrome 114.0.5735.91 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. This update includes 16 security fixes: $15000][1410191] High CVE-2023-2929: Out of bounds write in Swiftshader. Reported by Jaehun Jeong(@n3sk) of Theori on 2023-01-25 [$10000][1443401] High CVE-2023-2930: Use after free in Extensions. Reported by asnine on 2023-05-08 [$9000][1444238] High CVE-2023-2931: Use after free in PDF. Reported by Huyna at Viettel Cyber Security on 2023-05-10 [$9000][1444581] High CVE-2023-2932: Use after free in PDF. Reported by Huyna at Viettel Cyber Security on 2023-05-11 [$9000][1445426] High CVE-2023-2933: Use after free in PDF. Reported by Quang Nguyễn (@quangnh89) of Viettel Cyber Security and Nguyen Phuong on 2023-05-15 [$NA][1429720] High CVE-2023-2934: Out of bounds memory access in Mojo. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2023-04-01 [$NA][1440695] High CVE-2023-2935: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2023-04-27 [$NA][1443452] High CVE-2023-2936: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2023-05-08 [$4000][1413813] Medium CVE-2023-2937: Inappropriate implementation in Picture In Picture. Reported by NDevTK on 2023-02-08 [$4000][1416350] Medium CVE-2023-2938: Inappropriate implementation in Picture In Picture. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2023-02-15 [$3000][1427431] Medium CVE-2023-2939: Insufficient data validation in Installer. Reported by ycdxsb from VARAS@IIE on 2023-03-24 [$2000][1426807] Medium CVE-2023-2940: Inappropriate implementation in Downloads. Reported by Axel Chong on 2023-03-22 [$500][1430269] Low CVE-2023-2941: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API. Reported by Jasper Rebane on 2023-04-04 Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 92.6 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.3 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v114.0.5735.91 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  3. TarasBuria
    Google disables the Mica material in Chrome due to high power consumption by Taras Buria Several weeks ago, Google brought the Mica Alt material to Chrome Canary on computers running Windows 11 version 22H2 and newer, significantly improving the browser's look. However, the new visuals have one hard-to-ignore downside: with Mica Alt enabled, Chrome consumes more power and drains your device's battery much faster. For that reason, Google decided to turn off the updated looks in Chrome Canary. A new CL on Chromium Gerrit (via) reveals why Google has pulled the eye candy from its browser. According to the post, the change requires more optimization before it ships to all customers enabled by default, and the power usage in its current state "may not be good enough." Although Chromium developers need more time to optimize the visuals, you can still enable Mica on Chrome's tab strip. Chrome Canary now ships with the material disabled by default, which you can turn on using an experimental flag. Go to chrome://flags. Search for "Windows 11 Mica titlebar" or use the direct chrome://flags/#windows11-mica-titlebar link. Change the flag's value from Default to Enabled and restart the browser. Enjoy the new looks. The Mica material is a part of Google's upcoming visual revamp for its browser. Chrome Canary users are already testing the redesigned tab strip, new icons in the main menu, better fonts, and more. You can look at the latest stuff by downloading Chrome Canary from the official website. Note that Canary builds are bug-prone, so we do not recommend using the channel as your primary browser. Google Chrome is not the only browser offering Windows 11's new UI materials. During Build 2023, Microsoft announced a new Microsoft Edge redesign with improved visuals, translucent UI elements, rounded corners for tabs, and other changes across the browser. Some of these improvements are already available in Microsoft Edge Canary, but they still need extra polish and fixes.
  4. John Callaham
    Google shows off a new Chrome sidebar with extra customization features by John Callaham Even though Microsoft is stealing most of the developer and app thunder today with Build 2023, Google wants you to know it has some cool developer news as well. Today, it prompted some new features it has added to its desktop Chrome web browser that allows users to customize its look. Google's blog post states: You can test out different colors, themes and settings in real time by opening a new tab in Chrome and clicking the “Customize Chrome” icon in the bottom right corner. A new side panel will open with the available customization features. Here, you can experiment with different features and easily see how they will show up on your New Tab page as you make changes. And don’t worry about saving your work — our new side panel remembers your customization edits as you go. In terms of the browser background and themes, Google says there are hundreds of images to choose from in the Chrome sidebar. There are also in a number of different categories like “Landscapes” and “Seascapes". Alongside these, there are curated theme collections from various artists as well, along with creations from Asian and Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+, Latino, Black, and Native American artists. The sidebar lets users just automate the theme changes by using the “Refresh daily” toggle if they don't want to bother going through all those collections. You can also change the colors on Chrome with the options included in the new sidebar. Google stated: Start by picking a theme and watch your browser adjust its color to match it. If the color isn’t your style, you can always pick a different one on the overview page to get it just right. These new options should make using Chrome a more fun and colorful experience compared to the basic white options that are normally in use.
  5. zikalify
    Chrome desktop gets URL autocorrect, coming to mobile in the coming months by Paul Hill Google has announced that Chrome desktop will now autocorrect typos you make in the URL bar. The search giant said that it will roll out the feature to mobile in the coming months but for now, it’s just on desktop. If you make a typo in the URL bar, Chrome will show you suggestions based on corrections but shouldn’t mess with what you’re typing. The company has announced the feature as part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It hopes the feature will help people with dyslexia but also those still learning the language and anyone else who makes typos from time to time, which is basically everyone. Aside from making Chrome’s URL bar a bit more user-friendly, Google also said that it's making the Accessible Places wheelchair icon available in Google Maps for all users. If you open Maps and find a venue or business you’d like to go to, you will now see a wheelchair icon in the business summary section as well as a complete list of accessibility services offered in the About tab. Finally, the company said that it's bringing its Live Caption feature to more Android devices such as the Pixel 4, Pixel 5, select Samsung Galaxy phones, and more. Google will also add support for French, Italian, and German.
  6. Copernic
    Google Chrome 113.0.5672.127 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. This update includes 12 security fixes: [$TBD][1444360] Critical CVE-2023-2721: Use after free in Navigation. Reported by Guang Gong of Alpha Lab, Qihoo 360 on 2023-05-10 [$7000][1400905] High CVE-2023-2722: Use after free in Autofill UI. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2022-12-14 [$3000][1435166] High CVE-2023-2723: Use after free in DevTools. Reported by asnine on 2023-04-21 [$NA][1433211] High CVE-2023-2724: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2023-04-14 [$TBD][1442516] High CVE-2023-2725: Use after free in Guest View. Reported by asnine on 2023-05-04 [$1500][1442018] Medium CVE-2023-2726: Inappropriate implementation in WebApp Installs. Reported by Ahmed ElMasry on 2023-05-03 Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 93.0 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 89.3 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v113.0.5672.127 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  7. zikalify
    Does your Google Chrome install feel sluggish? Here's how to make it feel fast again by Paul Hill Like most people out there, I use lots of Chrome extensions in my browser and while most are OK, some can negatively affect the browser. I’m not sure if it was an extension causing it but the other day my Chrome install kept freezing as I was trying to navigate through tabs. Luckily, Chrome comes with a handy feature to fix issues like this called Reset settings. Here’s how to use the feature if your Chrome install feels sluggish too. To begin, you need to press the three-dot menu button in Chrome and open Settings. In Settings, look at the left-hand navigation menu and look for Reset settings near the bottom. Once you press this, you’ll be taken to a page with the option to Restore settings to their original defaults. If you press on that option, a dialog box will pop up letting you know that if you proceed, your startup page, new tab page, search engine and pinned tabs will be reset. It also informs you that your extensions will be disabled (not uninstalled) and that temporary data such as cookies will be cleared so you’ll be logged out of websites. Thankfully, bookmarks, browser history, and saved passwords are retained. Once you hit the final Reset settings button, the process will begin. You can also send your current settings to Google with a checkbox toggle. Once the process has finished it’s worth closing and re-opening the browser. You’ll notice that your account syncing has been paused, you can just press that and login to re-enable the sync. You should notice an improvement in the performance of the browser now. If you head to the three-dot menu and then press More tools > Extensions, you will be taken to the Chrome extension page where you can switch extensions on one-by-one. At this time, you should carefully decide which extensions you actually use and get rid of the rest, this will help you to avoid problems in the future. That’s pretty much all there is to it. The only inconvenience with this process is that you now have to sign back into the websites you use but with the Chrome Password Manager, this doesn’t take very long. Hopefully, this helps you sort out any problems you’ve been having with the browser, as it did for me.
  8. TarasBuria
    Google Chrome Canary gets Mica material on Windows 11 by Taras Buria A couple of weeks ago, a CL on Chromium Gerrit suggested implementing Windows 11's Mica and Mica Alt in Google Chrome, making the browser's tab strip more visually appealing. It did not take long for Google to bring the suggested change to fruition—the latest Chrome Canary builds already feature the fan-favorite eye candy by default. Google's Mica implementation in Chrome Canary looks similar to what Edge once had. The browser features a translucent material with colors derived from your wallpaper, creating a subtle, aesthetically pleasing effect with a low impact on hardware resources. And since Mica and Mica Alt depend on your wallpaper, the result is always unique and personalized. Here are just three examples of how the material reacts to different backgrounds: The proposed change on Chromium Gerrit suggested implementing two variants of the Mica material (regular and alternative), but Google decided to go for Mica Alt. It is more vibrant and colorful compared to the slightly muted standard Mica. Testing Mica Alt in Chrome Canary does not require enabling flags or commands. Head to the official Chrome Canary website, download and install the browser, and the material will be enabled "out of the box." Just keep in mind that using Chrome Canary as your primary browser is not the best idea since it receives daily updates that often break things or introduce bugs.
  9. zikalify
    Google Chrome's WebGPU integration to take the strain off data centres and boost security by Paul Hill Last month, Google released Chrome 113 with support for WebGPU. The main benefit of WebGPU is that it enables high-performance 3D graphics to be displayed effortlessly in the browser. With the proliferation of generative AI, Google wants to leverage WebGPU to take some of the pressure off data centres and make browsers do some of the work. According to CNET, Google is planning a demonstration at its annual Google I/O conference that will show Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion software turning a text prompt into an image, using WebGPU to do the processing. Being able to process AI tasks with WebGPU brings a few benefits to users. It allows you to avoid any network problems that may occur and it can give you greater control over your data. Earlier this month, Samsung banned its employees from using generative AI chatbots following a security leak. By running AI tasks locally, businesses like Samsung could use AI tools with greater security and privacy. The report states that Google is planning to announce a partnership with Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Microsoft’s Edge on something called Baseline. Baseline will outline the features that web developers will know work across the involved browsers. This should improve the compatibility of websites and web apps across platforms. Baseline 2024 could arrive by the end of this year and then be continuously updated as needed. Source: CNET
  10. Copernic
    Google Chrome 113.0.5672.93 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 93.0 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 89.3 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v113.0.5672.93 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  11. TarasBuria
    Chrome 114 Beta is out with headline balancing, scroll listening API, and more by Taras Buria Google has started rolling out Chrome 114 for those willing to test the browser's latest under-the-hood improvements in the Beta channel. With Chrome 114, developers can access two new CSS features and utilize additional web APIs. In case you missed it, the previous beta release delivered long-anticipated WebGPU support. The latest Google Chrome Beta version adds CSS headline balancing. It allows adjusting the line length in an element for better readability by avoiding typographic orphans or short lines of text separated from the rest of the paragraph. According to Google, the new technique will make elements like headlines more visually appealing. You can learn more about headline balancing in a blog post on the Chrome Developers website. The second CSS change in Chrome 114 is the overflow:overlay alias. It prevents content from extending into the scrollbar when the operating system uses fixed, non-overlay scrollbars. Another noteworthy addition in Chrome 114 is the "scrollend" event. It lets developers know when the user has completed a scroll through event listeners. Google says scroll-listening APIs help invoke new animations, fetch extra content, and make end-of-scroll events simpler and consistent. More information about the scrollend JavaScript event is available on the Chrome Developers website. You can download Chrome 114 from the official website. Full release notes with more details are available in the blog.
  12. hellowalkman
    Latest Windows 11 and 10 Patch Tuesdays are trying to coax Chrome users to switch to Edge by Sayan Sen via Vivaldi It is probably not unfair to say that Microsoft really wants people to use its Edge web browser. The company has often adopted somewhat desperate means to coax more users into trying Edge and choosing it as their default browser. Just considering the Windows 11 era, the company first came under fire due to the way it set up the default app options as it was seemingly quite tedious to go through the process. There have been aggressive ads and promotions as well, like the time Microsoft called Google Chrome "so 2008" and suggested that Edge was more secure than Chrome. This kind of ad once again appeared when trying to download Chrome, only this time it took up the full screen instead of being just a tiny prompt in the corner up top, which kind of showed how much it wants users to notice it exists. And of course, from time to time Edge also wants you to choose it as the default browser. And if you thought Microsoft would try and pull something similar sooner rather than later, you'd be absolutely right. According to user reports online, the latest April Patch Tuesday updates for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 are now triggering the Default Apps Settings page when a web link is opened with Google Chrome. Hence when a user is opening a link with Chrome, the default app settings is trying to make users want to switch over to Edge instead. Joris Geutjes posted this issue on the Google Chrome forum: Since today, we have noticed on several Windows 10 users (version 22H2 with the latest updates from Microsoft that they released on patch Tuesday of April 11, 2023) that when starting the Google Chrome browser, the Default Apps settings are opened every time. We have already set Google Chrome as the default browser several times. But that makes no sense at all. Restoring all Google Chrome default settings also has no effect. Even uninstalling Google Chrome and reinstalling it does not provide a solution. The issue is pretty widespread. It seems as if 387 people have upvoted this by choosing the "I have the same question" option. Over on the Microsoft forum, a user Todd Fuhrman1 posted the same question and it too has been upvoted by 87 people. On the same Google forum thread, a user offers a solution which is basically to uninstall the updates (Windows 11 22H2: KB5025239, Windows 11 21H2: KB5025224, and Windows 10: KB5025221). This seems to resolve the issue, indicating that Patch Tuesday indeed messed something up, perhaps even deliberately. Via: Gizmodo
  13. Copernic
    Google Chrome 113.0.5672.64 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. This update includes 15 security fixes: [$7500][1423304] Medium CVE-2023-2459: Inappropriate implementation in Prompts. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-10 [$5000][1419732] Medium CVE-2023-2460: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Extensions. Reported by Martin Bajanik, Fingerprint[.]com on 2023-02-27 [$4000][1350561] Medium CVE-2023-2461: Use after free in OS Inputs. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-08-06 [$3000][1375133] Medium CVE-2023-2462: Inappropriate implementation in Prompts. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2022-10-17 [$2000][1406120] Medium CVE-2023-2463: Inappropriate implementation in Full Screen Mode. Reported by Irvan Kurniawan (sourc7) on 2023-01-10 [$2000][1418549] Medium CVE-2023-2464: Inappropriate implementation in PictureInPicture. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2023-02-23 [$1000][1399862] Medium CVE-2023-2465: Inappropriate implementation in CORS. Reported by @kunte_ctf on 2022-12-10 [$3000][1385714] Low CVE-2023-2466: Inappropriate implementation in Prompts. Reported by Jasper Rebane (popstonia) on 2022-11-17 [$2000][1413586] Low CVE-2023-2467: Inappropriate implementation in Prompts. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2023-02-07 [$1000][1416380] Low CVE-2023-2468: Inappropriate implementation in PictureInPicture. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2023-02-15 Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 93.0 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 89.3 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v113.0.5672.64 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  14. Copernic
    Google Chrome 112.0.5615.138 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. This update includes 8 security fixes: [$8000][1429197] High CVE-2023-2133: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-30 [$8000][1429201] High CVE-2023-2134: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-30 [$3000][1424337] High CVE-2023-2135: Use after free in DevTools. Reported by Cassidy Kim(@cassidy6564) on 2023-03-14 [$NA][1432603] High CVE-2023-2136: Integer overflow in Skia. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-12 [$1000][1430644] Medium CVE-2023-2137: Heap buffer overflow in sqlite. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute on 2023-04-05 Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.7 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.2 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v112.0.5615.138 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  15. Copernic
    Google Chrome 112.0.5615.121 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.7 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.2 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v112.0.5615.121 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  16. Aditya Tiwari
    Google flaunts latest Chrome benchmarks, says it got 10% faster by Aditya Tiwari Google said it made various under-the-hood changes to boost the performance of Chrome on macOS and Android. It says the browser is speedier than ever and recorded a 10% improvement in the Speedometer 2.1 benchmark results over the last three months. The set of changes includes improved HTML parsing, better pointer compression, improved caching, and better memory management among various tweaks. Google said that some of the internal changes it made might trickle down to Apple's WebKit engine as well. You can read the company's blog post for more technical details. In the case of Chrome for Android, Google says it targeted high-end devices "with a version of Chrome that uses compiler flags tuned for speed rather than binary size." These Chrome versions deliver up to 30% better performance on the Speedometer 2.1 benchmark when running on capable devices. First launched in 2008, Google Chrome holds the highest browser market share globally. According to StatCounter data for March 2023, Chrome leads the race with 64.8% market share and is followed by Safari with 19.5%.
  17. Copernic
    Google Chrome 112.0.5615.87 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.7 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.2 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v112.0.5615.87 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  18. zikalify
    How to enable Google Chrome's secret reader mode feature by Paul Hill Several years ago, Google added a reader mode feature to its experimental Canary builds. With reader mode, you can strip out the clutter and focus on the text more easily. As an ad company, it’s unsurprising that its Chrome web browser does not have reader mode enabled by default, but you can still use this feature if you know how. To begin using reader mode, press the Chrome URL bar and type chrome://flags to get to the Experiments page and then in that page’s search box type reader and you should see Enable Reader Mode, toggle this to Enabled and then press Relaunch at the bottom. This feature will work on Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Fuchsia, and Lacros. If you’re on Android, you can go to Settings > Accessibility > enable Simplified view for web pages. Once you’ve relaunched the browser, head over to a news article and you should see a reader mode icon to the left of the share button in the URL bar, pressing this will strip away most of the page’s elements except the page’s text, images, and headline. You can press the little A at the top right to change the reader mode’s settings such as font, background colour, and font size. Tapping the reader mode button again will revert the page back to normal. While the feature can be nice if you need to focus on work and need text online to be distraction-free, you should be aware that reader mode may not present all of the text that you’d normally see on the webpage. This is a common theme across reading mode implementations and there’s nothing you can do about it. You may also see some stylistic issues such as apostrophes not appearing properly. If you have a reader mode extension installed on Chrome, definitely give the built-in version a try. Chrome extensions sip your computer’s memory, even when you’re not actively using them so using this feature as an in-built part of Chrome could save you a bit of memory too.
  19. TarasBuria
    Chrome 113 finally delivers WebGPU support, enabling high-performance 3D graphics on the web by Taras Buria The Google Chrome team has announced the release of the WebGPU API for high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web. The new API is now available by default in Chrome 113, which is currently in the Beta Channel and will soon arrive to all users in the Stable Channel. WebGPU is a new web standard and instruction set for hardware-accelerated graphics and computing developed by engineers from Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and other companies. Like DirectX, Metal, and Vulkan, WebGPU allows rendering directly on a graphics processing unit (GPU), with access to more advanced features (unlike WebGL). WebGPU promises to reduce the JavaScript workload for the same graphics and more than 3x improvements in machine learning model interfaces. Developers can draw images using WebGPU with highly-detailed scenes and many different objects (CAD models, for example), execute advanced algorithms for drawing realistic scenes, and run machine learning models more efficiently with better access to the GPU. The new API is the result of more than six years of joint development (the initial design was developed in 2017). The first implementation is now available in Chrome, with Firefox and Safari to follow suit soon. WebGPU supports Windows PCs with DirectX 12, macOS, and ChromeOS with Vulkan support. Google says Android and Linux support will arrive shortly. Developers can learn more about WebGPU support in Google Chrome in a blog post on the official Chrome Developers blog. It also includes links to additional resources, such as W3C specifications, best practices, MDN documentation, etc.
  20. Copernic
    Google Chrome 112.0.5615.50 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Google Chrome 112.0.5615.50 changelog: [$5000][1414018] High CVE-2023-1810: Heap buffer overflow in Visuals. Reported by Weipeng Jiang (@Krace) of VRI on 2023-02-08 [$3000][1420510] High CVE-2023-1811: Use after free in Frames. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2023-03-01 [$5000][1418224] Medium CVE-2023-1812: Out of bounds memory access in DOM Bindings. Reported by Shijiang Yu on 2023-02-22 [$5000][1423258] Medium CVE-2023-1813: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions. Reported by Axel Chong on 2023-03-10 [$3000][1417325] Medium CVE-2023-1814: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Safe Browsing. Reported by Young Min Kim (@ylemkimon), CompSec Lab at Seoul National University on 2023-02-18 [$2000][1278708] Medium CVE-2023-1815: Use after free in Networking APIs. Reported by DDV_UA on 2021-12-10 [$1000][1413919] Medium CVE-2023-1816: Incorrect security UI in Picture In Picture. Reported by NDevTK on 2023-02-08 [$1000][1418061] Medium CVE-2023-1817: Insufficient policy enforcement in Intents. Reported by Axel Chong on 2023-02-22 [$NA][1223346] Medium CVE-2023-1818: Use after free in Vulkan. Reported by Abdulrahman Alqabandi, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research, Eric Lawrence, Microsoft, Patrick Walker (@HomeSen), and Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani on 2021-06-24 [$NA][1406588] Medium CVE-2023-1819: Out of bounds read in Accessibility. Reported by Microsoft Edge Team on 2023-01-12 [$TBD][1408120] Medium CVE-2023-1820: Heap buffer overflow in Browser History. Reported by raven at KunLun lab on 2023-01-17 [$1000][1413618] Low CVE-2023-1821: Inappropriate implementation in WebShare. Reported by Axel Chong on 2023-02-07 [$500][1066555] Low CVE-2023-1822: Incorrect security UI in Navigation. Reported by 강우진 on 2020-04-01 [$TBD][1406900] Low CVE-2023-1823: Inappropriate implementation in FedCM. Reported by Jasper Rebane (popstonia) on 2023-01-13 [1430254] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.7 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.2 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v112.0.5615.50 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  21. Copernic
    Google Chrome 111.0.5563.147 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.8 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.1 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v111.0.5563.147 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  22. Copernic
    Google Chrome 111.0.5563.111 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Google Chrome 111.0.5563.111 changelog: [$10000][1421773] High CVE-2023-1528: Use after free in Passwords. Reported by Wan Choi of Seoul National University on 2023-03-07 [$8000][1419718] High CVE-2023-1529: Out of bounds memory access in WebHID. Reported by anonymous on 2023-02-27 [$7000][1419831] High CVE-2023-1530: Use after free in PDF. Reported by The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on 2023-02-27 [$TBD][1415330] High CVE-2023-1531: Use after free in ANGLE. Reported by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos on 2023-02-13 [$NA][1421268] High CVE-2023-1532: Out of bounds read in GPU Video. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2023-03-03 [$TBD][1422183] High CVE-2023-1533: Use after free in WebProtect. Reported by Weipeng Jiang (@Krace) of VRI on 2023-03-07 [$NA][1422594] High CVE-2023-1534: Out of bounds read in ANGLE. Reported by Jann Horn and Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2023-03-08 [1426294] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.8 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.1 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v111.0.5563.111 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  23. hellowalkman
    Yandex alleges AMD's Windows drivers unfairly favor Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge by Sayan Sen Russian software company Yandex, which also makes browsers, has alleged that AMD graphics drivers are unfairly favoring other Chromium-based browsers which mainly include Google Chrome, and perhaps Microsoft Edge too. In a blog post describing its new findings, the firm has alleged that AMD drivers would crash over five times less and would eat up on average, 8% less memory when these drivers would detect the "chrome.exe" file. The chart below shows the crash pattern of the AMD drivers. The line in red represents the number of driver crashes when using the chrome EXE file workaround. Yandex developers apparently stumbled upon this finding when investigating a webpage scrolling issue that wasn't present on Chrome and Edge. This issue seemed to resolve when the "browser.exe" file was renamed to "chrome.exe". Brave CEO Brendan Eich drew attention to this report on Twitter: Yandex reports [1] that renaming their Chromium-based browser's GPU process name to "chrome.exe" decreases GPU process crashes 5x and memory consumption by 8% when AMD drivers are used. Why? Driver authors hardcode chrome.exe and optimize for Chrome.😠 [1] https://t.co/0rQC22N3Co — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) March 17, 2023 Yandex has explained this in detail in a blog post on Habr (Google-translated to English): Once our team encountered a bug: on Lenovo laptops in Yandex Browser, scrolling web pages from the touchpad was too sharp, but in other browsers (Chrome and Edge) this problem was not observed. After looking at the code, we realized that our touchpad event handling logic does not differ from the open source Chromium, on which both our browser and Google Chrome are based. So the problem was somewhere else. For the sake of interest, we tried to rename the executable file of our browser from browser.exe to chrome.exe - and voila! Jumps during scrolling have been fixed. Probably, in the touchpad drivers, a certain list of application file names was "hardcoded", for which the fix for this problem was applied. [....] The results surprised us a lot: for users with AMD video cards from the experimental group, the number of GPU process crashes decreased by 5.5 times, the memory consumption of the GPU process decreased by an average of 8%, and the opening of web pages in the browser and interface responsiveness also slightly accelerated Yandex says that it has reached out to AMD regarding these findings and has also already included the optimization, ie, the executable file renamed to chrome.exe, in its browsers starting with version 22.9.0.
  24. Karthik Mudaliar
    Google is bidding adieu to the Chrome Cleanup Tool on Windows by Karthik Mudaliar Google's Chrome Cleanup Tool was made to scan computers for unwanted software (UwS) that caused problems in Google Chrome. It targeted potentially unwanted programs, malware, adware extensions that caused advertisements and other unexpected settings changes. Starting Chrome version 111, however, the feature will be turned off and will no longer be available for the users. Launched in 2015, the Chrome Cleanup Tool has performed more than 80 million cleanups, as per Google. However, several factors have led to Google's decision to retire this tool. User complaints about unwanted software have continued to decline over the years. Windows Security has also improved drastically since 2015 that can detect and block UwS before they are downloaded or installed on your Windows PC. Google Safe Browsing, new techniques for blocking cookie theft have also been improved meanwhile. Google says that it will also remove the component that used to periodically scan Windows machines and prompt users for cleanup when it found something suspicious. Users will still be protected by Google Safe Browsing on Chrome that automatically blocks dangerous websites and downloads. In addition to that, user can also opt for enhanced protection by navigating to chrome://settings/security that increases protection by sharing real-time data with Safe Browsing.
  25. Copernic
    Google Chrome 111.0.5563.65 (offline installer) by Razvan Serea The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos online, you often do all this using a browser. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop. Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and themes from the Chrome Web Store. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features. Google Chrome 110.0.5481.178 changelog: [$15000][1411210] High CVE-2023-1213: Use after free in Swiftshader. Reported by Jaehun Jeong(@n3sk) of Theori on 2023-01-30 [$10000][1412487] High CVE-2023-1214: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Man Yue Mo of GitHub Security Lab on 2023-02-03 [$7000][1417176] High CVE-2023-1215: Type Confusion in CSS. Reported by Anonymous on 2023-02-17 [$4000][1417649] High CVE-2023-1216: Use after free in DevTools. Reported by Ganjiang Zhou(@refrain_areu) of ChaMd5-H1 team on 2023-02-21 [$3000][1412658] High CVE-2023-1217: Stack buffer overflow in Crash reporting. Reported by sunburst of Ant Group Tianqiong Security Lab on 2023-02-03 [$3000][1413628] High CVE-2023-1218: Use after free in WebRTC. Reported by Anonymous on 2023-02-07 [$TBD][1415328] High CVE-2023-1219: Heap buffer overflow in Metrics. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2023-02-13 [$TBD][1417185] High CVE-2023-1220: Heap buffer overflow in UMA. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2023-02-17 [$10000][1385343] Medium CVE-2023-1221: Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API. Reported by Ahmed ElMasry on 2022-11-16 [$7000][1403515] Medium CVE-2023-1222: Heap buffer overflow in Web Audio API. Reported by Cassidy Kim(@cassidy6564) on 2022-12-24 [$5000][1398579] Medium CVE-2023-1223: Insufficient policy enforcement in Autofill. Reported by Ahmed ElMasry on 2022-12-07 [$5000][1403539] Medium CVE-2023-1224: Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Payments API. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2022-12-25 [$5000][1408799] Medium CVE-2023-1225: Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation. Reported by Roberto Ffrench-Davis @Lihaft on 2023-01-20 [$3000][1013080] Medium CVE-2023-1226: Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Payments API. Reported by Anonymous on 2019-10-10 [$3000][1348791] Medium CVE-2023-1227: Use after free in Core. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-07-31 [$3000][1365100] Medium CVE-2023-1228: Insufficient policy enforcement in Intents. Reported by Axel Chong on 2022-09-18 [$2000][1160485] Medium CVE-2023-1229: Inappropriate implementation in Permission prompts. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2020-12-20 [$2000][1404230] Medium CVE-2023-1230: Inappropriate implementation in WebApp Installs. Reported by Axel Chong on 2022-12-30 [$TBD][1274887] Medium CVE-2023-1231: Inappropriate implementation in Autofill. Reported by Yan Zhu, Brave on 2021-11-30 [$2000][1346924] Low CVE-2023-1232: Insufficient policy enforcement in Resource Timing. Reported by Sohom Datta on 2022-07-24 [$1000][1045681] Low CVE-2023-1233: Insufficient policy enforcement in Resource Timing. Reported by Soroush Karami on 2020-01-25 [$1000][1404621] Low CVE-2023-1234: Inappropriate implementation in Intents. Reported by Axel Chong on 2023-01-03 [$1000][1404704] Low CVE-2023-1235: Type Confusion in DevTools. Reported by raven at KunLun lab on 2023-01-03 [$TBD][1374518] Low CVE-2023-1236: Inappropriate implementation in Internals. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2022-10-14 [1422099] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives Important to know! The offline installer links do not include the automatic update feature. Download web installer: Google Chrome Web 32-bit | Google Chrome 64-bit | Freeware Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 64-bit | 91.8 MB Download: Google Chrome Offline Installer 32-bit | 88.1 MB Download page: Google Chrome Portable Download: Google Chrome MSI Installers for Windows (automatic update) View: Chrome Website | v111.0.5563.65 Release Notes Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware